Jimmy
@Jimmy
429 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Jimmy upvoted the following post almost 5 years ago:
Kari @Kari - almost 5 years ago
Trump Family Considers Selling Hotel in Washington
Trumps Put Their Washington Hotel on the MarketWASHINGTON — It is the most visible and potent symbol of the ethics debate that has dogged President Trump as he has served simultaneously as the nation’s chief executive and real estate developer with a chain of luxury hotel...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Chiefs rule Mahomes out Sunday vs. Packers
2:27 PM ETThe Kansas City Chiefs have decided that quarterback Patrick Mahomes needs at least one game off to recover from his knee injury.Mahomes, who suffered a dislocated kneecap during a win over the Denver Broncos on Oct. 17, has been ruled out for Sunday's game agai...continued
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Gregoria @Gregoria - almost 5 years ago
Caffeine hopes celebrities and entertainment can help it beat Twitch
Caffeine hopes celebrities and entertainment can help it beat TwitchThe streaming wars are heating up: corporate content giants like Netflix, Amazon, and Disney are all playing their positions, strengthening their value propositions. The sheer number of upcoming streaming...continued
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Marlon @Marlon - almost 5 years ago
Can desert greenhouses resolve food security time bomb?
Can desert greenhouses deliver food security?The three-year-old start-up is aiming for nothing less than a transformation of the agriculture industry, and to resolve the growing threat to food security that faces the UAE.The company, founded in 2016, has already establish...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Study claims Twitter is full of Trump's greatest foes and most devoted fans
People who tweet about politics are either extremely pro or anti-TrumpWe're using cookies to improve your experience. Click Here to find out more.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Twitter •
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Giles @Giles - almost 5 years ago
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow
Databricks announces $400M round on $6.2B valuation as analytics platform continues to grow – TechCrunchDatabricks is a SaaS business built on top of a bunch of open-source tools, and apparently it’s been going pretty well on the business side of things. In fact, the comp...continued
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Jeffrey @Jeffrey - almost 5 years ago
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisis
Facebook will spend $1 billion to address California’s affordable housing crisisFacebook today announced a pledge of $1 billion and a partnership with the state of California to help build more affordable housing, after the company contributed for over a decade to an infl...continued
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Hank @Hank - almost 5 years ago
3 Marketing Lessons from Bed Bath & Beyond's 'Offline Shopping' Ad
3 Marketing Lessons from Bed Bath & Beyond's 'Offline Shopping' AdI was recently in the market for a new vacuum cleaner and was doing my usual shopping routine -- i.e. browsing on Amazon and reading reviews to get more information on the various brands before I made m...continued
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Garnet @Garnet - almost 5 years ago
Evolution of Speech Recognition Technology
Communication plays an essential role in our lives. Humans started with signs, symbols, and then made progress to a stage, where they began communicating with languages. Later computing and communication technologies came. Machines began communicating with humans and in s...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Sourav Ganguly: Can former India captain score big as cricket chief?
Sourav Ganguly: Can former India captain score big as cricket chief?Sourav Ganguly, one of India's most successful cricket captains, takes over as president of the country's cricket board on Wednesday, kicking off a new chapter in its history, writes the BBC's Vikas Pande...continued
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Manley @Manley - almost 5 years ago
Let Seth Godin help you transform your life
Seth Godin on leadership, persuasion, and the art of the side hustleWe're using cookies to improve your experience. Click Here to find out more.Source: MashablePowered by NewsAPI.orgKeywords:Seth Godin • Persuasion • Hustling •
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Devin @Devin - almost 5 years ago
Skyrocket Your Instagram Marketing with Business Tips
Top Instagram Marketing Tips for BusinessHere is a question for you: Are you getting enough results from your Instagram marketing? Instagram has unlimited opportunities for savvy and hardworking marketers. Unfortunately, only about 10% or less of marketers use Instagram t...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Trump says being president has cost him $2 billion to $5 billion
Trump says being president has cost him $2 billion to $5 billionWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that being president has cost him between $2 billion and $5 billion that he would have made if he had continued running his business instead o...continued
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Erik @Erik - almost 5 years ago
Action Blocks: one tap to make technology more accessible
one tap to make technology more accessibleThink about the last time you did something seemingly simple on your phone, like booking a rideshare. To do this, you had to unlock your phone, find the right app, and type in your pickup location. The process required you to read...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Darnold, 'seeing ghosts,' tosses 4 INTs vs. Pats
11:34 PM ETEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Emboldened by his terrific Week 6 performance, New York Jets quarterback Sam Darnold entered Monday night playing and talking like a true franchise quarterback. By the second quarter of the Jets' 33-0 loss to the New England Patriots, h...continued
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Marjory @Marjory - almost 5 years ago
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For Sale
Spot, Boston Dynamic's Robot Dog, Is Finally Available For SaleAfter debuting just shy of two years ago, Boston Dynamics has finally made its Spot robotic dog available for sale, but don’t expect to find a great Black Friday deal on this bot at Best Buy come Thanksgiving....continued
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Wilmer @Wilmer - almost 5 years ago
Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technology
Why Elon Musk is wrong about LiDAR technologyEarlier this year, at one of Tesla’s events, the company’s famous founder, Elon Muskproclaimed that, “LiDAR is a fool’s errand,” and “Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Doomed.”We’re all big fans of Elon at my company and we’ve...continued
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Ryleigh @Ryleigh - almost 5 years ago
Timing Technology
Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media LabWhile reading “Funding Breakthrough Research: Promises and Challenges of the ‘ARPA Model’”, Azoulay et al 2018, on DARPA, I noticed an interesting comment:The two Goldstein & Kearney 2018 papers sounded interesting but alas...continued
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Patrick @Patrick - almost 5 years ago
Ikea's Expands Augmented Reality App, Lets You Fill an Entire Room With Virtual Swedish Furniture
Ikea's AR App Now Lets You Place Multiple Pieces of FurnitureAugmented reality might one day be a crucial piece of technology, but for now, the best use we’ve found for putting virtual objects in real scenes is previewing how new furniture might look in your living room. ...continued
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Jarod @Jarod - almost 5 years ago
Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology
Berkeley city council unanimously votes to ban facial recognition technology / Boing BoingBerkeley has joined the swelling ranks of cities (pioneered by nearby Oakland) that have passed ordinances banning the government's use of facial recognition technology, after a unan...continued
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Grayce @Grayce - almost 5 years ago
Android users can test out Microsoft’s xCloud game streaming next month
Microsoft launching public xCloud streaming test on Android in OctoberRoughly one year after announcing plans for its Project xCloud game streaming service, Microsoft will roll out a public test of xCloud next month for Android users in the United States, United Kingdom, ...continued
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Jimmy @Jimmy - almost 5 years ago
Sources: Mahomes could return in under 3 weeks
5:36 AM ETKansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who suffered a dislocated kneecap Thursday night against Denver, could return in three weeks, if not sooner, league sources tell ESPN.The Chiefs are expected to exercise extreme caution with Mahomes, and the time o...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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Nestor @Nestor - almost 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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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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