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Wednesday, October 4, 2017

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Former Intel CEO Paul S. Otellini Dies at Age 66

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newsroom.intel.com - SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct. 3, 2017 – Intel Corporation today announced that the company’s former CEO Paul Otellini passed away in his sleep Monday, Oct. 2, 2017, at the age of 66. Paul Otellini became…

The future is coming. Here's what it might look like

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theconversation.com - Emergent technologies are poised to radically change how we work and live. They will transform our cities and workplaces, shifting jobs and entrepreneurship in new directions, and spur new ways to ma…

Russia-backed accounts are still active and advertising on Twitter and Facebook

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www.recode.net - Twitter has continued to allow a Russian government-supported news network to advertise on its platform, even though the tech company sounded alarms about its ads to lawmakers investigating the Kreml…

Facebook rolls out new ad policies amid Russia investigation

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www.politico.com - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg previewed some of the changes during a Sept. 21 live broadcast focused on what changes he thought the company needs to make to "protect election integrity and make sure t…

You can now capture your own Google Street View images with a special camera

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mashable.com - Google Street View has a new program that will let basically anyone with a car and the right camera contribute to its image database. The new program is called "Street View Ready" and will let photog…

21 Smart Ways To Increase Website Value - How To Make Money Online

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www.incomediary.com - The subject of building website value – attracts a lot of conflicting opinions! Worse still, there is a multitude of so called online “website value” calculators that claim to tell you how much your …

Hands-on with Snapchat’s mediocre, crashy AR art

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techcrunch.com - After trekking out to the middle of Central Park to see Snapchat’s newest AR feature, I can solidly say that the best part of the experience was getting to spend some time outside during a beautiful …

After mocking Apple, Google is also ditching headphone jack

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www.cultofmac.com - Google mocked the iPhone 7’s missing headphone jack in its marketing material for the original Pixel smartphone — but it won’t be doing the same for the Pixel 2. Just like Apple, the company has deci…

Microsoft getting out of the music biz, moving Groove subs to Spotify

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft announced today that it's getting out of the online music business. Music purchases in the Windows Store will cease, and the Groove Music Pass subscription service is also ending. The compa…

Frame.io picks up $20 million to be the Slack of video

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techcrunch.com - Frame.io, the collaboration platform for the video industry, has today announced the close of a $20 million Series B funding round led by FirstMark Capital, with participation from existing investors…

Here’s the “due diligence” report Waymo hopes will win its case against Uber

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arstechnica.com - A report that has long been fought over by lawyers at Waymo and Uber has been made public. Levandowski's lawyers fought to keep the Stroz Friedberg "due diligence" report on Uber acquiring his startu…

Social Growth: How to Use Pinterest to Grow Your Following on Facebook, YouTube and Beyond

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Have you thought about using Pinterest to grow your other social networks? To discover how to drive traffic from Pinterest to other networks, I interview Natalie Jill. The Social Media Marketing podc…

LocalGlobe backs augmented and virtual reality content startup Curiscope

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techcrunch.com - Curiscope, a U.K. augmented and virtual reality content startup, has raised a $1 million seed round led by LocalGlobe, the seed VC firm founded by Saul and Robin Klein. Ascension Ventures, Force over…

Former Equifax CEO says breach boiled down to one person not doing their job

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techcrunch.com - In a continued effort to pass on any responsibility for the largest data breach in history, Equifax’s recently departed CEO is blaming it all on a single person who failed to deploy a patch. Hackers …

Nura’s sound adapting headphones are now available for $399

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techcrunch.com - Nura’s come a long way since last June. Back when the hardware company last stopped by our offices, its headphones were giant, like a pair of old library headphones recreated on a 3D printer. Their i…

HYPR raises $8 million to prevent another Equifax hack

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techcrunch.com - The recent Equifax hack is yet another reminder that major corporations are still leaving themselves susceptible to attacks. There are countless cybersecurity startups looking to fix this problem, bu…

Intel introduces IoT provisioning solution to help install devices automatically

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techcrunch.com - Chipmaker Intel wants a piece of the growing Internet of Things market and they have developed the Intel Secure Device solution to help companies provision IoT devices in a secure and automated way. …

The Netgear ReadyNAS 524X is a data hoarder’s delight

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techcrunch.com - As a member of the Data Generation, I’ve found that my photos, videos, and documents quickly expand to fill their containers. A standard USB drive is quickly replaced by another, larger one while hom…

Code-execution flaws threaten users of routers, Linux, and other OSes

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arstechnica.com - Google researchers have discovered at least three software bugs in a widely used software package that may allow hackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable devices running Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBS…

Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers

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techcrunch.com - Google today launched a new database service for Firebase, its platform for app developers. The new Firestore database complements the existing Firebase Realtime Database and indeed, there’s quite a …

MessageBird, a European cloud comms platform that competes with Twilio, raises $60M Series A

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techcrunch.com - MessageBird, a cloud communications platform that counts publicly listed Twilio as a competitor, has raised a hefty $60 million in Series A funding. The round is being led by Accel in the U.S., with …

Will Google Home finally break out of Amazon Echo’s shadow?

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techcrunch.com - Last week, Amazon went on the offensive. It was a sort an Operation Shock and Awe of Echos, bringing the total line up to six devices — seven, if you count the Tap (which Amazon kind of, sort of does…

Amazon has acquired 3D body model startup, Body Labs, for $50M-$70M

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch has learned that Amazon has acquired Body Labs, a company with a stated aim of creating true-to-life 3D body models to support various b2b software applications — such as virtually trying …

Snap has sold “over 150k” pairs of Spectacles since launch

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techcrunch.com - Considering all of the fanfare that Snap gave to its heavily hyped Spectacles launch, the product is selling at a slower rate than many would probably guess. Onstage today at the Vanity Fair Establis…

Dropbox brand update streamlines its logo and takes aim at creatives

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techcrunch.com - Today Dropbox introduced a new brand design that includes a revamped logo, a plethora of color schemes and a new typeface. The new branding aims to set Dropbox apart from other file syncing services …

Optoma’s NuForce BE Free8 wireless headphones are a smart AirPods alternative

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techcrunch.com - Optoma has released new fully wireless headphones under its ‘NuForce’ audio sub brand, the BE Free8 earbuds. These are like Apple’s AirPods, requiring no wire to connect them, and they connect via Bl…

T-Mobile agrees to stop claiming its network is faster than Verizon’s [Updated]

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arstechnica.com - T-Mobile USA has agreed to stop claiming its 4G LTE network is faster than Verizon Wireless', after the advertising industry's self-regulation body agreed with Verizon that T-Mobile's claim was unsup…

2017 Porsche Cayenne S E-Hybrid: not cheap but you get a lot for the money

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arstechnica.com - Porsche might be known for sports cars like the 911, but today it makes its money selling SUVs. Four doors and voluminous cargo space may not be attributes we traditionally associated with the brand,…

How Blockchain Helps Content Creators Build Ecosystems and Generate Profits

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cointelegraph.com - The online publishing and advertising market is heavily reliant and dependent on mediators, third party service providers and centralized systems. As a result, like the music industry, revenue distri…

Gartner's Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 Adds 5G And Deep Learning For First Time

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www.forbes.com - The Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2017 provides insights gained from evaluations of more than 2,000 technologies the research and advisory firms tracks. From this large base of technologies, …

The 5 biggest announcements from Amazon’s hardware event

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www.theverge.com - Amazon surprised everyone with a press event that unveiled a bunch of new Echo hardware. The Echo speaker, originally launched in 2014, was overdue for an update after the company spun off devices wi…

5 Surefire Ways to Get Users to Scroll | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - The days of “above the fold” are over. Long scrolling and infinite scrolling sites are becoming more and more popular lately, and it’s no coincidence that this technique translates well to mobile de…

When Slower UX is Better UX | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - When it comes to technology, faster isn’t always better. It’s true that 47 percent of people want web pages to load in two seconds or less (and 40 percent abandon sites that take three seconds to loa…

Common Excuses Why Developers Don’t Test Their Software

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hackernoon.com - I have never met a single programmer who can code perfectly. I don’t think such a person exists. Once upon a time I hated testing software. It wasn’t important to me. I didn’t see the purpose. It see…

Facebook testing out facial recognition feature to unlock accounts - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - When someone gets locked out of their Facebook account for some reason, the instinct would be to freak out first right? Well, that is, if you’re that attached to your social media life of course. And…

VLC for Android finally gets updated after more than a year - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - VLC is one of the more popular names in media players, shooting to popularity on the PC platform as a media player that can play most, if not all media file types. Naturally, you would look for the s…

Messenger Lite rolling out in the US, UK, Canada, and Ireland - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - While Facebook originally envisioned their Messenger Lite app for developing countries or those that didn’t have not so good Internet connection, it looks like they’re re-thinking that strategy even …

Xiaomi ships 10 million smartphones in just one month - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi may no longer be the top Chinese OEM after being edged out by Huawei but the company is selling millions of phones left and right not only in China but also in other countries. The brand has p…

NAD recommends T-Mobile to stop saying it has the fastest LTE network - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - With the way T-Mobile does its ads and new product announcements, it’s not really a surprise that its competitors will actually complain. We can imagine how many times the National Advertising Divisi…

Samsung intros ADT Home Security Starter Kit - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The smart home game is getting a boost with ADT. We first encountered the security company a few months ago when the ADT Pulse app was updated with SafetyNet. We knew then the system would be of grea…

Insta360 Pro certified by Google as 'Street View Auto Ready' camera - Android Community

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androidcommunity.com - The team behind Insta 360 have long been working with other OEMs to deliver reliable 360-degree imaging technology. We first saw the Insta360 Air when it was introduced and made available in Europe a…

MeasurableMediaLabs.com: A Company that Conducts Advertising Case Studies for Online Publishers - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - MeasurableMediaLabs.com is the “Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval” for online advertisers by validating the CPM publishers charge in order for publishers to be successful. “MeasurableMediaLabs.com” …

Peoplegeist: A 100% Free Social People Search Engine that Puts You in Complete Control of What Others See and Learn about You Online - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - Peoplegeist is, simply put, designed to make it easier to find information about people for the purpose of forming and maintaining stronger relationships. “Peoplegeist” is a social people search engi…

Cheekd : Mobile Dating App - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Ms. “Lori Cheek”, CEO of the USA based start-up “Cheekd” Below is the interview we conducted with her: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is all …

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 what…

ParkParrot : Automated System Showing Available Parkings - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Chandler Burke”, Founder of the Chattanooga – USA based start-up “ParkParrot” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and …

SentioSearch.com: A Social Network that Connects Decision-Makers with Mentors who will Give them the Best Chance to Make Good Decisions and Minimize Regret - Start-Ups.Co

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www.start-ups.co - SentioSearch is a social network that connects decision-makers with mentors who will give them the best chance to make good decisions and minimize regret. “SentioSearch.com” is a social network that …

Three Must-Haves for Building a Successful Online Brand - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - This month here on Smart Passive Income, we’re going to talk all about branding. I have some great blog posts and podcast episodes lined up that are going to help you no matter what stage you’re at w…

Uber safety tips: Ridesharing company gives advice to help riders stay safe

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www.syracuse.com - SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It's been three months since ridesharing companies arrived in Upstate New York. Plan ahead: Before you request a ride, think about where you're headed and review the features in the…

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…

Facebook Drops Stock Move That Would Have Solidified Zuckerberg’s Control

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www.nytimes.com - Vanessa Chan, a spokeswoman for Facebook, said the board had “determined that withdrawing the reclassification was in the best interests of Facebook and its shareholders.” The Bits newsletter will ke…

Fired Google Think Tank Scholar: Tech Companies Who Hold Monopolies on Speech Threaten Democracy - Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - “I think people are understanding just how poorly structured these institutions are, how sloppily they were built,” proclaimed Lynn in an interview with The Hill. “It’s not just a matter of the fact …

General Motors Is Going All Electric

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www.wired.com - After more than a century peddling vehicles that pollute the atmosphere, General Motors is ending its relationship with gasoline and diesel. This morning, the American automotive giant announced that…

Time To Fly! Aerix Drones’ DaVinci Drone

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stupiddope.com - Over the years we have seen technology’s impact across the board. From gadgets and electronics to rides and transportation, and every other facet of our life, technology has changed and continues to …

Forget Russian Trolls. Facebook's Own Staff Helped Win The Election.

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www.buzzfeed.com - Facebook’s role during the 2016 presidential election has come under extraordinary scrutiny in recent weeks. Most notably, attention has swirled around a Kremlin-backed troll farm’s purchase of $100,…

Tesla Model 3 production can't keep up with Elon Musk's Twitter feed

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mashable.com - Tesla Model 3 production really is hell. Elon Musk, Tesla’s founder and CEO, warned us in July as he delivered the first 30 all-electric Model 3 cars to buyers who also happened to be employees. SEE …

How to Legally Reshare Instagram Posts

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you share other people’s Instagram posts to your own account? Concerned you may be violating Instagram’s terms of service or copyright law? In this article, you’ll discover best practices to help …

$9 billion startup Stripe has a new plan to make shopping online less frustrating

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www.businessinsider.com - Stripe cofounders Patrick and John Collison Stripe Shopping online kind of stinks. Or at least, checking out once you've decided you want something does. For instance: According to a survey commissio…

Trump's FCC Boss Blasts Apple For Refusing To 'Turn On' FM iPhone Chipsets That Don't Actually Exist

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www.techdirt.com - If you've seen current FCC Ajit Pai's name in print so far this year, it's probably for any number of his extremely anti-consumer, telecom industry friendly positions. Like his attempts to kill net n…

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