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Friday, April 28, 2017

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Cadillac | Truth + Dare

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www.cadillactruthanddare.com - To ensure the best experience for every guest, space in each drive session is limited. We encourage you to select an alternate time that fits your schedule. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your s...

Deciding And Purchasing A DJI Phantom 4 Drone - Travel Explored

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www.travelexplored.com - Being a photographer, I am always keen to look at different ways that I can capture a photo. In recent years one option that has caught my attention is that of aerial photography. Primarily using a...

Personal branding, your differentiation and value added for your professional life

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www.bebee.com - We often get confused about what our personal is and its value for our professional life. Which social networks is it appropriate to post material for one or the other? How do you keep the two as s...

Profitable or Popular? Make Hashtags Work for You.

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www.entrepreneur.com - Most businesses focus on either profit or popularity when using social media marketing. Either they are focused on getting lots of followers and tons of engagements, or they are knee-deep in direct...

How much does it cost to build a website? - Intuitive Web Design

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www.intuitive-web-design.co.uk - This will be the first question most businesses or individual will want answered, however the answer very much depends on the business or individuals needs. You probably ended up here as your looki...

6 Power Plays To Becoming a Brand Ambassador

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www.inc.com - Becoming a Brand Ambassador for a well-known company can have many benefits beyond any financial incentives associated with the position. The opportunity to grow your personal brand is significant....

Verizon DBIR Shows Attack Patterns Vary Widely By Industry

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www.darkreading.com - Among the many key takeaways in the 2017 edition Verizon’s annual Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR), released Thursday, is that there are significant differences in why and how organizations...

The secret lives of Google raters

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arstechnica.com - Something disturbing has been happening to Google's advertising algorithms. These are the programs responsible for placing ads in appropriate contexts; serving up travel-related ads to people searc...

Why Do IoT Companies Keep Building Devices with Huge Security Flaws?

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hbr.org - Earlier this year an alarming story hit the news: Hackers had taken over the electronic key system at a luxury hotel in Austria, locking guests out of their rooms until the hotel paid a ransom. It ...

Nintendo plans to ship 10 million Switch consoles in the next year

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arstechnica.com - For months now, Nintendo has said it planned to ship 2 million Switch systems to players worldwide in the system's first month of availability. In an earnings reportreleased Thursday, the company a...

As Chromebook sales soar in schools, Apple and Microsoft fight back

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techcrunch.com - Few saw the Chromebook coming. When it launched half a decade ago, the category was broadly maligned for its limited feature set, middling hardware specs and operation that required an always-on in...

Report: Apple Music revamp planned for iOS 11, service to include up to 10 original series

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techcrunch.com - A new version of Apple Music will ship later this year that puts an increased emphasis on video content, and particularly its own original video programming, according to a new report from Bloomber...

How to fix the blockchain ‘fail whale’ problem

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techcrunch.com - If you’ve spent any amount of time on the internet over the past several years, you’re no doubt familiar with the “fail whale” that plagued Twitter in its formative years. Users would log into the ...

SiriusXM acquires connected car company Automatic for over $100M

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techcrunch.com - SiriusXM has acquired Automatic, the maker of the Automatic Pro and Automatic Lite connected car OBD-II port accessories. The deal is acknowledged by SiriusXM CFO David Frear to be worth a little n...

Smartwatches need to distinguish themselves with software as well as hardware

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techcrunch.com - If I had to give companies looking to enter the smartwatch space in 2017 one piece of advice, it would be, simply: don’t. Failing point one, due to investor pressure or the spirit of a long dead fi...

Another iPhone 8 leak hints at wireless charging

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techcrunch.com - Slowly but surely, we’re getting hints about the next iPhone from multiple leaks. Today’s new image from @OnLeaks shows that the next iPhone could feature wireless charging. In this iPhone schemati...

Where’s Apple’s Amazon Echo competitor?

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techcrunch.com - Amazon is iterating quickly with the Amazon Echo as the company just announced the Amazon Echo Look, which is essentially an Echo with a camera. What is Apple’s answer? All we have is yet another r...

Snapchat will no longer show a white border around old Memories

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techcrunch.com - Snapchat will no longer show thatannoying white border around old photos that you share from Memories. Previously, if you shared a photo from Memories that was more than 24 hours old it would have ...

Google Classroom now lets anyone school anyone else

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techcrunch.com - Google Classroom is opening up even further: After allowing anyone to join classes last month, expanding the learner side of the equation beyond just those with G Suite for Education accounts, Goog...

Facebook lets content owners claim ad earnings of pirated videos

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techcrunch.com - Facebook finally has a better solution to freebooting — the common practice of stealing someone yourvideo and uploading it to their Facebook Page to reap the engagement and audience growth. Today’s...

Navdy’s new Glympse integration lets you share a live ETA from the road

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techcrunch.com - If you’ve ever been driving and wanted to let someone know when to expect you, there’s likely been some kind of compromise involved where you broke a few rules and texted while en route. There are ...

Meet Nintendo’s new $150 2DS XL console, launching July 28

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo has a new handheld video game system it released pretty much out of the blue on Thursday. The 2DS XL is basically a 3DS XL without the 3D, with a smaller physical footprint for more portab...

Facebook sidesteps Snapchat by launching Messenger Lite in 150 more countries

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is aggressively pursuing the international and developing world markets Snapchat hasn’t prioritized. Facebook Lite recently hit 200 million users, and Instagram just rolled out offline mod...

The FCC’s anti-net neutrality proposal is a giant question mark

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techcrunch.com - Yesterday the FCC’s Chairman, Ajit Pai, put existing net neutrality rules on notice, saying that the agency would continue to protect consumers — but with a lighter touch. Just how he plans to do t...

Google search on iOS will now help you find TV shows, movies and music on streaming services

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techcrunch.com - Google is today launching an update foriOS users that will make it easier to find media content – like TV shows, movies and songs – on various streaming services and content marketplaces, includin...

Nintendo has sold 2.74M Switches, expects to sell around 10M next year

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo has sold 2.74 million Switches to date, the first official number released by the company by way of its FY 2016 earnings report, released on Thursday. The total hardware units sold have al...

Uber launches personal injury and illness insurance in the UK with the IPSE

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techcrunch.com - AsUber continues to get more negative attention for its business culture and practices, the company today is taking one step ahead in the UK to try to improve its relationship with drivers here. Th...

LG reports ~10% sales bump in Q1, mobile revenues up 4% QoQ, 2% YoY

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techcrunch.com - LG Electronics has posted its Q1 2017 results, which show anearly 10 per cent year-over-year jump in revenue. The electronics maker is reporting KRW 14.66 trillion ($12.70BN) in revenue, an increas...

Cloudflare debuts a security solution for IoT

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techcrunch.com - Cloudflare, the content delivery network that promises speed and security for websites, announced today that it’s moving into the internet-of-things industry with a security product called Orbit. N...

Scaleway thinks the future of cloud hosting is ARM-based servers

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techcrunch.com - Iliad’s cloud hosting division Scaleway is launching a new type of server today. In just a minute, you can launch your server with its own dedicated ARMv8 processor, 2GB of RAM, 50GB of SSD storage...

Throttling of websites and online services might help customers, FCC says

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arstechnica.com - You can now start filing public comments on the Federal Communications Commission plan to eliminate net neutrality rules. The FCC today opened the docket, titled "Restoring Internet Freedom." Click...

Acer debuts see-through trackpad gaming laptop and a slew of affordable notebooks

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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—Acer's big press conference last year brought new Chromebooks for work, a new Aspire laptop, and a tablet for the elderly. This year, the company focused on machines thatappeal to every le...

Report: Apple wants to get into Venmo-esque money transfers

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arstechnica.com - Rumors about an Apple-backed peer-to-peer payments system that could compete with serviceslike Square Cash, PayPal's Venmo, and Google Wallet have been floating around for years. Those rumors still...

Comcast and other ISPs celebrate imminent death of net neutrality rules

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arstechnica.com - The nation's biggest home Internet and mobile broadband providers say they're big fans of net neutrality—but they'realso really glad that the Federal Communications Commission is preparing to disma...

Ajit Pai announces plan to eliminate Title II net neutrality rules

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month to start the process of reversing thecommission's 2015 net neutrality order, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced in a speech today. Earlier to...

Please Help Me Understand This Horrifying and Confusing Cars Theory

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io9.gizmodo.com - It’s been fairly well-documented at this point that I and James Whitbrook have a few questions about the world of Cars. Okay, we have a lot of questions. We’re basically Daleks yelling “EXPLAIN” wi...

Washing machine AI? You'll thank AWS, Microsoft, Google (eventually)

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www.theregister.co.uk - There's a war brewing in the cloud, and machine learning may well determine the outcome. With infrastructure services trending toward commoditisation, each of the big-three cloud purveyors is racin...

Ransomware up. Breaches up. What do hackers want? Research, prototypes... all your secrets

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www.theregister.co.uk - Cyberespionage and ransomware attacks are on the increase, according to the latest annual edition of Verizon's breach report. Organisations in manufacturing, the public sector and education bore th...

NuAns NEO Reloaded now on Indiegogo, runs Android 7.1 Nougat - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The NuAns Neo Reloaded is still alive. If you may remember, the phone was “reloaded” with new specs and Android 7.1 Nougat version back in February. This is already a follow-up to the NuAns NEO whi...

Anker PowerCore+ 26800 PD available on Amazon, ready to juice up more gadgets - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve always known Anker to offer the most powerful powerbanks and chargers in the market today. We’ve featured a number of products already including the Anker Roav, PowerCore Speed, and a USB Typ...

Google improves “cast this tab” function of Chromecast - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you want a relatively painless way to cast your favorite streaming service and apps to a bigger screen, the Google Chromecast dongle should probably be your best friend. Whether you want to watc...

Discover how easy Android app development can be [DEALS] - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Learn how to design an effective, professional looking app just like Whatsapp, Uber and Instagram with The Complete Android N Developer Course. This popular training package is offered at more than...

With Secret Airship, Sergey Brin Also Wants to Fly

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www.bloomberg.com - Larry Page has his flying cars. Sergey Brin shall have an airship. Brin, the Google co-founder, has secretly been building a massive airship inside of Hangar 2 at the NASA Ames Research Center, acc...

The state of privacy and security in an ever-evolving world

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www.cio.com - Privacy and security have evolved. We are seeing various breaches that are devastating organizations across many industries. How can you secure your data in a world full of mobile devices, IoT,and ...

ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy, Qualified and Verified Local Service Providers in India. As per Mr. Chaudhary; ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustwort...

Brian Zuercher Of VenueSeen On Social Media Photography And Managing Customer Relationships - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Brian Zuercherhad a precocious interest in business for a boy from the Buckeye State. He likes his sports, too, but ever since the days of running the school store, the entrepreneurial path has bec...

RunLastMan : Sports Betting Platform - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Graham Carrick”,CEO at the Dublin – Ireland based start-up “RunLastMan” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...

Pampered Teacher : Sends Teachers a Subscription Box Filled with Hand-Selects 4-6 Teacher Gifts - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Cristin Frank”, Owner Of the NY – USA based startup “Pampered Teacher” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what...

Check & update your Android version - Nexus Help

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support.google.com - You can see your device's Android version number and security patch date in your Settings app. You'll get notifications whenAndroid software updates are available for you. You can also check for up...

Nintendo Switch is Off to a Strong Start - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Nintendo announced a “promising start” for its new Switch video game console: The firm sold 2.74 million units in March and expects to sell another 10 million consoles in its first year in the mark...