18 Feb - Pale Moon Aggregator

News - US

Food Arrives in Town Where Syrians Ate Grass to Surviveabout an hour ago U.N. food agency has delivered vital supplies to Moadamiyeh - just a few miles from Damascus but inaccessible for more than 18 months.

Bestiality Ban Is 'Legitimate,' German Court Rules

President Obama to Make Historic Visit to Cuba

4 Killed as Special-Forces Troops Raid Afghan Hospital

Gunman, 88, Kills 65-Year-Old Son; Keys Save Relative

Was Nobel-Winning Icon a Communist Informant?

Haunting Migrant Photo Wins Top Press Award

Nearly $5M in Fake Money Seized at Airport

Stolen Radioactive Material Missing in ISIS-Ravaged Iraq

Turkey Strikes Kurdish Rebels After Deadly Bo

Tumbleweed Named 'Hairy Panic' Invades Neighborhoodabout 7 hours ago Residents of Wangaratta, Australia, are battling a tumbleweed invasion after dry weather created ideal conditions. Kate Jones of Australia's 7 Ne

Kerry Vows 'Very Serious' Talks Over China's Missile Moves

Garlic Is Keeping This Syrian Refugee Family Alive

Meet The Incredible Two-Legged Lamb Called Angel

Jimi Hendrix's Girlfriend Gives Tour of Rocker's 'Only Home'

$4 Smartphone Goes on Sale in India

Russia Plans to Sell Iran Up to $8B of Weapons: Reports

At Mexico-U.S. Border, Pope Slams Hell Faced by Migrants

Nike Drops Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Remarks

At Least 28 Killed, Dozens Hurt in Turkey Blast

• Deadly Bomb Blast Rocks Turkish Capitalabout 21 hours ago A car bomb detonated in the Turkish capital, Ankara, has killed at least eighteen people and wounded several.
• At Least 5 Killed, 10 Hurt in Blast in Turkish Capital
• WHO Asks for $56 Million to Start Zika Fight
• Laser Beam Apparently Targets Pope's Plane
• Swiss Eye Deportation of Foreigners Convicted of Crimes
• China Deploys Missiles to Contested Island, Taiwan Says
• Francis' Fury: Pope Gets Angry With Mexican Crowd
• U.S. Stealth Jets Make Show of Strength Over South Korea
• Watch Giant Panda Cubs Learning To Walk at Toronto Zoo
• China Deploys Missiles to Contested Island, Taiwan Says

• The Pope Will 'Live' in Juarez Through This Sculpturea day ago Pope Francis may be visiting Juárez, Mexico for one day, but an acclaimed sculptor's work will keep him in this city's gaze for generations to come.
• $33M Fake-Art Case: Alleged Conman Can Be Sent to U.S.
• Austria's Answer to Donald Trump Follows in His Footsteps
• Pope Francis Rides Into the Heart of Mexico's Drug Country
• Bahrain Frees U.S. Journalists, But Holds Many of Its Own
• Eagles of Death Metal Return to Paris for Emotional Concert
• FDA Asks Travelers to Zika Zones to Delay Blood Donations
• Bahrain Charges, Releases 4 American Journalists
• 3 Americans Missing in Iraq Are 'Back Under U.S. Control'
• Former U.N. Chief Boutros Boutros-Ghali Dead: U.N.

• Worker Error Likely Caused Deadly German Train Crash2 days ago A deadly head-on collision between two commuter trains in Germany was likely caused by the error of a railway official.
• Women, Girls Shunned After Escaping Boko Haram
• Japanese Actor Killed With Prop Samurai Sword
• Zika Mosquito 'Sneak Attacks' Must Be Stopped, WHO Says
• Stefan's Secret: Why Do People in Iceland Live So Long?
• Pope Francis Blesses Child in Wheelchair
• U.S., Cuba to Sign Pact to Restore Commercial Flights
• Miners Find Virtually Flawless 404-Carat Diamond
• Why Argentina Shut Down Its Real-Life 'X-Files' Unit
• Shark Recognition Buoy Tested Off Australia's Bondi Beach

Tech News

• To Prevent Another Flint, Make All Open Data Machine Readable27 minutes ago  The lead poisoning of the entire city of Flint, Michigan was preventable and should never have happened. Numerous pundits and industry experts have said this. Most of them, however, explain that if government had functioned properly, the environmental agencies would have properly communicated to th...
• Dish Loses More TV Subscribers, Despite Its Cord Cutting Service Sling TV42 minutes ago  Sling TV, the low-cost, live TV streaming service, hasn’t yet saved Dish Network. According to the company’s latest earnings report, the TV provider still saw a net loss of 12,000 pay-TV subscribers. That loss indicates that its satellite service customer base is actually dropping dramatically, as ...
• Kamcord Now Lets Broadcasters Make Money On Its Mobile Game Streaming App
• Vera Lands $17 Million Series B Led By Sutter Hill Ventures
• Group Video Calling Arrives In Skype’s Mobile Apps
• Apple Shows Off ‘Trade Up With Installments’ iPhone Payment Plan
• E-Commerce Stakes Are High In The Mideast After The Largest Ever A Round For Wadi.com
• NextBit Robin Review: An Aesthetic Escape
• IBM Acquiring Truven Health Analytics For $2.6 Billion And Adding It To Watson Health

• ThankView Is A Paperless Post For Thank You Cardsabout 3 hours ago  Everyone knows that having to write individualized thank you cards is the worst part of receiving gifts. Luckily, ThankView is fixing this with its platform that lets users send customized, video thank you cards to each person on your invite list. Here’s how it works: After uploading a recipient li...
• Swyft Aims To Be The Waze For SF’s Dysfunctional Public Transit Systemabout 3 hours ago  It’s 11:05 and you need to be at a meeting across town in an hour. The problem is you are car-less and San Francisco’s public transit system sucks. It’s a mere 4 or so miles you’ll be traveling but it will take you the entire hour to get there (and possibly longer). You’re also at the mercy of Muni...
• The Fierce, Female Mobile Gamers Of Saudi Arabia
• Jana Raises $57 Million To Bring Unrestricted Internet Access To The World
• Global Smartphone Sales Growth Slows To 2008 Levels, Says Gartner
• Billionaire Seaweed Snack Mogul Backs Thailand-Based Events And Ticketing Startup
• Nest Co-Founder Matt Rogers On The Secrets To Nest’s Success
• Google Acquihires Work Chat Startup Pie To Build Engineering Team In Southeast Asia
• Triptease, The Startup That Helps Hotels Increase Direct Sales, Closes $7M Series A

• Truecaller Enables App Makers To Sign Up New Users Via Their Phone Numberabout 7 hours ago  The conventional onboarding method for opening new accounts inside app is often broken in emerging because it requires an email address. Truecaller wants to fix that with its new SDK for developers. Read More
• IBM and SoftBank Launch First Japanese Language APIs for Watsonabout 10 hours ago  A year ago, SoftBank teamed up with IBM to bring its supercomputer Watson to Japan. Now Watson has learned enough Japanese for developers to take advantage of its new skills. Read More
• Apple Pay Goes Live In China
• Google Translate Now Has More Than 100 Languages And Covers 99 Percent Of The Online Population
• Thousands Of Chinese Residents Evacuated For World’s Largest Telescope
• Twitter Fixes Bug That Compromised Some Users’ Emails And Phone Numbers
• Google’s CEO Says “Forcing Companies To Enable Hacking Could Compromise Users’ Privacy.”
• Scientists Can Now 3D Print Otzi The Mummified Ice Man
• Why Apple Is Fighting Not To Unlock iPhones For The Government

• Startup Battlefield Applications Extended for Disrupt NYabout 17 hours ago  Startup Battlefield hopefuls, it’s time to stop procrastinating and apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt New York. We’re looking for the more promising startups from the US and basically anywhere else in the world to come to the Big Apple to compete in this illustrious competition Read More...
• PayPal Overhauls Its Mobile Appabout 17 hours ago  PayPal’s mobile app is getting a massive overhaul today, representing the first time in the history that the company has rebuilt its app from scratch. With the redesign, PayPal is focused on offering a more extensible framework under the hood that will allow it to add new features in the months to ...
• Fandango Buys Flixster And Rotten Tomatoes
• Bullish: Closing The Tech Divide Through Teaching Kids How To Code
• Why Apple Is Right To Reject The FBI’s Push To Brute Force iPhone Security
• Yahoo Is Shuttering Several Digital Magazines
• Not Another African Tech Article
• Chelsea Peretti To Rich People: “Save Twitter”
• X Prize And IBM Team Up On A New, $5 Million A.I. Competition

• Here Are 7 Startups That Kanye West Wants To Buildabout 21 hours ago  When Kanye West went on his most recent Twitter rant a few days ago, he resurfaced an organizational chart he made for Donda, his “content, experience & product company” named after his mother, Donda West. While the chart has been floating around the internet for a while (he showed it onstage a...
• California DOJ’s OpenJustice Platform Makes Local Law Enforcement Data More Transparentabout 22 hours ago  The murders of unarmed African-American people at the hands of police officers has created a lot of reasonable doubt in our criminal justice system. OpenJustice, an interactive web platform led by the California Department of Justice, has today released a new set of criminal justice data for the sa...
• Get Your Extra-Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt NY Before Prices Increase
• White House Plays With Words, Says Department Of Justice Isn’t Asking Apple To Create A Backdoor
• This Insane Rack Made Out Of 53 GoPros Captures 3D Movies
• Outlook.com Exits Preview With Office 365 Integration, Giphy Support, @Mentions & More
• NextVR Announces Multi-Year Partnership With Fox Sports
• Microsoft Brings Red Hat Enterprise Linux To Azure
• Facebook Instant Articles Will Give All Publishers Faster Loading, Fewer Monetization Options

• Europe Launches Sentinel-3A And The International Nature of Earth Observationabout 23 hours ago  Yesterday at 12:57 pm EST, the European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Sentinel-3A satellite into orbit. The Earth-observing satellite was launched by the Russian-made Rockot launcher from Plesetsk, Russia and is the latest satellite to join Europe’s environmental monitoring program k...
• New Akamai Tool Aims To Bring Bots Under Controlabout 23 hours ago  Akamai released a new Bot Manager tool today designed to give companies finely tuned control over Bot traffic on their websites. The numbers vary, but research has shown that about half of traffic on the web comes from bots. Bots are small programs that interact with a website and can be used for g...
• Google Launches “Gmailify” – A Way To Use Gmail’s Best Features With Non-Gmail Accounts
• Join Us For A Micro-Meetup In New York Tonight
• Google Launches Fresh-Grocery Delivery Service In San Francisco And Los Angeles

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