Abbie
@Abbie
462 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Abbie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Nestor
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about 5 years ago
From Kraft Foods To CBD: A Chat With Kadenwood Brands CEO Erick Dickens
From Kraft Foods To CBD: A Chat With Kadenwood Brands CEO Erick DickensThe booming U.S. CBD market is estimated to exceed $20 billion by 2024, according to BDS Analytics — a substantial jump from $1.9 billion in 2018. As CBD becomes mainstream, companies operating in the...continued
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Cyril
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about 5 years ago
For Sale: Human Fetuses, Slightly Used
Woman Charged for Alleged Sale of Human Fetuses on FacebookA Colorado woman is facing smuggling charges after allegedly attempting to sell and ship human fetal remains in violation of federal law. According to court records, she conducted much of her business over Faceboo...continued
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Abbie
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about 5 years ago
Source: Jets, Osemele in dispute over injury
5:23 PM ETThe New York Jets and former Pro Bowl guard Kelechi Osemele are engaged in a dispute over the severity of his shoulder injury.If Osemele doesn't return to practice Saturday after sitting out nearly four weeks, he will be subject to a fine or a suspension for con...continued
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Cynthia
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about 5 years ago
Tesla gets green light to start producing EVs in China
Tesla gets green light to start producing EVs in China – TechCrunchChina’s industry ministry has added Tesla to a government list of approved automotive manufacturers, a designation that allows the electric automaker to begin producing vehicles in the country.Tesla’s incl...continued
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Giovanni
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about 5 years ago
Arianna Huffington on Quest to Create the Methadone of Tech
Arianna Huffington's Thrive Global Acquires Boundless MindsAriana Huffington left Huffington Post in 2016 to create Thrive Global—a confounding venture that aims to help people reduce stress and burnout by taking control of their relationship with technology. Three years ...continued
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Leda
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about 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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Bart
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about 5 years ago
Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors examining Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in Ukraine
Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors examining Rudy Giuliani's business dealings in UkraineWashington (CNN)Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are examining Rudy Giuliani's Ukraine business dealings, including his bank records, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, ci...continued
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Webster
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about 5 years ago
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India – TechCrunchIndia’s Flipkart is entering the food retail business as the e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation, its chief executive said on Tuesday.Flipkart, which sold majorit...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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Abbie
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about 5 years ago
American Basketball vs. Chinese Hardball. Guess Who Won.
American Basketball vs. Chinese Hardball: Guess Who WonBEIJING — Back in the Cold War, the sclerotic Soviet system proved no match for the lure of American soft power: bluejeans, jazz, rock ’n’ roll, Coca-Cola, Hollywood. All became symbols of American freedom and prosper...continued
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Alvah
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about 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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Dayton
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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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Grayce
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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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Abbie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Dayton
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about 5 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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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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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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Patrick
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about 5 years ago
Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $8 Billion in Risperdal Case Involving Male Breast Growth
Johnson & Johnson Ordered to Pay $8 billion in Risperdal CaseJohnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $8 billion in punitive damages in a case involving the way that the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal was marketed. Some male patients have argued that the drug caus...continued
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Abbie
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about 5 years ago
She Speaks for France’s President. And ‘Explosions of Color.’
She Speaks for France’s President. And ‘Explosions of Color.’PARIS — There’s no hiding when you’re the spokeswoman for the Élysée Palace. Especially if you are the first black spokeswoman for the Élysée Palace. Especially if you are Sibeth Ndiaye, the Senegalese-born publ...continued
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Alexander
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about 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
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about 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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Sandrine
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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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Arvid
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about 5 years ago
Rip Taylor, Flamboyant Television Comedian and Actor, Dies at 84
Rip Taylor, Flamboyant Comedian and Actor, Dies at 84Rip Taylor, a flamboyant mainstay of the comedy circuit who was known for his gags involving confetti; for his brand of self-deprecating humor, which involved removing his toupee; and his extensive voice work, died on S...continued
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Adelia
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California Bans Deepfakes in Porn and Politics
California Bans Deepfakes in Porn and PoliticsAMD's Next Big Graphics Card Sure Sounds Like It Will Be Cheap and PowerfulSource: Gizmodo.comPowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:California • Advanced Micro Devices • Video card •
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Abbie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
Mariano
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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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Abbie upvoted the following post about 5 years ago:
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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