Jany
@Jany
434 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jany upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Minnie @Minnie - almost 5 years ago
U.S. Military Will Stop Using Floppy Discs to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons System
Military to Stop Using Floppy Disks to Operate Its Nuclear Weapons SystemThe systems used to control the United States arsenal of nuclear weapons rely on outdated computers. But the Department of Defense is updating at least one part of the archaic technology—the floppy d...continued
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Juliet @Juliet - almost 5 years ago
Mobster’s Jailbreak Plan: Floss, Hacksaw Blade, Crash Diet and a Priest
Mobster’s Jailbreak Plan: Floss, Hacksaw Blade, Crash Diet and a PriestTo break out of a federal jail, a suspected Mafia soldier named Christopher Londonio planned to use dental floss as a glass-cutter, Kool-Aid as clothing dye and “lots of bran” to slim down.It was all p...continued
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Izaiah @Izaiah - almost 5 years ago
Segment’s new privacy portal helps companies comply with expanding regulations
Segment’s new privacy portal helps companies comply with expanding regulations – TechCrunchWith the EU’s sweeping GDPR privacy laws and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy ACT (CCPA), companies have to figure out how to deal with keeping private data private — or fac...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities anymore because they put its ‘business at risk’
Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities anymore because they put its ‘business at risk’In a blog post published earlier this week, image-sharing site Imgur wrote that it won’t display any content from Reddit’s NSFW communities on its site.If you search for, say, r/N...continued
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Maida @Maida - almost 5 years ago
Juul Suspends Online Sales of Flavored E-Cigarettes
Juul Suspends Online Sales of Flavored E-CigarettesJuul Labs announced on Thursday that it would temporarily halt online sales of flavored e-cigarettes like mango, products the company had already stopped distributing to retail stores as public outrage mounted over the so...continued
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Leda @Leda - almost 5 years ago
Amazon Is Marketing Face Recognition to Police Departments Partnered With Ring: Report
Amazon Pushing Rekognition Face Recognition to Police With Ring PartnershipsAmazon is marketing its facial recognition software to Florida police departments that are currently partnered with its home surveillance company, Ring—arrangements that allow police to request ac...continued
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Oren @Oren - almost 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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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - almost 5 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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Jany @Jany - almost 5 years ago
Eagles' Pederson: 'We're gonna win' vs. Cowboys
11:34 AM ETPHILADELPHIA -- Eagles coach Doug Pederson just raised the stakes for Sunday's all-important matchup at the Dallas Cowboys.During his weekly radio appearance on 94.1 WIP, Pederson said the Eagles would win Sunday at AT&T Stadium."We're going down to Dallas,...continued
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Rex @Rex - almost 5 years ago
4 Ways to Make Prices Seem Lower Than They Are
4 Ways to Make Prices Seem Lower Than They AreAs a marketer, I love testing things to see what will increase sales. The headlines, the copy, the imagery. But when it comes to a product’s pricing page, I use the same strategy as when I’m driving a car: If nobody is screami...continued
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Alvah @Alvah - almost 5 years ago
This technology transforms the way we measure body temperature — Future Blink
This technology transforms the way we measure body temperature — Future BlinkWe're using cookies to improve your experience. Click Here to find out more.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Technology • Blink (web engine) •
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Liliane @Liliane - almost 5 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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Rose @Rose - almost 5 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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Muriel @Muriel - almost 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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Juliet @Juliet - almost 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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Zetta @Zetta - almost 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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Jany @Jany - almost 5 years ago
Become Happier by Building the Right Habits
Become Happier by Building the Right HabitsThere are two kinds of happiness—the kind that lasts for an instant and the kind that can permeate an entire lifetime.If you’re looking for the first kind of happiness, seek out novel experiences. Chase thrills, try new things, p...continued
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Jany @Jany - almost 5 years ago
NFL contenders gone wrong: Barnwell ranks the six top playoff fallers
8:05 AM ETA lot can go wrong for a team in five weeks. History says you can kiss your playoff chances goodbye if you start 0-5; since the NFL went to its current postseason structure in 2002, no team that started the year without a win through five games has made it to th...continued
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Alexander @Alexander - almost 5 years ago
US government adds Chinese facial recognition firms to entity list
US government adds Chinese facial recognition firms to entity listThe blacklisted tech companies include Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co. and Zhejiang Dahua Technology Co., which are two of the largest video surveillance firms in the world. Both companies have ca...continued
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Alexander @Alexander - almost 5 years ago
How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh’, won the local video streaming market with just $10M
How Bongo, the ‘Netflix of Bangladesh,’ won the local video streaming market with just $10M – TechCrunchThousands of miles away from the U.S., where technology giants, cable networks, and studios are locked in an intense multi-billion dollar battle to court users to their...continued
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Jany @Jany - almost 5 years ago
Iranian Hackers Targeted Trump's Re-Election Campaign: Report
Iranian Hackers Targeted Trump's Re-Election Campaign: ReportKinja is in read-only mode. We are working to restore service.Source: Gizmodo.comPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Security hacker • Kinja •
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Mariano @Mariano - almost 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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Mariano @Mariano - almost 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 @Alvah - almost 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 @Maureen - almost 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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