Amperity
, the stealth-mode enterprise software company from startup vets Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager, is now seeking a Site Reliability Engineer following a $ 9 million funding round earlier this year. Shahani and Slager are among the co-founders...
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Glassdoor raises $40M to fuel growth of recruiting site; total funding hits $200M
Glassdoor today announced a $ 40 million investment round as the Bay Area-based company looks to grow its recruiting...
Look what’s trending: Mark Zuckerberg reacts to news stories about how Facebook manages site feature
In a collision of circumstances, news about how Facebook selects items for its Trending Topics menu and CEO...
Extra-helical binding site of a glucagon receptor antagonist
Glucagon is a 29-amino-acid peptide released from the α-cells of the islet of Langerhans, which has a key role in glucose homeostasis. Glucagon action is transduced by the class B G-protein-coupled glucagon receptor (GCGR), which is located on liver, kidney, intestinal smooth muscle, brain, adipose tissue, heart and pancreas cells, and this receptor has been considered an important drug target in the treatment of...
Amazon partners with Seattle non-profit to create homeless refuge on company site near downtown
Amazon’s rapid expansion north of downtown Seattle has...
After FBI briefly ran Tor-hidden child-porn site, investigations went global
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In 2015, the FBI seized a Tor-hidden child-porn website known as Playpen and allowed it to run for 13 days so that the FBI could deploy malware in order to identify and prosecute the website’s users. That malware, known in FBI-speak as a "network investigative technique," was authorized by a federal court in Virginia in...
Is cheater site Ashley Madison actually growing by over a million users per month?
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In one of 2015's most sensational hacks, a group called Impact Team dumped the real names and credit card information associated with 39 million accounts from cheater dating site Ashley Madison. And yet, despite the public shaming of prominent men who paid to join the site and several lawsuits against the company, Ashley Madison claims that it...
Scientists find 1500-year-old Viking settlement beneath new airport site
A blue bead discovered in a 1500-year-old Viking garbage pile. (credit: Åge Hojem)
When Norway announced plans to expand its Ørland Airport this year, archaeologists got excited. They knew that pre-construction excavation was likely to reveal ancient Viking artifacts. But they got far more than they had hoped.
Ørland Airport is located in a region of Norway that changed dramatically after...
Four-electron deoxygenative reductive coupling of carbon monoxide at a single metal site
Carbon dioxide is the ultimate source of the fossil fuels that are both central to modern life and problematic: their use increases atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases, and their availability is geopolitically constrained. Using carbon dioxide as a feedstock to produce synthetic fuels might, in principle, alleviate these concerns. Although many homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide, further deoxygenative coupling...
As Venezuelan economy collapses further, gov’t targets US-based currency news site
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The US-based website that publishes a daily unofficial exchange rate between American dollars and Venezuelan bolivares has recently filed a vigorous defense in a strange international lawsuit. The site, DolarToday, was sued in October 2015 by the Central Bank of Venezuela (CBV) in federal court in Delaware, where the site is based.
In its bizarre...
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