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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
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Just making sure you are all playing nice. @admin us in your posts if you need any help or drop us an email at [email protected].
Admin User upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Marie
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about 5 years ago
Nancy Pelosi: Trump is 'goading' Democrats to impeach him to solidify his base
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the United States House of Representatives during her weekly press conference May 2, 2019.Aurora Samperio | NurPhoto | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump is "goading" Democrats to try and impeach him because he believes it would help "solidify h...continued
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Elian
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about 5 years ago
Cramer: Trump's trade tweet is about 'getting the Dow up a little bit' and pressuring China
CNBC's Jim Cramer said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's optimistic morning tweet on China trade talks was aimed at Wall Street and Beijing. "This is about getting the Dow up a little bit but also pressuring [China], " said on "Squawk on the Street" before the open...continued
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Alexie
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about 5 years ago
Original Content podcast: The battle of opinions over ‘Game of Thrones’ and the Battle of...
This post and podcast contain spoilers for “Game of Thrones” and “Avengers: Endgame.” “The Long Night,” the much-anticipated “Game of Thrones” episode where the living and the dead meet in a desperate, epic battle, wasn’t entirely embraced by the show’s fans. Instead, ma...continued
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Jerrold
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about 5 years ago
Trump names former Obama Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan as new head of ICE
President Donald Trump hosts the "National Day of Prayer" Service in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, May 2, 2019.Kevin Lamarque | ReutersPresident Donald Trump on Sunday named Mark Morgan as the new head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The announ...continued
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Wilmer
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about 5 years ago
Watch Jeff Bezos unveil his grand space plans here – TechCrunch
Grizzled TechCrunch reporter Matt Burns was on site at yesterday’s big Blue Origin reveal, but if you’re reading this right now, odds are you weren’t. It was a small gathering, and Jeff Bezos, who tends to be fairly secret for such a public billionaire, opted not to live ...continued
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Ezequiel
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about 5 years ago
Flaws in a popular GPS tracker leak real-time locations and can remotely activate its microphone...
A popular GPS tracker — used as a panic alarm for elderly patients, to monitor kids and track vehicles — contains security flaws, which security researchers say are so severe the device should be recalled. The Chinese-manufactured white-label location tracker, rebranded a...continued
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Rose
@Rose -
about 5 years ago
FBI director throws Trump’s FBI ‘spying’ claims under the bus
Testifying before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher Wray refuted claims from both President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr that officials spied on the president’s campaign in 2016. Wray offered his refutation in respons...continued
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Kari
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about 5 years ago
Digital ad revenue in the US surpassed $100 billion for the first time in 2018
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg speaks at the DLD conference in Munich on January 20, 2019.FacebookDigital ad revenue just keeps on growing.A new report says internet advertising revenues in the U.S. totaled $107.5 billion for full-year 2018 — the first time that figure has ...continued
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Kristina
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about 5 years ago
Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse – TechCrunch
Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, Facebook revealed that today it filed a lawsuit alleging South Korean analytics firm Rankwave abused its developer platform’s data, and has refused to cooperate with a mandatory comp...continued
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Anderson
@Anderson -
about 5 years ago
Equity Shot: Judging Uber’s less-than-grand opening day – TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We are back, as promised. Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm re-convened today to discuss the latest from the Uber IPO. Namely that it opened down, a...continued
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Cameron
@Cameron -
about 5 years ago
Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system – TechCrunch
Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above. But what happens when that data leaks? One such datab...continued
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Rose
@Rose -
about 5 years ago
'The center of the political universe' — Iowa is even more important than usual in the 2020 election
Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a rally at the Fairfield Arts and Convention Center on April 06, 2019 in Fairfield, Iowa.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesDemocratic presidential candidates swarm. A nine-term U.S. House incumbent face...continued
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Casper
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about 5 years ago
India’s most popular services are becoming super apps – TechCrunch
Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers and robocallers, will soon allow users in India, its largest market, to borrow up to a few hundred dollars. The crediting option will be the fourth feature the nine-year-old app adds to its service in the last two years...continued
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Manley
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about 5 years ago
Coinbase loses its first CTO after just one year in the job – TechCrunch
Coinbase, the $8 billion-valued crypto exchange, has lost its CTO after Balaji Srinivasan announced his departure from the company. Srinivasan became the U.S. company’s first CTO one year ago after it acquired Earn.com, where he was CEO and co-founder. Given the tenure —...continued
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Pablo
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about 5 years ago
Journey launches its real-time group ‘Peloton For Meditation’ – TechCrunch
Sitting silently with your eyes closed isn’t fun but it’s good for you…so you probably don’t meditate as often as you’d like. In that sense it’s quite similar to exercise. But people do show up when prodded by the urgency and peer pressure of scheduled group cycling or ae...continued
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Alexandro
@Alexandro -
about 5 years ago
Decolonization and intersectionality in tech, with Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy and a Core Faculty Member in Women’s Studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the lead “axion wrangler” and a social media team member for the NASA STROBE-X Probe Concept Study.The first Bl...continued
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Muriel
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about 5 years ago
Alibaba-backed facial recognition startup Megvii raises $750 million
One of China’s most ambitious artificial intelligence startups Megvii, more commonly known for its facial recognition brand Face++, announced Wednesday that it has raised $750 million in a Series D funding round.Founded by three graduates from the prestigious Tsinghua Uni...continued
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Arvid
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about 5 years ago
Trump’s China tariffs are getting a major increase on Friday
The stock market has already seen some wild fluctuations this week in anticipation of the latest volley in a trade war ramping up between the U.S. and China. Now it seems the President is making good on his promise to further increase tariffs on goods from the country. Do...continued
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Admin User upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Alexie
@Alexie -
about 5 years ago
US digital advertising exceeded $100B in 2018 (IAB report)
Digital ad spending in the United States exceeding $100 billion for the first time last year, according to the latest internet advertising report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.Specifically, total domestic spending reached $107.5 billio...continued
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Admin User upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Anderson
@Anderson -
about 5 years ago
Freedom Mobile server leak exposed customer data
A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network Freedom Mobile exposed customer data.Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server leaking five million logs containing customer data. The server wasn’t protected with a password, allow...continued
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Admin User upvoted the following post over 5 years ago:
Admin User
@admin -
over 5 years ago
Grab raises fundraising target to $5B as Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing war heats up
Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab is aiming to start the new year with a bang and an awful load of bucks. The company, which acquired Uber’s local business earlier this year, is planning to raise as much as $5 billion from its ongoing Series H round, up from an orig...continued
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Admin User
@admin -
over 5 years ago
Grab raises fundraising target to $5B as Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing war heats up
Southeast Asian ride-hailing firm Grab is aiming to start the new year with a bang and an awful load of bucks. The company, which acquired Uber’s local business earlier this year, is planning to raise as much as $5 billion from its ongoing Series H round, up from an orig...continued
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