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Deadspin St. Louis Blues Win Stanley Cup In Game 7 By Humiliating Some Losers Who Can’t Handle Jordan Binnington | Jezebel Women Get Quietly Photoshopped Into Photo of Exclusively Male Tech Executives | Splinter President to America: Look at Big Boy Plane Mommy! | The Root Man Arrested in Killing of Black Trans Woman… Read more… Deadspin St. Source: Life

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Kickstarter asks people to stop claiming their projects are ‘the world’s best’

Kickstarter is asking creators to stop claiming that their projects are “the world’s best,” and instead use realistic language to describe their campaigns. It isn’t banning the phrase altogether, but Kickstarter is today launching a new tool, alongside new recommendations and rules for projects, that discourages creators from using “superlatives,” or exaggerated claims about a

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VidMob, which makes video advertising tools, raises $25M Series B led by Austin-based BuildGroup, bringing its total raised to $45M+ (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: VidMob, which makes video advertising tools, raises $25M Series B led by Austin-based BuildGroup, bringing its total raised to $45M+  —  Video advertising company VidMob is announcing that it has raised $25 million in Series B funding.  —  When I wrote about VidMob’s seed funding back in 2015 … VidMob, which

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Interview with Google's Mark Risher, a project manager focused on security and privacy, about new single sign-on options, including Apple's, and more (Russell Brandom/The Verge)

Russell Brandom / The Verge: Interview with Google’s Mark Risher, a project manager focused on security and privacy, about new single sign-on options, including Apple’s, and more  —  Apple shook up the world of logins last week, offering a new single sign-on (or SSO) tool aimed at collecting and sharing as little data as possible.

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SecurityScorecard, which provides a security risk monitoring platform for enterprises, raises $50M Series D led by Riverwood Capital (Paul Sawers/VentureBeat)

Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: SecurityScorecard, which provides a security risk monitoring platform for enterprises, raises $50M Series D led by Riverwood Capital  —  Cybersecurity risk-monitoring platform SecurityScorecard has raised $50 million in a series D round of funding led by Riverwood Capital … SecurityScorecard, which provides a security risk monitoring platform for enterprises, raises M

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Facebook invests an undisclosed sum in social-commerce startup Meesho, its first time taking equity in an Indian startup; Meesho had raised ~$65M earlier (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Facebook invests an undisclosed sum in social-commerce startup Meesho, its first time taking equity in an Indian startup; Meesho had raised ~$65M earlier  —  As Facebook explores ways to generate revenue from WhatsApp, the company is now turning to a startup that already has a lead. Facebook invests an undisclosed sum

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