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Saturday, January 28, 2017
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28 January - Pale Moon Start Page - News and Tech News
- Putin's Sassy Trolling Sent Message to Trump: Experts
According to analysts, the Russian leader aimed to emerge from last week's exchange looking more mature than President Barack Obama. - Why Did Dinosaurs Die Out? Answer Could Be in Their Teeth
- The 5 Biggest Questions About the Universe
- NBA Hall of Famer: 'We Need to Go Save Our Mothers, Sisters, Grandmas'
- Why Millennials Are Embracing France's Far Right
- 50 Photos That Shaped 2016
- Deadly Weekend in Chicago: 5 Killed, 57 Injured
- Will Trump-May Meeting Revive 'Special Relationship'?
According historians and analysts, the phrase "special relationship" gains currency when Britain is in need of help — as is the case now. - Why Trump Killed the TPP — And Why It Matters To You
- Meet the Adorable, Sassy Robot That Speaks in GIFs
- Why This Year's Oscar Race Could Have a Different Hue
- Trump Is Biggest Threat Yet to Rights: Roe v. Wade Attorney
- Meet the Trumps: A New and Unconventional First Family
- Left in the Lurch: Democrats' Curious Decline
- Obama Leaves Behind a Tainted Legacy on Immigration
- This Was President Obama's 'Biggest Disappointment'
- Astronomers Make Strange Discovery on Pluto's Largest Moon
- Subtweet (v.): What a Dictionary Is Doing to the President
Donald Trump likes to brag that he has 'the best words.' Merriam-Webster disagrees. - How a Tariff on Mexican Imports Would Affect Your Pocketbook
- California Lawmakers Want Third-Gender Option on IDs
- Kim Jong Un's Ski Resort for Elites Kept Open by Children in Work Gangs
- Trump Wants to Boost Both Gas And Coal. Huh?
- 'World Is Preparing for War,' Ex-Soviet Leader Gorbachev Warns
- Trump Is Likely Violating President Records Act by Deleting Tweets
- What Does It Mean When the President Endorses Torture?
- Opponents to Trump: 'See You in Court'
- Why Polish Motorheads Bought Tom Hanks a Soviet-Era Car
- China Has World's Largest Population, But Not Enough Babies
An unspoken conclusion of a recent government plan is that relaxing China's one-child-only policy has failed to boost the country's birth rate enough. - Gang War Spills Blood in Brazil's Prisons
- Trump Order Condemned as 'Muslim Ban' and 'Cruel'
- Trump to Speak With Merkel After Campaign of Criticism
- Trump Order Suspends Refugees, Could Restrict 7 Muslim Nations
- Actor John Hurt of 'Midnight Express' and 'Elephant Man' Dead at 77
- Nikki Haley Puts United Nations on Notice: We're 'Taking Names'
- British PM: Trump Assured Me the U.S. Is '100 Percent Behind NATO'
- Pence at Anti-Abortion Rally: 'Life is Winning Again' in U.S.
- Students Sound Alarm and Avert Florida School Massacre
Tech News
- Venrock has raised $450 million for its eighth fund — just like its seventh fund
Venrock, the 47-year-old venture firm that started as the venture arm of the Rockefeller family, has closed its eighth fund with $450 million, which longtime partner Bryan Roberts calls “not too big and not too small, but just about right” in a new blog post. Certainly, it’s an amount that the part... - PayPal continues to see strong revenue growth
PayPal reported fourth quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, and they were just what investors were expecting. The stock was flat in initial after-hours trading. Revenue came in at $2.98 billion, which is on par with analyst estimates and a 17% increase from last year. Adjusted earnings per ... - Alphabet’s bets beyond search are starting to pay off
- Existing Nvidia Shield TV owners can now update to get 4K HDR streaming
- HTC’s head VR designer joins Google as industrial design director
- Trying out Snapchat’s new universal search capabilities
Snapchat recently released its redesigned app on iOS; it now has universal search capabilities, so I decided to give it a try — you can watch me fumble around in the video above. The search bar functions like, well, a search bar — if you’re looking for another user, group chat or Discover publisher... - Google’s Sundar Pichai says it’s ‘very early days’ in the battle against Amazon Echo
Between the Pixel and Google Home, 2016 was a big year for Google voice search, but the company’s plays in the space still seemed to pale in comparison to Amazon’s infiltration, courtesy of its wildly successful Echo devices. In today’s Q4 Alphabet earnings call, Google Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai addre... - The League brings its picky dating app to Android
- More than 3M businesses now pay for Google’s G Suite
- With New Zealand citizenship, Peter Thiel can watch the world burn in peace
- H2O’s Deep Water puts deep learning in the hands of enterprise users
- Things get a little too real in the latest Nintendo Switch ad
- Microsoft Q2 earnings edge higher on Office and cloud services growth
- Crocodile and lizard bots peep at their scaly peers for BBC show
- Alibaba’s Ant Financial is buying MoneyGram for $880M to expand its global presence
Alibaba is taking a big step into the U.S. — but it isn’t necessarily what you might think. Its affiliate Ant Financial has revealed it is buying U.S. payments firm MoneyGram for $880 million. Ant Financial is paying $13.25 per share for NASDAQ-listed MoneyGram, a jump on the $11.88 price it held a... - Super Bowl tickets show that ticketing is a super mess — tech can help
The 2017 Super Bowl season officially kicked off this week. For the next two weeks, it will be a mad scramble of marketing, publicity, parties, and, of course, tickets. It will drive billions in national GDP, and it will all culminate in sixty minutes of football. Over 100 million people will wat... - Rocket Internet opens its first engineering hub in Asia
- This startup wants to make China’s electric scooters as desirable as iPhones
- Ford’s new SmartLink OBD accessory adds connected features to older cars
- Crunch Report | AppDynamics CEO Talks Cisco Acquisition
- Craig Newmark puts $500K towards reducing harassment on Wikipedia
- Boeing shows off the spacesuit astronauts will wear on the Starliner
- Tell wants you to eat like a celebrity chef
- Samsung is reportedly launching the Galaxy S8 on March 29
Just about a week or so ago, Samsung confirmed that it wouldn’t be using the world’s biggest phone show as a launching pad for its new flagship – a slight surprise given the fact that the company really need a big statement soon in the wake of the Galaxy Note 7 debacle and, well, all of the other s... - You could be the WILDCARD at the D.C. and Miami Pitch-offs!
We’re headed to D.C. and Miami for the TC Meetup + Pitch-off, and this time we’re doing things a bit differently. As part of the rapid-fire pitch-off, we’re choosing a WILDCARD startup from our audience of attendees. That means that entrepreneurs attending the event can still wind up pitching their... - President Trump thinks an app with around 10K downloads will help prove millions voted illegally
- Apple aims to up its AI smarts with iCloud user data in iOS 10.3
- Daimler close to buying Taxibeat in Greece for around $43M
- Trump’s manufacturing council includes Elon Musk, Michael Dell and Mark Fields
- Satechi’s $30 Power Meter is designed to weed out bad USB-C cables
- A Google Maps error has turned Bangkok into a gigantic park
- Apple joins Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft in AI initiative
- Alexa scores some Super Bowl skills for next week’s big game
This time last year, Amazon made it clear just how big it expected Alexa to be with its first ever Super Bowl commercial, starring Alec Baldwin and Jason Schwartzman, along with a motley crew of celebrity cameos ranging from Dan Marino to Missy Elliot and, of course, its voice controlled speaker. I... - Oculus/ZeniMax case goes to jury as damages sought increases to $4 billion
The lawsuit threatening the future of Facebook’s Oculus VR may have just gotten a lot more expensive. Yesterday, in closing statements the legal team representing ZeniMax Media asked the jury in a Dallas courtroom to rule against Oculus VR and award $2 billion in compensation as well as another $2 ... - Ohio’s Transportation Research Center gets $45M to expand smart mobility testing
- Hinge is testing a personal assistant service called Audrey to help you get more dates
- The future of American jobs lies with the tech industry
- Nokia introduces MIKA, a digital assistant for engineers and telecom operators
- Ina Fried joins Politico co-founder’s Axios Media as chief tech correspondent
- Alphabet’s long bets start looking better: It’s The Daily Crunch
- Disrupt NY 2017 registration is open, get your extra early bird tickets now
- Crunch Report | Galaxy S8 Coming in March
The Trump administration names its manufacturing council, Tesla is suing an ex-employee for reportedly stealing proprietary autopilot information and poaching talent, Samsung Galaxy S8 is reportedly launching in March and Apple is using iCloud to improve Siri. All this on Crunch Report! Read More - Snap will reportedly file publicly for its massive IPO late next week
Snap — the makers of Snapchat — had confidentially filed for its IPO late last year, but it looks like we’ll be getting a look at the inner guts of the company’s financials and workings as early as late next week. The company will file publicly for its initial public offering late next week, accord... - Twitter releases national security letters
- Zuckerberg defends immigrants threatened by Trump
- Rogue National Park Service Twitter account says it’s no longer run by government employees…but maybe it never was
- Leapfrogging in higher ed
- Weekly Roundup: AppDynamics sells to Cisco ahead of IPO, CZI buys Meta
- Silicon Valley’s false feminist idol finally makes a peep
- Netgear’s Orbi might be the best Wi-Fi router I’ve ever used
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