TechSpot

JANUARY 25, 2024

Ring launched its Neighbors app in 2017 as a way of helping communities find missing family members/pets and to aid during disasters and emergencies. While that all sounds very commendable, the RFA tool that allows police to post requests for surveillance footage to the app has long proved controversial. Read Entire Article

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 1, 2025

Scammers often pose as financial advisors or representatives of legitimate-sounding companies, pushing opportunities in areas like cryptocurrency, stocks, or forex trading. Job offer scams Job offer scams target people by advertising high-paying, low-effort jobs or sending unsolicited offers that sound too good to be true.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

An ominous roaring sound can be heard roughly halfway through the recording, seemingly the result of a massive carbon fiber hull collapsing under the pressure of anywhere between 375 and 400 atmospheres around 12,500 feet below the Atlantic Ocean.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Disaster giving is not a zero-sum game. Giving to disasters does not take away from other nonprofit causes. Disaster giving has provided some temporary relief to the situation. International Relief organizations had large declines in revenue and donors, but show signs of returning to normal non-disaster giving levels.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

A global biological disaster was unique in our current experience. When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions. It’s a word that deserves a prominent place in every management team’s playbook.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

But Tractable’s plan is to use some of the funding to expand deeper into areas adjacent to that: natural disaster recovery (specifically for appraising property damage), and used car appraisals. Hover secures $60M for 3D imaging to assess and fix properties.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

A reliable backup scheme is a critical component of the IT environment and a prerequisite for disaster recovery. While I won't explore all the ins and outs of disaster recovery in this post, or backup schemes for that matter, I will look at some of the popular cloud-based offerings and compare them to their traditional counterparts.

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Care2

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We hope all of our readers on the East Coast are safe and sound after Hurricane Sandy. Facebook Global Disaster Relief page : all kinds of information and helping opportunities. NE Options: Virginia Disaster Relief Fund. Check it out and let me know if you have additional resources to add. FEMA volunteer links.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2021

Homebound has raised about $73 million over the years from the likes of Google Ventures, Fifth Wall, Khosla, Sound Ventures, Atomic and Thrive Capital. It raised a $35 million Series B last April and then closed on a $20 million convertible note late last year.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Financial distress, operational mistakes, natural disasters, or an unexpected uptick in demand are among the many issues that can derail a shipment. Having a sound business continuity plan helps. Rutkowski believes one of the key factors in managing the unexpected is to plan for it.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The aftermath of preorders for the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S going live, as well as the initial wave of sales for Nvidia’s RTX 3080 graphics card online and in select stores, has been nothing short of a disaster. The PS5, Xbox Series X, and RTX 3080 preorders and sales have been utter disasters.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 29, 2013

That sounds much more exciting than a jetpack or a flying car—and those who are poised to step into the forefront of this revolution agree. Changing our lives. Using data to change our lives isn’t some unrealistic dream for the future—in fact, in some ways the idea has been around for quite a while.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Amazingly enough, the description of the patent sounds, well, pretty much like any social network we’ve seen over the years, including Facebook." ." Amazon Patents Social Networking System, Winks at Facebook – "The United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded Amazon a patent for a “Social Networking System.&#

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Alternately, if you can foresee circumstances where you would want to support crisis calls, homeless intake, elderly services, disaster relief, and other family service programs (through your own offices or through partner agencies), then you are looking for a software solution that is designed to support multi-purpose, multi-partner use.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Alex Dalyac is the CEO and co-founder of Tractable , which develops artificial intelligence for accident and disaster recovery. It was as glamorous as it sounds. Alex Dalyac. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Today, Tractable is worth $1 billion. Find potential customers early so you can work out market fit.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

His current startup, Captain, advances money to contractors for home repairs following natural disasters, then gets reimbursed by insurance companies or the government. He used several Tier 3 VCs as a sounding board for pitch feedback. The incentives weren’t aligned,” Gray explains. million in private equity. .”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

ShelterBox USA had a very busy year, due to the sheer number of natural disasters that struck in 2017. They kept their followers informed on a per-disaster-basis through video shared on Facebook. “We They used text in this video, which makes it easier for connect with people on mobile, who usually prefer sound-off viewing.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Watermarking is a technique by with an image or sound is imprinted with an identifiable pattern that shows its origin. Same for audio: an occasional quiet sound encoding the information might not be something a casual listener would hear. Here are two examples they provided. See if you can figure out which one is watermarked.

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DataRobot

MAY 27, 2021

A disaster,” he told me. That sounds like a failure, but if we can get 100 people to infect 90 people and do that four or five weeks in a row, then we end up with 30 people infected instead of 600, because normally if you allow this virus to go how it normally goes, 100 people infect 130. In other words, he’s just our kind of guy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2022

We can revisit companies like WeWork and Theranos, or even look to the list of billionaires and wannabes lining up to be part of the $44 billion disaster-in-the-making that Elon Musk’s Twitter investment appears to be. Unfortunately, FTX is only the latest in this line of failures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

That’s a much more powerful way of selling a product compared to a theoretical “demo” which might look and sound good, but may end up being a a total disaster in practice. This mean the client gets a working demo of the product, without needing to commit a lot of time and resources, or perhaps even signing a contract.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

In this sound bite culture, social justice organizations must carve out nuanced positions on complex social issues, from racial and gender equity to immigration reform. What this often means is that their messages might not garner the media attention or viral traction they deserve.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Again, some of these sound great. But the focus on modularity and adaptiveness seems like a recipe for disaster. The mix of inflatable privacy shields, fabric air ducts, dynamic hot-desks, clip-on desk partitions, and rearrangeable desks and storage make it sound like employees will have to build their office from scratch each day.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

What happened after ten days is that David came back to no major disasters but instead realized how capable his team is (ahem, if we do say so ourselves) and the areas where he could be more efficient. We, the team, also realized just how invaluable David is and learned to appreciate where his own true zone of genius lies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If the world is to reach net zero, and avoid climate disaster , it needs to make every product sustainable, and that means every purchase. UN’s IPCC report on climate change sounds ‘code red’ for planet. While companies are often doing their best, the problem with issues like CO2 emissions lies in the supply chain.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. Additionally, Candid publishes regular reports on relevant sector issues , such as the Advancing Human Rights report , Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report , and Philanthropy and Covid-19 report.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Over the past few months, investors from Sequoia to YC have sounded the clarion call to get their portfolio companies preparing for winter. That is a recipe for disaster when you are planning against burn. Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. Try to start separating essential from non-essential costs.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

Though it sounded cynical and harsh, it also rang true. Much like the pandemic, it is likely that most grantee communities will in some way be impacted by increasing climate disasters. A philanthropy insider once shared during a presentation that foundations develop guidelines so they know to whom to say “no.”

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M+R

JANUARY 26, 2023

That catchy alliteration makes him sound like a comic book character, like Clark Kent or Lois Lane, Peter Parker or Bruce Banner. Focus on one sense at a time Conjure a specific time and place by focusing on ONE sense — sight, sound, smell, taste — and draw the reader in with an evocative physical description. Still reading?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

That’s not the kind of growth we all want to see, but it’s not exactly a disaster — effectively, revenue was flat year over year. The number of email gifts increased by 1.6% — which might not sound like something to write home about, but remember that the total number of online gifts across all channels declined by 10%.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

It doesn’t literally give access to camera rolls as that would be, we noted, “a disaster waiting to happen,” but the idea is unpublished photos from creator to fan, for a recurring fee. If it works, it sounds pretty neat. The app wants to “give fans access to their favorite creators’ camera rolls,” per the startup’s CEO.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

They’ve seen poverty and tragedy in their city, experienced natural disasters and man-made neglect. barrage of color and music, sights and sounds. Everything is a blend of people, flavors, sights and sounds; all are welcome. I present three of them to you now. Lesson #1: NOLA does not whine. I admit it—I even provoked a bit.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Sector trends tell us that the years ahead are likely to see shortfalls in funding for nonprofits, necessitating changes in strategy and tactics now in order to avoid disaster later. All of the above sounds great, right? Aligned teams means better communication. Anyone who’s worked at a nonprofit knows it’s easier said than done.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean Image Credits: Liang Wendong/VCG (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Tapping the ocean for energy led to disasters like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which released nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Sound the alarm : The U.S.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 29, 2014

During my 4 years at both the local and national level, I worked on several disaster operations— from the house fire in the middle of the night to some of the most devastating hurricanes to ever hit the US. Many of those disasters required the raising of millions in order to respond, and much of that money often came from brand new donors.

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Blue Fox

MAY 22, 2020

I know that sounds trite, naïve even. But it’s a hallmark of human experience that when disaster or tragedy strikes, we evolve in response. Those of us who successfully break up with COVID-19 and end our internal toxic relationship with all that it brings will be better for it in the end.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 23, 2014

Yes, that sounds like a recipe for disaster, but look, you’ve given them the reason to join in. Give them the details of how donations have helped the afflicted and where the money goes. You’ll never know how much transparency will benefit the cause so feel free to over share. From there, you leave it their hands.

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