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Tuesday, April 24, 2018

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As-it-happens update 24 April 2018
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Spring may have barely sprung, but if early-stage companies want an exhibitor's table in Startup Alley at Disrupt San Francisco 2018 you need to apply now. Our biggest, most ambitious Disrupt ever takes place on September 5-7 at our new venue, Moscone Center West. More than 1,200 exhibitors and ...
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Bluedot Innovation wants to tackle this by building out tech that can zero-in on smartphone users' locations in the background. Bluedot announced today they have raised $5.5 million in Series A funding led by a major toll road company, Transurban. The Melbourne startup has raised $13 million to date.
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A rented van plowed down a crowded Toronto sidewalk Monday, killing 10 people and injuring 15 before the driver fled and was quickly arrested in a confrontation with police, Canadian authorities said. Witnesses said the driver was moving fast and appeared to be acting deliberately, but police officials ...
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In 1991, chemist Michael Graetzel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne invented so-called dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that work best in dim light and are cheaper than the standard semiconductors. Yet under full sun, the best DSSCs convert only 14% of the energy in sunlight ...
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Though he did not touch on the size of his holdings in his public statement regarding Cohen—"My questions exclusively almost focused on real estate," he said. "I said many times on my radio show, 'I hate the stock market, I prefer real estate' . . . Michael knows real estate"—Hannity's holdings, obtained ...
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Finland will end its basic income experiment in 2019
Finland's social security institution, Kela, selected participants at random from people ages 25 to 58 who were unemployed. Initially, the program was supposed to be expanded this year to include workers as well as non-workers, but instead the monthly payouts to these individuals will end in 2019.
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'Big Titles' Race
In what seems like an annual tradition now, the Spaniard added another "Big Title" with his 11th Monte-Carlo crown on Sunday, beating Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-2.
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Hard Questions: How Effective Is Technology in Keeping Terrorists off Facebook?
White supremacists used electronic bulletin boards in the 1980s, and the first pro-al-Qaeda website was established in the mid-1990s. While the challenge of terrorism online isn't new, it has grown increasingly urgent as digital platforms become central to our lives. At Facebook, we recognize the ...
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Crabs settled in the tunnel
The High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) project aims at increasing the number of collisions in the LHC and consequently improving the precision of the experiments' analyses. For several years, engineers, technicians and operators have been devising, designing and building the components, some of ...
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A week in security (April 16 – April 22)
Last week, we took a stroll down memory lane talking about Facebook and MySpace, noticed a change in the Magnitude exploit kit—wherein it started adopting the GandCrab ransomware, took a good look at a new form of adware that is based on Python, chatted a bit about Russian hacking with a ...
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