Monthly Archives: October 2016

A Look into Chiles innovative startup government

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

Conrad Egusa is the CEO of Publicize. More posts by this contributor: Austria: The up-and-coming early-stage investment capital of Europe The Netherlands: A Look At The World’s High-Tech Startup Capital How to join the network Victoria O’Shee is an entrepreneur from Argentina and is a principal at Publicize. She earlier was a portfolio manager for an incubator […]


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Bones of a new dinosaur the ‘size of a bus’ discovered by a farmer

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

An artist’s interpretation of the newfound sauropod species Savannasaurus elliottorum, nicknamed Wade.Image: Travis Tischler / Copyright Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum of Natural History About 95 million years ago, a bus-size and scaly-skinned sauropod dinosaur with a long tail and even longer neck lumbered across what is now Queensland, Australia, a new study finds. The […]


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Twitter cuts off Snaptrends, which mines tweets for law enforcement

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

In this July 27 photo, the Twitter symbol appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.Image: AP Photo/Richard Drew Twitter continues to sever its ties with social media monitoring companies that provide information to law enforcement. The company confirmed to Mashable on Thursday that it recently ended its relationship […]


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Bryan Johnson invests $100 million in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

Earlier this year, former Braintree founder Bryan Johnson publicly announced his plans to forge Kernel, a company with the sole purpose of building hardware and software to augment human intelligence. Today, Johnson is investing $100 million of his own money into the concept, looking to rapidly double the size of his team, shore up a […]


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Verizon says its still evaluating Yahoo discount as carrier sees another quarter of revenue decline

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

Verizon, thelargest carrier in the U.S. and owner of a largeset of media propertiesviaAOL(including TechCrunch), today reportedmixedthird-quarter earnings and saw growthin subscriber numbers. But itwas light on adetail about the big elephant in the room: would itaskfor a discount on its original, recent$4.83 billion offer to buyYahoo? Update: During the analyst call, Verizon executives were […]


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Does it pay to sell a home online? – BBC News

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

Image copyright Reuters Image caption High Street agents have a variety of ways to promote properties The clear downside for sellers is that online agencies do not operate under a “no sale, no fee” basis. Property buying agent Henry Pryor points out that 20% of all of the properties on Rightmove have been on sale […]


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Care home worker Karen Pedley given 14 life sentences – BBC News

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

Gladys Rowe died in hospital from the effects of smoke inhalation following the fire in Rosewyn House, Truro, in 2008. ‘Fascination with fire’ As a girl, the court heard, Pedley lived in Bedfordshire with her family when she woke them in the night and saved them from a fire that gutted the house. Image copyright […]


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Chile’s young independents lead quiet revolution against politics-as-usual

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

In the second city Valparaso, Jorge Sharp, a veteran of 2011 student protests, was chosen in a citizens primary to take on the traditional parties for the mayors job Chiles second biggest city, Valparaso, is best known for its neighbourhoods of brightly coloured houses clinging to steep hillsides above the Pacific. Its historic centre is […]


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Federal judge orders ex-NSA contractor held

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 22, 2016

(CNN)A federal judge in Baltimore on Friday ordered the detention of Harold Martin III, the former government contractor accused of stealing a vast amount of sensitive intelligence information. After hearing arguments for over an hour, US District Magistrate Judge A. David Copperthite agreed with the government that Martin poses a serious “risk of flight” and […]


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Ex-NSA worker accused of stealing top secret information to remain in custody

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 21, 2016

The information the former contractor was accused of stealing over two decades is something this countrys enemies would love to explore, a judge said A former National Security Agency contractor secret information about government surveillance programs. Wyda said Martin, a former US navy lieutenant, never intended to harm his country and was instead a voracious […]


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