Stripe's Payments Payout Technology For Collaborative Consumption Startups Now Processing $500K Per Day

A few weeks ago, payments startup Stripe made it significantly easier for collaborative consumption startups to take and process payments. The company's new technology allowed for payments to be distributed to multiple bank accounts, which is an issue for startups like Lyft, which are attempting to pay drivers with different accounts from the accounts of users. Stripe says that the service has taken off, and the company is now paying out around $500,000 per day in these payouts to collaborative consumption startups alone.

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Big E Langston?s rise to Superstardom

Big E Langston has just landed at home in Tampa, Fla., following a busy weekend of WWE Live Events and television broadcasts. Just the night before, the nearly 300-pound Superstar was in Dayton, Ohio, for WWE SmackDown. To some, it may seem like yesterday that Langston was a relative unknown cutting his teeth in NXT, but his meteoric rise to dominance has come as little surprise to the man himself.

Since manhandling John Cena during his very first appearance on WWE television, Langston has wowed and amazed the WWE Universe with his nearly unmatched power and intensity. It?s a trait that WWE?s newest face learned at the tender age of 8 years old. ?

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?I had sand weights and an old rusty bar I kept in the garage,? Langston told WWE.com. ?On Saturdays, I'd watch TV and do curls during the commercial breaks until I reached 100 reps.?
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The dedication to training helped catapult Langston to an amateur wrestling state championship in high school. Always one to seek out a new challenge, Langston would continue his athletic career as a defensive lineman at the University of Iowa. ?

?I train as hard as I do to be the most impressive specimen,? he said. ?After all, they don't pay me by the hour.?
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That mantra would prove an apt subtitle for the next chapter in his career.

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Google ordered by French regulators to revamp privacy policy or face fines

Google has been under the gun in the EU for a while now about its privacy policies, particularly in France, which is fairly hardcore about such matters. In fact, the nation's CNIL computer watchdog has just ordered Mountain View to change its practices or face an initial maximum fine of €150,000 (around $200,000), followed by a penalty of up to €300,000 for further non-compliance. Google has just three months to fall in line, and the French regulator's ruling could just be the beginning: it investigated the search giant at the EU parliament's behest, meaning nations like Italy, Spain and the UK could follow suit. For its part, Google -- which is no doubt very sensitive to such matters at the moment thanks to the NSA saga -- said it "respects European law" and will continue to work with French and EU authorities on the matter.

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Google begins launching Internet-beaming balloons

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) ? Google is launching Internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.

Eighteen months in the works, the top-secret project was announced Saturday in New Zealand, where up to 50 volunteer households are already beginning to receive the Internet briefly on their home computers via translucent helium balloons that sail by on the wind 12 miles above Earth.

While the project is still in the very early testing stages, Google hopes eventually to launch thousands of the thin, polyethylene-film inflatables and bring the Internet to some of the more remote parts of the globe, narrowing the digital divide between the 2.2 billion people who are online and the 4.8 billion who aren't.

If successful, the technology might allow countries to leapfrog the expense of installing fiber-optic cable, dramatically increasing Internet usage in places such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

"It's a huge moonshot, a really big goal to go after," said project leader Mike Cassidy. "The power of the Internet is probably one of the most transformative technologies of our time."

The so-called Project Loon was developed in the clandestine Google X lab that also came up with a driverless car and Google's Web-surfing eyeglasses.

Google would not say how much it is investing in the project or how much customers will be charged when it is up and running.

The first person to get Google Balloon Internet access this week was Charles Nimmo, a farmer and entrepreneur in the small town of Leeston who signed up for the experiment. Technicians attached a bright red, basketball-size receiver resembling a giant Google map pin to the outside of his home.

In a successful preliminary test, Nimmo received the Internet for about 15 minutes before the 49-foot-wide transmitting balloon he was relying on floated out of range. The first thing he did was check the weather forecast because he wanted to find out if it was a good time for "crutching" his sheep, or removing the wool around their rear ends.

Nimmo is among the many rural folk, even in developed countries, who can't get broadband access. After ditching his dial-up four years ago in favor of satellite Internet service, he has gotten stuck with bills that sometimes exceed $1,000 a month.

"It's been weird," Nimmo said of the Google Balloon Internet experience. "But it's been exciting to be part of something new."

In recent years, military and aeronautical researchers have used tethered balloons to beam Internet signals back to bases on Earth. Google's balloons would be untethered and out of sight, strung out in a line around the globe. They would ride the winds around the world while Google ground controllers adjusted their altitude to keep them moving along the desired route.

Ground stations about 60 miles apart would bounce Internet signals up to the balloons. The signals would hop backward from one balloon to the next to keep people continuously connected. Solar panels attached to the inflatables would generate electricity to power the Internet circuit boards, radios and antennas, as well as the onboard flight-control equipment.

Each balloon would provide Internet service for an area twice the size of New York City, or about 780 square miles, and because of their high altitude, rugged terrain is not a problem. The balloons could even beam the Internet into Afghanistan's steep and winding Khyber Pass.

"Whole segments of the population would reap enormous benefits, from social inclusion to educational and economic opportunities," said DePauw University media studies professor Kevin Howley.

Once in place, the light but durable balloons wouldn't interfere with aviation because they fly twice as high as airplanes and well below satellites, said Richard DeVaul, an MIT-trained scientist who founded Project Loon and helped develop Google Glass, eyeglasses with a tiny, voice controlled computer display.

In the U.S., however, Google would have to notify the Federal Aviation Administration when the balloons are on their way up or down. The company is talking with regulators in other countries about meeting their requirements.

The Internet signals travel in the unlicensed spectrum, which means Google doesn't have to go through the onerous regulatory processes required for Internet providers using wireless communications networks or satellites.

At this stage, the company is putting a few dozen balloons up over New Zealand and then bringing them down after a short period. Later this year, Google hopes to have as many as 300 of them circling the globe continuously along the 40th parallel, on a path that takes them over New Zealand, Australia, Chile and Argentina.

Covering the whole world would require thousands of the balloons. No timetable has been set for that.

Google chose New Zealand in part because of its remoteness. Some Christchurch residents were cut off from the Internet for weeks after a 2011 earthquake that killed 185 people. Google said balloon access could help places suffering natural disasters get back online quickly.

"The potential of a system that can restore connectivity within hours of a crisis hitting is tremendously exciting," said Imogen Wall at the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, although she warned that the service must be robust. "If the service fails in a crisis, then lives are lost."

Temple University communications professor Patrick Murphy warned of mixed consequences, pointing to China and Brazil as places where Internet service promoted democratic principles but also contributed to a surge in consumerism that has resulted in environmental and health problems.

"The nutritional and medical information, farming techniques, democratic principles those are the wonderful parts of it," he said. "But you also have everyone wanting to drive a car, eat a steak, drink a Coke."

Already the world's largest advertising network, Google stands to expand its own empire by bringing the Internet to more corners of the Earth. More users means more potential Google searchers, which in turn translates into more chances for the company to display ads.

Richard Bennett, a fellow with the nonprofit Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, was skeptical of the project, noting that smartphones are increasingly being used in developing countries.

"I'm really glad that Google is doing this kind of speculative research," he said. "But it remains to be seen how practical any of these things are."

Before heading to New Zealand, Google spent a few months secretly launching two to five flights a week in California's Central Valley.

"People were calling in reports about UFOs," DeVaul said.

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Mendoza reported from Mountain View, Calif. Follow Martha Mendoza at http://twitter.com/mendozamartha

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Norman Malware Cleaner 2.08

By Neil J. Rubenking

For all-day every day security, you want a full-scale antivirus to keep malware attacks away from your system. Sometimes, though, you can't even install that full-scale protection because the malware fights back. In cases like that, a free, cleanup-only tool like Norman Malware Cleaner 2.08 can be a life saver. It doesn't need installation; you just download it and run a scan. Delete it when you're done, because there's a new version every day.

Norman Malware Cleaner opens to a page that offers a quick, full, or custom scan. You won't go wrong by simply selecting a full scan and clicking start. However, you may want to make one small change to the configuration settings. All of the scanning options are turned on by default, including scanning for rootkits. However, for some reason the option to clean rootkits is disabled by default. I enabled it for all of my tests.

I should point out that this truly is a newer product than Norman Malware Cleaner 2.1, which I reviewed previously. That was actually version 2.01; a quirk in presentation eliminated the zero.

A Few Obstacles
Norman Malware Cleaner ran without incident on ten of my twelve malware-infested test systems. On six of those systems it asked permission to reboot the system and rescan to complete the cleanup process; I always said yes to that offer.

On one test system, it asked to reboot and rescan over and over. After repeating this six times, I took a look at the log files. To my surprise, Windows asked what program it should use to open them. A little investigation showed that notepad.exe, along with literally hundreds of other files, had been quarantined. At the tech support agent's request, I supplied a dozen or so of those quarantined files.

Tech support analyzed the problem and updated the next day's edition of Norman Malware Cleaner to handle it. I simply restored all of the files from quarantine and ran a new scan. Note that the same problem happened during my testing of Norman Antivirus 10??? , but without the same easy resolution. The antivirus uses a version of Norman Malware Cleaner to perform a pre-install scan, but this scan doesn't leave a log or identify quarantined files. Norman's designers plan to change that.

The cleanup process on another test system eliminated some essential Windows files, rendering the system completely unbootable. At the advice of tech support I created a bootable Ubuntu USB drive?it was surprisingly easy. I booted from the drive, sent the log to tech support, and got back instructions that let me restore the system to health.

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The lost cousins of Homo sapiens in Asia and the South Pacific

By Paige Minteer

The evolution of humans is the result of a number of speciation events that have built upon one another to create the modern-day human species: Homo sapiens. Humans are believed to have evolved from a line of ancestors dating millions of years ago and originating in Africa.? The subsequent Homo sapien ancestors dispersed across Europe and Asia.? Of particular note are the ?Homo denisova?, of which fragments were found in Siberia, and Homo floresiensis, of which fragments have been found in Flores, Indonesia.? Both of these species are of particular relevance to the Southeast Asian and Pacific Island areas because of their continued presence in the DNA of modern humans living there.

This evolutionary tree shows the relationship of Denisova to both modern humans and Neanderthals. Note that they are in fact more closely related to Neanderthals than humans, but appear to be very close to both. Image: http://johnhawks.net/taxonomy/term/denisova

?Homo denisova? is considered to be a bridge species between the Neanderthal ancestors and the Homo sapiens species.? They are said to have bred with modern humans, and potentially Neanderthals, producing hybrid people.? ?Homo denisova? are assumed to have had dark skin, brown eyes and brown hair.? The teeth are larger than that of which Neanderthals and modern humans have, but more evidence is needed to further extrapolate the size and looks of this species (Hawks 2013).? The only remnants of the ?Homo denisova? species that have been found are a small toe bone fragment and two molars.? This has been enough, however, to create a basic genomic sequence of the species.? From this, genome researchers have traced gene markers to help determine the migration patterns of the species.? By analyzing the gene flow of various generations of people in various areas in Eastern Europe, Asia and the South Pacific, researchers have been able to decipher the movement of the ?Homo denisova?.? The origin of this species, however, is debated.? While original estimates of the age of the bones make the species too old to be a shoot-off of the H. heidelbergensis species, some argue that it could be a very early speciation from this original species.? Others believe ?H. denisova? could bring to light a non-erectus evolutionary line.? This differentiated evolutionary line would be a large branch-off compared to the branching depicted in current theories of human evolution.

Regardless of the ancestry of ?H. denisova?, the presence of this hominid has proved the evolution of humans in Asia to be far more complicated than originally believed.

?Homo denisova?, however, is not the only intermediate Homo species in the modern human? s ancestry.? Homo floresiensis is another pre-modern human species common to the East Asia region. First discovered in Flores, Indonesia, H. floresiensis has been nicknamed the ?Hobbit? species because of its small size.? Scientists have found many near-whole skeletons of this species on the island.

Possible routes of evolution for Homo floresiensis (Baab)

This species is so closely related to the modern human that some scientists argue that they are merely a large group of dwarfs, not an entirely new species.? The consensus, however, is that H. floresiensis is its own species.? The small size is often accounted for by a phenomenon called island dwarfism. Used as an adaptation strategy when a species is confined to a small island with few resources for an extended period of time, the average size of individuals diminishes, causing the dwarfism seen in H. floresiensis.? This adaptation strategy is mimicked by the pygmy elephants that are now extinct but may have been hunted by H. floresiensis (Natural History Museum 2010). ? However, some reject this island dwarfism theory based on the brain size of H. floresiensis.? The brain of this species is about one third that of Homo erectus.? Some assert, however, that typical cases of island dwarfism do not show brains shrinking at the same rate as the body.? A third theory postulates that the Homo floresiensis is a pre-erectus hominid, or species that existed before the erectus family evolved, that speciated earlier than originally thought.? Evidence from the skeletons supports this hypothesis, in that many features are closer to those of chimpanzees than of humans.? The main problem with this hypothesis, however, is that there is no evidence for an intermediate species or this species on mainland Asia, proving no documentation for their transport to the island.? While the exact ancestry and origin of Homo floresiensis is still up for debate, the existence of the species has contributed to the complex analysis of human evolution.

The theory of the diaspora of humans radiating away from their African homeland has been remolded and changed due to the discoveries of these newer forms of human ancestors.? Homo floresiensis in particular exemplifies a divergent path from the original, linear idea of human evolution.? While there is little certainty of the exact point of speciation, scientists postulate that this species evolved separately from other Homo erectus species because of their isolation on the island of Flores.? Scientists are still debating how the original people arrived on the island, because it is many miles away from the nearest Asian mainland.? While these people are thought to have used stone tools and perhaps fire, they are not believed to have built ships.? In terms of migration, the story of ?Homo denisova? is even more muddled.? Scientists have used DNA analysis in order to try and determine the gene flow and therefore migration of the ?Homo denisova? peoples.? It is believed that these people migrated south from Russia towards South East Asia and met and bred with humans in their travels, creating a hybrid peoples (Harmon 2012).? This information is based on the fact that many people of the South East Asian region share 5-6% of their DNA with Denisovan ancestors (Harmon 2012). It is believed that the people of mainland Asia do not contain the same amount of ?H. denisova? DNA because subsequent waves of migrations hybridized the people and slowly replaced any trace of this DNA from the population. Specifically, ?H. denisova? DNA is most prominently found in the people of Melanesia, New Guinea and South East Asia (Natural History Museum 2010). The ?H. denisova? population is said to have been small and contained little genetic diversity.? This persistence of the ?H. denisova? DNA suggests that these ancient ancestors aren?t as removed from modern humans as might be assumed.

A discovery made in Palau in 2008 suggests that there may have been similar hobbit people on the Rock Islands.? A researcher in Koror, Palau, Lee Berger, discovered some Sapien bones.? While these bones have not been declared as specifically floresiensis or ?denisova?, they appear to be similar in size.? Berger believes that these bones are humans that were subjected to island dwarfism.? Other scientists claim the bones could simply belong to children.? Berger?s research suggests that the Palauan brains are double the size of the hobbit?s brain.? These bones demonstrate people who have enlarged teeth and smaller chins, which can be attributed to the island dwarfism process.? These bones were found in caves on the rock islands, however these sites have been long known to tourists and many of the artifacts have been looted before researchers could thoroughly evaluate the findings.? (Dalton).? These findings have been evaluated and seem to support the island dwarfism theory more so than the delineation of floresiensis.? (Culotta)

The evolution of the human species not only speaks to the past of the humans, but also to the future.? The persistence of these ancestral human genes is still impacting human evolution today. ?Homo denisova? and Homo floresiensis both remain somewhat of an enigma along the human evolutionary tree, but both of these species still provide useful incite into how humans have evolved.? Finding these previously unknown species has complicated the story of human evolution, but has also made it a more complete tale.

?Homo denisova? and Homo floresiensis are of particular relevance to Asia and the South Pacific because they represent a non-Neanderthal, non-African line of evolution in this region of the world.? These branching lines of evolution show the complicated, non-linear, nature of human evolution.? Humans are complicated creatures and come from a complex ancestry, but it is through discoveries like remnants of ?Homo denisova? and Homo floresiensis that the convoluted past becomes increasingly clear.

Author Bio: Paige Minteer is a sophomore in Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California.

Editor?s note: Scientific Research Diving at USC Dornsife is offered as part of an experiential summer program offered to undergraduate students of the USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences through the Environmental Studies Program.?? This course takes place on location at the USC Wrigley Marine Science Center on Catalina Island and throughout Micronesia. Students investigate important environmental issues such as ecologically sustainable development, fisheries management, protected-area planning and assessment, and human health issues. During the course of the program, the student team will dive and collect data to support conservation and management strategies to protect the fragile coral reefs of Guam and Palau in Micronesia.

Instructors for the course include Jim Haw, Director of the Environmental Studies Program in USC Dornsife, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies David Ginsburg, Lecturer Kristen Weiss, SCUBA instructor and volunteer in the USC Scientific Diving Program Tom Carr and USC Dive Safety Officer Gerry Smith of the USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies.

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Culotta, Elizabeth. ?Hobbit Redux???- ScienceNOW. Science, 11 Mar. 2008. Web. 14 June 2013.

Dalton, Rex. ?Pacific ?dwarf? Bones Cause Controversy.??Nature.com. Nature Publishing Group, 10 Mar. 2008. Web. 14 June 2013.

?DNA of Ancient Siberian Human Uncovered.? Natural History Museum. N.p., 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 23 Mar. 2013. <http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2010/march/dna-of-ancient-siberian-human-uncovered62927.html>.

Flatow, Ira. ?Meet Your Ancient Relatives: The Denisovans.? NPR. N.p., 31 Aug. 2012. Web. 20 Mar. 2013. <Meet Your Ancient Relatives: The Denisovans>.

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Harmon, Katherine. ?New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbred with Denisovans: Scientific American.? New DNA Analysis Shows Ancient Humans Interbred with Denisovans: Scientific American. N.p., 30 Aug. 2012. Web. 23 Mar. 2013. <http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=denisovan-genome>.

Hawks, John. ?Denisova.? John Hawks Weblog. N.p., 20 Mar. 2013. Web. 23 Mar. 2013. <http://johnhawks.net/taxonomy/term/denisova>.

Stringer, Chris. ?Ancient Denisovans and the Human Family Tree.? Natural History Museum. N.p., 12 Jan. 2011. Web. 23 Mar. 2013. <http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2011/january/ancient-denisovans-and-the-human-family-tree93500.html>.

Tocheri, Matt. ?Homo Floresiensis.? Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2013. <http://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/human-fossils/species/homo-floresiensis>.

Previously in this series:

The 2013 Guam and Palau Expedition Begins
A New Faculty Member on the Team
An Analysis of Sargassum Horneri Ecosystem Impact
Marine Protected Areas and Catalina Island: Conserve, Maintain and Enrich
Northern Elephant Seals: Increasing Population, Decreasing Biodiversity
The Relationship Between the Economy and Tourism on Catalina Island
Guam and Palau 2013: New Recruits and New Experiences
Bringing War to the ?Island of Peace? ? The Fight for the Preservation of Jeju-do
Dreading the Dredging: Military Buildup on Guam and Implications for Marine Biodiversity in Apra Harbor
Is the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands Doing Enough?
The Status of Fisheries in China: How deep will we have to dive to find the truth?
The Philippines and Spratly Islands: A Losing Battle
The Effects of Climate Change on Coral Reef Health
The Senkaku/Diaoyu Island Dispute in the East China Sea
The UNESCO World Heritage Site Selection Process
Before and After the Storm: The Impacts of Typhoon Bopha on Palauan Reefs
An interconnected environment and economy- Shark tourism in Palau
A Persistent Case of Diabetes Mellitus in Guam

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