Germany backs fines for social networks that ignore hate speech
By Jon Fingas From engadget They face a stiff penalty if they don’t remove offending material. Germany is backing its crusade against online hate speech with some legal clout. The country’s cabinet is backing a proposed law that would fine…
Google releases millions of bad drawings for you (and your AI) to paw through
By Devin Coldewey from TechCrunch Back in November, Google showcased a few of its funky machine learning experiments, and among them was Quick, Draw! (their bang, not mine) — a game where you sketch something and an image recognition system…
Message in a bottle travels from the Caribbean to Barra
by CALUM ROSS From Press and Journal UK A message in a bottle that was launched from the Caribbean has travelled more than 4,000 miles and washed ashore on a beach – in Barra. The note revealed it had been…
Chinese tourists get arrested for posing with Nazi salutes in Germany
BY YVETTE TAN From Mashable Two Chinese tourists have been arrested in Germany, after they were seen making Nazi salutes outside the country’s parliament. According to police officers in Berlin, the two men, aged 36 and 49, were seen striking…
Futuristic flying-taxi service
A German startup is planning to test its futuristic aircraft for a flying-taxi service in 2018 By Danielle Muoio From Business Insider A German startup is making serious moves to make futuristic vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft a reality in a commercial setting….
The era of super-easy monetary policy seems to be coming to an end
By Richard Turnill, The BlackRock BlogFrom Business Insider Central banks increasingly are moving away from excessively easy monetary policy . Yields paused after recent gains last week, partly on soft inflation data. Yet we see them rising gradually, reinforcing the…
Jupiter is the oldest planet in the Solar System
By Mariella Moon From engadget The king of the planets started taking shape almost as soon as the sun formed 4.6 billion years ago. Jupiter’s ancient name really is well-deserved: according to a new study, the king of the planets…
French airline Corsair opens direct route to Havana from Paris
From Caribbean News Now HAVANA, Cuba (ACN) — With the arrival of its first flight ever from Paris to Havana last Thursday, the French airline Corsair opened a new route to the Caribbean. Twice a week, Thursdays and Saturdays, Corsair…
The Illusion of the French Elections
By Isidoros Karderinis The election of the Europeanist Macron, who is a real child of the banking system and of the forces of globalization, to the presidency of France has prevented, on the one hand, the automatic activation of the…
Germany ‘rejects most Afghan asylum requests in 2017’
From Press TV Germany has in the span of two months rejected the asylum requests of more than half of the Afghan refugees who had traveled 7,000 kilometers in search of a better life in the European country. Citing Interior…
