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Wednesday, July 5, 2017

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Forget driverless cars: sailorless ships are about to make waves

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www.weforum.org - Tech companies from Google to Apple may be ploughing resources into driverless cars, but on our oceans, automated ships could be making bigger waves by the end of the decade. Norwegian company Yara...

Intel Core i9-7900X review: The fastest chip in the world, but too darn expensive

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arstechnica.co.uk - Intel's latest 10-core, high-end desktop (HEDT) chip—the Core i9-7900X—costs £900/$1000. That's £500/$500 less than its predecessor, the i7-6950X. In previous years, such cost-cutting would have be...

A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education

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qz.com - In 2005, the late writer David Foster Wallace delivered a now-famous commencement address. It starts with the story of the fish in water, who spend their lives not even knowing what water is. They ...

What Causes Bad Customer Service? A Tale of Two Companies

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fletchcreative.com - If good customer service is good for business and bad customer service isn’t, have you ever wondered why so many companies offer such b-a-a-d customer service? Hi, it’s me again. Buzz. I told you I...

Apple said to be exploring face scanning technology for the iPhone

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techcrunch.com - According to freshly-minted rumors posted by Bloomberg, Apple is looking to do away with the iPhone’s tried-and-true fingerprint reader altogether, in favor of face-unlocking technology. The move w...

500 Startups LPs Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klein react to Dave McClure’s resignation

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techcrunch.com - Earlier today, TechCrunch reported that 500 Startups co-founder Dave McClure, who had already stepped down as CEO, has resigned from his general partner role. Now, Mitch Kapor and Freada Kapor Klei...

The Eero Beacon is the perfect addition to its family of mesh WiFi products

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techcrunch.com - Since launching two years ago, wireless networking startup Eero has sought to make it easier for consumers to blanket their homes in strong WiFi. With the itsnewest hardware products, Eero took a s...

Samsung is reportedly getting ready to join the smart speaker craze

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techcrunch.com - Samsung is reportedly working on its own smart speaker device to compete with Amazon’s Echo and others, the WSJ reports. Appropriately, the timing of the device is far from ironed out. Samsung has ...

Internet Stone Soup

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techcrunch.com - Almost fifteen years ago I’d wake in a cold sweat almost every day. In the early-morning murk I’d stumble down to my basement office, still in my pajamas. Proper ablutions – a shower, a shave, clot...

One-upping the NES Classic Edition with the Raspberry Pi 3 and RetroPie

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arstechnica.com - Last November, Nintendo surprised everyone by going back to its roots and releasing the NES Classic.The delightful emulator/nostalgia-fest sparked unanticipated demand, including near-instant suppl...

Ubisoft wishes Watch Dogs 2 players a terrible Fourth of July

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arstechnica.com - Haven't played Ubisoft's Watch Dogs 2 in a while? Its developersapparently want to torture you for the next week if you consider doing so, all in the name of the U-S-of-A. Usually, seasonal events ...

The first self-driving grocery delivery van

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arstechnica.co.uk - I stand on a curb in Greenwich, admiring some reasonably attractive new-build homes. Everything is a bittoo clean, a little like Disneyland. Young professionals mill around. In the distance, I can ...

Next iPhone might use 3D face-scanning tech instead of TouchID

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arstechnica.com - The next iPhone (the iPhone 7S, iPhone 8?), which is due to be released in September, might replace theTouchID fingerprint sensor with whole-face 3D scanning. According to Bloomberg, which is usual...

The secret lives of Google raters

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arstechnica.com - Google's business immediately took a hit: prominent European ad agencies cut ties with the company, while AT&T and Verizon cut all video ad buys. Acknowledging the gravity of the problem, Google as...

802.eleventy what? A deep dive into why Wi-Fi kind of sucks

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arstechnica.com - When wireless networking based around the802.11b standard first hit consumer markets in the late nineties, it looked pretty good on paper. Promising "11 Mbps" compared to original wired Ethernet's ...

Wowing and washable: Google’s smart jacket wears and works well at first glance

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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—"The tech couldn't be seen as slapped on the garment,"Ivan Poupyrev, technical program lead at Google’s Advanced Technology And Products (ATAP) group, told the crowd during his weeken...

How This Internet Magician Went From Zero To 6.5 Million Followers In A Year

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www.inc.com - Going viral is all down to luck. You can crank out a hundred videos and a thousand blog posts but whether any of them will fly around the Internet is all down to chance. At least that's what they s...

10 Ways to Design Menus That Don’t Suck | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - There are definite right and wrong ways to design navigation menus. This basic part of a website is often overlooked in the design process and it shows in terms of usability. Clunky, overcrowded or...

Top 7 Unusual and Wacky Alarm Clocks for the Sleepyheads - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Wake up, sleepyheads! We know there’s many of us you who don’t wake up on time no matter how many alarms you’ve set. Maybe it’s time that you use something that is more effective. Look for alarm cl...

Cricket Wireless now selling Samsung Galaxy Halo for $179.99 - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re looking for a mid-ranger device and you are a Samsung fan plus a Cricket Wireless subscriber, the prepaid wireless service provider is now offering the Samsung Galaxy Halo for just $179.9...

Increase your Google ranking by an average of 300% with Webtexttool [DEALS] - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Are you a content creator that could use a little help in the SEO department? Then give Webtexttool a try. Get a lifetime subscription to their Personal PLUS Plan and save over 90% off the regular ...

Best games of 2017: What you should be playing on your Android device - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Maybe you’re just a casual gamer, looking to play a game in the short downtimes of your day, or maybe you’re the type who really gets into the epic gaming stuff. Whatever your Android gaming prefer...

My Tour Deal : Mobile ONLY Booking App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Patrick Ncho”,Co-Founder at the California – USA based Startup “MyTourDeal” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and ...

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...

Sleeves Up Productions : Digital Content For Brands - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Erika Kramer”,CEO and Founder at New York – USA based start-up “SleevesUpProductions” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that ...

Hubchi : Online Marketplace For Booking and Entertainment - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Prasanthy Gurugubelli”, Founder at theHyderabad – India based start-up “Hubchi” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do...

How to Repurpose Videos Into Many Forms of Valuable Content : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to create a wide range of content without a lot of effort? Is it easier for you to create videos than the written word? In this article, you’ll discover how to use video to produce up to eight...

How MailChimp Uses Landing Pages to Grow Their Business

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instapage.com - If you’re a marketer or a business owner, you’re likely familiar with the winking, cap-wearing monkey named Freddie: Freddie is the mascot of powerhouse email marketing software, MailChimp, whose c...

3D printing: the revolution will be franchised

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biv.com - Neil Patel is adamant that, in the next decade, 3D printers will become as common a household item as a personal computer. “It just makes no sense [that] the world’s biggest industrial secret that’...

50 Incredible Women in Marketing to Follow

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www.searchenginejournal.com - Today is International Women’s Day! The growth of woman-owned businesses is larger than it’s ever been, with a surge that really took off in 2016. In fact, 2016 might have been the best year to-dat...

The Perfect Laptop & Gadget Bag

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Pacsafe Z400 – EARPLANES – Sony Bluetooth Headphones – MacBook Pro – Whoosh Cleansing Spray – iPad Air 2 – MX Master Computer mouse – Battery Backup – Pocketbook/ Loan Clip – ADHERE TO ME IN THESE ...

Creating Ecosystems Builds Anti-Core Drive 8: Loss & Avoidance - Yu-kai Chou: Gamification & Behavioral Design

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yukaichou.com - This article was written by Erik van Mechelen based on the Octalysis framework by Yu-kai Chou. Ecosystem influence and convenience Many are familiar withAmazon’s or Apple’s or Google’s exhaustive e...

How to track location of Android mobile phone?

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iphonefindmyphone.com - If you shed your android device, you could quickly track its area using an app called, "android tool supervisor". This guide discusses the steps where you can find area of your android tool on your...

VicTsing MM057 2.4G Wireless Portable Mobile Mouse Optical Mice with USB Receiver, 5 Adjustable DPI Levels, 6 Buttons for Notebook, PC, Laptop, Computer, Macbook – Black

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popularchristmas.com - This is a brand-new top-quality Wireless Mouse with 2400 DPI 5 adjustable degrees 6 Buttons. Features reliability, ease-of-use, and individual comfort, this wireless computer mouse gives you fast i...

Gamification Analysis of Snapchat: How Snapchat is Changing Storytelling

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yukaichou.com - This article is written by Contributing Writer Erik van Mechelen. Snapchat has surpassed Facebook and Instagram as the go-to app for teens. Having famously turned down a $3-billion offer from Faceb...

How To Be Successful With Regards To Mobile Marketing

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marketingpromotion.biz - Mobile marketing is very effective when used correctly, but it can be difficult to learn and create a great marketing plan. There are an abundance of options available that you must educate yoursel...

Stay Focused When It Comes To Affiliate Promotion

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duracmarketing.com - A partnership describes how people often make money in the world of internet marketing. The company above you might not be there to help, but you’ll both reap the benefits of everyone’s hard work. ...

Amazon’s Alexa passes 15,000 skills, up from 10,000 in February

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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s Alexa voice platform has now passed 15,000 skills — the voice-powered apps that run on devices like the Echo speaker, Echo Dot, newer Echo Show and others. The figure is up from the 10,000...

Op-Ed: We know Silicon Valley is broken, so let’s fix it

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www.cnbc.com - Can a few hundred words really change culture? A momentum to do just that is building in tech — and it's happening in the most digital-first way possible. Since I moved to San Francisco six months ...

Apple is Planning to Launch Apple iPhone 8 to Spot its Tenth Anniversary: Specs, Price and Release date - PhoneMantra

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phonemantra.com - iPhone 8 Specs:Apple is planning to launch a revolutionary device ‘Apple iPhone 8’ to spot its tenth anniversary. Surely, it will hit the market with the huge competition. People and retailers are ...

Sony launches Bravia OLED in PH after strong buzz in CES 2017 - The Manila Times Online

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www.manilatimes.net - Japanese electronics giant Sony introduced the Bravia organic light-emitting diode (OLED) television to the Philippine market, saying on Tuesday that the product generated 200 percent year-on-year ...

Tapping IoT to monitor the flow of free beer

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www.cio.com - Unaccountable product loss is a retailer’s nightmare. And for those in the restaurant industry, this loss can be summed up in two words: free beer. Buffalo Wild Wings, the restaurant chain famous f...

Researcher calls on Apple, Google, govts to stop spread of phone scams

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hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - As spam filters and machine learning getbetter by the day at hampering email fraud, cybercriminals are doing new, flourishing business in the less-protected ‘phone’ department. Numerous phone and S...

Careers

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www.egnyte.com - USA POLAND UK Engineering | Customer Advocacy | Marketing | Product | Sales | G & A Engineering New Graduate – Product Development (Computer Science) (Mountain View, CA - USA) Sr. Data Scientist (M...

Health trust rapped on illegal use of patient data in Google AI deal

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - When London’s Royal Free NHS Trust signed on the dotted line with Google DeepMind to build an innovative kidney-monitoring app in 2016, it’s safe to assume they didn’t see themselves being handed a...

Bloomberg: iPhone 8 will replace Touch ID with 3D facial detection, ProMotion possible

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9to5mac.com - Bloomberg reports that Apple is currently testing using 3D facial detection as a replacement for Touch ID fingerprint authentication. The report also believes the new iPhones could include the ProM...

How to See What the Internet Knows About You (And How to Stop It)

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www.nytimes.com - Let’s go down this rabbit hole. Start with this neat and medium-scary site, which our friends at Gizmodo flagged, that shows you everything your browser knows about you the second you open it. Here...

Logic using cURL, PHP and Twitter without using API

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stackoverflow.com - I have this code, which saves the cookies in a .txt file, and authenticates the user with Twitter $index_url, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => 'GET', CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER ...

3 Takeaways for Managing the Mobile Experience

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www.egnyte.com - We have learned so much about how Egnyte became the backbone to so many business operations. Nonetheless, we’ve affirmed that great data will never overshadow the importance of having an open dialo...

News in brief: China tightens Great Firewall; student charged over DDoS attacks; health data posted online

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - Your daily round-up of some of the other stories in the news China has tightened its grip on the “Great Firewall” by shutting down a popular VPN app used by locals and visitors alike. GreenVPN told...

Here's how to delete all of your embarrassing photos from Facebook

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www.dailydot.com - Facebook might be a great social media platform to exercise yourstalking skills, but it’s sort of like the online version of your grandmother’s dusty bookcase filled with old family albums: Some th...

7 Ways to Become a Better Business Leader

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www.entrepreneur.com - Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » We all know that, as entrepreneurs, we need to wear many hats. We’re often accountable for a wi...

Why Ideas Are an Entrepreneur's Most Valuable Currency

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www.entrepreneur.com - Entrepreneur Network provides you with expertise and opportunities to accelerate your brand's growth. Learn More » Kristen Dold is a freelance writer who's written for major publications likeThe Ne...

How I got 2.3 million app downloads (without spending a cent on marketing)

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stories.appbot.co - This was originally a 5 part series on my blog at stuartkhall.com titled An App Store Experiment, but here is a summary of the entire story. Rewind back to May 2013 and I was co-founder of a music ...

What Should an Apple Car Be?

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hbr.org - Tim Cookrecently confirmed that Apple is working on ‘autonomous systems.’ As usual with Apple, details are sparse, but it’s likely that autonomous cars are part of this. Apple is so great at connec...

Does the integration of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and LinkedIn lay the groundwork for a CRM software war?

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betanews.com - When Microsoft purchased LinkedIn back in December 2016, many predicted the eventual integration of Dynamics with the world’s primary professional social network. As well as being a valuable busine...

On the Inspection of Anti-Virus Source Code to Demonstrate the Lack of Offensive Cyber Capabilities

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www.lawfareblog.com - A recent AP storynotes that senior U.S. intelligence officials have advised Congress to steer well clear of Kaspersky's products. In response to such U.S. government concerns, Eugene Kaspersky has ...

15 Surprising Benefits of Mobile Invoicing

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www.entrepreneur.com - Apply now to be an Entrepreneur 360™ company. Let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » As a small business owner, you’re all-too-familiar with both the joy and pain ofinvoicing. On o...

So schlägt sich Apples neues iPad Pro im Alltag

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www.20min.ch - Ab sofort ist das neue iPad mit 10,5 Zoll Bildschirmdiagonale im Handel. Was hat sich im Vergleich zum Modell aus dem letzten Jahr geändert? Rein äusserlich sehen beide Geräte sehr ähnlich aus. Das...