It smells like garbage and gym shoes, but, surprisingly, the city’s geographic center says a lot about Chicago’s soul.
African Tech Roundup - Jaco Van Zyl Of PulseIt on navigating the challenges of the the online voucher business
Jaco Van Zyl is the co-founder and MD of the South African startup, PulseIt— a company which is looking to give online voucher firms like Vouchercloud, Groupon and Shazam a run for their money.
In this chat Jaco Van Zyl explain swhy so many VC’s and African tech firms seem quite bullish on the online voucher business, and why he thinks his startup has what it takes to steal market share from more established international players and fend off newer players like ttrumpet who are just as hungry for success as he is.
African Tech Roundup - Codeacademy Receives $30 Million Investment Lead By Naspers Ventures
There’s no doubt that online education is a hot ticket at the moment.
While the folks at Andela are probably still celebrating landing $24 million worth of investment courtesy of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and others, the New York-based Codecademy has closed a $30 million Series C investment round led by Naspers, through its Naspers Ventures division.
Codecademy plans to use the funds to extend its global reach, build its mobile presence, and beef up its course content. It does seem that formal education business is well and truly on its way to being disrupted.
In this week’s African Tech Round-up, Andile Masuku catches up with Jaco Van Zyl, the co-founder and MD of the South African startup, PulseIt— a company which is looking to give online voucher firms like Vouchercloud, Groupon and Shazam a run for their money.
Andile asked Jaco to explain why so many VC’s and African tech firms seem quite bullish on the online voucher business, and why he thinks his startup has what it takes to steal market share from more established international players and fend off newer players like ttrumpet who are just as hungry for success as he is.
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Serious Inquiries Only - AS259: 2nd Amendment Masterclass, Part 2
Andrew Torrez is back for the exciting conclusion of his 2nd Amendment Masterclass. Everything you need to know in order to speak from a more educated perspective on the 2nd Amendment!
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PHPUgly - 19:Use A Password Manager
Show notes: https://github.com/PHPUgly/podcast/blob/master/shows/ep19.md Uncut Video Version of the show can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2AaP0zSHw Topics PHP 5.5 Reaches EOL SDPHP Downtown Meetup The Security Vulnerability of target=_blank Many projects that use the bad practice of extract ($_GET) PHPStorm Plugin Ideavim gets an update Github gets syntax highlighting for Blade Templates Amazon's AWS buys Cloud9 Cloud IDE New service for reading PHP Internals called Externals.io Running your RaspberryPi with PHP The hosts Eric Van Johnson Twitter / Github / Blog / About.me Tom Rideout Twitter / Github / About.me John Congdon Twitter / Github Follow us on Twitter @PHPUgly Email us at Podacast@phpugly.com
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe - The Skeptics Guide #575 – Jul 16 2015
What's the Word: Apoptosis; News Items: Solar Panel Impact, Ancient Supernovae, Kubrick Moon Landing Hoax, Neurasthenia, Tiny-Armed Dinosaur, New Dwarf Planet; Who;s That Noisy; Science or Fiction
Slate Books - ABC: All the Single Ladies
Slate critic, Katy Waldman, is joined by Parul Sehgal of the New York Times Book Review and culture critic, Meghan O'Rourke, to discuss Rebecca Traister's All the Single Ladies. Next month, Slate's Audio Book Club will discuss The Girls by Emma Cline. Read the book and join us for a conversation in August! Slate's Audio Book Club is brought to you by Audible.com, with more than 180,000 audiobooks and spoken-word audio products. Get a free 30-day trial and a free audiobook at Audible.com/AudioBookClub
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The Gist - And We Never Looked at Music the Same Way Again
On The Gist, disco is out, MTV is in, and we’re getting buns of steel with Olivia Newton-John. We harken back to the Billboard hits of 1981 with our regular guest Chris Molanphy. He writes Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” column.
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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - Banks, Drugs and Money: Part 1
In the first part of this two-episode series, the guys interview the legendary US Customs and Drug Enforcement agent Robert Mazur. Using the cover identity of Bob Musella, Mazur and his team tracked the shadowy financial dealings of drug traffickers all the way to the international bank that aided them - and brought that bank down. Listen in as Mazur gives an eyewitness account of his harrowing experience, close calls, ultimate victory and more.
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Protests have spread across the United States over the last few weeks. The protestors have been registering their feelings about incidents where police have shot and killed black men. High profile recent incidents resulted in the deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castle, and the protestors feel that minorities are being disproportionately targeted by the police.
On top of this, at a recent protest in Dallas a gunman shot and killed five police officers.
But what can the numbers tell us about the issue? How many people do police officers kill each year in the USA? And how many police officers are killed? Tim Harford investigates.
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