Mysterious stealth gaming startup Wonder announces $14 million in funding

Ah, another day, another stealth mobile gaming startup getting funded by Shakira. LA-based Wonder announced today that it has closed a Series A round of funding led by Grishin Robotics and TCL Communication Holdings Ltd.; Wonder announced they had raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding in July of last year, but we now know that they have raised about $14 million in funding to date.
Read more: https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/28/mysterious-stealth-gaming-startup-wonder-announces-14-million-in-funding/?ncid=rss?source=Snapzu

Qatar sanctions likely to become permanent: UAE

Sanctions imposed on Qatar this month are looking increasingly likely to become permanent as the deadline to meet a set of demands laid out by its Gulf neighbors fast approaches, according to the BBC. The small peninsular nation has been told it must stop funding terrorism — which it denies — downgrade ties with Iran, and shutdown its news organization Al Jazeera, or face permanent isolation.
Read more: http://www.arabnews.com/node/1121101/middle-east?source=Snapzu

Trump moves to withdraw US water protection

US President Donald Trump has taken action to reverse an Obama-era rule that protects water from pollution nationwide. The rule has been a thorn in the side of industry - now, it could be scrapped.
Read more: http://dw.com/en/trump-moves-to-withdraw-us-water-protection/a-39456451?source=Snapzu

Boaty McBoatface obtains 'unprecedented data' from its first voyage

A yellow submarine dubbed Boaty McBoatface has obtained "unprecedented data" from its first voyage exploring one of the deepest and coldest ocean regions on Earth, say scientists. The robotic submersible was given the name originally chosen last year for a new polar research ship by irreverent contestants in a public competition.
Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/28/boaty-mcboatface-obtains-unprecedented-data-first-voyage/?source=Snapzu

Woman fatally shoots boyfriend in YouTube stunt

A Minnesota woman killed her boyfriend Monday by shooting at a book he was holding over his chest, in a YouTube video stunt gone wrong.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/us/fatal-youtube-stunt/index.html?source=Snapzu

Stalin is still more popular than Putin with Russians

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin has been voted the most “outstanding” figure in Russia’s history, beating the country’s most beloved poet, Alexander Pushkin, and current Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/putin-behind-stalin-top-russias-most-outstanding-people-poll-629032?source=Snapzu

More than 30 nuclear experts inhale uranium after radiation alarms at a weapons site are switched off

Most were not told about it until months later, and other mishaps at the Nevada nuclear test site followed. By Patrick Malone, Peter Cary, R. Jeffrey Smith. Part Four of a series.
Read more: https://apps.publicintegrity.org/nuclear-negligence/inhaled-uranium/?source=Snapzu