Forget telephoto lenses and fake mustaches: The most important tools for America’s 35,000 private investigators are database subscription services. For more than a decade, professional snoops have been able to search troves of public and nonpublic records—known addresses, DMV records, photographs of a person’s car—and condense them into comprehensive reports costing as little as $10. Now they can combine that information with the kinds of things marketers know about you, such as which politicians you donate to, what you spend on groceries, and whether it’s weird that you ate in last night, to create a portrait of your life and predict your behavior.
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‘renegade’ is the pen that recycles plastic bottles into 3D printed sculptures | Design Boom
‘renegade’ is the pen that recycles plastic bottles into 3D printed sculptures
‘renegade’ was born with the aim of being the perfect solid tool to eliminate overpriced 3D printing filaments and to save the environment by directly recycling and reusing household plastic waste for 3D printing. the sustainable technology specializes in one thing, and one thing only — it prints models by recycling plastic bottles, files, and bags. it does this providing a great 3D printing experience with no compromises.
8 Pieces Of Advice That Are Useless To People With Depression | Life Hack
Depression is often seen in completely different lights by those who have suffered from it and those that have no. If you’re fortunate enough not to have encountered depression in your life, it can be difficult to help despite your best efforts. The advice lovingly provide are often ineffective due to the misunderstandings they contain.
If you really wish to help people with depression, you must develop a deeper understanding of the condition. This is the only way you can help guide your loved ones out of the darknesses. Avoid using these common pieces of advice which unknowingly cause more harm than good.
How to Build an Awful WordPress Website Nobody Gives a Fig About | All Business
Wish to screw up your WordPress website like never before? Wish to be on the Google hit list sooner than later? Wish to make sure zero visitors cross your website way?
Okay. It’s easy. Simply make sure that your WordPress theme is never updated. Choose to build your business website on WordPress.com. Never moderate comments and embed only poorly coded plugins. These tactics and more will ensure that you are on the path to building an awful WordPress website nobody gives a fig about.
GoDaddy CEO Wants You to Stop Posting Jobs for a ‘Code Ninja’ | Inc.com
We’ve all seen it: The clever job description asking if you’re a “code ninja” or a “back-end Jedi.” But what a lot of companies don’t realize is that these terms might be turning women off–and contributing to the much-maligned tech gender gap.
That’s why domain registry and hosting platform GoDaddy is going through company documents with a fine-tooth comb to rid them of gender-biased language, according to CEO Blake Irving. With the help of the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, said Irving on Fortune’s Unfiltered podcast this week, the company has been working to ensure that internal documents related to processes for hiring, promotion, and reviews in particular aren’t alienating any employees.
Why Your Business Needs Content Marketing | The Startup Magazine
We live in a world where anyone from anywhere can potentially start a business (provided they have the right tools of course) and whilst that’s undoubtedly a great world we live in, it means there is twice as much competition in any given industry.
And as if the odds aren’t already stacked against you, consumers are becoming increasingly savvy as to when they are on the receiving end of the sales spiel, and with so many ways to skip past adverts with little or no relevancy it’s easy to see how things get lost amongst the noise.
You’ve probably heard of content marketing. You may even already be doing it, although without much effort or reason, but your business needs it. Whatever your status, your businesses survival is dependent on you creating content which ultimately entices a consumer to do business with your business.
If you’re unsure on just how it can help your business to grow then this guide should help to cement just why you need it.
3D Printing Applications for Business | Business News Daily
The process of 3D printing is quickly altering the way entrepreneurs think about their production cycles. Historically, 3D printing has been used to speed up the process of creating prototypes, but as the technology has evolved, 3D printing has made its way into large industries like the aerospace and biomedical fields. And it’s creating some groundbreaking results.
While 3D printers still have a long way to go before they are perfected, their increased adoption by companies big and small has signaled a change in thinking for businesses, during both the design and production phases. To find out more about how 3D printing technology is affecting business today and where it’s going in the future, Business News Daily spoke to engineers and entrepreneurs about the possibilities afforded by 3D printers.
Mean People — How To Deal With the Truly Nasty, Hateful Things People Say | Getentrepreneurial.com
If you’re going to get big, you’re going to have to learn to deal with it.
That’s the advice many of us receive when we take those first tentative steps to get our work into the world in a much bigger way.
The bigger you get, the more you’ll be criticized or just have nasty things said about you (or even to you — anonymously online of course). So, chalk it up to jealously and move on.
Now, full disclosure, I also believed this sage advice…until a couple of weeks ago.
The History of Women in the Olympic Games Is Not What You Think | Blinkist
The 1900 Olympic Games marked a new era of equality in athletics: women were allowed to compete in the all-male games for the very first time.
Or at least that’s what Google and the Olympics’ official website would have you think.
Although this fact has slipped from the pediments of modern cultural conscience, women were participating in—and winning—the Olympic Games way back in the days of empires and chariots. What makes this especially remarkable is that women were not technically allowed to take part in the Games at all, and only unwed virgins could watch. Grown and married women who dared have a peek at what went on in the stadium did so under the mythical-sounding penalty of being hurled from the cliffs of Mount Typaeum. Understandably, this punishment was enough to dissuade many of the fairer sex.
But not all of them—and definitely not one Spartan woman named Cynisca.
British food delivery startup Deliveroo raises $275M in funding | Mashable
Deliveroo, a food delivery service that is facing competition from UberEats in Europe, raised $275 million in Series E funding, the startup announced Friday.
Launched in 2013, Deliveroo delivers slightly upscale restaurant food along with alcohol, breakfast and large corporate orders. The service handles the logistics of delivery for restaurants, helping boost their sales for a flat fee.
Since its launch, the London-based startup has raised $475 million. It’s currently in 84 cities throughout Europe, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore and the United Arab Emirates.
Its most recent funding round was led by Bridgepoint, the UK’s largest private equity group, along with prior investor DST Global, US-based General Catalyst and existing investor Greenoaks Capital.
In November, Deliveroo raised $100 million in a Series D round.
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