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Wednesday, September 14, 2016

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Statement from Gawker Media Editorial Union on Univision's Deletion of News Stories 

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gizmodo.com - Univision has said that it bought Gawker Media because it believed in the work that our publications do. That work, for well over a decade, was only possible because we knew that our company leader...

The Leaked WikiLeaks Investigation File - Glomar Disclosure

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GlomarDisclosure.com - There are a few problems that we, collectively, haven’t addressed with last week’s Daily Dot article and with how we’re looking at it. Almost immediately, the article became incendiary and divisive...

iPhone 7 and 7 Plus review: Great annual upgrades with one major catch

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arstechnica.com - Up until now, every one of Apple’s iPhone hardware updates has been additive. New iPhones do all the stuff that the old ones could do, plus some new stuff. Moving to bigger screens and swapping the...

This Deal Will Sell Out Fast: TaoTronics Bluetooth Speaker With Dual Subwoofers Usually $79.99 Selling For Just $49

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brobible.com - Here at BroBible we try our hardest to bring you bros ONLY THE BEST deals around, and this is almost certainly one of those deals. The 20W Boom X Stereo Bluetooth Speaker from TaoTronics has nearly...

Use Web Typography That Can’t Be Ignored: Instapage’s New Google & Typekit Integrations

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instapage.com - All the world’s longest running and biggest brands, like Coca-Cola, Disney, and Kellogg’s, have by and large used the same typography throughout their histories. Not because they liked the way thei...

Remember to market to your own influencer network - Biznology

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biznology.com - I really love influencer marketing. Too much. So much, in fact, that I often forget to do the sales and business development work required to keep Gerris Corp moving forward. An army runs on its st...

Native mobile adtech startup Avocarrot acquired by Glispa Global Group for $20M

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techcrunch.com - Native mobile advertising startup Avocarrot — which, interestingly, was in the first cohort of company builder Entrepreneur First — has been acquired by adtech company Glispa Global Group. Terms of...

WeConnect is an app to support addiction recovery

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techcrunch.com - Keeping close, quantified track of personal progress is absolutely imperative for one group of people: recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. And it’s this often isolated segment of society that t...

This carrier is giving everyone free internet for 3 months and users are complaining

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mashable.com - India's richest man may have bitten off more than he can chew. SEE ALSO: Why are so many Indians queuing up to get a SIM card? Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries Ltd. announced the commercial avai...

Facebook, Twitter Join First Draft Partner Network

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adweek.com - Facebook and Twitter are among the organizations to join the First Draft Partner Network, which is aimed at improving practices in reporting and sharing online news. Google News Lab is a founding m...

UK’s national cyber security unit working on automated defenses

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techcrunch.com - The CEO of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre wants industry and government to work more closely together to combat cyber crime. Giving his first public speech as CEO of the NCSC, at the B...

Redesigned version of iTunes launches with iCloud Music glitches

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techcrunch.com - Apple is having a rough day with the rollout of its new software platforms: in addition to the bug that was bricking users’ iPhones when upgrading to iOS 10, the new version of iTunes – iTunes 12.5...

Nvidia’s tiny new self-driving AI computer sips power

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techcrunch.com - Nvidia revealed a new configuration of its DRIVE PX 2 in-car autonomous driving computing platform today, which vastly improves power efficiency and drops physical size compared to the original unv...

Marc Andreessen on the atomization of AI

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techcrunch.com - Earlier this year, Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon noted that how challenging it’s become for investors to help groom promising AI startups, given how quickly Facebook, Google, and Amazon ...

Chatbot Sensay wants to connect the world by sharing knowledge

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techcrunch.com - Chatbots are a major trend in tech today. Facebook Messenger has more than 30,000 bots; Kik has 20,000 — but how many of those are actually useful? Nobody can go through that many bots individually...

MSI’s VR One backpack PC packs overclocked Core i7 and GTX 1070

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arstechnica.com - Backpack PCs for virtual reality gaming were all the rage at this year's Computex in Taiwan, but it looks like MSI is the first of that early batch to have a finalised product. Dubbed VR One, MSI's...

Some people won’t get August’s Windows 10 Anniversary Update until November

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arstechnica.com - The Windows 10 Anniversary Update was released to the stable Windows 10 channel back on August 2. Today is September 13, and many Windows 10 users are still waiting for their update. According to a...

AT&T changes mind about denying discounted service to poor people

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arstechnica.com - AT&T will stop exploiting a loophole that it used to deny a discounted home Internet service to poor people in areas where it hasn't upgraded its network. AT&T's purchase of DirecTV came with a Fed...

Review: Dragon Quest VII is for people who already love Dragon Quest

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arstechnica.com - It’s hard to be a Dragon Quest fan in the English-speaking world. The series is phenomenally popular in Japan, but outside of its homeland its audience is definitely of the dedicated-but-small vari...

Construction worker sues Samsung after suffering burns from exploding phone

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arstechnica.com - Warning: the bottom of this post includes graphic images. On May 30, construction worker Daniel Ramirez was working at a site in Akron, Ohio, when he heard a strange noise coming from his pocket, ...

3 Facebook Features that Need to Go Away Now - Joel Comm

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joelcomm.com - From its humble beginnings as a network for college students, Facebook has become the behemoth of the social media world. Feature-rich with posts, comments, likes, shares, photos, videos, groups, p...

How (and Why) to Better Organize Your Content Marketing Ideas

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socialmediatoday.com - As a content marketer, you have to be able to summon your creativity at any given moment and churn out something great. It never stops. You have to learn to come up with ideas all the time – to liv...

Instagram adds Comments Tool to filter offensive, inappropriate words

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androidcommunity.com - Nowadays, it isn’t just Facebook or Twitter that has to deal with trolls, offensive and inappropriate comments, and other cases of cyberbullying. Even a seemingly innocuous photo sharing network li...

Play Deezer tracks on your Twitter timeline with audio cards

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androidcommunity.com - In a bid to compete with music streaming giants like Spotify and Apple Music, Deezer has teamed up with Twitter to let you share tracks from within the app and let users hear snippets of the song f...

Lenovo PHAB2 Pro Project Tango phone commercial launch delayed to Fall

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androidcommunity.com - The Project Ara has been shelved already but followers of the Project Tango need not fear because the augmented reality concept is almost ready for the masses. We already got our hands-on the Lenov...

Get immersed into games with the Sades BPOWER headset [DEALS]

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androidcommunity.com - Ready to level up your gaming experience? It’s easier than ever when you have the Sades BPOWER Stereo Gaming Headset, offered to Android Community readers at 41% off the retail price. There’s gamep...

Sony Xperia X Compact, Xperia XZ not getting a fingerprint scanner in the US

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androidcommunity.com - It can be confusing at times when OEMs decide not to bring a phone, variant, or a feature to some countries. It’s like some items are exclusive to a region or country. For whatever reasons, compani...

Parallel Windows for Nougat lets you run mirror app on split screen

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androidcommunity.com - One of the things that some people are looking forward to the most with Android 7.0 Nougat is the split-screen multitasking feature, which is especially important to those who are always on the go....

Tower 2.5 is Here - 100 Improvements + New Features

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git-tower.com - Our goal is to make you more productive, help you to become a better developer and offer you the best way to work with Git. The new version brings us one step closer. Today's release includes 1,800...

How to clear the Firefox cache

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support.mozilla.org - The Firefox cache temporarily stores images, scripts, and other parts of websites you visit in order to speed up your browsing experience. This article describes how to clear the cache. At the top ...

Papadakis Konstantinos : Latest Technologies Designed by High Detailed Graphics - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Konstantinos Papadakis”, Developer and Owber of the Greece based start-up “PapadakisKonstantinos” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it e...

ZWOOKY : Innovative Contact System - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Thomas Stoll”, CIO at the Uerikon – Switzerland based start-up “ZWOOKY ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

Marketo adds native ABM capabilities to its platform

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marketingland.com - Marketing platform Marketo is jumping into Account-Based Marketing (ABM) with both feet today, unveiling what it says is the most comprehensive set of native functions on a major marketing platform...

MarTech Today: Unruly's new biometrics, Twitter's app for Alexa & more

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marketingland.com - Here’s our daily recap of what happened in marketing technology, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Unruly now offers biometric measurement of video...

Marketing Day: YouTube Community, Snapchat ad targeting & Vimeo Business

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marketingland.com - Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: YouTube launches YouTube Community beta for select g...

Thurrott Daily: September 13 - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Microsoft is quietly laying off dozens of highly-placed employees This one is a bit weird, but Mary Jo Foley reports that some long-time Microsofties are getting the boot. Is this an ageism thing? ...

Geico Created a Quirky Web Series Made Just for Esports Fans

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adweek.com - Everybody's trying to get in with an esports team ... even Geico. In an unexpected web series released in August, Geico-sponsored Team SoloMid (TSM) have moved into a new neighborhood. Convinced t...

Want More Photography Clients? It’s All In Your Website

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hostgator.com - The wedding photography business can be inspiring, because you get to capture people’s images when they’re in love and celebrating. It’s also challenging, because you’re competing not only against ...

7 Things I Still Hate About LinkedIn Ads

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wordstream.com - Like a lot of marketers, I find LinkedIn Ads frustrating. The thing is, by making just a few needed improvements, both LinkedIn itself and advertisers could greatly benefit. For LinkedIn, advertisi...

Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?

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sd-entrepreneur.com - With all the different Social Media Platforms out there like the ones named above, marketers and businesses are looking for ways to curate content and reach a target market of group of people via #...

Pandora is almost ready to launch its music subscription service

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theverge.com - Pandora is getting closer to becoming the latest company to jump in the $10-a-month, all-you-can-eat music streaming world. The radio service has signed licensing deals with Universal Music Group, ...

Boosting Your Rates With Psychologically Validated Principles – Smashing Magazine

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smashingmagazine.com - It is often easy to overlook the underlying principles that compel people to take action. Instead, we tend to obsess over minute details — things like button color1, pricing2 and headlines. While t...

Volvo will hand over this self-driving SUV to a Swedish family next year

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mashable.com - Forget Ford's 2025 benchmark to sell self-driving cars to the public. Volvo is handing over a fleet of autonomous SUVs to Swedish families next year. For a while now, Volvo has said it will launch ...

Exclusive: Apple CEO Tim Cook Dispels Fears That AirPods Will Fall Out of Ears

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gma.yahoo.com - Apple CEO Tim Cook has dismissed concerns consumers might have that his company’s new wireless headphones – dubbed AirPods – may fall out and become easily lost. In a wide-ranging and exclusive int...

Microsoft updates Outlook's calendar as it says goodbye to Sunrise for good

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mashable.com - Sunrise, the popular calendar app acquired by Microsoft in 2015, is officially no more. The app's calendars have stopped updating and users will no longer be able to access their accounts through t...

Apple's iOS 10 update is causing major headphones for some users

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money.cnn.com - Not long after the company rolled out its new mobile operating system, some users complained it "bricked" their iPhones and iPads. Bricking refers to an issue that blocks access to your phone with ...

Govt to offer free internet for Kampala, Entebbe

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newvision.co.ug - Starting October 1, if you are in Kampala or Entebbe, you will not be in need of an internet café. All you need is to create an account and login password to access MYUG, a new application that has...

Should Schools Bother With Instagram?

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schneiderb.com - The question begs for whether school marketing directors should bother putting time and effort into the newer social media platforms popping up each year. As we all know, a school marketing directo...

Viesearch Friends of Viesearch - Some of our Lastest Referrers

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viesearch.com - A wilderness therapy program for teens ages 11-17 struggling with behavioral and emotional issues. 139 Views, 6 Incoming, Last incoming on Monday, September 12th, 2016 Child Health - More Details W...

No Official Recall Leaves Galaxy Note 7 Phone Users Confused, Angry | Fox Business

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foxbusiness.com - The explosion of some Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Note 7 phones in recent weeks has led to consumer confusion and anger, as the phone maker and the U.S. product-safety watchdog work toward an of...