Sainsbury's to buy Asda from Walmart for $10.1 billion

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Trump's threats on trade unsettle farming, ranching backers

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'Infinity War' opens with record $250M, passing 'Star Wars'

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The eSports competitive video gaming market continues to grow revenues & attract investors

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What is eSports? History & Rise of Video Game Tournaments

Years ago, eSports was a community of video gamers who would gather at conventions to play Counter Strike, Call of Duty, or League of Legends.

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THE US TELEHEALTH MARKET: The market, drivers, threats, and opportunities for incumbents and newcomers

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Telehealth — the use of mobile technology to deliver health-related services, such as remote doctor consultations and patient monitoring — is enabling healthcare providers and payers to address the US healthcare industry’s growing list of problems.

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Microsoft Ventures gives itself a new name as it reintroduces itself to enterprise startups — here's how it landed on 'M12' (MSFT)

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• Microsoft Ventures, the venture capital arm of Microsoft, will be called "M12" moving forward. 
• The "M" is for Microsoft, and the "12" comes from the dozen letters in the word "entrepreneur."
• Otherwise, nothing is changing: M12 has invested in 50 startups in two years, with no plans to slow down.
• The reason for the change: There was some confusion between a previous iteration of Microsoft Ventures and the current one. Microsoft sought a new name to make a clean break between old and new.

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From this day forth, Microsoft Ventures — the two-year-old venture capital arm of the $710 billion tech titan — will be known by the much shorter name of M12.

As you might guess, the "M" is for Microsoft, said Nagraj Kashyap, the leader of Microsoft Ventures and now the newly rebranded M12, in an interview with Business Insider.

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Iranian activists are scrawling their protests on thousands of bank notes to avoid censorship

• Iranian activists are finding creative ways to fight government censorship and spread protests throughout the country.
• Twitter users appear to have posted thousands of pictures of Iranian banknotes covered with handwritten messages and drawings encouraging dissent.
• Iran has reportedly arrested upwards of 5,000 people during recent protests.

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Iranian activists are finding creative ways to fight government censorship and spread protests throughout the country.

Iran's recent protests began as a relatively small venture in December 2017, but soon gained traction and have continued into 2018. According to figures from February, Iran has reportedly arrested upwards of 5,000 protestors. 

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Australia is sending aircraft to monitor North Korean sanction breaches in the open seas

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• Australia will be sending a surveillance aircraft to monitor potential sanction breaches by North Korea.
• Sanctions currently prohibit North Korea from importing or exporting particular goods in an attempt to limit cash flow and resources into the country's nuclear weapons program.
• But North Korea has undertaken ship-to-ship transfers in the past to avoid sanction breaches being spotted.
• The announcement came just a day after the historic inter-Korea summit, indicating the US intent to keep up its "maximum pressure" campaign for now.

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Australia is joining US efforts to monitor potential sanction breaches by North Korea.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said on Saturday that the Australian air force will be sending one of its aircraft to monitor North Korean ships suspected of taking part in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of sanctioned goods. Canada will also be deploying aircraft, and surveillance will be coordinated by the US from the Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.

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The newest episode of 'Westworld' featured a surprising cameo from a 'Breaking Bad' star

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for Sunday's episode of "Westworld."

HBO surprised devoted "Westworld" fans by tossing in a cameo appearance from "Breaking Bad" star Giancarlo Esposito. Perhaps best known as his role of Gus Fring, Esposito stepped into the shoes of El Lazo — a formidable bandit host. 

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We explain the major moments from episode 2 of 'Westworld' season 2

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Warning: Huge spoilers for "Westworld" season two. If you aren't caught up on the series, read at your own risk.

The second episode of the second season of "Westworld" premiered tonight, and we have even more questions than we had after last week's season premiere.

This episode, titled "Reunion," is much more action-packed than last week's. The episode focuses on reunions, as its title suggests: both for characters within the show and for the viewers.

In typical "Westworld" fashion, "Reunion" makes multiple shifts in time that we're not quite sure how to process. But we try!

Here's our recap of the the season 2, episode 2 of "Westworld":

The episode is in the real world and Arnold is with Dolores.

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Anthony Hopkins makes an appearance, Arnold tells Ford that Dolores is not ready, and Ford suggests that he’s too attached to her.

Arnold shows Dolores a house that’s under construction for his family.

In another scene, likely set some time after the first scene in the episode, Dolores is playing piano at what appears to be the retirement party of a sick James Delos, Logan's father. William is there, and so is Logan. Dolores sees Logan seeming to shoot up heroin in his arm.

Teddy finds out what he is.

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“Why can’t I remember this?” Teddy asks Dolores after she shows him that he is programmed and not even a human being. He is shocked. 

 

Logan discovers the wonders of Westworld’s technology

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Logan Delos is approached by Westworld hosts, though he has no idea they're not real people. He has a private presentation that is actually just a private party. When he realizes that everyone around him isn't a real person, his mind is blown, and he's sold immediately. This is fair, since it is an impressive presentation of quite advanced technology. 

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