2013
05.21
05.21
BBC News reports here: Apple is accused of being “among America’s largest tax avoiders” by senators, who say the company avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes.
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BBC News reports here: Apple is accused of being “among America’s largest tax avoiders” by senators, who say the company avoided paying billions of dollars in taxes.
Spiegel Online reports here: Europe is failing in the fight against youth unemployment. While the German government’s efforts remain largely symbolic, Southern European leaders pander to older voters by defending the status quo.
Spiegel Online reports here: Forget Big Brother. Companies and countries are discovering that algorithms programmed to scour vast quantities of data can be much more powerful. They can predict your next purchase, forecast car thefts and maybe even help cure cancer. But there is a down side.
It’s a sign of a production crisis in Venezuela: Lack of toilet paper. CNN’s Rafael Romo reports.
Spiegel Online reports here: In just the last 12 months, support for the European Union has plummeted on the Continent. Furthermore, many have lost faith in their elected representatives. Only in Germany do people still view the EU favorably, and the split with the rest of Europe is widening.
In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.
In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology, Robert Langdon, is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.
Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.
A revised version of David Bowie’s Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
CNN reports: A partnership between Google, NASA and TIME reveal how the Earth has radically changed over the decades.