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Job-matching app Switch has expanded to include tech and media jobs

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by on May 7, 2015 at 3:30 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web

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Job-matching app Switch has announced today that it is expanding its database to include tech and media jobs. The app, which allows you to browse personalized job opening anonymously, will now attach team profiles to new job postings to help you see if you’re a good fit for the brand. Job searching online can be a daunting task and Switch claims to be the fastest way to discover jobs on the Web already, but now it will have a broad centralized database of jobs across various sectors which will certainly make it easier to explore all possible opportunities. The new…

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NSA bulk metadata collection ruled illegal by federal court

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by on May 7, 2015 at 2:19 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today filed big ruling against the NSA. The court found the bulk collection of telephone metadata by the agency was illegal according to federal law. In particular, the text of the ruling suggests that the NSA’s collection went beyond what was allowed by section 215 of the PATRIOT Act – the surveillance law passed after the September 11 attacks in 2001. The move could lead towards a stronger legal footing towards a reform of the NSA’s methods, which were first made public after Edward Snowden’s leaks. The full text of the…

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Apple’s TestFlight service is currently experiencing an outage

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by on May 7, 2015 at 2:06 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Apple’s beta-testing tool for developers, TestFlight, appears to be experiencing an outage. Several users have taken to Twitter to complain about the downtime: Still down. Getting on for a day now. #testflight Anyone get any more info? Too much to expect anything from Apple apparently. — Phillip Cowell (@Phillip_Cowell) May 7, 2015 @yacreader thank you very much but seems to have problems TestFlight pic.twitter.com/0w0CdsKkPQ — eron (@voerina) May 7, 2015 Now that iTunesConnect is back up, TestFlight is broken. Nobody can install prerelease builds. #secondbadday #apple — Justin Beck (@justincbeck) May 7, 2015 Apple’s System Status page says the service…

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Marvel has an awesome API so you can build apps based on its comics and stories

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by on May 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider

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Ever wanted to build an awesome app using characters or events from Marvel comics? Now you can, using the coolest API ever made. The company has opened up its first official RESTful API for developers, allowing them to access an unprecedented amount of information from the Marvel universe, for free. The API offers the ability to retrieve individual comics, an entire series, components of issues (for example, the cover), events from inside an issue, creator details and individual character data. For example, you can retrieve an entire story arc from the Marvel universe with a simple API call. One Web developer, Raymond Camden…

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What can a network learn that an individual cannot?

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by on May 7, 2015 at 12:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, network

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Try to imagine the amount of data being generated by the Facebooks, Twitters, Instagrams, and LinkedIns of the world—it’s almost unfathomable to imagine what a global, person-level database would look like in the aggregate. “With the proliferation of social media and public connectivity, it is easier than ever to join a two-way conversation and to listen, learn, and be better informed,” says Imad Mouline, CTO at Everbridge, an app that powers critical communications for organizations. Today’s digital networks include both business and social interactions, opening doors for limitless market intelligence. One of the biggest opportunities is the ability to detect…

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