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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC - Windows Experience Blog
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blogs.windows.com - Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. As you can see, we have done quite a few experiments in the Creator’s Update...
Smart Alarm DApp: Waking Up On Time Pays Off - in Bitcoin
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cointelegraph.com - Betternot.rest, a smart alarm clock DApp, powered by Syscoin’s smart contracts platform, challenges you to improve your wake-up routine and earn some money in the process. If you are not some kind ...
Call Monitoring to Measure Call Center | Quality Necessary for Support Center Success
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Gina Minks
24x7itconnection.com - Are you getting ready to on-board a new team member that will be front and center with your customers? Did you realize that your call center quality can make or break the reputation of your busines...
Wireless HTC Vive tested: One of VR’s problems solved, but two remain
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arstechnica.co.uk - BARCELONA, Spain—VR has the potential to be a very exciting technological domain, but it's lumbered with numerous problems: high price, low performance, and generally the sheer pain-in-the-backside...
Dominos is a technology company that happens to make pizzas. First drones, now AI
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Arnold Aranez
techau.com.au - Domino’s are a technology company that happens to ship pizzas. Not content with using drones, they’re now embracing AI. Today the company is launching their first step into Artificial Intelligence....
The Instapage Platform Now Integrates with HubSpot
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Tyson Quick
instapage.com - HubSpot single-handedly pioneered inbound marketing and sales by harnessing the power of content and understanding that “marketers are focused on attracting customers through content and interactio...
Google-branded “Pixel” laptop not in the plans but possible - SlashGear
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www.slashgear.com - Once upon a time, Google’s branding scheme in the computing space was simple. It used “Nexus” for smartphones and tablets and “Pixel” for Chromebooks. Today, however, we have a Pixel C Android tabl...
50 Jobs, Gigs and Side Hustles You Can Do From Home
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Michael
www.entrepreneur.com - Ah, working from home. If you’re sick of long commutes to a boring office, where you’re stuck 9-to-5, Monday through Friday, remote work sounds like a distant paradise. Related:20 Reasons to Let Yo...
Google Developer Day at GDC 2017 presents wins, numbers, and upcoming games - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - While the MWC 2017 is happening in Barcelona, Spain, some other geeks are busy spending time this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco for the GDC 2017. The Game Developers Conference is for...
“Severe” vulnerability in WordPress plugin could affect 1 million sites
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arstechnica.com - More than 1 million websites running the WordPress content management system may be vulnerable to hacks that allow visitors to snatch password data and secret keys out of databases, at least under ...
Google has shipped 10M Cardboard VR viewers, 160M Cardboard app downloads
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techcrunch.com - Google is putting a lot of its virtual realityfocus right now on its Daydream VR framework, but today Amit Singh, the company’s VP of VR, also gave an update on its earlier (and still active) effor...
Breaking Into Startups: How a 16-year-old dropout became a senior engineer at Slack
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techcrunch.com - Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the...
FCC Chairman pledges to roll back net neutrality regulations during European address
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techcrunch.com - As Ajit Pai took the stage for a speech at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this morning, CNBC anchor Karen Tso noted that the newly appointed FCC Chairman’s top priority has been the dismantling...
The Xbox Game Pass is a $9.99 Spotify-like game subscription
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techcrunch.com - Having free games with Xbox Live Gold was one thing, but Microsoft wants to go one step further. The company is launching a new service called the Xbox Game Pass. It’s a library of more than 100 ga...
TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield application deadline extended to Thursday
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techcrunch.com - If you tried to apply to Disrupt NY’s Startup Battlefield today, you might have noticed you hit a wall. We’re having some technical difficulties right now with the website, and have decided to exte...
Snap: Rewriting ‘Art of War’ for social networking — by not documenting anything
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techcrunch.com - Deepak Ravichandran is an associate at Battery Ventures. Social networks may be the most valuable and durable types of businesses powered by “network effects,” the phenomenon of products or service...
SoundCloud revamps its subscription service with cheaper $4.99 option
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techcrunch.com - SoundCloud has rebootedits paid membership plan with a new budget option less than a year after it launched. The Berlin-based company today revealed a cheaper tier of $4.99 per month, down from the...
Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps
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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The AWS offer...
How The Media Are Using Encryption Tools To Collect Anonymous Tips
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Guy Kawasaki
www.npr.org - There was a time when a whistleblower had to rely on the Postal Service, or a pay phone, or an underground parking garage to leak to the press. A renewed interest in leaks since Donald Trump's surp...
Dear Kaspersky Lab: Yours is a very bad installer
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - On Tuesday, I got a text message from my father that nearly made me fall off the treadmill at the gym: "Help! How do I turn off untrusted on my Mac?" I texted back, "What do you mean?" and then ste...
Encryption patent that roiled Newegg is dead on appeal
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Patent-holding company TQP Developmentmade millions claiming that it owned a breakthrough in Web encryption, even though most encryption experts had never heard of the company until it started a ma...
How to Get 52,129 Instagram Followers in 8 months (case study)
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Douglas Idugboe
weekhack.com - I was eating dinner and thinking of what topics I’ll be covering on my blog. (I know, nobody should be thinking about work while eating, I’m guilty) And then the conversation on Twitter happened. I...
5 Ways to use social media monitoring to generate qualified leads
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Douglas Idugboe
www.lilachbullock.com - Do you want to generate more qualified leads with social media marketing? Social media has proven itself time and time again as an amazingly efficient lead generation platform – so, in this blog po...
Incredible Rocket Photos, Huh? Yeah, a 16-Year-Old Took Them
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Reg Saddler
www.wired.com - Most teenagers hate to see the summer end, but John Kraus has a particularly good reason to be unhappy about it: Going back to school means less time to shoot space launches. “It’s hard to miss sch...
Facebook’s mobile prodigy launches video charades game
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Reg Saddler
techcrunch.com - Michael Sayman was just 17 when Facebook hired him, but he’d already built 5 apps. Now 7 years after his first launch, the Facebook product manager has just released Show and Tell, which turns self...
How This Hedge Fund Billionaire Turned Activist Plans To Take On Trump | Fastcompany | The Future Of Business
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Reg Saddler
www.fastcompany.com - Capital & Main is an award-winning publication that reports from California on economic, political, and social issues. Tom Steyer and Donald Trump were both born in New York City, and both went on ...
ASUS Zenwatch 2 and 3 to receive Android Wear 2.0 by Q2 2017 - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - If you own an ASUS Zenwatch 2 or the newer Zenwatch 3, then you probably were pretty excited when it was confirmed that they will be receiving the Android Wear 2.0 update, which will supposedly mak...
‘Battle Breakers’ for Android now open for pre-registration on the Play Store - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - A while ago, we told you about Battle Breakers. It’s a new role-playing game that was recently presented at the GDC 2017 as part of the Google Developer Day. The tech giant proudly announced that t...
Arrow Launcher update brings central hub, productivity, better battery - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - Usually, you would just use your Android smartphone’s default launcher whenever you get a new device, but the third-party apps are getting more useful and sophisticated that you would want to use t...
Cricket to start throttling “unlimited” users who go over 22GB - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - If you still haven’t figured out that there’s really nothing purely “unlimited” in the world of carriers, then either you’re naive or you don’t really reach your data limit on your wireless plans. ...
T-Mobile gives a free, extra line for customers with 2 voice lines - Android Community
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androidcommunity.com - Just because they can (okay, there are marketing reasons of course), T-Mobile is giving out one, free extra line for their subscribers who have at least two voice lines already under the T-Mobile O...
How to Use Pinterest to Drive Traffic to Your Site
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nopassiveincome.com - We all know about the big players in the social media world – but Pinterest may not be on everyone’s radar. Well, if I told you that it dishes out more referral traffic than LinkedIn, Twitter and Y...
CMS2CMS : A CMS Migration tool . - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - CMS2CMS is the web based service that helps to move content from the existing CMS to a new one easily and fast. Today, we had a quick overview with Mr. ‘Ruslan Savchyshyn';Director and Founder in U...
ApprovalQ : Email Project Management Platform - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sharif Aly”,Aly of the California – USA based start-up “ApprovalQ” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your...
Contus : Mobile App Development Company - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Today, we had an in-depth and very interesting interview with Mr. ‘Sriram Manoharan'; Founder of Contus at Tamil Nadu – India. “Contus” is a leading mobile app development company Below is the full...
LivingJunction.com: A Drag-and-Drop Social Publishing Platform to Create Social Magazines Around your Hobbies and Interests - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - Living Junction is a social publishing platform that let’s you drag-and-drop rich media content to the pages of your own gorgeous magazine to bring your favorite topics alive. “Living Junction”is a...
SpotLoss: A Device that Keeps Track of Everything from your Keys to your Kids - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - SpotLoss is a device that allows you to keep track of everything from your keys to your phone to your kids. The SpotLoss fob allows you to press a button on the fob to find your phone, or a button ...
Limetr.ee: A Web Application that Allows you to Safely Keep Messages, Photos and Videos you Want to Preserve as a Legacy for your Child - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Limetree is about gathering family and friends around your children’s history. About the legacy you want to pass to your child. About safeguarding memories for the future. Below is the full and in-...
VaporWare : Building, Testing, and Running Lean Cloud Software - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Jeff Schroeder”, Co-Founder of the US based start-up “vaporware” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your...
Amazon: Virtual assistants and AI robots have free speech rights, too
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel, “1984,” every house is equipped with a Telescreen, a monitoring device enabling government surveillance. Amazon is trying to prevent its Echo/Alexa from ...
ShopLocket.com: An E-commerce Platform that Lets Anyone Start Selling Professionally Online in Minutes - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - ShopLocket is the easiest way to sell online. Rather than having to build out a full online storefront or get lost in a marketplace, sellers are able to quickly sell from anywhere that they already...
WhyWaitTheApp.com: A Mobile Discovery App that Allows Users to Find a Plethora of Info Related to Restaurants & Bars - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - WhyWait is a discovery app that allows users to find the following for restaurants/bars: Happy Hours, Deals, Events, Menus, Images and Social Media Integration. “WhyWait”is a discovery app that all...
Rawporter.com: A Mobile Application That Helps People Earn Money for Shooting and Sharing Photos and Videos - Start-Ups.Co
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Debbas
www.start-ups.co - Rawporter helps people earn money for shooting and sharing photos and videos. All items captured with the app or uploaded online are indexed so they become discoverable by search engines and can no...
SpyderMate: A Suite of Five Unique and Powerful SEO Analysis Tools that Allows you to Manage any Number of Internet Marketing Campaigns Easy - Start-Ups.Co
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www.start-ups.co - SpyderMate is a suite of unique and powerful internet marketing tools structured to make managing any number of internet marketing campaigns easy. “SpyderMate” is a suite of five powerful SEO analy...
Here Come the February Updates for Office 365 - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Microsoft today highlighted the updates it is providing across various Office 365 products and services this month. “This month, we released several improvements to our cloud-powered intelligence s...
Microsoft is Inexplicably Slowing Down App Updates on the Fast Ring - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Excited to test newly announced features in the Groove and Movies & TV apps, I’ve been checking for those updates for days to no avail. The reason? There is no reason. No good reason. As you may re...
The Outline Is Making Visual, Interactive Content and Ads for a 'Post-Text' Internet
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - “We’re creating content for a psychographic, not a demographic,” said Amanda Hale, CRO of The Outline, a 2-month-old news site meant to serve an “underfed” online audience. That target psychographi...
Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings - Motherboard
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Jay Oatway
motherboard.vice.com - A company that sells internet-connected teddy bears that allow kids and their far-away parents to exchange heartfelt messages left more than 800,000 customer credentials, as well as two million mes...
RIP Dmoz: The Open Directory Project is closing
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searchengineland.com - DMOZ— The Open Directory Project that uses human editors to organize web sites — is closing. It marks the end of a time when humans, rather than machines, tried to organize the web. The announcemen...
CloudPets stuffed toys leak details of half a million users
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www.theguardian.com - The personal information of more than half a million people who bought internet-connected fluffy animals has been compromised. The details, which include email addresses and passwords, were leaked ...