GetLinks raises $500K to connect tech talent with employers in Southeast Asia

 GetLinks, a Bangkok-based startup focused on helping tech companies find and hire top talent, has closed a $500,000 seed round. Read More

Amazon Acquires Emvantage To Build Its Online Payment Platform In India

Amazon will acquire startup Emvantage to develop its Indian e-commerce site's payment platform. In a press announcement, Amazon said the Noida-based company's employees will start working for Amazon's payment team after the transaction is completed. Read More

Uber To Allow Some People With Nonviolent Convictions To Become Drivers

Uber is going to ease up on some of its driver-screening requirements in California in order to make room for people convicted of nonviolent crimes, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Under Proposition 47, a California ballot measure that passed in 2014, people with low-level, nonviolent felonies for things like theft, check fraud and possession of drugs can apply to remove… Read More

Elegance, illustrated: heliocentrism vs geocentrism

In a gorgeous animation, Malin Christersson shows how much simpler it is to plot out celestial mechanics when you assume that all the bodies in our solar system are in orbit around the sun, rather than the other way around. (more…)

Dog brothers promise to stop fighting, but only for a treat

Dog brothers, human brothers: essentially the same creature

In a video posted by Kyoot Animals, two Dachshunds, believed to be brothers, are engaged in a brutal tug-of-war. Nothing — not their own's commands, not their very own suffering — stops them from participating in combat. Their end, it seems, is guaranteed.

Only when the owner steps to offer a "treat" do the dogs declare an official ceasefire. Not every war ends in such a beautiful a peace treat(y).

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Bad Lip Reading travels to a galaxy far, far away with 'Star Wars' remix

Daniel Radcliffe, Julia Louis-Dreyfus and more read hilarious mean tweets

Hilary Duff brings the bass in this dancey Fleetwood Mac cover Read more...

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Airbnb forces humans to travel to special one-day office to see its housing data

NEW YORK CITY — "Have him call Peter when he gets here and we'll show him the data."

With that message emailed to my editor, I was cast out on the rainy streets of New York in search of Airbnb's long-awaited treasure trove of data shedding light on the usage habits, financial impact and maybe, just maybe, the legality of its thousands of apartment listings throughout the five boroughs

Airbnb agreed to release The Data, as it will henceforth be known, on Tuesday after a pledge last month to work "collaboratively" rather than combatively with cities (forget about that whole "army" thing) by paying its fair share of taxes and disclosing more information about its customers to help policymakers Read more...

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Chernin’s Otter Media Invests $22M Into Anime Service Crunchyroll

Otter Media says it’s investing another $22 million in Ellation, the parent company of anime-focused video service Crunchyroll. Founded in 2006, Crunchyroll’s content includes relatively well-known shows like Naruto Shippuden and Sailor Moon, as well as more obscure programming. The company says it now has 20 million registered users and expects to reach 750,000 paying… Read More