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Source: Thanks Guillaum G.<\|endoftext\|>LinkedIn took a step today to build up its presence in China, and China’s Uber rival Didi Kuaidi took a step to make more inroads into the U.S. tech industry: the two companies have signed a deal to form a strategic partnership covering product integration, technology, recruitment, and brand development.

The announcement was made during a large meeting today at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, where nearly 30 tech executives including Apple’s Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos from Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as part of the U.S. China Internet Industry Forum. Other news out of the event included a deal between Microsoft and Baidu, where Baidu would become the default search engine for Windows 10 in China; and a JV between Cisco and Chinese server maker Inspur.

Under the terms of the memorandum of understanding between LinkedIn and Didi, there are several parts to the deal.

In China, Didi’s social ridesharing service Hitch will let users connect on the app using their LinkedIn profiles. Hitch opened for business in the country in June of this year and has managed to pick up 5 million users so far, the company says. Didi inked a deal with Lyft earlier this month, and Lyft itself acquired a startup called Hitch a year ago, but (somewhat confusingly) the Hitch in China is not related to that service.

While the main thrust of Hitch is ridesharing with other consumers to bring down the cost of the service, the idea here is that by integrating with LinkedIn, the service can also be used for professional social networking.

“By connecting with LinkedIn, Hitch will be able to enhance its networking function, particularly targeting professionals who represent a big part of its user base,” Didi noted in a statement announcing the deal.

Another part of the agreement, according to the MOU, includes developing algorithms and machine learning to “improve their user experience and create new market opportunities.” The companies do not spell out what this might entail exactly or where that research would be done. We have reached out to find out more.

In the U.S., meanwhile, Didi Kuaidi will be working with LinkedIn on recruitment. Specifically, Didi is interested in hiring more people to come work for them in China, and it will be using LinkedIn to help find them.

The agreement between the two companies speaks miles about where each hopes to go longer term.

On the side of LinkedIn, the company has made a concerted effort to build up its user base and operations in China since opening its first China-specific site in February 2014 — although some of that growth has attracted controversy because of its willingness to follow Chinese government restrictions.

In its last quarterly earnings, LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner cited China as a big growth driver for the company. LinkedIn currently has 10 million users in China, adding 6 million since February 2014.

But to put that number into context, the company has 380 million users globally. In other words, partnering with Didi Kuaidi could potentially help LinkedIn tie itself to a local business that is already very popular with consumers who are professionals — LinkedIn’s target demographic — to grow that base even faster, and provide a service that might compel Chinese LinkedIn users to log in and use its service more.

The fact that LinkedIn is offering sign-in services to Hitch users is also interesting in itself. This is an area that LinkedIn has been looking to develop more for a while as a counterbalance to Facebook’s social sign-in services, although much of its efforts have been focused on LinkedIn’s own services.

Whereas Facebook has largely cornered the market for social logins in the West, it has made less inroads in countries like China, and that leaves a window for LinkedIn as a Western competitor to local services.

On the part of Didi, the company has been a thorn in Uber’s side in China, where the two appear to be in a race to see who can raise the most money to duke it out locally. Elsewhere, Didi shares common investors with other Uber rivals like Ola in India and Lyft in the U.S.. It’s not clear how and if this deal is a signal of Didi expanding further in North America, but it at least seems to indicate that it will look to tap U.S. talent to grow its business overall.

Updated with more current figures for LinkedIn in China and clarification of the Hitch relationship.<\|endoftext\|>James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, told a security forum in Aspen, Colorado, on Thursday that many Turkish officials who had interacted with the Americans in the fight against the self-styled "Islamic State" (IS) group had been "purged or arrested."

Since a failed coup two weeks ago, Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan has reacted with multiple clampdowns, including arrests of more than 15,800 people, among them 10,000 from Turkey's military.

"It's having an effect because it has affected all segments of the national security apparatus in Turkey," Clapper told the Aspen forum. "There's no question this is going to set back and make more difficult our cooperation with the Turks."

Listening posts, air base

Turkey hosts US troops and planes at Incirlik, a NATO airbase. It also hosts US listening posts and a CIA base from which the intelligence agency has supported moderate Syrian rebel forces.

Also speaking at the forum, US Central Command General Joseph Votel said he understood that some of Erdogan's suspects were in jail.

Votel said Incirlik - a base where reputedly US nuclear warheads are bunkered - had resumed normal operations.

'Frictions' in US-Turkish ties, says Votel

Votel added that he was more worried about "longer-term" impacts of the Turkish coup attempt and purge on US counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East.

Beyond Incirlik, there were other "frictions" in the US-Turkish relationship, said Votel, without elaborating. "We're got ways to mitigate that, to manage that right now," Votel said. "And we are."

Erdogan wants direct MIT control

Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said the president wanted Turkey's armed forces and its national intelligence agency MIT brought under presidential control.

Turkey's remnant media said such a change would require a constitutional amendment, requiring Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party to seek opposition support in parliament.

Fethullah Gulen

Gulen denies involvement

Erdogan's government accuses Sunni Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - in self-imposed US exile - and followers of his Hizmet movement of being behind the failed coup, a charge denied by Gulen.

Washington has responded cautiously to Erdogan's request to extradite the 75-year-old from Philadelphia.

US State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday the US was "deeply concerned" about the latest reports of Turkish closures of news and media outlets.

ipj/msh (Reuters, dpa)<\|endoftext\|>The Vancouver International Airport has unveiled a new restroom for pets, the first of its kind in a Canadian airport.

The so-called “pet relief area” is located behind the security checkpoints in the U.S. departures terminal and was designed for travellers with assistance or companion animals as well as other four-legged passengers.

Prior to the installation of the new loo, travellers had to leave the secured area to let their pets relieve themselves and then check through security again.

The pet-friendly restroom features a puppy potty and a grass floor as well as features to allow easy access for people with disabilities.

“We have developed it with the passenger with a disability in mind,” Reg Krake of the Vancouver Airport Authority said. “So [for] people who have vision loss — there’s Braille signage, there’s motion detectors to allow the doors to open and close seamlessly. If you’re travelling in a wheelchair, the counters are set low so it’s easy for them to work with their animal before they travel.”<\|endoftext\|>On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped “bullshit slippery slope” arguments that conservatives touted to defend their opposition to same sex marriage.

Stewart noted that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had recently compared same sex marriage to polyamory.

“What Lindsey Graham is doing there is making the age-old slippery slope argument,” he explained. “I mean if gay people can get married, why can’t three people get married, or ten people, or anybody to anything. Again, placing gayness into the category of a whimsical desire for something unconventional as opposed to a state of being who you are.”

Stewart remembered that the U.S. Supreme Court was going to take up the issue and predicted the justices wouldn’t be swayed by logical fallacies.

But Stewart’s prediction was shattered after learning that Justice Antonin Scalia had recently defended comparing laws against sodomy to laws against murder after being asked about it by a gay Princeton University student.

“Good old slippery sodomy slope Scalia,” Stewart remarked, disappointed. He mocked Scalia for being surprised he had not persuaded the gay student that his love life was equivalent to murder.

Try It Out

To try it out for yourself you can, but you need to have the HTML5 Audio Player option enabled in Google Play Music (Settings > Labs) and be using Google Chrome with WebGL enabled (check via chrome:gpu).

Head to Google Play Music website

Start playing a track

Hover over the album art thumbnail

Select ‘Particles’

On the subject of Google Play Music, there’s still no sign of the widget app working on ARM Chromebooks — what’s up with that Google?

Source: Thanks Guillaum G.<|endoftext|>LinkedIn took a step today to build up its presence in China, and China’s Uber rival Didi Kuaidi took a step to make more inroads into the U.S. tech industry: the two companies have signed a deal to form a strategic partnership covering product integration, technology, recruitment, and brand development.

The announcement was made during a large meeting today at the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, where nearly 30 tech executives including Apple’s Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos from Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg from Facebook met with Chinese President Xi Jinping, as part of the U.S. China Internet Industry Forum. Other news out of the event included a deal between Microsoft and Baidu, where Baidu would become the default search engine for Windows 10 in China; and a JV between Cisco and Chinese server maker Inspur.

Under the terms of the memorandum of understanding between LinkedIn and Didi, there are several parts to the deal.

In China, Didi’s social ridesharing service Hitch will let users connect on the app using their LinkedIn profiles. Hitch opened for business in the country in June of this year and has managed to pick up 5 million users so far, the company says. Didi inked a deal with Lyft earlier this month, and Lyft itself acquired a startup called Hitch a year ago, but (somewhat confusingly) the Hitch in China is not related to that service.

While the main thrust of Hitch is ridesharing with other consumers to bring down the cost of the service, the idea here is that by integrating with LinkedIn, the service can also be used for professional social networking.

“By connecting with LinkedIn, Hitch will be able to enhance its networking function, particularly targeting professionals who represent a big part of its user base,” Didi noted in a statement announcing the deal.

Another part of the agreement, according to the MOU, includes developing algorithms and machine learning to “improve their user experience and create new market opportunities.” The companies do not spell out what this might entail exactly or where that research would be done. We have reached out to find out more.

In the U.S., meanwhile, Didi Kuaidi will be working with LinkedIn on recruitment. Specifically, Didi is interested in hiring more people to come work for them in China, and it will be using LinkedIn to help find them.

The agreement between the two companies speaks miles about where each hopes to go longer term.

On the side of LinkedIn, the company has made a concerted effort to build up its user base and operations in China since opening its first China-specific site in February 2014 — although some of that growth has attracted controversy because of its willingness to follow Chinese government restrictions.

In its last quarterly earnings, LinkedIn’s CEO Jeff Weiner cited China as a big growth driver for the company. LinkedIn currently has 10 million users in China, adding 6 million since February 2014.

But to put that number into context, the company has 380 million users globally. In other words, partnering with Didi Kuaidi could potentially help LinkedIn tie itself to a local business that is already very popular with consumers who are professionals — LinkedIn’s target demographic — to grow that base even faster, and provide a service that might compel Chinese LinkedIn users to log in and use its service more.

The fact that LinkedIn is offering sign-in services to Hitch users is also interesting in itself. This is an area that LinkedIn has been looking to develop more for a while as a counterbalance to Facebook’s social sign-in services, although much of its efforts have been focused on LinkedIn’s own services.

Whereas Facebook has largely cornered the market for social logins in the West, it has made less inroads in countries like China, and that leaves a window for LinkedIn as a Western competitor to local services.

On the part of Didi, the company has been a thorn in Uber’s side in China, where the two appear to be in a race to see who can raise the most money to duke it out locally. Elsewhere, Didi shares common investors with other Uber rivals like Ola in India and Lyft in the U.S.. It’s not clear how and if this deal is a signal of Didi expanding further in North America, but it at least seems to indicate that it will look to tap U.S. talent to grow its business overall.

Updated with more current figures for LinkedIn in China and clarification of the Hitch relationship.<|endoftext|>James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, told a security forum in Aspen, Colorado, on Thursday that many Turkish officials who had interacted with the Americans in the fight against the self-styled "Islamic State" (IS) group had been "purged or arrested."

Since a failed coup two weeks ago, Turkish President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan has reacted with multiple clampdowns, including arrests of more than 15,800 people, among them 10,000 from Turkey's military.

"It's having an effect because it has affected all segments of the national security apparatus in Turkey," Clapper told the Aspen forum. "There's no question this is going to set back and make more difficult our cooperation with the Turks."

Listening posts, air base

Turkey hosts US troops and planes at Incirlik, a NATO airbase. It also hosts US listening posts and a CIA base from which the intelligence agency has supported moderate Syrian rebel forces.

Also speaking at the forum, US Central Command General Joseph Votel said he understood that some of Erdogan's suspects were in jail.

Votel said Incirlik - a base where reputedly US nuclear warheads are bunkered - had resumed normal operations.

'Frictions' in US-Turkish ties, says Votel

Votel added that he was more worried about "longer-term" impacts of the Turkish coup attempt and purge on US counter-terrorism operations in the Middle East.

Beyond Incirlik, there were other "frictions" in the US-Turkish relationship, said Votel, without elaborating. "We're got ways to mitigate that, to manage that right now," Votel said. "And we are."

Erdogan wants direct MIT control

Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said the president wanted Turkey's armed forces and its national intelligence agency MIT brought under presidential control.

Turkey's remnant media said such a change would require a constitutional amendment, requiring Erdogan's Islamist-rooted AK Party to seek opposition support in parliament.

Fethullah Gulen

Gulen denies involvement

Erdogan's government accuses Sunni Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - in self-imposed US exile - and followers of his Hizmet movement of being behind the failed coup, a charge denied by Gulen.

Washington has responded cautiously to Erdogan's request to extradite the 75-year-old from Philadelphia.

US State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday the US was "deeply concerned" about the latest reports of Turkish closures of news and media outlets.

ipj/msh (Reuters, dpa)<|endoftext|>The Vancouver International Airport has unveiled a new restroom for pets, the first of its kind in a Canadian airport.

The so-called “pet relief area” is located behind the security checkpoints in the U.S. departures terminal and was designed for travellers with assistance or companion animals as well as other four-legged passengers.

Prior to the installation of the new loo, travellers had to leave the secured area to let their pets relieve themselves and then check through security again.

The pet-friendly restroom features a puppy potty and a grass floor as well as features to allow easy access for people with disabilities.

“We have developed it with the passenger with a disability in mind,” Reg Krake of the Vancouver Airport Authority said. “So [for] people who have vision loss — there’s Braille signage, there’s motion detectors to allow the doors to open and close seamlessly. If you’re travelling in a wheelchair, the counters are set low so it’s easy for them to work with their animal before they travel.”<|endoftext|>On his show Thursday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ripped “bullshit slippery slope” arguments that conservatives touted to defend their opposition to same sex marriage.

Stewart noted that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) had recently compared same sex marriage to polyamory.

“What Lindsey Graham is doing there is making the age-old slippery slope argument,” he explained. “I mean if gay people can get married, why can’t three people get married, or ten people, or anybody to anything. Again, placing gayness into the category of a whimsical desire for something unconventional as opposed to a state of being who you are.”

Stewart remembered that the U.S. Supreme Court was going to take up the issue and predicted the justices wouldn’t be swayed by logical fallacies.

But Stewart’s prediction was shattered after learning that Justice Antonin Scalia had recently defended comparing laws against sodomy to laws against murder after being asked about it by a gay Princeton University student.

“Good old slippery sodomy slope Scalia,” Stewart remarked, disappointed. He mocked Scalia for being surprised he had not persuaded the gay student that his love life was equivalent to murder.