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After Beijing moved on the insurance and financial giant, others are likely to be worried. from BBC News - Business http://ift.tt/2FB3pjp

The story behind the photo-sharing app that has suddenly reached the top of the App Store. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2EVkeIz

A phone with a modified version of Android designed to keep children safe has been revealed. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2owDvoG

Marie Farmer came up with the idea during her maternity leave, and it has now led to her quitting her job. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2GOZ8bm

Click meets the Oscar nominated visual effects team behind War for the Planet of the Apes. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2F12ZkU

Diners can leave a restaurant and their bill is paid automatically via an app, in a Barclaycard trial. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2BSjFfR

A powerful earthquake two days ago killed at least 15 people, injured dozens and brought work to a halt at four oil and gas fields in a remote Papua New Guinea region, the local governor said Wednesday. from CBNNews.com http://ift.tt/2GOCMqo

A powerful earthquake rattled forest villages and a large gold mine in central Papua New Guinea early Monday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries. from CBNNews.com http://ift.tt/2F1htVv

Students who survived the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, earlier this month don’t blame Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel for missing various red flags in the shooter’s behavior. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2os9bwd via IFTTT

President Trump on Monday criticized the armed sheriff's deputies who reportedly failed to enter Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., during the Feb. 14 mass shooting, suggesting he would have done so even if he didn't have a gun. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2HMT1Wg via IFTTT

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice (R) told his state’s striking teachers they “need to be back in the classroom” as he spoke at a series of town halls on Monday. Speaking and taking questions in Wheeling, Martinsburg and Morgantown throughout the day, Justice urged the state’s educators to end their strike Tuesday and promised he’d establish a task force in the next seven to 10 days to look into some of their concerns. The comments come days after Justice faced criticisms that he’s missing in action at the state Capitol. His administration has denied a Freedom of Information Act request to view his calendars and appointment books. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BRwpDE via IFTTT

Head of ICE's enforcement and removal blasts Mayor Libby Schaaf's decision to announce raids; Claudia Cowan rides along with federal immigration agents trying to enforce the law. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F0C4pA via IFTTT

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton first saw the late Rev. Billy Graham as a boy when a Sunday School teacher brought him to a football stadium for a crusade. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CpNmGd via IFTTT

Students are standing up to the gun lobby, the NRA and politicians from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Cq9EYe via IFTTT

By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. general accused Russia on Tuesday of playing a destabilizing role in Syria and acting as "both arsonist and firefighter," as a brief truce unilaterally declared by Moscow in the eastern Ghouta region collapsed. The United States and Russia have been on different sides of the seven-year-old war, with Moscow heavily backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad whose forces are besieging eastern Ghouta, a rebel-held area near Damascus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CLqInu via IFTTT

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania prison official said Tuesday the sale of work boots at all prison commissaries was halted because an inmate is accused of killing a guard by knocking him to the floor and kicking him in the head with a boot. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FaP27j via IFTTT

New Story (nonprofit S15) Is Hiring Impact Data Analyst 1 by Matth3wMarshall | 0 comments on Hacker News.

The ramifications of a new type of gene 7 by nopinsight | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Bohemian Tragedy: The rise and fall of George Sterling’s California arts colony 4 by lermontov | 0 comments on Hacker News.

Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS 99 by WhiteRiceWill | 23 comments on Hacker News.

Why New Zealand is releasing a rabbit-killing virus 7 by farseer | 11 comments on Hacker News.

Omikron TRS-80 Boards, NEWDOS+ and Sundry Other Matters (1980) 33 by helloworld | 9 comments on Hacker News.

Cryptographers Urge People to Abandon IOTA After Leaked Emails 102 by charlysl | 32 comments on Hacker News.

Konva – HTML5 2d canvas library for desktop and mobile applications 102 by lavrton | 14 comments on Hacker News.

Most images of black holes are illustrations. Here’s what our telescopes capture 33 by shawndumas | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Ride-Sharing Congests City Traffic 73 by old-gregg | 68 comments on Hacker News.

A Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol 54 by ausjke | 16 comments on Hacker News.

Smartphone sales fall for the first time, says Gartner 60 by prostoalex | 29 comments on Hacker News.

The Feds Can Now Probably Unlock Every iPhone Model 163 by dsr12 | 72 comments on Hacker News.

Carta for Public Companies 41 by gwintrob | 14 comments on Hacker News.

The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability (2002) 96 by krausejj | 87 comments on Hacker News.

Abusing Python exceptions to turn a recursive function iterative 99 by mercapto | 75 comments on Hacker News.

The Poignant Gulag Art by Stalin’s Doomed Meteorologist 56 by IntronExon | 39 comments on Hacker News.

Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH 92 by vuln | 13 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What happened when Amazon moved into your business? 179 by boldslogan | 56 comments on Hacker News. Without going too much into my own product. I have recently found out after watching the AWS conference that I am now directly competing against an Amazon product... I am looking for stories of how your company reacted and maybe the successes or failures...

Western science catching up to Indigenous Traditional Knowledge 11 by mcone | 25 comments on Hacker News.

Amazon to acquire video doorbell maker Ring 207 by arishi | 120 comments on Hacker News.

Veteran Wall Street enforcers are landing new roles in virtual currencies 119 by chollida1 | 65 comments on Hacker News.

Pricing low-touch SaaS 522 by davidw | 135 comments on Hacker News.

Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams 113 by christophepas | 66 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN! I'm Chris, founder of Slite ( https://slite.com ). We’re building a tool for modern teams to write down and retrieve things that matter. I've launched two companies in the past and basically ran them on note-taking apps. The first was a hiring SaaS and the second an on-demand fashion-delivery service, and while the two were pretty different, I needed to write down a lot of stuff: interview notes, mentoring, email and article drafts, notes on customers and so on. I had this habit because notes are versatile, incredibly user-friendly, and immediate. They made up my personal knowledge base but the biggest frustration I had was sharing those with teammates. So I decided to build a note app that would work with teams from day 1. This is in line with the current problems in team collaboration. A lot of people were thrilled to dump email to get on Slack, but recent conversation

Ryzen Boards Reign at Embedded World 2018 171 by pepsi | 100 comments on Hacker News.

After rising for 100 years, electricity demand is flat 565 by aaronbrethorst | 441 comments on Hacker News.

NumPy Exercises for Data Analysis in Python 342 by selva86 | 28 comments on Hacker News. I compiled a list of numpy practice exercises related to data analysis. Might be helpful if you want to practice some data munging problems. Feedback welcome! http://ift.tt/2CnJk13

How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop 406 by _petronius | 530 comments on Hacker News.

The Substitutability of Physical and Social Warmth in Daily Life (2013) 62 by Hooke | 12 comments on Hacker News.

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Rachel Maddow reports on the apparently victory of Democrat Linda Belcher in a Kentucky state special election, at least the 37th flip by Democrats of a district that went heavily for Donald Trump in 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FCS961 via IFTTT

The parents of missing doctor Timothy Cunningham shared the last text message they received from their son before his disappearance two weeks ago. Cunningham, a highly regarded epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, went missing after he left work mid-day on Feb. 12, complaining of feeling ill. After Cunningham, 35, failed to report to work or contact his family over the next two days, his parents, Terrell and Tia-Juana Cunningham, drove down to Georgia from their house in Maryland to check on their son. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2t1wYrv via IFTTT

Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), a combat veteran and gun-carrying National Rifle Association member, is supporting a ban on “assault-style weapons” in the wake of a deadly mass shooting earlier this month.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2os8fIo via IFTTT

The justices will decide whether state government workers who choose not to join a union must still pay a share of union dues to cover the cost of negotiating contracts. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F8Kxu8 via IFTTT

All other White House aides working on high-level interim clearances also had their access downgraded, according to a memo reportedly sent to staffers on Friday. Earlier that same day, Trump said he would leave it up to his chief of staff, John Kelly, to decide what access Kushner should have. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oBRjhM via IFTTT

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Two men thought to have been stowaways on a US-bound flight from Ecuador have died after they fell from the aircraft, it has been reported. The Jose Joaquin de Olmedo airport in Guayaquil was closed for an hour and a half as their bodies were removed from the runway. Employees at the airport noticed three objects falling from the plane and officials believe the pair either fainted or were ejected. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2ouB5rE via IFTTT

A 16-year-old Florida boy who allegedly threatened to kill other students at his school had weapons in his possession when he was arrested on Monday night, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office. An anonymous person tipped off the Boca Raton Police Department, who notified Broward County authorities after they found that the teen lived in Pompano Beach, Florida. Deputies with the sheriff's office bomb squad, along with representatives of Homeland Security and the FBI, went to the teen's residence on Monday night and discovered a homemade pipe bomb along with other weapons in his possession, officials said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CLd3wI via IFTTT

Rachel Maddow looks at the relationships that bring today's charges by Robert Mueller against lawyer Alex van der Zwaan right into Vladimir Putin's inner circle. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2oBvPBB via IFTTT

The Department of Housing and Urban Development spent more than $31,000 on a new dining set for Secretary Ben Carson’s office last year, according to procurement documents obtained by The New York Times. It was purchased by a staffer in Carson’s office shortly after another HUD employee expressed concerns over a costly redecoration request that would’ve exceeded federal limits. Tuesday’s report also comes as HUD is facing a $6.8 billion cut to its fiscal budget that would affect elderly and poor Americans. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BSbuQR via IFTTT

Citibank is promising to refund nearly 2 million credit card holders an average of nearly $190 dollars, admitting the bank failed to reduce some annual interest rate charges for cardholders in good standing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F9E0zu via IFTTT

President Donald Trump said on Monday he would have personally run into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to help during the mass shooting earlier this month, even if he was unarmed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2sUizgY via IFTTT

A fight broke out in the maximum security section of the Cook County Jail in Illinois. Two inmates were taken to area hospitals for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries. Sixteen inmates were charged with 'mob action.' from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2otC7no via IFTTT

Central U.S. through Appalachia experienced gale force winds and heavy rains over the weekend. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EXyRLC via IFTTT

Convicted murderer Doyle Lee Hamm, 61, who has spent more than half his life on death row, was returned to his cell after more than two hours of effort by the execution team. Bernard Harcourt, who has represented Hamm for 28 years, claimed the “botched” execution attempt led to at least 12 puncture wounds from failed needle placements. “It was a gory, botched execution," he said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F5PFPR via IFTTT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court justices seemed troubled Tuesday by the arrest of a Florida man during a city council meeting in Florida, an arrest he says was retaliation for being an outspoken critic of the city. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2t2l3tv via IFTTT

A fire broke out in the overhead storage of a Chinese passenger jet moments before it was scheduled to take off. Flight attendants and a passenger threw water and juice over a bag in the luggage compartment as it was engulfed in heavy smoke and flames. The fire was thought to have been triggered by a power bank that was being carried in the bag, reports said. The owner was taken away by police for questioning. All the passengers were forced to disembark the Boeing 777 following the fire, which happened while the plane was parked on the tarmac at Guangzhou Airport in southern China. It was scheduled to fly to Shanghai. The passengers and crew were taken to a different aircraft which took off just after 3pm, three hours after the original flight was scheduled to depart. Fire caused by portable charger on China Southern flight in Guangzhou was put out promptly, while passengers were relocated to another plane pic.twitter.com/HYwShVN1t3— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) February 25, 2018 The po

Most voters think the National Rifle Association supports policies that are bad for the country, new polling finds, as an increasing share favor stricter gun laws. In a Quinnipiac University National Poll conducted after the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, 51 percent of voters said the NRA supports policies that are bad for the U.S. That’s an uptick from October, when the poll found that 47 percent of respondents thought the NRA supported bad policies. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2HPObHO via IFTTT

By Charlotte Greenfield and Sonali Paul WELLINGTON/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - At least one company began evacuating non-essential personnel after a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Papua New Guinea's energy-rich interior on Monday, causing landslides, damaging buildings and closing oil and gas operations. The tremor hit in the rugged, heavily forested Southern Highlands about 560 km (350 miles) northwest of the capital, Port Moresby, at around 3.45 a.m. local time (1545 GMT Sunday), according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). A spokesman at Papua New Guinea's National Disaster Centre said by telephone the affected area was very remote and the agency could not properly assess damage until communication was re-established. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Fwq6VQ via IFTTT

A top national security official told lawmakers on Tuesday he had not been directed by Donald Trump to disrupt Russian efforts to meddle in US elections, and that Vladimir Putin had come to the conclusion there was “little price to pay” for such actions. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2FaBzwg via IFTTT

Now, after nearly two weeks of opprobrium, the sheriff's deputy accused of failing to take action during the Florida high school shooting is fighting back. Scot Peterson, 54, broke his silence on Monday and defended his conduct during the shooting at Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School in Parkland, Florida, which left 14 students and three adult staff members dead. "Let there be no mistake, Mr. Peterson wishes that he could have prevented the untimely passing of the 17 victims on that day, and his heart goes out to the families of the victims," his attorney, Joseph DiRuzzo III, said in a statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CLpDMy via IFTTT

By all accounts, the most recent episode of “Walking Dead” was tragic (RIP Carl). In the Season 8 midseason premiere on Sunday, Carl enjoyed a touching moment with his sister Judith (Chloe and Sophia Garcia-Frizzi), saying goodbye before his inevitable death from a zombie bite. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EYbphm via IFTTT