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Thursday, May 26, 2016
26 May - Pale Moon Aggregator
English: Kabira Bay of Ishigaki Island in Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the Japan's Places of Scenic Beauty. 日本語: 石垣島の川平湾。国の名勝に指定されている。所在地は沖縄県石垣市。 Camera: Sony NEX-5 Lens: Sony SEL1855 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of Okinawa Prefecture. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
'Come On!' Rapper Rises to Obama's Challenge
Suboi, one of Vietnam's top rappers, gave a brief demonstration of her
art during the president's town hall with young adults in Ho Chi Minh
City.
New fantasy sports app SportsHero raises $2.4M ahead of planned Australia IPO
SportsHero is a new app that lets sports fans dabble in match
predictions and show their skills off against friends and other
game-watchers. The app is made by the team behind Singapore-based
TradeHero, a virtual trading app backed by more than $10 million from
investors, and it launched officially...
HP unveils a bunch of new Omen gaming hardware
To be fair, an omen isn’t necessarily a portent of negative things. If
it was, we wouldn’t feel obligated to qualify it using words like
“bad.” Still, the word carries with it some fairly ominous overtones,
surely not helped by the 1979 film that carried the title, centering
around a young antichri...
Reddit launches image uploads, ditching alliance with Imgur
Reddit never let you upload images, until now. That could dismantle
Reddit’s informal alliance with image-sharing community Imgur. That’s
where Redditors would typically post their images or GIFs and then share
the links on Reddit.
The image uploading feature begins rolling out today with 50 Reddit...
Reddit CTO Marty Weiner on building a home for the Internet’s wildest community
Critical to this major effort is Marty Weiner. Weiner joined the
Reddit team this past summer as the company’s first-ever CTO, and he’s
spent the past 10 months building out areas for improvement on a site
infrastructure that is increasingly less MacGyver’d together.
Reddit is the 9th most-visited ...
Preparing for infrastructures of the future
There are many abstract notions about what the future of
infrastructure will look like, but the truth is that the future is
staring companies in the face. The adoption of hybrid cloud models,
containers and microservices architectures are only the beginning stages
of preparing for infrastructures o...
Heavy Internet use leads to school burnout in teens
As if you didn’t need more proof that your darn kids need to get off
the computer and into the back yard, researchers at the University of
Helsinki and Department of Psychology have found that excessive Internet
use — essentially bordering on addiction — leads to school burnout in
teens. There isn’...
Uber taps Foursquare’s Places data so you never have to type an address again
Foursquare and Uber have today announced a global partnership that
would use Foursquare’s location data to let users type in a venue name
(instead of address) when setting their destination. Uber currently
partners with Google Maps for points of interest, with TomTom Navigation
hooked into the driv...
Affectiva raises $14 million to bring apps, robots emotional intelligence
Affectiva, a startup developing “emotion recognition technology” that
can read people’s moods from their facial expressions captured in
digital videos, raised $14 million in a Series D round of funding led by
Fenox Venture Capital. Read More
SimilarTech tells you what’s powering any website, alerts web companies to new leads
Over the years, developers have turned to resources like BuiltWith to
help them figure out what technology is under the hood powering today’s
websites – including things like shopping carts, analytics, hosting
platforms and more. Now BuiltWith has new competition: SimilarTech,
which not only monito...
EquipmentShare raises $5.5 million for peer-to-peer marketplace for heavy equipment
To grow its peer-to-peer marketplace for construction equipment,
Columbia, Missouri-based EquipmentShare has raised $5.5 million in a
venture funding round led by Romulus Capital.
Earlier, the “Airbnb for construction” raised $2.1 million in seed
funding and participated in the Y Combinator acceler...
Password management startup Dashlane, now with 5M users, raises $22.5M led by TransUnion
Dashlane, the New York startup that provides a platform for users to
manage their passwords and online identities across multiple sites and
apps, has raised a further $22.5 million in funding and picked up a key
strategic investor and partner in the process. TransUnion, a credit
monitoring and ID p...
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English: Kabira Bay of Ishigaki Island in Ishigaki City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It is one of the Japan's Places of Scenic Beauty. 日本語: 石垣島の川平湾。国の名勝に指定されている。所在地は沖縄県石垣市。 Camera: Sony NEX-5 Lens: Sony SEL1855 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Map of Okinawa Prefecture. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Crime › Japan-U.S. pact on U.S. base personnel still unfair: Japan expert(japantoday.com)
U.S. military contractor arrested after Japanese woman's body found, sparking outrage on Okinawa(latimes.com)
Abe-Obama talks in Mie likely Wednesday night amid Okinawa tensions(japantimes.co.jp)
Crimes committed by U.S. military in Okinawa continue(angryarab.blogspot.com)
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