Sunday, January 26, 2020
WhatsApp Dark Mode, Samsung 'Lite' Phones Launched in India, and More News
Indian Coast Guard Recruitment 2020 – Apply Online for Navik (GD) 10+2 Entry – 02/2020 Batch
Indian Coast Guard Navik Recruitment 2020 – Apply Online for Navik (GD) 10+2 Entry – 02/2020 Batch
As sea levels rise, little of the United States will be unaffected
The United States is rich enough, industrialized enough, and far enough from the tropics that the rising temperatures of our changing climate aren't going to make any place uninhabitable. But a side effect of those rising temperatures—rising oceans—most certainly will. Already, an ever-growing list of places are facing what's called "nuisance flooding," in which even a high tide can leave streets underwater. Major storms just make matters worse. And, by the end of this century, the expected rise of the oceans may be over five times what we saw last century.
As a result of this, many areas of the country will simply become uninhabitable, lost to the sea. Well over a third of the United States' population lives in counties that are currently on the coast, and over 10 million currently live on land that will be lost to a sea-level rise of 1.8 meters. They'll have to go somewhere—and people who might otherwise move to the coast will have to find some place else to relocate. All of which will change the dynamics of the typical relocation of people within the US.
A new study released in PLOS ONE tries to estimate what that will mean for the rest of the country. Their results suggest that coastal regions will be far from the only ones affected by sea-level rise. A huge number of counties far from the coast—some deep in the US interior—will see dramatic changes in the number of people relocating there.
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Fintech company Wex to acquire B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal for $1.7B; both eNett and Optal work with major online travel agencies (Sean O'Neill/Skift)
Fintech company Wex to acquire B2B payments services providers eNett and Optal for $1.7B; both eNett and Optal work with major online travel agencies — With this deal, Wex now becomes a powerhouse in assisting business-to-business travel payments worldwide.
Patreon can’t solve its porn pirate problem
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Last fall, a prolific photographer who asked not to be named noticed a sharp, unexplained drop-off in earnings on his Patreon page, where fans shell out cash for tiered subscriptions to his photos of well-lit nude models. Then, in December, he received an anonymous email with a link to a website called Yiff.Party. When he clicked, he balked. Thousands of his photos were laid out on the open web for free.
For five years, the libidinous pirates of Yiff.Party have siphoned masses of paywalled Patreon porn off of the platform and shared it for free. Two years ago, Patreon was determined to shut them down. Instead, the platform has effectively given up, despite desperate protests from affected creators.
Yiff.Party doesn’t look like much: a basic, blocky, white and lavender website with a changelog documenting the latest free art dumps and their respective creators. There might be eight new posts an hour, as well as calls for patrons to help fill out incomplete collections. A lot of it is furry porn—“yiff” is a term in the furry community referencing sexual activity—but Yiff.Party hosts anything that falls under the category of “lewds.” That includes smutty cosplays, vanilla softcore, hentai comics, 3-D sci-fi sex stills, plus whatever Patreon-hosted artstuff pirates dump there. (Patreon’s guidelines on adult content prohibit “real people engaging in sexual acts such as masturbation or sexual intercourse on camera.”)
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India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B (Times of India)
India-based Pine Labs, which offers POS services, raises an undisclosed round from Mastercard; source: the $100M-$150M round values the company at $1.5B-$1.6B — BENGALURU: Point-of-sales (PoS) services provider Pine Labs has raised a new round of funding from the global card network major Mastercard.
Saturday, January 25, 2020
An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates' positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies (Elizabeth Culliford/Reuters)
An overview of nine leading US presidential candidates' positions on Big Tech, with Warren and Sanders leading the charge to break up big tech companies — Republican President Donald Trump's administration has also stepped up its scrutiny of Big Tech, conducting a wide-ranging probe …
Socially Determined, which offers a data analytics platform focused on measuring the impact of the social determinants of health, closes $11.1M Series A (Michelai Graham/Technical.ly DC)
Socially Determined, which offers a data analytics platform focused on measuring the impact of the social determinants of health, closes $11.1M Series A — Wharf-based healthcare analytics startup Socially Determined has closed on its Series A funding round, raising a total of $11.1 million.
Report: betting companies had access to a UK Department for Education database with records of 28M children, after a third-party gave access without permission (Charlie Osborne/ZDNet)
Report: betting companies had access to a UK Department for Education database with records of 28M children, after a third-party gave access without permission — Reports suggest a government database was misused for age verification purposes. — Betting companies were inappropriately provided access …
FloQast, a startup that sells accounting software, raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to over $90M (Alex Wilhelm/TechCrunch)
FloQast, a startup that sells accounting software, raises $40M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to over $90M — This morning FloQast, an LA-area startup, announced that it closed a $40 million Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners.
India has a new number 2 player in the smartphone market
Anchore, which offers automated container security management to clients including US DOD, raises $20M Series A led by SignalFire, bringing total raise to ~$30M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Anchore, which offers automated container security management to clients including US DOD, raises $20M Series A led by SignalFire, bringing total raise to ~$30M — Containers — sets of self-contained executables, binary code, libraries, and configuration files — are ubiquitous in cloud computing.
The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its Staten Island warehouse; Amazon plans to appeal (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : The US NLRB rules that Amazon must negotiate with the Amazon Labor Union, which represents ~5K workers at its ...
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The first project we remember working on together was drawing scenes from the picture books that our mom brought with her when she immigrate...
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg : South Korean authorities are investigating a data leak at e-commerce giant Coupang that exposed ~33.7M accounts; ...
