China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?

For more than 25 years, many developed countries, including the U.S., have been sending massive amounts of plastic waste to China instead of recycling it on their own. Some 106 million metric tons — about 45 percent — of the world's plastics set for recycling have been exported to China since reporting to the United Nations Comtrade Database began in 1992.
Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/06/28/623972937/china-has-refused-to-recycle-the-wests-plastics-what-now?source=Snapzu

Entrepreneur's rocket explodes seconds after lift-off

A rocket developed by a maverick Japanese entrepreneur and convicted fraudster exploded shortly after liftoff Saturday, in a major blow to his bid to send Japan's first privately backed rocket into space. Interstellar Technologies, founded by popular internet service provider Livedoor's creator Takafumi Horie, launched the unmanned rocket, MOMO-2, at around 5:30 a.m. from a test site in Taiki, southern Hokkaido.
Read more: https://japantoday.com/category/national/Entrepreneur%27s-rocket-explodes-seconds-after-lift-off?source=Snapzu

Comcast Blames Nationwide Outage on ‘Fiber Cut’

If you’re a Comcast customer, you might have already realized your internet is borked today. That wave of sadness and despair you’re presumably experiencing seems to be the result of a few cut fiber cables, according to a tweet from Comcast. If it makes you feel any better, the company says it’s trying to fix it. Earlier today, various internet services seemingly went down, reflected in a spike of outage reports on sites like Down Detector.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/comcast-blames-nationwide-outage-on-fiber-cut-1827244074?source=Snapzu

More Clues That Earth-Like Exoplanets Are Indeed Earth-Like

A new study from the Georgia Institute of Technology provides new clues indicating that an exoplanet 500 light-years away is much like Earth. Kepler-186f is the first identified Earth-sized planet outside the solar system orbiting a star in the habitable zone. This means it’s the proper distance from its host star for liquid water to pool on the surface.
Read more: http://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/06/28/more-clues-earth-exoplanets-are-indeed-earth?source=Snapzu

Vancouver restaurant manager fired for refusing service to customer wearing ‘MAGA’ hat

A manager at Vancouver’s Stanley Park Teahouse restaurant has been fired for refusing service to a customer wearing a “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) hat. The red baseball caps formed an important part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, and have become iconic symbols of his supporters. But the hats have also sparked controversy among many who call them symbols of racism, bigotry and anti-gay hatred.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/4305235/manager-fired-maga-hat/?source=Snapzu

The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole may have a dozen nomadic sibl

At the center of the Milky Way sits a dark and dangerous beast: Sagittarius A*. Located about 26,000 light-years from Earth, our galaxy’s only known supermassive black hole is roughly 4 million times as massive as the Sun, and its immense gravitational pull can nonchalantly annihilate any object that strays too close. Fortunately for us, Sagittarius A* is like a troll under a bridge — it does not leave its post.
Read more: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/04/the-milky-ways-supermassive-black-hole-has-siblings?source=Snapzu

Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family

A California man is charged with threatening to kill FCC Chairman Ajit Pai's children because he was "angry" about the repeal of net neutrality regulations, the Justice Department said today. Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with threatening to murder an immediate family member of a U.S. official.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/29/ajit-pai-family-death-threat-man-charged-688040?source=Snapzu

Better Call Saul Season 4 First Look: Is Jimmy Getting Close to Breaking Bad?

Better Call Saul is about to kick off its fourth season… and you can almost hear that twangy guitar from the Breaking Bad theme song warming up in the background, can’t you? TVLine has an exclusive first look at six new photos from Season 4 of Saul — premiering Monday, Aug. 6 at 9/8c — and it looks like Jimmy McGill is inching closer toward becoming the shifty Saul Goodman we know from his Breaking Bad days. Here, we see Jimmy in an intense diner-booth meeting with Mike Ehrmantraut...
Read more: https://tvline.com/2018/06/29/better-call-saul-season-4-spoilers-photos-preview-amc-the-cousins-superlab/?source=Snapzu

Trump says he will bring up election interference with Putin

President Trump said Friday that he plans to bring up Russia's efforts to meddle in U.S. elections when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin next month. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said that Russia's interference in Ukraine and its role in Syria will also be on the agenda when he meets with Putin on July 16. But Trump asserted that Moscow's interference in U.S. elections will be a key topic.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/394916-trump-ill-bring-up-election-interference-with-putin?source=Snapzu

US ambassador to Estonia resigns in frustration over Trump

The US ambassador to Estonia is resigning in frustration with President Donald Trump's comments about, and treatment of, European allies. James D. Melville Jr.'s resignation, first reported by Foreign Policy magazine, makes him the third ambassador in the last year to leave the State Department early. He is among many senior State Department officials who have headed for the exits or been pushed toward them since Trump assumed office.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/politics/us-ambassador-estonia-resign-trump/index.html?source=Snapzu

Canada makes retaliatory tariffs official: 'We will not back down'

Canada’s foreign minister announced Friday that Ottawa plans to impose about $12.6 billion worth of retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods on July 1, joining other major U.S. allies striking back in the escalating trade dispute. The country is working closely with the European Union and Mexico, according to Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland. “We will not escalate, and we will not back down,” Freeland said. Canada's announcement is part of larger fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's announcements on trade.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/canada-makes-retaliatory-tariffs-official-we-will-not-back-down.html?source=Snapzu

Tesla and PG&E are working on a massive ‘up to 1.1 GWh’ Powerpack battery system

For the past few months, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have been teasing a giant battery project that would dwarf even the company’s 129 MWh Powerpack project in Australia. Today, we learn that Tesla is working with PG&E on a massive battery system with a capacity of “up to 1.1 GWh” in California.
Read more: https://electrek.co/2018/06/29/tesla-pge-giant-1-gwh-powerpack-battery-system/?source=Snapzu

The next Facebook scandal? Quiz app “exposed data of 120 million users”

Sensitive Facebook information for up to 120 million users was put at risk for years by a leaky quiz application company called Nametests.com, a security researcher disclosed today, proving what many experts previously suspected: Cambridge Analytica was the tip of the iceberg.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/facebooks-new-leak-nametests-quiz-apps-120-million-users-exposed-user-data-999261?source=Snapzu

Apple is rebuilding Maps from the ground up

I’m not sure if you’re aware, but the launch of Apple Maps went poorly. After a rough first impression, an apology from the CEO, several years of patching holes with data partnerships and some glimmers of light with long-awaited transit directions and improvements in business, parking and place data, Apple Maps is still not where it needs to be to be considered a world class service. Maps needs fixing.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/29/apple-is-rebuilding-maps-from-the-ground-up/?source=Snapzu

Amazon claims it doesn’t want to take on UPS and FedEx. So why is it introducing tons of its own Amazon delivery vans?

For years, Amazon has been laying more and more groundwork for its own logistics and delivery network — one that today only ships and delivers Amazon orders, but could someday do much more in a direct challenge to UPS, FedEx and the U.S. Postal Service. Today, it is taking another big step toward that potential reality — even if it won’t say so for now.
Read more: https://www.recode.net/2018/6/28/17507430/amazon-logistics-delivery-vans-uniforms-ups-fedex-usps?source=Snapzu

Apple Maps to Be Rebuilt 'From the Ground Up' With Street-Level and Satellite Data Over the Next Year

Apple today announced that it will be rebuilding its Maps app "from the ground up" with street-level data collected from its fleet of Apple Maps vehicles, high resolution satellite imagery, and anonymized, random segments of navigation sessions from iPhone users, which Apple refers to as "probe data."
Read more: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/06/29/apple-maps-to-be-rebuilt/?source=Snapzu

Luxembourg Is Latest EU Country to Legalise Medical Cannabis

Luxembourg lawmakers have unanimously supported a bill to legalise medical cannabis. The law, passed on June 28, allows cannabis to be prescribed and used for patients who suffer from chronic pain, nausea relating to chemotherapy, or muscle spasm resulting from multiple sclerosis. The original draft of the bill stated that only specialists could prescribe the drug, but the final version passed allows any general practitioner to prescribe cannabis if they have undertaken relevant training.
Read more: https://www.talkingdrugs.org/luxembourg-is-latest-eu-country-to-legalise-medical-cannabis?source=Snapzu

Comcast Dealing With Major Outage Nationwide

A major outage is affecting Comcast customers nationwide, including in the Philadelphia market. The outage is affecting Comcast cable, telephone and internet services. Comcast tweeted to customers that they are working to restore services as quickly as possible, but it is not yet known when service will come back.
Read more: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/06/29/comcast-dealing-with-major-outage-nationwide/?source=Snapzu

Iraqi PM orders immediate execution of 'all convicted terrorists'

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on Thursday ordered the immediate execution of all convicted "terrorists" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group, on death row, in swift retaliation for the group's execution of eight captives. Abadi "ordered the immediate execution of terrorists condemned to death whose sentences have passed the decisive stage", his office said, referring to convicts whose appeals have been exhausted.
Read more: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/06/iraqi-pm-orders-execution-convicted-terrorists-180628185501947.html?source=Snapzu

UV Bacteria-Killing Robot Cleans Hospital Rooms far Better than Humans

New UV Disinfection Robots have the ability to sanitize healthcare facilities fare better than humans - and they are already sanitizing hospitals around the world.
Read more: https://interestingengineering.com/uv-bacteria-killing-robot-cleans-hospital-rooms-far-better-than-humans?source=Snapzu

India’s quest to find a trillion-dollar nuclear fuel on the south side of the moon

India’s space program wants to go where no nation has gone before -– to the south side of the moon. And once it gets there, it will study the potential for mining a source of waste-free nuclear energy that could be worth trillions of dollars. The nation’s equivalent of NASA will launch a rover in October to explore virgin territory on the lunar surface and analyze crust samples for signs of water and helium-3. That isotope is limited on Earth yet so abundant on the moon that it theoretically could meet global energy demands for 250 years if harnessed.
Read more: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/indias-quest-to-find-a-trillion-dollar-nuclear-fuel-on-the-south-side-of-the-moon?source=Snapzu

Deepwater Horizon disaster altered building blocks of ocean life

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster may have had a lasting impact upon even the smallest organisms in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists have found – amid warnings that the oceans around America are also under fresh assault as a result of environmental policies under Donald Trump. Lingering oil residues have altered the basic building blocks of life in the ocean by reducing biodiversity in sites closest to the spill, which occurred when a BP drilling rig exploded in April 2010, killing 11 workers and spewing about 4m barrels of oil into the Gulf.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/28/bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-report?source=Snapzu

Birdbrainy: New Caledonian crows make tools using mental images

New Caledonian crows use mental pictures to twist twigs into hooks and make other tools, according to a provocative study that suggests the notoriously clever birds pass on successful designs to future generations, a hallmark of culture. “We find evidence for a specific type of emulation we call mental template matching,” co-author Alex Taylor, director of the Language, Cognition and Culture Lab at the University of Auckland, told AFP. “Put simply, crows can reverse engineer tool designs using only a mental image of that tool.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/29/birdbrainy-new-caledonian-crows-make-tools-using-mental-images?source=Snapzu

Russia rips Canada’s ‘high-handedness’ in legalizing recreational marijuana

Russia is not happy with Canada for legalizing recreational marijuana. Moscow issued a stern warning to Ottawa over the impending cannabis legalization on Oct. 17, saying Canada “deliberately decided to breach” international law. “We expect Canada’s partners in the G7 to respond to its ‘high-handedness’ because this alliance has repeatedly declared its adherence to the domination of international law in relations between states,” Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
Read more: https://globalnews.ca/news/4302624/russia-canada-recreational-marijuana/?source=Snapzu

Legalising cannabis could be ‘win-win-win’ for UK, says thinktank

Margaret Thatcher’s favourite free-market thinktank has called on the government to legalise cannabis, arguing that the move could generate more than £1bn in extra tax revenues every year, as well as savings in health and other public services. Britain’s black market in cannabis is worth £2.6bn annually, with 255 tonnes sold to more than 3 million people last year, according to the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA).
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/29/legalise-cannabis-in-uk-institute-for-economic-affairs?source=Snapzu

Mars' 2018 dust storm intensifies

The martian dust storm that put the Opportunity rover to sleep in early June has by now intensified into a Planet-Encircling Dust Event, or PEDE, that would cover both North America and Russia completely if it were on Earth. Though its current location is nowhere near Opportunity’s, the Curiosity rover (currently studying Gale Crater) captured the growing impacts of the storm in a selfie snapped June 15.
Read more: http://www.astronomy.com/news/2018/06/mars-dust-storm-intesifies?source=Snapzu

Scientists call for a Paris-style agreement to save life on Earth

Let’s be honest, the global community’s response to the rising evidence of mass extinction and ecological degradation has been largely to throw crumbs at it. Where we have acted it’s been in a mostly haphazard and modest way — a protected area here, a conservation program there, a few new laws, and a pinch of funding. The problem is such actions — while laudable and important — in no way match the scope and size of the problem where all markers indicate that life on Earth continues to slide into the dustbin.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2018/jun/28/scientists-call-for-a-paris-style-agreement-to-save-life-on-earth?source=Snapzu

Gunman was 'continually shooting people' as he walked inside Capital Gazette newsroom

Reporters and editors at the Capital Gazette quickly turned their heads around when the glass doors leading to the newsroom suddenly shattered. Within minutes, it
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/29/us/inside-capital-gazette-newsroom-shooting/index.html?source=Snapzu

Netflix Under Under Fire for Suspected Child Pornography Scenes

An Argentinian movie that Netflix offers called Desire is upsetting subscribers because of what looks like illegal content. Viewers on Facebook have shared a clip of the movie and are calling it outright child porn. In the opening scene, two little girls who look to be about seven and nine are playing "horse" on pillows. The older girl begins to obviously masturbate as the younger child watches.
Read more: https://pjmedia.com/trending/netflixs-desire-streams-disturbing-scenes-of-child-pornography/?source=Snapzu

Facebook and Google use 'dark patterns'

Facebook, Google and Microsoft push users away from privacy-friendly options on their services in an "unethical" way, according to a report by the Norwegian Consumer Council. It studied the privacy settings of the firms and found a series of "dark patterns", including intrusive default settings and misleading wording. The firms gave users "an illusion of control", its report suggested. Both Google and Facebook said user privacy was important to them.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44642569?source=Snapzu

Reporter after newsroom shooting: 'We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow'

A reporter for the The Capital newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, said the company will publish a newspaper as usual on Friday despite a shooting Thursday in the newsroom that left at least five people dead.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/394746-capital-gazette-reporter-we-are-putting-out-a-damn-paper-tomorrow?source=Snapzu

North Korea 'executes officer who jumped gun on peace on peninsula'

A senior North Korean military officer who told colleagues they no longer needed to “suffer and tighten our belts to make rockets and nuclear weapons” has been executed by firing squad, according to reports in dissident media. The officer was named by the Seoul-based Daily NK news website as Hyon Ju-song, a 56-year-old lieutenant general who was serving as director of the services inspection division of the People’s Armed Forces.
Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/06/28/north-korea-executes-officer-jumped-gun-peace-peninsula?source=Snapzu

Harlan Ellison, Provocative Sci-Fi Writer of ‘Star Trek,’ ‘A Boy and His Dog,’ Dies at 84

Speculative-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, who penned short stories, novellas and criticism, contributed to TV series including “The Outer Limits,” “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5” and won a notable copyright infringement suit against ABC and Paramount and a settlement in a similar suit over “The Terminator,” has died. He was 84.
Read more: https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/harlan-ellison-dead-dies-star-trek-1202861048/?source=Snapzu

HBO is now blocked in China because John Oliver is too mean

On a recent episode of his HBO series Last Week Tonight, John Oliver decided to stop talking about America for a bit and focus on what’s been going on in China instead. For 20 minutes, Oliver detailed the great economic growth that the country is enjoying as well as the rise of lovable president/possible emperor-for-life Xi Jinping. Unfortunately, as Oliver pointed out, this growth has come alongside a massive crackdown on dissenters, a worrying vilification of religious minorities, and the repeal of political safety measures that were put in place in response to the totalitarian policies of Mao Zedong.
Read more: https://news.avclub.com/hbo-is-now-blocked-in-china-because-john-oliver-is-too-1827148479?source=Snapzu

Australia police acknowledge hate killings

The killings of 27 men in Australia between 1976 and 2000 were most likely homophobic hate crimes, police say. A New South Wales police taskforce has spent three years reviewing 86 cases in Australia's most populous state. It was prompted by a report from the Australian Institute of Criminology that questioned whether police had investigated some cases sufficiently.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-44624269?source=Snapzu

Child fires loaded gun found in sofa at Ikea

A child found something a little different at an Ikea store in Fishers, Indiana: A handgun inside a sofa.
Read more: https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/child-fires-loaded-gun-found-in-sofa-at-ikea-20180627-p4znx7.html?source=Snapzu

Hello Kitty Bullet Train Debuts In Japan This Week. In Shocking Pink

Resplendent in shocking pink, a sleek "Hello Kitty" bullet train, complete with special carriages festooned with images of the global icon from Japan, has been unveiled before it chugs into service this week. The special shinkansen or bullet train will run for the next three months between the western cities of Osaka and Fukuoka from Saturday, the West Japan Railway firm said, hoping that one of the country's most famous exports will boost tourism.
Read more: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/hello-kitty-shinkansen-bullet-train-debuts-in-japan-between-osaka-fukuoka-this-week-in-pink-1873386?source=Snapzu

Palm oil ‘disastrous’ for wildlife but here to stay, experts warn

It is consumed daily by billions of people but palm oil is “disastrous” for wildlife such as orangutans and tigers, according to an authoritative new report. However, the analysis warns that alternatives are likely to drive biodiversity losses elsewhere, rather than halt them. The analysis, from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), found that rainforest destruction caused by palm oil plantations damages more than 190 threatened species on the IUCN’s red list, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/26/palm-oil-disastrous-for-wildlife-but-here-to-stay-experts-warn?source=Snapzu

South Korean Overwatch hacker handed suspended prison sentence

An Overwatch hack creator in South Korea could face jail time after violating the Game Industry Promotion Law and Information and Communication Technology Protection Law. A 28-year old man was handed a suspended one-year prison sentence and two year's probation, according to South Korean news broadcaster SBS News. The hacker reportedly collected a large sum of money in exchange for the program—200 million won, or around $180,000, SBS News said.
Read more: https://dotesports.com/overwatch/news/ow-hacker-sentenced-prison-25213?source=Snapzu

DARPA has autonomous driving technology that makes Uber's look stupid

The race for autonomous vehicles has had its share of bumps and setbacks. Whether it be difficulties in obtaining testing permits, or safety drivers not doing their jobs, the industry has a rough road ahead to becoming an accepted form of transportation. However, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has been working on similar technologies and has invested in some pretty incredible systems that can perform tasks that Uber or Tesla wouldn’t dare.
Read more: https://www.techspot.com/news/75230-darpa-has-autonomous-driving-technology-makes-uber-look.html?source=Snapzu

Philippines' Duterte calls God 'stupid'

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has called God "stupid", sparking anger in the largely Catholic country. In a televised speech, he slammed the story of Adam and Eve's fall from grace in the Bible and the logic behind the Christian concept of original sin. Mr Duterte is well known known for his outrageous statements and unfiltered attacks on his rivals.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-44610872?source=Snapzu

Trump 'surprised' by Harley-Davidson move to shift work out of US

US President Donald Trump has hit back at the American motorcycle manufacturer after it announced that it will move some of its production out of the Unites...
Read more: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/trump-surprised-by-harley-davidson-move-to-shift-work-out-of-us?source=Snapzu

In blow to Trump's 'America First' policy, Harley-Davidson moves some production overseas

Milwaukee-based motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson announced Monday that it will move the production of its European Union-bound motorcycles to sites overseas as a direct result of President Trump's escalating trade war, the Financial Times reports. Harley-Davidson said that European Union tariffs, which were imposed in retaliation to Trump's tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, would increase the average cost of a motorcycle to the EU from the U.S. by around $2,200, Marketwatch reports.
Read more: http://theweek.com/speedreads/781030/blow-trumps-america-first-policy-harleydavidson-moves-some-production-overseas?source=Snapzu

'Westworld' Creator on Season 3: "It's Going to be a Whole New World"

When Westworld returns, the series will be set to explore an entirely new world. The season two finale of the HBO drama, called "The Passenger," kicked the door down on two brand new worlds: the "Sublime," the writers' nickname for the idyllic digital realm where many of the hosts (including James Marsden's Teddy and Zahn McClarnon's Akecheta) escaped; and our world, the one beyond the park's borders, the one mankind knows as their home.
Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/westworld-season-2-finale-explained-lisa-joy-season-3-1122744?source=Snapzu

Americans are world's most inclusive to immigrant citizens, global study finds

Amid the travel ban, the inhumane treatment of children at the Mexican border and ever-more divisive rhetoric around immigration from the White House, a survey has found that the United States and Canada are the two most tolerant and inclusive countries when it comes to who the population see as one of their own – that is “a real American” or “a real Canadian”. The polling company Ipsos surveyed 20,000 people across 27 countries, looking at questions of religion...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/25/americans-most-inclusive-attitude-to-immigrants-global-study-finds?source=Snapzu

TrumpHotels.org Purchased by Pranksters to Promote America's Concentration Camps

The Trump organization owns over 3,000 web domains, including TrumpFraud.org and TrumpScam.com. It’s standard practice for big companies to buy up names that might insult their brands, but it looks like the Trump regime forgot one. The domain TrumpHotels.org is now a parody website that features photos and video of the U.S. government’s child concentration camps.
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/trumphotels-org-purchased-by-pranksters-to-promote-amer-1827098727?source=Snapzu

‘They’re lucky we aren’t executing them’: National Guardsman faces punishment for Facebook post (Use Incognito)

The post and others calling for violence against migrants on the border have kicked up intense backlash.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/25/theyre-lucky-we-arent-executing-them-national-guardsman-face-punishment-for-facebook-post-on-migrants/?utm_term=.3934c456feb0?source=Snapzu

Bitcoin Price Hits Yearly Low at $5,825, Where Will it Bottom Out?

The bitcoin price has dipped below the $5,900 mark, after initially dipping below the $6,000 mark on June 23. Subsequent to four consecutive sell-offs as shown in the 1-hour bitcoin price chart below, BTC officially fell to a yearly low. On February, the bitcoin price recorded a major drop from around $8,000 to the lower end of $6,000, bottoming out at around $6,050. However, on June 24, the drop of BTC continued to the higher end of the $5,000 region, entering $5,000 for the first time since early November.
Read more: https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-price-hits-2018-low-at-5825-where-will-it-bottom-out/?source=Snapzu

How technology can empower Democracy

An always-on assessment platform for politicians and their decisions — utilizing blockchain and AI. ‘Professional politicians’ are usually optimized to play the ‘media game’ and often, they only focus on manipulating the public opinion rather than delivering value according to their commitments and official plans.
Read more: https://medium.com/innovation-machine/technology-for-democracy-e4c9fbd96f97?source=Snapzu

Car Tariffs? Europe Is Ready to Retaliate as Trade Dispute Grows

The European Union says it will continue a tit-for-tat escalation in its trade dispute with the U.S. while countering President Donald Trump’s assertion that the U.S. is being treated unfairly by the 28-nation bloc. Jyrki Katainen, the EU commissioner in charge of jobs and growth, told the French newspaper Le Monde in a story posted Saturday that if Trump applies new tariffs to European cars, as he threatened this week, the bloc “again, would have no choice but to react.”
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-23/car-tariffs-europe-is-ready-to-retaliate-as-trade-dispute-grows?source=Snapzu