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Spied! Mid-Engine Corvette Prototype Caught at McDonald's - Motor Trend

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www.motortrend.com - Exterior Color No Preference Black Blue Brown Gold Green Orange Red Silver White Yellow Interior Color No Preference Beige Black Blue Gray Green Other Red White Buying Time Frame Within 48 hours With…

Oculus Home Gets Upgrade; Dash Brings More Screens - VRScout

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vrscout.com - Oculus Rift getting Minority Report-like interface for VR. On top of announcing a new and more affordable standalone headset at Oculus’ annual developer conference, the Facebook owned company also te…

Loyalty, Retention, Relationships: What's Really in It for Your Customers?

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www.marketingprofs.com - In the marketing world, we often talk nostalgically about the "corner store" as the epitome of customer loyalty. Think back to 1957: That's when Leave It to Beaver debuted on TV, Elvis Presley purcha…

Julian Assange Just Opened Up About What Really Happened In Las Vegas, And The FBI Is Not Happy

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politifeed.net - It’s inevitable that whenever a public crisis of any sort occurs whether simple scandal or ‘terror’ attack, there will be people online who claim that there is a conspiracy at work. These claims used…

How to Use Polls in Instagram Stories : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Looking for ways to encourage your audience to interact with you on Instagram? Want to get more feedback from your audience in a direct way? In this article, you’ll discover how to create a poll in I…

NVidia Reveals World’s First AI Computer For Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles

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www.carscoops.com - NVidia has announced its latest supercomputer for fully autonomous vehicles, codenamed Pegasus, extending the Drive PX platform in order to provide the power needed for Level 5 driverless cars. In or…

Google’s Clips camera offers a snapshot of things to come

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www.computerworld.com - Google held a big hardware event this week, announcing a couple of new Pixel-branded smartphones, two Google Home devices, a new Pixelbook laptop, new earbuds called Pixel Buds, and a consumer camera…

Become Your Own Boss Bundle » Succeed As Your Own Boss

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succeedasyourownboss.com - Forget the “get rich quick” books; it takes more than a weekend to start a business. After helping thousands of people start their own businesses over the past 15 years, Melinda Emerson — aka @SmallB…

The ABC of Cybersecurity – Android Threats: A is for Adware

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hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com - Advertising-supported software has become a billion dollar business in which developers offering free software can generate some revenue that would allow them to either continue development or recove…

Trump’s DOJ tries to rebrand weakened encryption as “responsible encryption”

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arstechnica.com - A high-ranking Department of Justice official took aim at encryption of consumer products today, saying that encryption creates "law-free zones" and should be scaled back by Apple and other tech comp…

Ubooly: A Voice Interactive Stuffed Animal Smart Toy Powered by your iPhone or iPod Touch - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Ubooly is a stuffed animal powered by your iPhone or iPod touch. We use voice recognition and ongoing updates to make the world smartest toy. According to Mr. ‘Gloge'; Ubooly is a stuffed animal powe…

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 analysi…

T-Mobile customer data plundered thanks to bad API

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arstechnica.com - A bug disclosed and patched last week by T-Mobile in a Web application interface allowed anyone to query account information by simply providing a phone number. That includes customer e-mail addresse…

Autonomous Cars Are Getting into Accidents Because They Drive Too Well

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www.thedrive.com - Imagine a world where every driver on the road followed the rules of the road perfectly. Every car makes a complete stop at every stop sign and the speed limit is never exceeded. That’s the world tha…

ShiftLeft promises to protect your code even when you ignore security threats

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techcrunch.com - Every day companies are uploading fresh code to the cloud. The pace is startling and that tends to lead to errors. We have seen security software in the past that will check that code for problems an…

U.S. consumers are spending 10 hours per year in shopping apps

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techcrunch.com - Mobile shopping is on the rise, with U.S. consumers now spending nearly 50 minutes in shopping apps per month, or 10 hours per year, according to a new report out this morning from App Annie. Digital…

After Sandberg chat, House intel plans to release Russian-bought Facebook ads to the public

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techcrunch.com - After its Senate counterpart made clear that it had no intention of doing so, the House Intelligence Committee announced that it plans to publish the Russian-bought Facebook ads that the company prov…

Amazon introduces a way for teens to independently shop its site, following parents’ approval

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techcrunch.com - Amazon today announced a new way for teens to shop its site independently of their parents’ accounts and place their own orders, which parents can choose to review before allowing the purchase. Teens…

Everyone bored to death by DoJ’s latest call for crypto backdoors

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techcrunch.com - The U.S. Department of Justice’s deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, gave a speech on encryption yesterday and boy was it a snoozer. It’s almost as if all those decades of crypto wars never happ…

Hulu responds to user complaints with a grid guide for Live TV

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techcrunch.com - User feedback about Hulu’s new interface has not been entirely positive. In fact, a complaint about the new user interface is the most upvoted item on Hulu’s customer feedback forums, and is then fol…

NumberAI raises $1.6M to make business landline numbers smarter

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techcrunch.com - The phone number is probably one of the most important identifying numbers in your life — it’s how people reach out and get in touch with you outside of Facebook, Google, and whatnot. But the landlin…

Israel and Russia’s overlapping hacks of Kaspersky complicate espionage narrative

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techcrunch.com - The drama between Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky and the U.S. government just doesn’t quit, but a new report may answer some longstanding questions. This week, the New York Times revealed that …

Roku’s new channel with free movies and TV goes live for all

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techcrunch.com - Top streaming media device maker Roku announced in September it was launching its own channel featuring free movies and TV shows, including those it licensed itself and those aggregated from other ch…

Facebook’s new virtual reality strategy: self-reliance

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techcrunch.com - Today, Facebook’s VR ambitions looked inwards. The newly-announced $199 Oculus Go headset and upcoming high-end “Santa Cruz” standalone will come with something past headsets haven’t: power buttons. …

Cloud Foundry adds native Kubernetes support for running containers

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techcrunch.com - Cloud Foundry, the open-source platform as a service (PaaS) offering, has become somewhat of a de facto standard in the enterprise for building and managing applications in the cloud or in their own …

Donald Trump tweet suggests that FCC should take NBC off the air

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arstechnica.com - President Donald Trump today suggested that the Federal Communications Commission should challenge an NBC license because of "fake news." "With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks…

Bing search updates bring Netflix recommendations, tabbed organization

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arstechnica.com - Bing users in search of their next Netflix binge may now have an easier time finding the perfect show. Microsoft announced a few updates to its search engine through a blog post, with one of them bei…

Kaspersky reportedly modified its AV to help Russia steal NSA secrets

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arstechnica.com - The rapidly evolving story about Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab's involvement in helping Russian government hackers steal sensitive National Security Agency materials has taken yet another turn, as The W…

This is how good PS3 games were meant to look

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arstechnica.com - Be sure to view full-screen and at full resolution on a high-res monitor to really see the difference. Fans of classic gaming emulation know that modern emulators can do a lot to sharpen up the stand…

With the end of Windows on phones, how does Microsoft avoid being the next IBM?

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arstechnica.com - For fans of the platform, the official confirmation that Windows on phones isn't under active development any longer—security bugs will be fixed, but new features and new hardware aren't on the cards…

Logitech Craft review: A slick keyboard combo that takes on the Surface Dial

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arstechnica.com - The Surface Dial, a hockey-puck-sized controller designed for use with Microsoft's Surface Studio desktop computer, is the palette to the Surface's pen. It clicks, double clicks and rotates, adding c…

Criminals stole millions from E. Europe banks with ATM “overdraft” hack

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arstechnica.com - Banks in several former Soviet states were hit with a wave of debit card fraud earlier this year that netted millions of dollars worth of cash. These bank heists relied on a combination of fraudulent…

Tim Cook believes AR will be huge, but don’t expect Apple glasses yet

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arstechnica.com - The "Sword of Damocles" head-mounted display, the original augmented reality headset, circa 1968. Augmented reality has gotten a lot more mobile in the past decade. Apple CEO Tim Cook believes augmen…

Callaway’s 757hp AeroWagen might be the coolest Corvette ever

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arstechnica.com - Here at Ars, I've made no secret of my love for wagons or my regard for the current generation of Chevrolet Corvette. Now, thanks to the clever people at Callaway Cars, it's possible to get both of t…

How To Get More Traffic To Your Website Top 20 Tips - Affiliate Counselor

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affiliatecounselor.com - ‘How to get more traffic to your website’ is a never-ending quest among marketers that undoubtedly will remain as long as the marketing power of the internet persists. What follows are 20 tips that m…

The 7 Biggest LinkedIn Mistakes You're Probably Still Making

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www.inc.com - LinkedIn is the most poignant kind of PR: your personal reputation, writ large, in front of current, past and future employers and anywhere from a few hundred to many thousand of your professional pe…

Google will permanently disable a control on its new $50 speaker after the gadget listened in on some users

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www.businessinsider.com - Google is permanently disabling a feature on the forthcoming Google Home Mini smart speaker, after a reviewer discovered that it was surreptitiously recording his conversations without his knowledge …

Microsoft rolling out new design and UI for OneDrive, SharePoint - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve been using Microsoft’s OneDrive and/or SharePoint for some time now or if you’re thinking about switching from whatever file-hosting service you’re currently using, you’ll be happy to know …

Telegram update: location sharing, better media player, new languages - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Users of messaging app Telegram heads up! The latest update to the app is rolling out and it comes with several new goodies to make your messaging experience better, if you care about letting other p…

Twitter adds Happening Now section, starts with live sports events - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - In their bid to be more accessible and useful to new users, Twitter has added another new feature that they hope newbies will find appealing. Happening Now highlights tweets about certain live events…

My Home Needs That : Search Engine Dedicated to Furniture and Homeware - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Adam Pilling”, Foundert at the London – UK based start-up “MyHomeNeedsThat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and w…

TheVegasHookUp : Profile Filtering System - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Jamie Brewster”, Founder and CEO of the Oakland – USA based start-up “TheVegasHookUp” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that y…

ShopLocket.com: An E-commerce Platform that Lets Anyone Start Selling Professionally Online in Minutes - Start-Ups.Co

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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 h…

Soundest : App For E-commerce Email Marketing - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Start-Ups.Co really enjoyed interviewing the brilliant entrepreneur; Mr. ‘Rytis Lauris'; C0-Founder and CEOof the UK- based Start Up “Soundest”. Below, is the full interview that we have conducted :…

Pear-U : Relationship Making Application - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sachet Gagwani”, Founder/CEO of the Ashburn – USA based start-up “Pear-U” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what…

Mekiwi Oy : Finnish Startup To Manage Daily Life - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Antti Kananen”, CEO of the Finland based start-up “Mekiwi” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up …

Point Shout : Mobile App to Listen, Engage and React to Customers' Needs - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ionut Danifeld”, Co-Founder at the Brussels – Belgium based start-up “PointShout” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do …

A Group of Computer Scientists Believes a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank

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www.slate.com - Read Franklin Foer's follow-up story for new statements from the Trump campaign and Alfa Bank and analysis of the competing theories about the server and its activity.⁠⁠ Franklin Foer is a Slate cont…

Microsoft Announces Four New Xbox One S Bundles - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft today announced four new Xbox One S bundles, for Minecraft, Rocket League, Halo, and Xbox Game Pass. “This fall, we’ve got something for everyone so you can choose how you game on Xbox One,…

How Auto Brands Can Rev Up Engagement With 360 Media

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www.adweek.com - Facebook introduced 360 videos and photos with the aim to let people share a “more immersive view of the world.” This innovation was met with enthusiastic participation from marketers, and to date, b…

CBM101117 - chrisbrogan.com

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chrisbrogan.com - Here are the notes from the Chris Brogan Media broadcast for 10/11/17. (You can watch this on my Facebook account). This live video was all shot using Ecamm Live (client), the best way to do Facebook…

Snapchat Is Twice as Popular as Instagram When It Comes to Teens’ Favorite Social Apps

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www.adweek.com - Instagram may be encroaching on Snapchat’s territory when it comes to features and users, but Snapchat remains teens’ go-to app for social media, according to Piper Jaffray’s latest report. The inves…

Social PR Courses and Certifications Curated by Lisa Buyer and Dennis Yu

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socialprchat.com - The scenario: You got the diploma, crafted the perfect resume, and are ready to take on the world – but are you actually ready for a job in modern communications? Or if you managed to land a full-tim…

Do iPhone Users Spend More Online Than Android Users?

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moz.com - Apple has just launched their latest flagship phones to market and later this year they'll release their uber-flagship: the iPhone X. The iPhone X is the most expensive iPhone yet, at a cool $999. Wi…

SearchCap: Google AdWords interface, Google Home listens & Apple Search Ads expands

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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The new experience touts speed, upgraded visuals, more management tools. In Google’s wo…

Top 5 Strategies To Improve Your Online Presence

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sd-entrepreneur.com - Everywhere you look online lately, people are offering their opinions about anything and everything. Why not put this effort to good use to further your career and showcase your expertise in a positi…

James O'Keefe Busts YouTube Deciding What Is 'Legitimate' News, and What Isn't - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Project Veritas picks up where the first video left off, in conversation with the Times‘ Audience Strategy Editor, Nicholas Dudich, a former Democratic campaign operative who was shown suggesting tha…

Deputy AG Calls for Court-Approved Access to Encrypted Devices

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freebeacon.com - Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein / Getty Images BY: Bill Gertz Follow @BillGertz October 11, 2017 5:00 am Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein warned Monday that strong encryption built into …

Israeli spies found Russian hackers using Kaspersky software to penetrate US agencies

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www.americanthinker.com - Israeli cyber-intelligence agents tracking Russian hackers discovered that they were using Kaspersky anti-virus software to gain access to U.S. government networks. The software, used by 400 million …

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