Alexie
@Alexie
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Alexie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Madalyn
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about 5 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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Alexie
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about 5 years ago
Barnwell grades the Jalen Ramsey trade: Why it might be too late for the Rams
10:05 PM ETThe Rams rebuilt their cornerback depth chart Tuesday. In addition to putting veteran Aqib Talib on injured reserve, they traded away one former All-Pro cornerback, Marcus Peters, to the Ravens and then acquired another in Jaguars standout Jalen Ramsey. It's cl...continued
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Kari
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about 5 years ago
Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL not launching in India
Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL not launching in India – TechCrunchThe Pixel 4 and Pixel XL smartphones, that Google just unveiled at a press conference in New York, won’t launch in India, one of the company’s key overseas markets, the Android-maker said on Tuesday.The bottlen...continued
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Oren
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about 5 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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Teagan
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about 5 years ago
Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz
Silicon Valley’s competing philosophies on tech ethics with The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz – TechCrunch“If Silicon Valley is going to keep telling itself the story that the only uses of their technology will be the most optimistic, the most hopeful, the most salubrious, ...continued
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about 5 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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Patrick
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about 5 years ago
Howard University and Amazon want to diversify the entertainment industry
Howard University and Amazon want to diversify the entertainment industryThe new program will send students to Los Angeles for two semesters, the second of which will include a fellowship in the industry. Students interested in all aspects of entertainment -- project gree...continued
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about 5 years ago
Investors revel in trade and Brexit optimism
Premarket stocks: Investors revel in trade and Brexit optimismLondon (CNN Business)Happy Friday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up righthere.President Donald Trump said Thursday that the f...continued
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Alexie
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about 5 years ago
California bans travel-size plastic shampoo bottles from hotels
California bans travel-size plastic shampoo bottles from hotelsCalifornia In a few years, you'll no longer be able to rely on hotels in California for those travel-size bottles of shampoo and lotion.California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill Wednesday that bans hotels fro...continued
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Alexie
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about 5 years ago
Gurley unsure on status, but clear on NCAA views
8:36 PM ETLindsey ThiryESPN Close Covered Rams for two years for Los Angeles Times Previously covered the Falcons Has covered the NBA and college football and basketballTHOUSAND OAKS, Calif. -- Los Angeles Rams running back Todd Gurley expressed uncertainty Thursday ab...continued
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Zetta
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about 5 years ago
Cisco hit by an internal network outage
Cisco hit by an internal network outage – TechCrunchNot a great start to the day for Cisco employees, many of which are struggling in the face of an internal IT outage.The technology and networking giant confirmed in a tweet it was “aware of some disruption” to its IT sys...continued
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about 5 years ago
How selling citizenship is now big business
How selling citizenship is now big businessYou can be born into it, you can earn it, and you can lose it. Increasingly, you can also invest your way into it.The "it" is citizenship of a particular country, and it is a more fluid concept than ever before. Go back 50 years,...continued
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Marie
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about 5 years ago
Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost
Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost - The New York TimesThis sort of corporate capitulation is hardly surprising. For Western companies, China is simply too big and too rich a market to ignore, let alone to pressure or to police. If the first and most important ...continued
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Juliet
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about 5 years ago
Gymnastics’ Latest Twist? Robot Judges That See Everything
Gymnastics’ Latest Twist? Robot Judges That See EverythingThanks to all this, Watanabe explained, no longer would gymnasts — many of whom, he noted, had started gymnastics as young as age 3 and had trained competitively for more than a decade — risk having their efforts u...continued
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Liliane
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about 5 years ago
100 Powerful Women in Business
100 Powerful Women in BusinessWomen know how to fight the good fight -- and they won't back down until the job is done. Get to know 100 female-led businesses and brands that are creating change and redefining the rules of success.Welcome to Entrepreneur's first-ever (but ...continued
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about 5 years ago
‘Stand With Hong Kong’? Not When N.B.A.’s Chinese Fortune Is on the Line
Why the N.B.A. Apologized to China Over Daryl Morey’s Tweet About Hong KongHONG KONG — The N.B.A. is widely seen as the most permissive of the major American sports leagues when it comes to freewheeling speech, allowing its athletes and other representatives to speak out ...continued
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Priscilla
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about 5 years ago
NASA launches a new Earth-like planet hunting telescope using a giant balloon
NASA launches a new planet-hunting telescope using a giant balloon – TechCrunchA new telescope will seek out planets that resemble Earth from a height of around 125,000 feet, using special optical technology that will filter out light from the stars they orbit to provide ...continued
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Mariano
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about 5 years ago
Quickly Scan and Transcribe Business Cards With This App
Quickly Scan and Transcribe Business Cards With This AppHow to Get Google to Let You Know When the Price Drops on Something You Want to BuySource: Lifehacker.comPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Mobile app • Google •
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Alexie
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about 5 years ago
Week 5 NFL betting trends to know
Oct 5, 2019Betting on road teams in the NFL continues to be profitable. Including the Los Angeles Rams' narrow cover against the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night, road teams are now 41-22-1 ATS this season.Tom Brady makes history this week with his 63rd consecutive regu...continued
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Alexie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Mariano
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about 5 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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about 5 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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Maureen
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about 5 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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Angus
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about 5 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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Alexie
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about 5 years ago
Kliff Kingsbury adjusts to NFL, but holds tight to rare formation
6:00 AM ETTEMPE, Ariz. -- One month into his NFL career, Arizona Cardinals coach Kliff Kingsbury has noticed one major difference between coaching in college and the NFL.And it has forced Kingsbury to adapt. His offenses averaged 81.9 offensive plays per game in six seaso...continued
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Alexie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
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about 5 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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