Wednesday, June 29, 2016

29 June - Pale Moon Start Page

Sidebar : As I opened Pale Moon to access the Start Page ( modified to reflect past preferences ) Firefox ( Updated to a new issue in the past hour ) crashed.  BTW I am using Glarysoft Update Detector and have BelArc Advisor as a concession to past practice



.Pope Francis Honors Benedict as Pope Emeritus Reaches Milestone The former Joseph Ratzinger celebrated 65 years in the priesthood at a special reception in the pope's official residence.
.Tech News
  • WS’s Elastic File System is now ready for production use  Over a year ago, Amazon’s AWS cloud computing unit announced the beta launch of the Amazon Elastic File System (EFS). While AWS already offers a number of cloud storage services in the form of S3, Glacier and Elastic Block Store, the idea behind EFS is to offer AWS users access to a more straightfo...
  • DoorDash, going beyond food delivery, will soon bring you alcohol  DoorDash started off as a restaurant delivery company — but, like many on-demand delivery companies, its ambitions are certainly much higher than that. And it’s taking one step beyond food delivery today by adding the ability to purchase alcohol through DoorDash. While DoorDash may have already del...
  • Box Shuttle helps ferry legacy file stores to cloud
  • All Def Digital, cofounded by Russell Simmons, raises $10 million in Series B funding
  • Acer’s Aspire S 13 is a decent little ultrabook
  • Underrepresented founders, apply for Include office hours with Lerer and Norwest Ventures
  • Uber adds driver safety features like break reminders, daily driving reports
  • Prototype manufacturer Tempo Automation gets $8M Series A to upgrade factory
  • Made is opening its biggest showroom in Paris to diversi
  • XYZprinting’s new 3D printer is designed for the classroom  Likely best known for its low cost 3D printing/scanning all-in-ones, hardware maker XYZprinting is making its first focused play in the education space with the da Vinci miniMaker, a $229 device designed to offer up entry-level desktop 3D printing to K-12 STEM classes. The inexpensive 3D printer is...
  • I, for one, welcome our robot Elfinite aggregator overlords  Who needs humans when you have Elfinite? This project by Marcin Rapacz and Bartek Oliwa aims to create a robotically aggregated lists of articles. Fans of tech will receive interesting tech articles based on their interests and gleaned from their click patterns. The team has a deep background in so...
  • Facebook puts friends above publishers in “News Feed Values” and ranking change
  • Watch Microsoft Accelerator’s Berlin Demo Day here
  • Amazon is now subsidizing the Moto G and other smartphones with on-screen ads
  • Microsoft’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update will arrive August 2nd
  • Glu debuts new Dash game with Gordon Ramsay
  • Final is a plaster on the gaping wound that is U.S. credit card security
  • Addressing platform what3words closes $8.5M Series B
  • Twitch makes cheering exchange rate clear: one penny per bit for streamers  Twitch announced Monday that users would soon be able to “cheer” their favorite streamers — in the form of expendable emoji purchasable with real-world money. Details were rather scarce so I pressed them — and then, almost certainly unrelated to that, the company provided more details. (It’s a penn...
  • Akamai: global average connection speed up 12 percent, bye bye IPv4  CDN network Akamai today published its quarterly “State of the Internet” report for the first quarter of 2016. The report examines global internet speeds, which are going to be more relevant than ever for live-sports aficionados in the summer of the Rio Olympic Games. Global average connection spee...
  • Facebook says it’s not making friend suggestions based on your location after all
  • You can’t kill email
  • Mozilla’s Codemoji enciphers your messages with emoji for fun and profit
  • Silicon Valley comes out in full force behind SF Pride
  • Pitch@Palace Malaysia Demo Day recap
  • Compass pivots, raising $1 million to zero in on e-commerce analytics
  • Live.ly shoots to the top of the App Store
  • The Pleurobot robo-salamander crawls and swims like a real amphibian  The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander. “Pleurobot” imitates the amphibian’s ambulation with its own articulated vertebrae, allowing it to slither along on land or at s...
  • Ancera raises $8.9 million for tech to prevent food poisoning and recalls  A startup based in Branford, Connecticut, Ancera Inc. has raised $8.9 million in Series A funding for technology that helps food producers detect contaminants faster than other methods will allow. The company’s mission is to prevent food waste, recalls or worse, the spread of food-borne illnesses, ...
  • Meet Articoolo, the robot writer with content for brains
  • Mobile shopping startup PredictSpring raises $11.4M
  • Four things to know about the FAA’s rules about commercial drone usage
  • Blue Origin breaks ground on new facility to develop orbital rockets
  • Google+ turns 5 and is somehow still alive
  • Trak is like a Fitbit for sperm
  • Apple doubles down on photography with new Shot on
  • Decentralizing IoT networks through blockchain  Imagine a washer that autonomously contacts suppliers and places orders when it’s low on detergent, performs self-service and maintenance, and schedules its cycles to take advantage of electricity prices; a connected car, smart enough to find and choose the best deal for parts and services; a manuf...
  • Google researchers teach AIs to see the important parts of images — and tell you about them  This week is the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Las Vegas, and Google researchers have several accomplishments to present. They’ve taught computer vision systems to detect the most important person in a scene, pick out and track individual body parts and describe what they se...
  • But seriously, why did Theranos have just one spokesperson?
  • Twitter is putting together a team focused on VR and AR
  • Tesla and Toyota among the smartest and the most connected companies
  • Twitter targets smaller businesses with launch of Dashboard
  • Evernote tweaks features in free plan and raises prices in paid ones
  • NASA fires enormous booster designed for world’s most powerful rocket
  • Hillary Clinton announces tech platform
  • Pinterest is soon launching a way to search for products with your smartphone camera  Pinterest today has a new tool for finding things that you might want to buy — and they’ll be things you see in the real world. Here’s how it will work: go to Pinterest search and tap the visual search button, point your camera at anything you’re interested in, and it’ll automatically do a visual s...
  • Facebook from other sites with new Save and Share Chrome extensions  Facebook colonized the internet with its Like button that sees 10 billion views per day around the web. Now it’s getting a makeover for mobile alongside the launch of two new Save and Share Chrome extensions that let you capture content from any site. Together, these updates should help fill the Ne...
  • Lease marketplace Flip raises $1.2M
  • AWS opens its first region in India
  • Messaging app LINE sets price range for possible July 
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