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Tinder Dating App to Add Background Checks

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Ridgewood NJ, The owner of massive dating apps Tinder and Match has just announced a new partnership to help keep its users safe. Match Group, which owns Tinder, Match, OK Cupid, Hinge and several other services, has made an investment in Garbo, a non-profit, female-founded background check platform. As part of the deal, Garbo’s platform will be available to people using Match Group apps, starting with Tinder later this year.

The platform collects data about people from numerous sources and returns information about any arrests, convictions, restraining orders, harassment, or violent crimes. Most times, only a first name and a phone number is required. How Garbo will be integrated into Match Group’s apps remains to be seen.

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Netflix Begins Crack Down on Password Sharing

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Ridgewood NJ, you may have noticed that it might be a bit harder to “borrow” someone’s password for a Netflix account.

Some password sharers received a  prompt, telling customers  that “If you don’t live with the owner of this account, you need your own account to keep watching.” In order to continue, they need to verify the account with a E-mail or Text Code, or create a new account with a 30-Day Free Trial.

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4 Security Standards Every Online Retailer Must Follow

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Frankly, the cornerstone to any successful e-commerce business is its website security. As an online retailer, you may put in all other marketing tactics and efforts but if your website security is not on point, you may not see impressive results. As a matter of fact, the complexity involved in the online transaction ecosystems is extremely vast and keeps on changing. There is no individual out there who would be willing to give their hard-earned money to an organization or company they can’t trust.

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Microsoft : Hackers gained access to Email Accounts, and the Ability to Install Malware On Exchange Servers

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Ridgewood NJ, Microsoft was made aware of initial attacks exploiting 4 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Exchange Server in early January, two months before issuing patches, according to a new report Monday by security journalist Brian Krebs.

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The Benefits of OnlineOCR as an Effective Converter

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OCR has taken the process of data entry to the new level. This online technology enables quick conversion of scanned documents to editable text formats. Luckily, there are currently a lot of OCR instruments to choose from. They accept different doc formats and image types, and convert them into the requested file formats, such as word, excel, or plain text. Now that you need to transform PDF to Excel, make sure to check the information below.

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American Airlines Passenger Jet Reports Possible UFO Encounter

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Roswell NM, the FBI is not responding to a UFO sighting in New Mexico on Sunday. An American Airlines passenger jet traveling from Cincinnati to Phoenix encountered an apparent UFO over northeastern New Mexico Sunday afternoon.

The pilot on flight 2292 radioed around 1:00 p.m. CST and said that the unidentified object was flying right on top of them, according to a transmission recorded by Steve Douglass on his blog, Deep Black Horizon. American Airlines verified to Fox News that the transmission is from flight 2292.

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Star Trek Type Food Replicators Make “Meat” Out of Thin Air

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Ridgewood NJ, we are not sure what it tastes like but all this talk of space travel following NASA’s landing on Mars  but using space-age technology to make “meat” out of thin air is science, not fiction. Sounding like the food replicators on the TV Star Trek a new entrant to the edible protein scene, the Berkeley-based startup Air Protein makes a meat alternative using NASA-inspired fermentation technology to transform CO2 — what we exhale into the air — into a complete edible protein.

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NASA Releases Video Last Week’s Mars landing

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Ridgewood NJ, NASA has released a video showing several viewpoints of last week’s Mars landing. The video shows the descent starting from the release of the parachute. About 30GB of data was captured during the descent. The footage will be used to sharpen knowledge about future entry, descent, and landing technology. One problem identified by the footage is the large amount of dust that was kicked up by the descent stage, which will be an important issue for larger spacecraft. The video of the landing is available in the article.

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NASA’s Mars Rover Successfully Touches Down on Mars

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Ridgewood NJ, Perseverance successfully landed on Mars on Thursday at around 3:55 PM ET. It is the fifth rover to land on Mars. The rover will now begin its two-year mission to roam the surface of the planet and search for signs of ancient microbial life. It will spend the next few days taking pictures of the Jezero Crater, where it landed. Jezero’s lakebed is one of the best places to look for biosignatures. The rover is also carrying Ingenuity, a small helicopter, which could be the first controlled aircraft on another planet. Earlier this month, spacecraft launched from the United Arab Emirates and China reached Mars and moved into orbit around the planet.

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FDIC Appoints First Chief Innovation Officer to help ,”reimagine the nation’s banking system”

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Washington DC, the FDIC named Sultan Meghji as its first Chief Innovation Officer, charged with leading the agency’s drive to promote the adoption of innovative technologies across the financial services sector.

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North Korean Military Hackers Indicted in Wide-Ranging Scheme to Commit Cyberattacks and Deploy Multiple Malicious Cryptocurrency Applications

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Washington DC, a federal indictment unsealed today charges three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyberattacks, to steal and extort more than $1.3 billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.

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Americans More Pessimistic About Economic Future

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Ridgewood NJ according to Rasmussen Reports more Americans are pessimistic about the future of the U.S. economy, and a majority don’t think today’s children will be better off than their parents.

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U.S. Leads World in Greenhouse Gas Reductions Without the Paris Climate Accord

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Ridgewood NJ, in the latest analysis from the International Energy Administration on CO2 emissions for 2020:

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Bergen County Code Ninjas offering President’s Day Activities for Kids

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Saddle Brook NJ,  are you looking for something for your kids to do during President’s Day break? Code Ninjas in Saddle Brook is offering two virtual camps on February 15 and 16. The half day camps are $179 each for ages 7 – 14.  

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