Category: Startups

George Clooney Surprises Elderly Fan For Her Birthday

George Clooney made a birthday wish come true for one elderly fan in England after making a surprise visit to her senior living facility. The Ocean’s Eleven star and his wife Amal own a countryside home near the Sunrise Sonning Retirement and Assisted Living Facility in Reading, and staff members recently decided to reach out to the actor in a bid to convince him to stop by and make Pat Adams’ dreams a reality.

German court rejects injunction for Facebook in Syrian selfie case

A German court on Tuesday rejected a temporary injunction against Facebook in a case brought by a Syrian refugee who sued the social networking site for failing to remove faked posts linking him to crimes and militant attacks. The Wuerzburg district court said in a preliminary ruling that Facebook is neither a “perpetrator nor a participant” in what it said was “undisputable defamation” by Facebook users, but simply acting as a hosting provider which is not responsible for pre-emptively blocking offensive content under European law.

Cop’s last message before tragic death

A SOUTH Australia police officer posted “F*** you SA Police” on his Facebook before walking into a local hospital and taking his life in front of medical staff last night. The man reportedly drove to Cowell, about a 500km drive west of Adelaide, before entering the District Hospital around 9.45pm.

Facebook’s Grovelling Apology To Fatah

A few days it was widely reported that Fatah had their Facebook page closed down, due to the “campaign the social media platform is carrying out against accounts that promote violence.” Munir Jaghoub, a spokesman of Fatah’s Mobilization and Organization commissariat, told The Jerusalem Post that he believes Facebook closed the account because of a historic photo of former PA president Yasser Arafat grasping a rifle, while standing alongside Fatah Vice Chairman Mahmoud al-Aloul.

Victim describes serial stalker as “a monster”

A serial stalker was today facing jail after he admitted terrorising one of his victims from his prison cell and even threatening to decapitate any man she was in contact with. Mark Boucher made a string of threats to his former partner Jasmine McGraw after he had already been locked up over other offences.

Netflix CEO: co-workers were affected by Trump travel ban

Netflix employees were personally affected by U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempt to ban people entering from seven Muslim countries, the company’s CEO said Tuesday. Reed Hastings has been a critic of the temporary travel ban, which Trump hopes to revive in a revised form this week, and told The Associated Press on Tuesday that some of his co-workers had gotten caught up in it.

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Mr. Rittenberg … )–MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS – Visa ha anunciado hoy que Everywhere Initiative, un programa de innovaciA3n concebido para fomentar el desarrollo del “prA3ximo gran avance… )–Genesis Energy, L.P. announced today that Bob Deere, CFO, will participate in the Barclays 2017 MLP Corporate Access Days on February 28, 2017 and March 1, 2017… )–Daseke, Inc. and Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. II today announced the closing of th… )–La FundaciA3n de las Naciones Unidas y la GSMA anunciaron hoy, en el Mobile World Congress, una alianza, la cual potenciarA el objetivo comAon de desbloquear el po… )–American Water held a groundbreaking ceremony today for the company’s new headquarters at One Water Street on The Camden Waterfront.

Belize Government looking at legislation to tackle misuse of social media

BELMOPAN, Belize : The Belize government is moving to clamp down on the misuse of the social media and is establishing a taskforce to look at the issue of cyber laws, Solicitor General, Nigel Hawke has said. “We’ve just discussed that there’s a committee set up that is looking at the issue of cybercrime legislation but it’s at the stage where it’s just a number of multi-sectoral groups which have been discussing the issue with the view of coming up with a final policy position to take to Cabinet for approval,” he said.

Palestinians face intense online hate from Israelis, say campaigners

Israel’s 1.7 million Palestinian citizens are facing a tidal wave of incitement and hate speech on social media, including from government ministers, community leaders have warned. They say the increasingly hostile political climate in Israel is stoking violence from the police and street gangs, and has laid the ground for a recent raft of racist legislative proposals.

Machine Vision Market Aims to Increase Shares Worldwide Segmentation…

Machine Vision Market Information, by Type , by Components , by Application , by End Users – Forecast 2016-2022 Key Players: Cognex Corporation , Vitronic GmbH , Perceptron, Inc. , Microscan Systems , Basler AG , National Instruments , Optotune AG ” PUNE, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, February 24, 2017 / EINPresswire.com / — Market Highlights: Machine Vision is an advance technology, which comprises various components to capture an image of product and analyze it on the parameter of quality and safety. Since the arrival of the machine vision technology in the manufacturing industry, the process of quality check has become easier and more efficient.

Microsoft set to create 600 jobs in Dublin

The jobs are the latest boost to the economy following the announcement this week that US recruitment services firm Indeed is adding 500 jobs at its European base in Dublin. Microsoft’s announcement today will also be welcomed after last week’s devastating blow to staff at HP Inc’s Leixlip plant in Co Kildare, where 500 jobs are to go.

Zuckerberg’s goal: Remake a world Facebook helped create

” Mark Zuckerberg helped create the modern world by connecting nearly a quarter of its citizens to Facebook and giving them a platform to share, well, everything ” baby pictures and Pepe memes, social updates and abusive bullying, helpful how-to videos and live-streamed violence. Now he wants to remake it, too, in a way that counters isolationism, promotes global connections and addresses social ills ” while also cementing Facebook’s central role as a builder of online “community” for its nearly 2 billion users.

The Zuckerberg manifesto: How he plans to debug the world

Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for Facebook, laid out in a sweeping manifesto , sometimes sounds more like a utopian social guide than a business plan. Are we, he asks, “building the world we all want?” While most people now use Facebook to connect with friends and family, Zuckerberg hopes that the social network can encourage more civic engagement, an informed public and community support in the years to come.

Google, Facebook argue against ‘punitive’ tax proposal for digital media

Proposals for tax changes aimed at helping Canadian publishers fight for revenues with online news aggregators would result in a punitive “tax on advertisers,” executives from Google Canada and Facebook Canada told a Commons committee studying the country’s media industry. That’s because tax laws currently on the books designed to prop up the industry are archaic and simply don’t apply to the Internet age, Jason Kee, Google Canada’s head of policy and government relations, told the heritage committee Tuesday.

Two men charged with animal cruelty over quokka kick video

Two men charged with animal cruelty over sickening video of an endangered quokka being kicked into a wall as the distressed animal tries to run away Two men have been arrested and charged with animal cruelty after video emerged of a quokka being kicked into a wall. Police apprehended the men, aged 21 and 20, on Monday as they tried to catch a ferry off Rottnest Island, in Western Australia.

Appeal Court upholds Rainsy’s guilty verdict

The Appeal Court yesterday upheld a defamation conviction against opposition leader Sam Rainsy for accusing a Cambodian People’s Party official of ordering members to artificially boost Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Facebook “likes”. Presiding judge in the case Sam Rith Sophal ruled to uphold the November decision delivered by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court, which ruled in favour of CPP official Som Soeun.

Anas Modamani: Facebook, Syrian Refugee in Court Over Fake News

Anas Modamani had no idea when he posted on Facebook a 2015 selfie taken with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that he would turn into the poster boy for radical Islamic terror. The then-18-year-old met Merkel in a German refugee camp after leaving war-torn Syria and his selfie with the leader went viral because it showed Merkel’s personality in a “rare unscripted moment,” according to CNN .

’60s Scoop survivor skeptical of gov’t move

Not everyone’s cheering last week’s announcement that the federal government plans to negotiate a countrywide settlement with those affected by the ’60s Scoop. While he remains open to the possibility that it might end up leading to positive things, Stewart Garnett remains skeptical.

Polly Gillespie talks about her future and her overnight Facebook post

We asked her about whether or not she’ll stay in her current job, whether she was concerned about repercussions after the posting, about the proposed social media restrictions from her employers, how her fans were reacting, whether she would say any more about the future of co-host Grant Kereama, and why she made the post while dyeing her hair. Here is Gillespie’s reply: Well I have no plans to go anywhere else but I’m fairly sure I won’t be re-signing with current employers.

Seeking attention, Lithuania builds virtual Tesla factory

In this undated photo received on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2017 taken by Darius Kniuksta, a scene from a video game featuring a Tesla gigafactory. Lithuanians badly want Tesla Motors to build its next giant factory on their soil, so to grab the attention of the California tech company they built a virtual version of a facility inside the “Minecraft” video game.

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Francois Fillon, former French prime minister, member of The Republicans political party and 2017 presidential candidate of the French centre-right, attends a political rally in Charleville-Mezieres, France, February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Francois Fillon fought to keep his place as French conservative presidential candidate on Friday amid sliding opinion poll ratings and speculation about his ability to carry on after accusations his wife got public money for work she did not do.

Seychelles, Waymo, LibreOffice, More: Friday Buzz, February 3, 2017

The former president of the Republic of Seychelles has launched a new Web site . “The website holds the digital library archives of Mr. Michel’s Presidency with past press releases, speeches, photo galleries and videos, as well as the latest news, media articles and interviews with the Former President as he embarks on new projects and activities.”

Bill Gates and Federal Minister Gerd Muller to speak at TUM

Bill Gates, Co-Chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gerd MuISller, German Federal Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, will be featured in the “TUM Speakers Series”. The founder of Microsoft and the politician will meet on February 17, at 4:45 pm, in the Technical University of Munich Audimax to speak with student Nicki Weber about development policy.

Mosque shooting suspect in Canada known for far-right views

The French Canadian university student charged with killing six Muslim men during evening prayers at a mosque was known for far-right, nationalist views and his support of the French rightist party led by Marine Le Pen. Alexandre Bissonnette was charged Monday with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder over the shooting rampage at a Quebec City mosque that Canada’s prime minister called an act of terrorism against Muslims.

Councilman Randy Burkett says Facebook posts led to threats

Amarillo City Councilman Randy Burkett said Saturday that a Facebook exchange in which he was involved ended with threats made against him and that those threats are now being investigated by “law enforcement entities.” This most recent war of words involving the councilman, the third this month, stems from his responses to posts on a “friend’s” Facebook timeline.

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A SWEET DEAL: The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development put on quite a spread during its MoU signing this week with the Finance Ministry, which sets out responsibilities, division of labour and scope of cooperation. Those with a sweet tooth were also in for a treat.

Madonna: ‘I’m not in Malawi to adopt’

Immediately after arriving in the small African nation between Tanzania and Mozambique, the pop star went to the Supreme Court of the country, located in the capital Lilongwe. Court spokesperson Mlenga Mvula said.Madonna has adopted two children from Malawi: David Banda in 2006 and Mercy James in 2009.