by Alpha | Feb 16, 2018 | Pre-Market
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2. Wynn Resorts says ex-CEO Steve Wynn not entitled to severance pay
Wynn Resorts Ltd said on Friday that former Chief Executive Officer Steve Wynn was not entitled to severance payments or any other compensation.
3. CBS Profits Add to Case For Independence
In CBS and Viacom’s on-again, off-again merger talks, the burden falls disproportionately on Viacom to make the case that it is worth CBS’s trouble.
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A deal to show copyright information and improve attribution of Getty photos was announced last week and included these changes.
While good to see Google protecting photographers and driving traffic to websites still hard not to be a little annoyed by the changes.
And while fair to ask users to do their due diligence by making sure properly attributing photos these changes really seem designed to stop images from being grabbed in the first place.
The issue started after a change occurred in the way credit cards classify digital currency transactions according to a statement on Reddit from a Coinbase employee on February.
Coinbase the San wallet and exchange startup that raised more than million from venture capital investors serves as the introduction to the volatile world of cryptocurrencies.
The company has had a busy week it temporarily halted PayPal withdrawals disabled adding new credit cards as a payment option for customers and released a new product for merchants called Coinbase Commerce all as the price of a bitcoin hit again after falling for almost two months.
A closer inspection revealed that the Sonos One speaker which also has small silicone feet had made these marks on my cabinet.
The good news is that the marks appear to fade somewhat with time when I reviewed the HomePod last week it was sitting in a different location on my cabinet and while there a white ring there too it much less prominent.
According to Apple the marks can fade over the course of several days after the HomePod is removed and if that does work you should clean the surface with the manufacturer suggested oiling method.
Italian Blog Mobile World spotted the bug and tested it successfully on multiple iPhones running iOS and found it also works on the macOS versions of Safari and Messages.
As Apple faces more security issues and software bugs the company is reportedly focusing on reliability and performance in iOS over new features.
Some features have reportedly been pushed back as a result allowing Apple to address some of the security and reliability issues discovered in both iOS and macOS recently.
During its developer conference this week Google announced that million websites are using AMP up percent since October.
Google says these mobile webpages keep people from abandoning searches and by extension drive more traffic to websites.
according to Chartbeat a publisher analytics company whose clients include the New York Times CNN the Washington Post and ESPN.
be focused on consumer startups bottoms up SaaS marketplaces and more utilizing my expertise in growth to launch and scale new companies.
Marc soon introduced me to Ben and together they provided a regular stream of over breakfasts at the Creamery Stacks and other assorted Palo Alto diners.
I have nothing but admiration for the talented passionate people who are working hard to ship all the amazing innovations that are coming down the queue.
Today launching some changes on Google Images to help connect users and useful websites.
The Visit button remains so users can see images in the context of the webpages on.
This seems to be in direct response to the concession Google made with Getty Images a few days ago around helping reduce copyright infringement through the popular search engine.
ET Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is relocating his home and personal investment firms to Los Angeles from San Francisco and scaling back his involvement in the tech industry people familiar with his thinking said marking a rupture between Silicon Valley and its most prominent conservative.
Thiel has also discussed with people close to him the possibility of resigning from the board of Facebook the people familiar with his thinking said.
His relationship with the he has been a director.
been using a model with of RAM and of storage and it has handled my daily workflow of lots of browser tabs Slack email writing social media video watching and more without skipping a beat.
The Pen is not a fanless computer but it still runs quietly and coolly with the fans occasionally spinning up but never becoming so loud that they are noticeable in an office setting.
Despite the Notebook solid performance quality display and extremely light design I get over its cheap feeling finish and terrible battery life.
Last Saturday days ago now I shared a cringeworthy video on Facebook a clip of a twentysomething white woman showing off her small blandly decorated Brooklyn apartment.
in the moments where the cracks start show when the same awful video is at the top of your Facebook page for days straight that we remember how fucked up it is having our friendships ruled by an algorithm.
in the moments where the cracks start show when the same awful video is at the top of your Facebook page for days straight that we remember how fucked up it is having our friendships ruled by an algorithm.
by Alpha | Feb 15, 2018 | Pre-Market
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4. Kushner Investors Subpoenaed by U.S. Tax Authorities, Source Says
U.S. tax authorities have requested documents from lenders and investors in real estate projects managed by Jared Kushner’s family, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Siri can also access weather reports and news briefs and speak results for a range of queries I had no trouble finding the nearest grocery store the closest coffee shop the starting time of the Olympics opening ceremony or the score of the Super Bowl Fly Eagles.
Incredibly this works not just when the HomePod is in the same placed the speaker at one end of a home and was able to comfortably control Siri through multiple rooms and entryways by only fractionally raising my voice notably a skill my kids have yet to master.
If your intention is to acquire a multiroom audio system or a home virtual assistant or a widely compatible speaker able to stream Internet radio Spotify Audible books and other content from any features that either present or available no harm in waiting or considering other options in the meantime.
Eight weeks after the Messenger Kids debut Golin helped organize a group of nearly advocates who asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to kill the app because it could undermine healthy child development.
In an accompanying press release Facebook cited comments from roundtable discussions held by the National PTA and a parent who provided feedback to New Mexico State Learning Games Lab.
Board member Michael Rich who founded the Center on Media and Child Health at Boston Hospital also partnered with Apple shareholders on a widely circulated letter asking the company to research the impact of smartphones on children and build better tools for parents.
Siri can also access weather reports and news briefs and speak results for a range of queries I had no trouble finding the nearest grocery store the closest coffee shop the starting time of the Olympics opening ceremony or the score of the Super Bowl Fly Eagles.
Incredibly this works not just when the HomePod is in the same placed the speaker at one end of a home and was able to comfortably control Siri through multiple rooms and entryways by only fractionally raising my voice notably a skill my kids have yet to master.
If your intention is to acquire a multiroom audio system or a home virtual assistant or a widely compatible speaker able to stream Internet radio Spotify Audible books and other content from any features that either present or available no harm in waiting or considering other options in the meantime.
The new analytics could help creators show their total reach to secure sponsored content and product placement deals refine their posts to match their audience and compare their following to that on other platforms.
Naturally a long overdue step needed to keep more influencers in the platform who have done a lot for Snap and a great way to build a more diverse set of premium inventory and targeting data for.
Disclosure my cousin Darren Lachtman Niche Snapchat could similarly get into the sponsorship deal making with big stars let creators earn a cut of ads that run beside their Stories.
In a conference call last week Nvidia chief executive told investors the company was working really hard to catch up with supply and get GPUs to the marketplace.
We in the process of expanding our telescope we got a grant from the National Science Foundation here in the United States to do so said Aaron Parsons at the University of California at Berkeley.
GPUs are needed in order to bring together data from Hera many small radio telescopes this synthesises a much larger array offering an especially wide field of view peering out into the universe.
It is not unusual for any speaker with a silicone base to leave mild marks when placed on some wooden surfaces.
If not wiping the surface gently with a soft damp or dry cloth may remove the marks.
Keep HomePod away from all sources of liquid such as drinks washbasins bathtubs shower stalls swimming pools spas and so on.
In a conference call last week Nvidia chief executive told investors the company was working really hard to catch up with supply and get GPUs to the marketplace.
We in the process of expanding our telescope we got a grant from the National Science Foundation here in the United States to do so said Aaron Parsons at the University of California at Berkeley.
GPUs are needed in order to bring together data from Hera many small radio telescopes this synthesises a much larger array offering an especially wide field of view peering out into the universe.
ET Billionaire investor Peter Thiel is relocating his home and personal investment firms to Los Angeles from San Francisco and scaling back his involvement in the tech industry people familiar with his thinking said marking a rupture between Silicon Valley and its most prominent conservative.
Thiel has also discussed with people close to him the possibility of resigning from the board of Facebook the people familiar with his thinking said.
His relationship with the he has been a director.
Siri can also access weather reports and news briefs and speak results for a range of queries I had no trouble finding the nearest grocery store the closest coffee shop the starting time of the Olympics opening ceremony or the score of the Super Bowl Fly Eagles.
Incredibly this works not just when the HomePod is in the same placed the speaker at one end of a home and was able to comfortably control Siri through multiple rooms and entryways by only fractionally raising my voice notably a skill my kids have yet to master.
If your intention is to acquire a multiroom audio system or a home virtual assistant or a widely compatible speaker able to stream Internet radio Spotify Audible books and other content from any features that either present or available no harm in waiting or considering other options in the meantime.
by Alpha | Feb 14, 2018 | Pre-Market
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1. CMRX:$CMRX downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JP Morgan
2. LIFE:$LIFE downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JPMorgan.
3. LXRX:$LXRX downgraded to Underweight from Neutral at JPMorgan. PT $10
4. TTPH:$TTPH downgraded to Market Perform at BMO. PT $2.75 from $24
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4. ETH:OKEX $ETH Weekly futures has liquidated a short position of 2892 contract at 877.823 – 2018-02-14 19:57:48
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U.S. stock reversed course to trade half a percent lower on Wednesday after data showed consumer prices rose more than expected in January, with a measure of underlying inflation posting its biggest gain in a year.
2. Bristol, needing a cancer immunotherapy boost, pays shockingly steep price for Nektar drug
Bristol-Myers Squibb, seeking a new way to make its cancer immunotherapies more effective, is paying a shockingly steep price to lock up rights to an experimental drug from Nektar Therapeutics.
3. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Nektar Therapeutics Announce Global Development & Commercialization Collaboration for Nektar’s CD122-biased Agonist, NKTR-214 | BMS Newsroom
NEW YORK & SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) and Nektar Therapeutics (Nasdaq:NKTR) announced today the companies have executed a global strategic development and commercialization collaboration for Nektar’s lead immuno-oncology program, NKTR-214.
4. Stock Futures Sink With Treasuries on CPI Surprise: Markets Wrap
U.S. stock futures tumbled and Treasury yields climbed after data showing consumer prices rose more than forecast last month fueled speculation the Federal Reserve will quicken its pace of monetary tightening.
5. U.S. consumer prices accelerate; core CPI posts largest gain in a year
U.S. consumer prices rose more than expected in January, with a measure of underlying inflation posting its biggest gain in a year, strengthening expectations that price pressures will accelerate this year and prompt a faster pace of interest rate increases from the Federal Reserve.
6. M on Twitter
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Last week a video published by Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny alleging a new link between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign made headlines around the world.
The video was released last Thursday and accused Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey top foreign policy having been a conduit between the Kremlin and Oleg Deripaska an oligarch linked to the Trump campaign.
As a result communications added the YouTube videos and Instagram posts to its list of prohibited websites giving internet providers until Wednesday to blacklist the URLs.
by Alpha | Feb 12, 2018 | Pre-Market
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3. IWM:Volume on this little pull, keep a eye n things $IWM leading the down move so far
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BASEL, Switzerland, Feb. 12, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ: AXON ) today announced that Chief Executive Officer David Hung, M.D., has resigned to pursue other opportunities and has also resigned from the Company’s board of directors. In addition, President and Chief Operating Officer Marion McCourt has also resigned to pursue another opportunity, and directors Kate Falberg, Tony Vernon, and Patrick Machado have resigned as members of the Company’s board of directors.
2. Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: GD, QSR, FOXA, QCOM, AMZN, F, BABA & more
Some of the names on the move ahead of the open.
3. Inside Facebook’s Two Years of Hell
How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all.
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Ovadya saw early what many including lawmakers journalists and Big Tech CEOs grasp until months later Our platformed and algorithmically optimized world is vulnerable to propaganda to misinformation to dark targeted advertising from foreign governments so much so that it threatens to undermine a cornerstone of human discourse the credibility of fact.
Imagine for example a algorithm which analyzes gobs of data in order to teach itself to perform a particular function fed on hundreds of hours of footage of Donald Trump or North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un which could then spit out a and virtually impossible to distinguish from reality audio or video clip of the leader declaring nuclear or biological war.
Given the early dismissals of the efficacy of misinformation like Facebook CEO Mark statement that it was crazy that fake news on his site played a crucial role in the election the first step for researchers like Ovadya is a daunting one Convince the greater public as well as lawmakers university technologists and tech companies that a information apocalypse is not only plausible but close at hand.
We saw a pretty big event take place over the weekend where a party provider was compromised and their JS library was altered.
At first the obvious thought is that the ICO were compromised so I immediately started digging into this after firing off a few emails to contact people who may be able to help me with disclosure.
To take this one step further and ensure absolute protection you can use Content Security Policy and the directive to make sure that no script is allowed to load on the page without an SRI integrity attribute.
At am GMT on Sunday February a JavaScript file which is part of the Texthelp Browsealoud product was compromised during a cyber attack.
has in place continuous automated security tests for Browsealoud and these detected the modified file and as a result the product was taken offline.
The company has examined the affected file thoroughly and can confirm that it did not redirect any data it simply used the computers CPUs to attempt to generate cryptocurrency.
We saw a pretty big event take place over the weekend where a party provider was compromised and their JS library was altered.
The most common way to set a Content Security Policy on your site is to deliver it as a HTTP response header but that not always possible.
On hosted platforms like GitHub Pages Ghost Pro or WordPress it not always easy or even possible to set a HTTP response.
cellular version of the Apple Watch was in strong demand in the US Japan and Australia where all major operators stocked it in time for the holiday season said Vincent Thielke Research Analyst at Canalys.
limited operator selection in the UK Germany and France influenced consumer purchase decisions and stifled the growth potential of the connected Apple Watch.
innovative designs such as the rotating bezels and circular screens employed by other vendors Apple has pulled far ahead as it continues to focus on its core iPhone user base.
ET Broadcom secured as much as billion of debt financing for its hostile bid for Qualcomm and enlisted two more big firms strengthening the chip hand in the takeover battle.
A dozen Bank of America Citigroup Deutsche Bank AG JPMorgan Chase and Morgan agreed to provide up to billion of committed credit facilities including a billion revolver and bridge financing Broadcom said Monday.
Unlike their counterparts elsewhere who might seek to expose security vulnerabilities steal corporate and state secrets or simply sow chaos North Korean hackers have a singular purpose to earn money for the country currently squeezed by harsh international sanctions for its rogue nuclear program.
He denies any complicity in the kinds of crimes that security experts have attributed in recent years to North Korea such as snatching credit card numbers installing ransomware on corporate servers and swiping South Korean defense secrets.
One of the defectors who worked under the auspices of a state agency called the Korea Computer Center had long been cynical about his country come to hate bellowing out the loyalty oath to Kim Jong Un every Saturday and finally concluded that everything about the regime was a lie.
by Alpha | Feb 9, 2018 | Pre-Market
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2. Amazon to Launch Delivery Service That Would Vie With FedEx, UPS
Amazon.com Inc. is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses, positioning it to directly compete with United Parcel Service Inc. and FedEx Corp.
3. Jacob Plieth on Twitter
“$SRPT confirms UK golodirsen study halt. Scoop via @EPVantage
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“$AGN PRAC recommends no new patients on Esmya and liver monitoring for those on. US PDUFA in May”
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ET is preparing to launch a delivery service for businesses positioning it to directly compete with United Parcel Service and FedEx Corp.
Dubbed with Amazon or SWA the new service will entail the tech giant picking up packages from businesses and shipping them to consumers according to people familiar with the matter.
Despite the fact that the Bay Area offers the highest salaries for tech workers job candidates are beginning to notice the perks of living and working in other cities.
Knowledge empowers and liberates candidates and companies to achieve their goals and why made a commitment to release regular data reports to arm people with the information they need to make some of the most important decisions of their lives.
In addition to our proprietary data we collected survey responses from more than tech workers on the Hired platform to inform our understanding of how salaries and cost of living affect decision making and satisfaction.
