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Matchmaking seen as potential game changer in online job search market

November 19, 2015 admin approach, career, college-sports, compatibility, dating-website, draft, experts-say, internet, pairing-couples, picture-taken, schneiderman, the-approach

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Just as social media changed how people find love and marriage, with research showing about 22 percent of U.S. couples now meet online, an Internet dating website is betting its matchmaking techniques will help people find the perfect job. In March 2016, eHarmony plans to launch Elevated Careers, an online employment service that will put the compatibility matching techniques it has used in pairing couples to the test in the career market.

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Islamic State makes Telegram messaging app a major marketing tool

November 19, 2015 admin airliner-over, bombing, broadcast-news, egypt, exiled, islamic-state, most-popular, paris, russia, social-network, telegram, the-preferred

The mobile messaging service Telegram, created by the exiled founder of Russia’s most popular social network site, has emerged as an important new promotional and recruitment platform for Islamic State. A new feature of Telegram that was introduced in September has become the preferred method for Islamic State to broadcast news and share videos of military victories or sermons, according to security researchers.

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U.S. counterintelligence chief sceptical China has curbed spying on U.S.

November 18, 2015 creative airliner-over, broadcast-news, chinese, exiled, extent, islamic-state, pennsylvania, russia, the-preferred, wednesday

By Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. counterintelligence chief Bill Evanina said on Wednesday he was sceptical China had followed through on recent promises to curb spying on the United States.

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Facebook says it froze user named Isis by mistake

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By Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it erroneously disabled the personal account of a user named Isis Anchalee for about a day, an action the user claims was due to her name being spelt the same as the acronym used for the Islamic State extremist group. Anchalee, a software developer in San Francisco, on Monday posted a screenshot of a Facebook log-in page that showed a message “Account disabled”

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Snippets of Adele’s ’25’ leaked, removed days ahead of release

November 18, 2015 publisher 85th, academy-awards, action-the-user, airliner-over, extent, islamic-state, million-copies, official, personal, selling-album, song, the-official, were-reported, years, york

Parts of Adele's much anticipated new album “25” were reported on Wednesday to have been leaked online ahead of the official Nov. 20 release of the Grammy-winning British singer's first release in four years

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New Jersey university probes threats against African-Americans

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An anonymous user posted messages to Twitter on Tuesday night, threatening to kill or shoot black students and others at the school, where students have been demonstrating to raise awareness about racism on U.S. campuses. “I will shoot every black woman and male I see at Kean University,” wrote the Twitter user using the name @keanuagainstblk.

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Iran arrests cartoonist as crackdown on free expression goes on

November 17, 2015 publisher cartoons, heidari, his-cartoons, his-lawyer, said-on-tuesday, saleh-nikbakht, sent-him, tehran, the-lawyer, tuesday

Iranian authorities have arrested a cartoonist and sent him to prison to complete a suspended jail sentence, his lawyer said on Tuesday, joining a growing list of journalists, artists and activists detained on security charges. Hadi Heidari, a cartoonist at the Shahrvand newspaper, was arrested on Monday and sent to Tehran’s Evin prison, his lawyer told Reuters in a telephone interview from Tehran. The authorities had a different interpretation of his cartoons than he had,” the lawyer, Saleh Nikbakht, said.

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Britain to develop offensive cyber capability, Osborne says

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CHELTENHAM, England (Reuters) – British spies are developing an offensive cyber capability to fight Islamist militants, hackers, criminals and hostile powers who threaten British interests, Chancellor George Osborne said on Tuesday. “We need to establish deterrents in cyber space. We need to not just defend ourselves against attacks but rather to dissuade people and states from targeting us in the first place,” Osborne said

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NY judge rebuffs fantasy sports companies’ bid to block AG’s move

November 17, 2015 creative are-building, attorney, been-pressuring, cheltenham, dissuade-people, games, gchq, saleh-nikbakht, vendors

A New York state judge denied a temporary restraining order sought by daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel in an effort to keep operating in the state after New York’s attorney general deemed the games to be illegal gambling. In seeking the restraining orders, the companies said that New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office had been pressuring their vendors to stop doing business with them, and they could be forced to close up shop in the state

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DraftKings, FanDuel lose early bid to head off NY shutdown

November 17, 2015 creative are-building, attorney, been-pressuring, cheltenham, daily, dissuade-people, games, vendors, york

(Repeats with no changes) By Brendan Pierson and Michael Erman NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) – Daily fantasy sports companies DraftKings and FanDuel on Monday lost an atttempt to head off the New York attorney general’s effort to shut down the companies in the state. A New York state judge denied temporary restraining orders sought by the companies that would have halted New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s efforts to declare the games illegal gambling in the state. Schneiderman said the games were against state law last week and told the companies to stop taking money from New Yorkers.