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EU steps up controls on bitcoin, pre-paid cards to curb terrorist funds

November 20, 2015 creative attacks, controls-on-pre, estimated-value, european, guillermo, indian-prime, joint-statement, largest-economy, meeting, paris, payment-methods, pre-paid-cards, san, steady-source, tighten-checks

The European Union will increase controls on pre-paid cards, money remittances and bitcoin in a bid to curb terrorism funding after the attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. EU interior and justice ministers agreed on Friday in Brussels to tighten checks on payment methods that may be conducted anonymously and might be used by terrorist organizations to finance attacks

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Tech group rejects post-Paris call for data encryption ‘backdoors’

November 19, 2015 publisher attacks, dustin-volz, european, government, joint-statement, like-the-paris, meeting, other-blue-chip, paris, rejected-calls, steady-source

By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A leading U.S.-based technology industry group on Thursday, in its first statement since last week's Paris attacks, rejected calls to give U.S.

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Twitter sentiment on pope sours over meeting with gay marriage opponent

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By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sentiment toward Pope Francis turned sour on social media over his meeting with a Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses, data compiled by Thomson Reuters showed. The ratio of positive versus negative tweets on the pope had been about 2.6 to 1 on average during and shortly after his Sept

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General Electric producing science fiction podcast series

October 2, 2015 creative before-moving, county-clerk, global-creative, meeting, negative-tweets, sears, spell-the-word, will-follow

In a sign that what is old is new again, U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co is producing its own science fiction podcast series in an effort to raise its profile among a younger, tech-savvy audience. GE, in partnership with The Slate Group's podcast network Panoply, is running “The Message,” a fictional eight-episode podcast that will follow the decoding of a 70 year-old message from outer space.

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Oregon shooting ‘threat’ may have circulated on social media

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The anonymous postings and numerous replies appeared on the site 4chan.org hours before a 20-year-old gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday, killing and wounding an as yet undetermined number of people. Emailed questions to federal law enforcement officials about the postings were not immediately answered

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China says Indian prime minister to visit next week

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit China next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, his first trip to India's northern neighbor since being elected last year. Modi will be in China from May 14-16, the ministry said in a brief statement. China and India have growing commercial links and deep historical ties, but their recent history has been overshadowed by suspicion and the two have yet to sort out a festering border dispute.