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A domestic violence prevention app backed by Dr. Phil exposed victims’ distress recordings
Back in 2013, Robin McGraw, wife of U.S. television personality Dr. Phil, launched an app to help domestic violence victims covertly signal for distress. It was quickly heralded as a potential lifesaver for those in harm’s way. Aspire News, which claims over 300,000 downloads, is disguised to look like an innocuous news reading app that […] More
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You should absolutely invest in a hammock this summer
We’re trying to take a page from Will Smith’s playbook by chillin’ out, maxin’, and relaxin’ all cool this summer. One way to achieve max level of chill is lying in a hammock all damn day. You can do this at a park, your own outdoor space, or wherever you can find two anchor points […] More
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These ingenious portholes can reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmissions in hospitals
STUCK is a design agency in Singapore, who have been working on a number of COVID-19 initiatives. One involves using geometry and elasticity to create portholes that seal quickly around the arm. They allow medical workers to interact with infected patients with minimal risk of exposure. Read more… More about Design, Mashable Video, Stuck, Hospitals, […] More
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Nearly every piece of American Tourister luggage is on sale right now
TL;DR: As of June 25, Luggage from American Tourister is on sale across the board. Use code SAVEMORE to save up to 30% to 50% depending on how much you spend, and on June 25 only, take up to 75% off the Moonlight hardside collection. You know what feels a lot better than moping about […] More
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Google to start paying some publishers for content later this year
Google announced a licensing program through which it will pay news publishers for content, the company announced Thursday. The result of these partnerships will be a “new news experience” that’s coming “later this year.” Google says the focus will be on “an enhanced storytelling experience that lets people go deeper into more complex stories” and […] More
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Prince William Steps Out To Visit COVID-19 Vaccine Developers At Oxford
The Duke of Cambridge met researchers working for the Oxford Vaccine Group on Wednesday. Source link More
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‘Scrubs’ Pulls 3 Episodes Featuring Blackface From Streaming
Multiple episodes with stars Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke in blackface will no longer be available on Hulu. Source link More
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James Corden Points Out Trump Even Speaks In Typos
“The Late Late Show” host wants to turn your frownd upside down. Source link More
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Morons Won’t Let You Cover God’s 'Wonderful Breathing System' With The Devil’s Masks
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee Tuesday announced on Tuesday a statewide mandate requiring facial coverings in public to slow the spread of COVID-19, which is still a problem despite what you might hear at a Trump rally. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper did the same on Wednesday. He also extended the state’s Phase Two reopening by […] More
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Salesforce announces a new mobile collaboration tool for sales called Anywhere
Even before the pandemic pushed most employees to work from home, sales people often worked outside of the office. Salesforce introduced a new tool today at the Trailheadx Conference called Salesforce Anywhere that’s designed to let teams collaborate and share data wherever they happen to be. Salesforce VP of product, Michael Machado says that the […] More
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PlayStation's mid-year sale features tons of great discounts
TL;DR: As of June 25, PlayStation’s mid-year sale has officially begun — check out the full list of deals here, which can save you upwards of 70% off. It’s been a great month for gaming sales, and that trend is showing no signs of stopping. PlayStation is already back with another big mid-year sale following […] More
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U.S. Supreme Court bolsters Trump’s power over rapid deportation
The Trump administration has taken multiple steps to speed up deportations and restrict access to asylum. Source link More
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George Floyd Died A Month Ago. There Have Been Protests Every Day Since.
The fight for justice is far from over, but so much has already changed, showing how historic this moment really is. Source link More
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Candidate Labs wants to be modern talent agency for techies
In the first few minutes of pitching his new company, Candidate Labs, Jonathan Downey admitted that he’s operating in a market that is “done to death”: recruitment technology. But Downey, whose previous startup Airware shut down after burning $118 million, remains optimistic because of a little company named Zoom. “There were lots and lots of […] More
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Kristen Bell, Jenny Slate Step Down From Voicing Their Black Characters On TV
Statements posted on Instagram say the roles will be recast with Black or mixed-race actors. Source link More
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SevenRooms raises $50M to double down on reservations, ordering and other tools for hospitality businesses
Restaurants, hotels and other public venues where we spend leisure and business time have started to reopen in many parts of the world after a period of going dark to try to slow down the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, a startup called SevenRooms, which builds software to help those venues with their guest […] More
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Why Bars Are The Perfect Environment For Spreading Coronavirus
Bars create a risky cocktail of tight quarters and young adults unbowed by the fear of illness. Source link More
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DC Judge Neomi Rao Dismisses Flynn Case. She Can Haz SCOTUS Nom Now?
Michael Flynn may well get off scot free for lying to the FBI, but the fat lady hasn’t sung yet. It is highly likely that the entire DC Circuit will re-hear the case en banc, particularly since the panel consists of seven “liberals” and five “conservatives,” any one of whom can ask for a rehearing […] More
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Partners at Sequoia, GGV, General Catalyst and Greylock join Valence’s VC initiative for Black founders
The new, Los Angeles-based online professional network for Black talent, Valence, has launched a new initiative called the Valence Funding Network to link Black entrepreneurs with top partners at firms including Accel, Sequoia, GGV, First Round Capital, Bessemer Ventures, Greylock, Upfrton Ventures, and Collab Capital. “For years, Black entrepreneurs have been told that Silicon Valley […] More
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Former GOP Candidate Carly Fiorina Says She Won’t Vote For Donald Trump Again
“I’ve been very clear that I can’t support Donald Trump,” said the former Hewlett-Packard CEO. Source link More
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'Animal Crossing' summer update opens up the oceans for cannonballs
It’s summer, and that means it’s time to put on your swimsuit and jump into the ocean in Animal Crossing. The first summer update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons is arriving on July 3, opening up the ocean around every players’ island for exploration, adding new sea creatures to find on the sea floor, a […] More
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NFL Star Encounters Real Bears And Plays Defense
The Dallas Cowboys safety looks like he feared for his own safety in the viral security footage. Source link More
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Zoom founder and CEO Eric Yuan will speak at Disrupt 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has bruised and battered many technology startups, but it has also boosted a small few. One such company is Zoom, which has shouldered the task of keeping us connected to one another in the midst of remote work and social distancing. So, of course, we’re absolutely thrilled to have the chance to […] More
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Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Indicted, Take First Step To Hell
Ahmaud Arbery should still be alive, but on February 23, Gregory McMichael, his son Travis McMichael, and their neighbor William Bryan determined that he should die. His crime was existing as a free Black man in America. The McMichaels and Bryan hunted him down like he was a frightened animal, and then Travis McMichael shot […] More
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Breaking down the specs of a successful video ad
Imran Tariq Contributor Imran Tariq is the co-founder of Webmetrix Group, the best-selling author of two books, a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. Picture the drive to work you used to make every day before the COVID-19 pandemic struck — the same route, the same time and the same old billboards on the side of […] More
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Pinewood Atlanta Studios outlines safety measures as it prepares to restart movie and TV production
Frank Patterson, president and CEO of Pinewood Atlanta Studios, said that in March, his studio was “utterly full” with two major films and three streaming shows in production. (Pinewood doesn’t disclose what’s currently shooting on its 1 million-plus square feet of studio and office space, but past films made at the Atlanta studio include “Ant-Man […] More
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SD Gov. Kristi Noem Vows No Ruffians Shall Pull Down Mount Rushmore
With everything the Right loves most under threat these days, from murderous cops to statues of slavery defenders, it’s good to know that some people are willing to promise they’ll protect things that aren’t really under any threat at all. Take South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem — please! On Twitter yesterday, Noem vowed to make […] More
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Colorado Governor Will Examine Death Of Elijah McClain After Millions Sign Petition
McClain, an unarmed Black man, died after police responding to a report of a suspicious person put him in a chokehold. Source link More
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Seth Meyers takes aim at Trump over his racist rally comments
Donald Trump has prior form when it comes to public racism, so it shouldn’t have been a big surprise when he first doubled down on his use of the term “Chinese virus” and then recently began referring to COVID-19 as “Kung flu.” After playing a clip of the president proudly using this new moniker at […] More
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Extra Crunch Live: Join Alexa von Tobel for a live Q&A today at 2pm ET/11am PT
Entrepreneurs-turned-investors are in a truly unique position in the tech world, with experience on both sides of the table and unique insights into how businesses should operate and grow. Alexa von Tobel takes that breadth of experience and those unique insights to a new level, as a founder who has pretty much exclusively started her […] More
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NASA, ESA and JAXA team up on Earth observation dashboard for monitoring the impact of COVID-19
NASA is working with two other of its largest global space agency partners, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) on a combined effort to collect satellite-based Earth observation data and provide it via a dashboard in order to help monitor the impacts of COVID-19. The dashboard combines data collected […] More
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Meet Madison Cawthorn, The Hot Garbage Who Might Replace Mark Meadows In Congress, He's Garbage, The End
There were some primary elections t’other night, ya hear? And many Americans who have internet have noticed that the guy who won the GOP primary to take Mark Meadows’s former seat in North Carolina’s 11th District looks like this: Oh good god. And no, that’s not some model photo, it’s from his fucking Instagram. Meet […] More
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NASA seeks crowdsourced help designing a better Moon toilet
NASA is getting ready for its Artemis program, which seeks to return Americans to the Moon and help establish a permanent presence for humans on the lunar surface, with a new crowdsourcing competition launched in partnership with HeroX, seeking designs for a better way for astronauts to pee and poo on the Moon. Specifically, the […] More
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My Job Is Talking About Race, And Yet I Dread Talking About It At Work. Here’s Why.
I’ve learned that most white people are not interested in having honest conversations about race. Source link More
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Hopin raises $40M Series A as its virtual events business accelerates
This morning Hopin, a London-based startup building virtual events technology, announced that it has raised a $40 million Series A led by IVP. According to the company, Salesforce’s corporate venture arm Salesforce Ventures also took part in the round, as did a number of its prior investors, including Slack’s venture capital group the Slack Fund, […] More
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Private equity firm Great Hill Partners acquires stock media service Storyblocks
Storyblocks, the subscription-based stock media service, today announced that it has been acquired by private equity firm Great Hill Partners. The firm previously backed companies like Wayfair (and then exited that specific investment in 2017) and Custom Ink. Great Hill also acquired Gizmodo Media Group in 2019. Storyblocks and Great Hill did not disclose the […] More
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New Enterprise Associates goes to Hollywood and launches a venture firm with CAA
New Enterprise Associates has launched a new investment initiative with the Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency. The new partnership, called Connect Ventures, said it will identify and accelerate the growth of early-stage, consumer-focused businesses formed in the wake of the global pandemic. In a world where everything is a commodity and nothing is more […] More
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5 VCs agree: COVID-19 reshaped adtech and martech
We last surveyed VCs about their advertising and marketing investment strategies back in January — which is to say, in a completely different world, before the coronavirus pandemic began to wreak havoc on the global economy. While there don’t appear to be any comprehensive numbers yet about the effect on digital advertising (which is, after […] More
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Applications For Unemployment Aid Fall To Still-High 1.48 Million
A sudden resurgence of COVID-19 cases is threatening to derail what had looked like the start of an economic recovery. Source link More
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Privacy not a blocker for “meaningful” research access to platform data, says report
European lawmakers are eyeing binding transparency requirements for Internet platforms in a Digital Services Act (DSA) due to be drafted by the end of the year. But the question of how to create governance structures that provide regulators and researchers with meaningful access to data so platforms can be held accountable for the content they’re […] More
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Andrew Yang Offers Scathing Explanation For Trump’s Racist ‘Kung Flu’ Slurs
The former Democratic candidate said Trump is “grasping at straws that aren’t actually keeping him afloat.” Source link More
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Target is rolling out fresh grocery pickup nationwide, starting with the Midwest
Target today is joining the growing number of grocery retailers offering curbside and in-store pickup services for fresh and frozen items. The retailer had paused its plans to rollout grocery pickup this spring, citing the COVID-19 pandemic as a factor. It said it didn’t have time to train employees on the new processes. Today, those […] More
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Wirecard, the disgraced German payments firm backed by Softbank, files for insolvency over €1.3B in loans coming due
The house of cards has well and truly collapsed for Wirecard, the German payments company that has been accused of accounting fraud. Today it announced that its German operation Wirecard AG was applying for insolvency proceedings in a Munich court, the Amtsgericht München, due to “impending insolvency and over-indebtedness.” It also issued a separate statement that elaborated to […] More
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Don't Clean Your Home Again Until You've Read This! Tabs, Thurs., June 25, 2020
Come see the rhetorical violence inherent in the system! Gavin Newsom, shut your shit down. “Alarming Spike in Coronavirus Sparks Fears California Is ‘Starting to Lose This Battle’.” (LA Times) Trump made a promise (to pay for coronavirus treatment for people) and is “fall[ing] short”? That can’t be right, Politico! Oh look, Florida hospitals “at […] More
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Tinder is making its 'Orientation' feature global and you can list up to 3
Tinder is making its Orientation feature global after debuting it in Australia one year ago. The dating app’s feature lets swipers list up to three of nine sexual orientations in their Tinder profiles. Users can identify as three of the following: straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual, asexual, demisexual, pansexual, queer, and questioning. Since launching a year […] More
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Pro Softball Team Quits After GM Tweets Anthem Brag To Trump
The Scrap Yard Dawgs executive tweeted a photo of the team standing for the national anthem. Source link More
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Keiynan Lonsdale’s ‘Rainbow Boy’ Is A Celebration Of Black Queer Identity
The star of “Love, Simon” and “The Flash” rebels against “false ideas of what it means to be a man” on his new album. Source link More
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Illumina’s accelerator has an impressive 93 percent follow-on funding rate — here’re its latest picks
Since its launch in 1998 Illumina and its genetic analysis toolkits and services have become an essential component of the new biological manufacturing and therapeutic development industries which have emerged in the last twenty five years. And for the past six years the company has attempted to encourage the development of the industry through an […] More
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Spotted: Lots Of Headbands On Sale At Amazon’s Style Sale For Bad Hair Days
For those days when you don’t feel like washing your hair, or you’re out of dry shampoo. Source link More
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The Best Of The Men’s Section From Amazon’s Big Style Sale
Men’s fashion from brands such as Dockers, Nautica, Vineyard Vines, J. Crew, Fossil and Levi’s are on sale right now. Source link More
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