Josiah
@Josiah
431 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Josiah upvoted the following post over 4 years ago:
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over 4 years ago
Berkeley Becomes Fourth U.S. City to Ban Face Recognition in Unanimous Vote
Berkeley Becomes Fourth U.S. City to Ban Face Recognition in Unanimous VoteBerkeley, California became the fourth U.S. city to pass a ban on all government use of facial recognition technology on Tuesday night following a unanimous yes vote by the City Council.Two other c...continued
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over 4 years ago
This technology is helping Hong Kong prepare for typhoons
Hong Kong is preparing for typhoons using this technologyChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.Source: CNNPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Hong Kong • Instant messaging • Facebook Messenger • Pearl River (band) •
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Google aims to change the definition of good photography with Pixel 4’s software-defined camera
Google aims to change the definition of good photography with Pixel 4’s software-defined camera – TechCrunchGoogle’s new Pixel 4 camera offers a ton of new tricks to improve its photographic chops, and to emphasize the point, it had Professor Mark Levoy, who leads camera ...continued
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over 4 years ago
5 Email-Marketing Strategies to Conquer Consumer Inaction
5 Email-Marketing Strategies to Conquer Consumer InactionEmail-marketing segmentation has been proven to boost campaign results, and thanks to modern automation features, it’s easier than ever to segment email lists and send highly targeted messages to people based on dem...continued
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over 4 years ago
Making technology accessible for everyone
Making technology accessible for everyoneThe World Health Organization estimates that 15 percent of the world’s population—over 1 billion people—have a disability. October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, an opportunity to look at how technology enables ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Verily, Alphabet’s other money-making, non-Google business, partners with Color on genetic analysis
Verily, Alphabet’s other money-making, non-Google business, partners with Color on genetic analysis – TechCrunchColor, the genetics testing company, is partnering with Alphabet’s health technology-focused subsidiary, Verily Life Sciences, to provide to the company’s Basel...continued
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over 4 years ago
Udacity will offer 100,000 free programming classes as part of the “Pledge to America’s Workers”
Udacity will offer 100,000 free programming classes as part of the ‘Pledge to America’s Workers’ – TechCrunchUdacity, the online education company founded by Sebastian Thrun, is launching a new scholarship initiative as part of the Pledge to America’s Workersjob training ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Twitter Used Your Phone Number to Send You Ads. Now What?
Twitter Used Your Phone Number to Send You Ads. Now What?Talk about being caught between a tweet and a hard place. Twitter, in its infinite wisdom, recently admitted that it messed up and used email addresses and phone numbers—provided by users as part of their account se...continued
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over 4 years ago
A Mass Power Outage, Twitter's Data Misuse, and More News
A Mass Power Outage, Twitter's Data Misuse, and More NewsMassive power outages won't save California, Twitter misused your two-factor authentication data, and scientists now know where lightning strikes twice (as much as anywhere else). Here's the news you need to know, i...continued
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Josiah
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over 4 years ago
Florida Man 2.0: Behind Minshew's mustache lie 'genius tendencies'
8:00 AM ETSUNRISE ISN'T FOR at least another hour. The air reeks of that sweet, sweet Florida sulfur. The only light comes from the glint of a rusted streetlamp off the community trash compactor, yet still -- still -- Gardner Minshew is smiling as he pulls out of his apar...continued
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over 4 years ago
Armenia and the technology of diaspora
Armenia and the technology of diaspora – TechCrunchIt’s a tough world out there for small countries. Technology is the future, everyone knows that; but how do you claim your share of that future when you’re competing with America, China, the EU and India?How do you build ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Glenlivet's marketing stunt: whiskey in lozenge form
whiskey in lozenge form / Boing BoingGlenlivet capsules are edible, seaweed-derived pods filled with whiskey that you bite into.First of all, you can't add a drop of water to bring the volatiles to the surface of the liquor.Second of all, you can't sip it.Third of all, wh...continued
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Alvah
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over 4 years ago
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars Intensify
Disney Bans Netflix Ads As Streaming's Marketing Wars IntensifyDisney is banning advertising from Netflix across its entertainment TV networks , according the The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter. It's "a sign that the marketing wars over stream...continued
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over 4 years ago
Lora DiCarlo founder says CES award snub did company ‘a pretty big favor’
Lora DiCarlo founder says CES award snub did company ‘a pretty big favor’ – TechCrunchCES parent the Consumer Technology Association created a public relations disaster in January when it unceremoniously revoked an award from sex tech startup, Lora DiCarlo and its product...continued
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over 4 years ago
How Do I Get Safari to Use 1Password Instead of Keychain?
How Do I Get Safari to Use 1Password Instead of Keychain?Welcome back to Tech 911, Lifehacker’s weekly technology-advice column. This week, we’re tackling a question from a reader who finds it annoying when his browser prompts him to save passwords on a service he’d rathe...continued
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over 4 years ago
IronSource, a mobile adtech startup, confirms $400M+ raise at $1+ valuation
IronSource, a mobile adtech startup, confirms $400M+ raise at $1B+ valuation – TechCrunchOn the same day that two Israeli-founded adtech startups, Taboola and Outbrain, announced a merger to create a $2 billion company, another Israel-founded company focusing on advertisi...continued
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Josiah
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over 4 years ago
Satellite photography, drawing tools and interactive logotypes feature in Double Click September
Satellite photography, drawing tools and interactive logotypes feature in Double Click SeptemberAda Sokol is a creative we’ve written about more than once here on It’s Nice That as big fans of her innovative and sleek work. When designing her portfolio site, it was the “u...continued
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Josiah
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over 4 years ago
U.S. Open Live Updates: Serena Williams vs. Elina Svitolina
Serena Williams Roars Back Into the U.S. Open FinalIf you were a Serena Williams fan, it all looked so reassuring again on Thursday night as she pounded first serves and ripped winners on the run against an overwhelmed younger opponent to reach her 10th United States Open...continued
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over 4 years ago
The historic partnership of democracy and technology
The historic partnership of democracy and technologyIn September I joined the 2019 Digital Summit in Dublin, where I was invited to deliver a speech on technology and politics. The Digital Summit brings together stakeholders from across society to discuss technological in...continued
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over 4 years ago
Snaplogic raises $72M more for its enterprise data integration platform
Snaplogic raises $72M more for its enterprise data integration platform – TechCrunchCloud services and the adoption of apps that rely on them continue to grow in popularity, but a persistent theme in enterprise technology has been that a lot of organizations still continu...continued
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Josiah
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over 4 years ago
Baseball Saw a Million More Empty Seats. Does It Matter?
Baseball Saw a Million More Empty Seats. Does It Matter?“It’s never going to go away,” Noah Garden, M.L.B. executive vice president for business and sales, said of ticket sales. “It isn’t going to die. But it’s going to change. There are going to be a different number of ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Inside McDonald's marketing changes, rising CMOs, and Quartz's membership model
Inside McDonald's marketing changes, rising CMOs, and Quartz's membership modelGood morning! One of our big stories of the past week was the agency change at McDonald's, from advertising correspondent Patrick Coffee. Patrick obtained an internal doc from the new agency, W...continued
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Minnie
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over 4 years ago
Paying College Athletes: Answers to Key Questions on New Law
Paying College Athletes: Answers to Key Questions on New LawCalifornia’s governor signed a bill that will allow students playing college sports to strike endorsement deals and hire agents, challenging the National Collegiate Athletic Association on a system that has been ...continued
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over 4 years ago
Resignation venerated - Business Mirror
Resignation veneratedAlmost all military units worldwide have some form of tradition to build a sense of unity and cohesion among their members by sharing a common experience, usually testing the individual’s physical stamina and psychological fortitude. Some might call i...continued
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over 4 years ago
Reduce Anxiety When Public Speaking By Thinking About How You're Helping the Audience
Reduce Anxiety When Public Speaking By Thinking About How You're Helping the AudienceWhy Your Home Stinks and How to Fix ItSource: Lifehacker.comPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Anxiety •
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