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Thursday, October 19, 2017

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Visiting futurist gives area things to think about

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www.miningjournal.net - Thomas Frey, founder of the Westminster, Colorado-based DaVinci Institute and former IBM engineer and designer, spoke about future technology Monday before the Economic Club of Marquette County. Ther…

Apple and GE announce deep partnership

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techcrunch.com - While Apple has had its share of enterprise partners in recent years including IBM, Cisco and SAP, today’s announcement that it will be working directly with GE feels a bit different with the two com…

Wattpad’s storytelling app, now with 60M monthly users, adds a subscription service

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techcrunch.com - Wattpad, the company behind a suite of apps for reading and sharing stories – including a fairly popular “chat fiction” app Tap, a rival to Hooked – is today adding its first ever subscription plan f…

Adobe brings visual search to its Typekit font service

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techcrunch.com - Say you have a photo of a billboard or poster that you like and you want to find the font the designer used to bring its message across. Typically, that involves a lot of trial and error, but Adobe T…

Bento Stack is a bento box for your Apple accessories

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techcrunch.com - The only thing I hate more than schlepping around electronics is schlepping around accessories and dongles for those electronics. And even when I’m not traveling it’s still hard to organize everythin…

Facebook and Google competed for anti-immigration ad dollars during the 2016 election

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techcrunch.com - In a textbook illustration of the conflict of interest between Facebook and Google’s ostensible dedication to free speech and their ostensible espousal of progressive values, the internet giants repo…

Bixby 2.0 takes center stage at Samsung’s Developer Conference

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techcrunch.com - No surprise, Samsung is making the connected home a big focus of its annual Developer Conference this week in San Francisco. DJ Koh, the company’s head of Mobile Communications took to the stage at M…

Nielsen will now measure TV audiences on Netflix

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techcrunch.com - Nielsen is hoping to make the viewership numbers for the shows airing on streaming services a little less of a mystery. The company is today announcing a new service, Nielsen Subscription Video On De…

Atlas Informatics calls it quits after less than a year

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techcrunch.com - Atlas Informatics, whose Atlas Recall promised an intuitive and powerful way to index all your information across many services, is shutting down less than a year after launch. There will be no long …

Adobe expands its Creative Cloud services for enterprises

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techcrunch.com - Adobe is using its annual MAX conference to launch a number of new features that are especially interesting to enterprises today. Usually, when we talk about enterprise software, we’re talking about …

Adobe’s XD prototyping and wireframing tool is now out of beta

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techcrunch.com - XD is Adobe’s tool for helping user experience and user interface designers prototype and wireframe new mobile and web applications. The company started testing this application back in 2016; today, …

Now part of Cisco, AppDynamics update looks to deepen understanding of business performance

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techcrunch.com - When Cisco acquired AppDynamics in January for $3.7 billion, it was a big surprise as the company was on the verge of going public. While it’s probably too soon to say how intertwined it will become …

Garmin’s new Vivosport is an ideal lightweight smart activity tracker

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techcrunch.com - If you’re looking to get pretty much all the benefits of a smartwatch without a watch, and to track your activity and sport performance with tools that are more than up to the task, Garmin’s Vivospor…

Apple’s Project Titan self-driving test car has a lot going on up top

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techcrunch.com - When one self-driving technology entrepreneur highlights the efforts of another company working on autonomous vehicles, you pay attention: That’s what happened with Voyage co-founder MacCallister Hig…

This ultra-cute tiny PS4 controller is a great option for children and the small-handed

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techcrunch.com - If you like playing console games with the younger generation, you may have come across the issue of their tiny hands being unable to perform certain combos, reach certain buttons easily, and so on. …

Adobe launches a cloud-centric redesign of Lightroom CC

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techcrunch.com - While Photoshop is Adobe’s flagship product for photographers, its photo management and editing tool Lightroom is probably even more popular among photographers as it allows them to easily manipulate…

Adobe says it wants AI to amplify human creativity and intelligence

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techcrunch.com - About a year ago, Adobe announced its Sensei AI platform. Unlike other companies, Adobe says that it has no interest in building a general artificial intelligence platform — instead, it wants to buil…

Google Play apps with as many as 2.6m downloads added devices to botnet

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arstechnica.com - Google has booted eight Android apps from its Play marketplace, even though the apps have been downloaded as many as 2.6 million times. The industry giant did so after researchers found that the apps…

Netflix, Amazon, movie studios sue over TickBox streaming device

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arstechnica.com - Movie studios, Netflix, and Amazon have banded together to file a first-of-its-kind copyright lawsuit against a streaming media player called TickBox TV. The complaint (PDF), filed Friday, says the T…

Gran Turismo Sport is extremely limited in offline mode

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arstechnica.com - On Tuesday, October 17, the long-awaited Gran Turismo Sport arrives for the Playstation 4. This seventh installment of one of the world's best-selling games franchises introduces a number of updates …

Nintendo Switch tiptoes toward letting users back up their data

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arstechnica.com - As the Nintendo Switch loses some of its brand-new luster, fans have begun to question a few key missing features, from the long-running Virtual Console service to traditional apps like media players…

Native American tribe sues Amazon and Microsoft over patents

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arstechnica.com - The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe has filed patent lawsuits against Amazon and Microsoft, using patents it acquired from a company called SRC Labs, according to reports in Reuters and CNBC. Until recently, …

Gran Turismo Sport’s high-end bonuses: HDR is incredible, but VR is not

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arstechnica.com - As Ars's resident car guru Jonathan Gitlin tears through the racing nuts and bolts of this week's new racing video game, Gran Turismo Sport, he has asked me to kill time by reviewing its higher-end e…

Apple and GE partner to make industrial analytics iOS-accessible

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arstechnica.com - GE and Apple announced a partnership today that will pave the way for putting utility analytics software Predix on iOS devices. The Predix software development kit will allow 77 utilities that work w…

EA shuts down Visceral, will reboot its Star Wars game due to “marketplace”

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arstechnica.com - EA has now dramatically shifted the development of the above unnamed Star Wars game. This image is from E3 2016; Visceral's game had long been hidden from the public with a way-off release target of …

Surprise! The Pixel 2 is hiding a custom Google SoC for image processing

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arstechnica.com - Google's newest flagship smartphone, the Pixel 2, is nearly out. The company has been talking a big game about the 2's camera and calling it, definitively, "the best smartphone camera." But Google ha…

NYPD database that tracks seized evidence (and cash) has no backup

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arstechnica.com - As part of an ongoing legal battle to get the New York City Police Department to track money police have grabbed in cash forfeitures, an attorney for the city told a Manhattan judge on October 17 tha…

Microsoft never disclosed 2013 hack of secret vulnerability database

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arstechnica.com - Hackers broke into Microsoft's secret, internal bug-tracking database and stole information related to vulnerabilities that were exploited in later attacks. But the software developer never disclosed…

Former workers at Tesla factory sue over alleged racial harassment

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arstechnica.com - The men, who are all African-American, allege that shortly after they began work in 2015, their co-workers and superiors began taunting them and called them "n****r" on a regular basis. The lawsuit, …

Surface Book 2: More cores, more GPU, and more screen

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arstechnica.com - Just over two years ago, Microsoft unveiled its Surface Book hybrid laptop: a tablet with a detachable hinged keyboard base. It was a compelling concept, with Microsoft pulling off some clever tricks…

Leverage the Undeniable Power of Video Marketing on All Platforms

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www.entrepreneur.com - Quality content increasingly involves multimedia, which is not surprising: people love to experience things through a variety of senses. Video is the most interactive and engaging type of content to …

How to Use Live Video to Dominate the Competition

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neilpatel.com - Finding new tactics to grow your business is tough. It’s especially difficult when your competitors are trying the exact same things. But you need to differentiate yourself. The same old marketing ta…

While Apple is taking away buttons, we found a way to add one.

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medium.com - Apple has never been afraid to take design risks. Earlier this year, Apple made headlines when it revealed a new iPhone design that left out the iconic Home button. Now, I’m all for simplification. B…

5 Lesser Known Facebook Page Features for Marketers : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Interested in ways to improve your marketing? In addition to the Facebook features you use for business every day, there are some handy ones you may have overlooked. In this article you’ll discover f…

Elon Musk’s AI Bot Destroying Top ‘Dota 2’ Players Will Scare Even Non-Gamers - DesignTAXI.com

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designtaxi.com - Elon Musk’s AI Bot Destroying Top ‘Dota 2’ Players Will Scare Even Non-Gamers Dota 2 is known to be one of the most challenging and complex multiplayer video games in the world. To become a professio…

NVIDIA Inception Awards Come to Tel Aviv | NVIDIA Blog

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blogs.nvidia.com - It was the ultimate setting – like playing baseball at Yankee Stadium or singing opera at La Scala. NVIDIA’s Inception Award competition for promising AI startups found its perfect home today in a pa…

Why Marketing Agencies Are Losing Money By Ignoring Video Marketing

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blog.shakr.com - Marketing agencies are specialists at following the latest development in the marketing world, often seeing the potential of an up and coming platform way before their client see it. It is thereafter…

Google's 'Advanced Protection' Locks Down Accounts Like Never Before

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www.wired.com - When it comes to the eternal tradeoff between digital security and convenience, most tech firms focus their efforts on the vast majority of people who choose a painless user experience over a paranoi…

Google peddling Advanced Security for "high risk" users in need of extra protection - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - In these days where you won’t go a week without hearing of a hacking incident that caused awful information leaks, Google is pushing a higher level of information security for the “high-risk” user wh…

BBC iPlayer now has Android Auto for radio-listening-in-the-car needs - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - For people who have long, daily drives to work or school, the arrival of Android Auto has probably somewhat eased your boredom and at the same time kept you safe while on the road. And if you live in…

"What's that song?" Pixel 2 probably knows with Now Playing feature - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Probably one of the most annoying things to happen, at least for those who love music, is when you can’t remember the title of a song that’s currently playing. There are apps that can help you like S…

Dropbox Professional is a new tier for freelancers, creatives - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - If you pay for your Dropbox cloud storage and storage, your only options are Plus which just gives you the extra gigabytes or terabytes you need or the Business which has several extra features but i…

Clarity of Message Biggest Challenge in Creating Measurable Customer Experiences

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www.loyalty360.org - There are numerous challenges surrounding the creation of measurable experiences that drive customer loyalty. Loyalty360 talked to Bruce Lilly, lead copywriter for The Draw Shop, to get his thoughts …

Delta Pilots New Customer Engagement Program

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www.loyalty360.org - Delta Air Lines continues to seek new and impactful ways to engage with customers. Recently, the airline launched a pilot program that allows customers to video chat with a customer service agent. De…

Here@ : Find New Friend, Love Interest, or Find a Job - Start-Ups.Co

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

Mekiwi : Easy-To-Use 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 her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up …

Samsung Announces Bixby 2.0 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Today, Samsung announced the first major update to its digital personal assistant, called Bixby 2.0. “Bixby 2.0 will be a fundamental leap forward for digital assistants and represents another import…

Xbox One X Enhanced Versions of Original Halo Games Pushed to 2018 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - We’ve known for some time that Microsoft would remaster its Halo series of games in 4K and HDR for Xbox One X. But now we have more details, including the fact that we won’t see most of these updates…

Driving Paid Social Efficiencies With Top Creative

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www.adweek.com - Digital marketers are increasingly realizing that social platforms, with their large scale and ample first-party data, present an unparalleled opportunity to reach audiences with personalized content…

Is Google Becoming Less Transparent with Webmasters?

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www.shoemoney.com - Matt Cutts is no longer a Google employee. The last we saw of him, he had flitted off to do his public duty at the U.S. Digital Service. His last transmission was basically a farewell to the world of…

3 Moves Amazon Studios Must Make to Salvage Its Brand Following Roy Price’s Exit

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www.adweek.com - Like Harvey Weinstein before him, Amazon Studios chief Roy Price’s temporary suspension after sexual harassment allegations has become permanent. On Tuesday night, Price stepped down as head of Amazo…

Burger King Reveals the Uncomfortable Truth About Bullying in a Remarkable In-Store Stunt

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www.adweek.com - Bullying is a seemingly intractable problem, but there is one simple thing you can do about it. If you see it happening, you can step in and try to stop it. Burger King, of all brands, makes that poi…

The Beginner-Friendly Guide To Influencer Marketing

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bloggingwizard.com - Do you want to gain more visibility for your business? That’s a silly question, of course you want to gain more visibility for your business. Everybody does. You’ve tried all the typical marketing ti…

How to Get 1,000 People to Read Your Next Blog Post

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weekhack.com - Writing quality content is always hard to do. It doesn’t matter whether you write an ultimate guide, simple blog post, or email. But there’s one thing even harder. Getting people that actually care a…

Google Tag Manager now has a native scroll depth tracking plugin

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searchengineland.com - Google Tag Manager has added a native scroll depth trigger tool to report scroll-tracking data in Google Analytics. According to Simo Ahava’s blog post on the new feature, the native scroll depth tri…

WhatsApp now lets you stalk your friends in real-time | TheINQUIRER

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www.theinquirer.net - FACEBOOK-OWNED MESSAGING SERVICE WhatsApp has announced a new feature that will let you stalk your pals in real-time. It's not as creepy as it sounds, according to WhatsApp, which claims the feature …

AdWords adds 'Days to Conversion' segmentation for sales cycle insights

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searchengineland.com - AdWords has released a new reporting segmentation to show how many days it took for a conversion to occur after a user saw or clicked on an ad. The “Days to Conversion” segment is available in the bo…

Our 'Ultimate Guide to Google Penalties' launches today

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searchengineland.com - Few SEO nightmares can compare to the horror of waking up to a sudden drop in rankings — and worse, traffic — and discovering that your site has been penalized by Google. A variety of factors impact …

Does Melania Trump use a body double? We investigate.

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mashable.com - Every once in a while, a conspiracy theory comes along that's so emotionally satisfying I have no choice but to present it as fact. Consider the latest Twitter conspiracy theory making the rounds: th…

Twitter Shuts Down Conservative Patriotic Journalist Network Auto-Tweets - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - According to Slate, “The app helped users build tweets with prewritten text and pictures and allowed them to post the tweets on a consistent schedule, even multiple times in an hour,” which could all…

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