Jany
@Jany
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jany
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almost 3 years ago
Luther & Co. | History Today
Martin Luther, one of the towering figures of German history, was, Lyndal Roper tells us, ‘a man who truly pondered pigs’. One of the achievements of this wonderfully stimulating collection of essays is to close the gap between Luther the man, who lived alongside swine an...continued
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almost 3 years ago
The YouTubers who blew the whistle on an anti-vax plot
"If you don't have any scientific training, you could just say, 'oh, there are these numbers, they are really different. So there must be a link.' But you can make any spurious correlation as you want really," Léo says.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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almost 3 years ago
Pegasus: the spyware technology that threatens democracy - video
Pegasus spyware is capable of bypassing your phone's security and gaining complete access to your device – including emails, messages, GPS location, photos, video and your phone's microphone. A Guardian investigation can now reveal widespread abuse of the Pegasus technolo...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Daily Crunch: Bitcoin ‘is a big part of our future,’ says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey
Daily Crunch: Bitcoin ‘is a big part of our future,’ says Twitter CEO Jack get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here.Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 23, 2021. It’s been an i...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Cricket-Curran shines as England crush Sri Lanka to win series - Reuters
England seamers Sam Curran and David Willey shared nine wickets to set up a crushing eight-wicket victory over Sri Lanka on Thursday as the hosts chased down 241 with seven overs to spare to go 2-0 up in the three-match one-day international series.
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almost 3 years ago
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almost 3 years ago
Moving fast and breaking things cost us our privacy and security
Denis Mars is the CEO and co-founder of Proxy, which designs and builds privacy-first, human-led, identity technologies. Over the years, I’ve had a front-row seat to the future of technology.In my role at Y Combinator as director of admissions, I saw hundreds of startu...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Researchers Develop Genome Techniques to Analyze Adaptation of Cattle - AZoCleantech
Jared Decker, a fourth-generation cattle farmer, has been aware of cattle suffering from health and productivity problems when they are moved from one location to another. The shift is from a region where they had spent generations to another place with a dif…
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Juliet
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almost 3 years ago
Uber Freight acquires Transpace for $2.25B
Uber Freight, the logistics business spun out of Uber in 2018, has acquired Transplace for about $2.25 billion from private equity group TPG Capital, according to regulatory filings. The deal announced Thursday will involve $750 million in Uber stock with the remainder in...continued
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almost 3 years ago
How global conferences are using tech to stay in business
Andrew Reed, managing director of Exhibitions at William Reed, the firm responsible for the events, says they looked at government data on Covid cases and at how the UK's vaccine rollout was progressing, before going ahead.Source: BBC NewsPowered by NewsAPI.org
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almost 3 years ago
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support team
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support Spivak is the senior director of Global Customer Support at RingCentral, a global leader in communication and call center software provider. There are many things I wish I knew when starting out ...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Stellantis picks Alexa Automotive's Curic as its technology boss - Reuters
A Stellantis sign is seen outside the company's headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S., June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File PhotoMILAN, July 20 (Reuters) - Carmaker Stellantis (STLA.MI) said on Tuesday that Amazon Alexa Automotive's (AMZN.O) Ned Curic would bec...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Lawsuit over Rite Aid infant acetaminophen marketing tossed - Reuters
A Rite Aid store at 1841 North Western Avenue is shown at in Los Angeles, California, U.S., January 21, 2020. Picture taken January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoJudge finds reasonable consumers would not be misled The company and law firm names shown above are g...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Square launches business bank accounts
One step at a time, Square is creating a new bank from scratch. Today, the company is launching a new product called Square Banking that combines a checking account, savings accounts, debit cards and loans under a single roof. With Square Banking, the company wants to con...continued
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almost 3 years ago
The Essentials of an Effective Press Release Media Strategy
July 20, 2021 6 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their is a noisy digital world out there, but there are many ways to stand out — an often overlooked one press coverage. Your brand might well be a compelling news sto...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Sir Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital reports ‘post-pandemic rebound’ in economy
Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising and marketing company, S4 Capital, has reported booming business amid what it described as a “post-pandemic rebound” in the global economy, as it prepares for expansion.S4 said like-for-like gross profits and revenues were both at levels “...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Zoom is buying a cloud call center company for $14.7 billion
After experiencing enormous growth during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom has made its first major acquisition by purchasing cloud contact center company Five9 for $14.7 billion, it announced. The move will allow Zoom to expand into call center technology worth up to $24 bill...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Cricket writers unite to salute ‘the finest of all’, John Woodcock
The Times’ long-serving cricket correspondent, who has died aged 94, has been hailed as ‘the doyen … the Godfather’With the death of John Woodcock, at the age of 94, the world of cricket has lost not just one of its greatest writers, but one of its best-loved…
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almost 3 years ago
We (Sort of) Moved!
CommunicateHealthApr 15 · 2 min readAlt: A doodle drives a moving truck with “W❤HHL” emblazoned on the side while another doodle waves out the passenger-side window. They’re following a sign that points toward communicatehealth.com.This week, in the spirit of spring clean...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Extra Crunch roundup: Think like a VC, CockroachDB EC-1, handle your stock options
Ants and camels are famously resilient, but when it was time to select a name for a startup that offers open-source, cloud-based distributed database architecture, you can imagine why “Cockroach Labs” was the final candidate.Database technology is fundamental infrastructu...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Outdoorsy co-founders detail how they expanded the sharing economy to RVs
Jen Young and Jeff Cavins were sitting in a beige conference room at a downtown Vancouver hotel, wasting away under fluorescent lights, an endless PowerPoint and a pair of sad Styrofoam cups of coffee between them. Young was there on a marketing contract. Cavins was a boa...continued
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almost 3 years ago
2021 World Table Tennis Championships is ready for lift-off in Houston
July 15, 2021 (Courtesy of ITTF)Houston, in the United States, will host the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships which will be the first time in the Americas and for the first time outside Europe and Asia since 1939. Dating as far back as 1926, it will showcase t...continued
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almost 3 years ago
SPACs keep rolling as autonomous vehicle startup Aurora targets blank-check debut with $13B valua...
Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y.The deal announced Thursday confirms TechCrunch’s reporting in June t...continued
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Juliet
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almost 3 years ago
The road to a cheaper prosthetic hand
Alt-Bionics made waves back in late 2019 when the brand new startup competed at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Tech Symposium. The company finished second to 3BM’s infrared paint-curing system, but Alt went on to capture national and international headlines...continued
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almost 3 years ago
Khashoggi murder: US softens towards Saudi leader
Over the course of two days Prince Khalid bin Salman held meetings with the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken; the president's National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan; the Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin; and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen Mark Milley. That list...continued
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