Arvid
@Arvid
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Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Diving-Mexico's Marrufo jumps from the springboard to politics - Reuters
Olympic diving veteran Rommel Pacheco Marrufo will launch himself off the springboard in the 3m finals on Tuesday hoping for a gold medal to end to his fourth and final Olympics before pursuing his new dream to become a politician./cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/D3464HTTYZKZTNK2QU5GYVFG5A.jpg)
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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Baseball-Umpires feel the heat in longest, hottest game - Reuters
Home plate umpire Fabrizio Fabrizi said he drank 1.65 litres of water to get him through the longest, hottest baseball game of the Tokyo Olympics while one player poured more than 12 bottles of water over his head in a bid to cool down./cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/FEPBOIEYCBL5FEKIOKBSS3FHJE.jpg)
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Cameron
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over 3 years ago
Astronomers Spot Two Unusually Red Objects in the Asteroid Belt
They’re red, they’re reasonably big, and they have no business being in the main asteroid belt, but their discovery confirms the complex conditions in place when the solar system was still forming. New research published in the The Astrophysical Journal Letters details th...continued
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Arvid
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over 3 years ago
Former Jets Joe Namath and Winston Hill: A rose, a scotch and a Hall of Fame friendship
6:00 AM ETThe 50-year friendship between the famous quarterback and his trusted protector was born at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, 1965.Joe Namath, recovering from knee surgery, hadn't played a down in the NFL yet. He was 21, already rich because of a landmark contrac...continued
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Marie
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over 3 years ago
Facebook warns of ‘headwinds’ to its ad business from regulators and Apple
Facebook posted its second quarter earnings Wednesday, beating expectations with $29 billion in revenue.The world’s biggest social media company was expected to report $27.8 billion in revenue for the quarter, a 50% increase from the same period in 2020. Facebook reported...continued
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Ezequiel
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over 3 years ago
American Horror Story Teases Its Return With Maybe Its Most Nightmarish Promo Ever
That’s obviously a bold claim to make about American Horror Story, a series known for marketing each new season as creepily and, often, cryptically as possible. (That campaign for AHS: Cult involving holes—so many holes—must’ve awakened countless latent cases of trypophob...continued
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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Universal access to high-speed internet will make home-based work more productive, study - Reuters
More people will work from home in the future - and if high-quality internet access is available to all Americans, that could lead to a sustained boost in worker productivity which could increase economic output by $160 billion a year./cloudfront-us-east-2.images.arcpublishing.com/reuters/QDHONQGJ4RNZTIH4HS3XPQUTXA.jpg)
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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
How to Ensure Your Online Reviews Get You Business
Every successful business relies on reviews. In the past, it was word-of-mouth recommendations from friends or family. If you wanted to go to the movies on the weekend, you’d pick up the local newspaper and read what film critics had to say. In today’s digita…
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Mariano
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over 3 years ago
BioNTech founder Uğur Şahin and Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh are coming to Disrupt
BioNTech founder Uğur Şahin and Mayfield’s Ursheet Parikh are coming to hard to argue that any technology company has had a greater impact in the past decade than BioNTech, the mRNA-based therapeutics pioneer behind the world’s most widely-used COVID-19 vaccine. Develope...continued
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Jany
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over 3 years ago
Are Bone Conduction Headphones Worth the Hype?
Would you try a pair of headphones that rests on your cheekbones and sends audio to your ears through your bones? This is possible through a technology called “bone conduction,” and it’s most used in consumer headphones. These products aren’t too expensive and may be a go...continued
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Nelson
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over 3 years ago
Element, a messaging app built on the decentralized Matrix protocol, raises $30M
After Element acquired Gitter last year to bring in more users and features into its own decentralized, Matrix-based messaging app, the startup is announcing some funding to invest in its growth.Element has picked up $30 million in a Series B round of funding. Some of the...continued
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Kari
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over 3 years ago
Tesla’s solar and energy storage business rakes in $810M, finally exceeds cost of revenue
Tesla’s primary source of revenue comes from the sale of its electric vehicles, but its latest quarterly earnings report showed growth in its energy storage and solar business.The demand picture will get even sunnier for the division if the company can access enough chips...continued
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Ryleigh
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over 3 years ago
Shares of protein discovery platform Absci pop in market debut
Absci Corp., a Vancouver company behind a multifaceted drug development platform, went public on Thursday. It’s another sign of snowballing interest in new approaches to drug development — a traditionally risky business. Absci focuses on speeding drug development in the p...continued
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Jimmy
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over 3 years ago
‘Weird and unfair’: Usain Bolt criticises advances in spike technology
Usain Bolt said that advances in spike technology that could help wipe out his world records are laughable and that the new shoes also give an unfair advantage over any athletes not wearing them.After athletes ripped through the record books in distance running with carbo...continued
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Sandrine
@Sandrine -
over 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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Elian
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over 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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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Source: Texans get WR Miller in trade with Bears
9:28 AM ETHOUSTON -- The Houston Texans have acquired wide receiver Anthony Miller in a trade with the Chicago Bears, a source confirmed to ESPN.The Texans and Bears also swapped late-round draft picks in the trade, which was first reported by NFL Network.Miller indicated...continued
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Arvid
@Arvid -
over 3 years ago
Tokyo 2020: Early Results
July 24, 2021 (by Steve Hopkins)The Olympic Games are just underway and most of the big named players won’t be in singles action for a few more days, but preliminary rounds are going on this weekend – as are early doubles rounds.Two TeamUSA players competed on the ...continued
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over 3 years ago
NFL to fine unvaxxed players $15K for any lapses
11:36 AM ETUnvaccinated NFL players will be subjected to a fine of $14,650 every time they violate COVID-19 procedures.A spotlight was put on the punishment after a report that Tampa Bay Buccaneers coach Bruce Arians would fine a player "$14,000 on the spot every time he ...continued
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Minnie
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over 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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Kraig
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over 3 years ago
Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to launch
Tailor Brands raises $50M, aims to be one-stop shop for small businesses to Brands, a startup that automates parts of the branding and marketing process for small businesses, announced Thursday it has raised $50 million in Series C funding.GoDaddy led the round as a stra...continued
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Anderson
@Anderson -
over 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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Elaina
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over 3 years ago
I Launched a PR Agency Even Though I'd Never Wanted to Start a Business
July 22, 2021 7 min Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their a teenager, I tried everything: community theater, basketball, cross-country skiing, social work, hours and hours of piano lessons, Aikido, horseback riding. Thi...continued
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Allene
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over 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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over 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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