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Thursday, December 14, 2017

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The Twelve Days of IoT: A Holiday Tribute

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iotpractitioner.com - On the first day of IoT my robot gave to me some cryptocurrency. On the second day of IoT my robot gave to me Two flying drones and some cryptocurrency. On the third day of IoT my robot gave to me Th…

Three smart cloud services that can help keep your business more secure | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - When you hear "cloud," you probably think of file storage and email, with three big names coming to mind first: Amazon, Microsoft, Google. Smaller players with successful consumer cloud offerings, li…

Fusion GPS Tied To Story Used By Clinton Campaign To Attack Trump Week Before The Election

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dailycaller.com - A new report ties Fusion GPS to a flawed (but sensational) story claiming nefarious ties between the Trump Organization and a Russian bank, which Hillary Clinton’s campaign immediately used to attack…

The Consumer Welfare Standard Is an Outdated Holdover from a Discredited Economic Theory - Roosevelt Institute

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rooseveltinstitute.org - This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing about the consumer welfare standard to determine whether it is outdated or remains the worthwhile core principle of antitrust enforcemen…

Pepsi Orders 100 of Tesla's Electric Semi Trucks

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www.thedrive.com - PepsiCo has placed a reservation with Tesla for 100 of the company's upcoming electric semi trucks, according to a report from Reuters. The company will utilize these trucks to ship its products to d…

Line adds unsend for recalling missent messages

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techcrunch.com - Messaging platform Line has added the ability for users to retrieve messages they’ve sent in error. The unsend feature, which has been added via an update out today, gives users a 24 hour window for …

Half of Amazon app users have been switched to a new, swipe-based 1-Click checkout

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techcrunch.com - Has Amazon’s ‘one-click’ checkout on mobile looked a little different to you lately? A number of users of Amazon’s mobile applications have recently reported seeing a new checkout option that replace…

Google Assistant is coming to older Android phones and tablets

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techcrunch.com - The Google Assistant, Google’s take on Siri, Cortana and Alexa without the approachable name, has long been available on most modern phones and tablets. But given the fragmentation of the Android eco…

Apple invests $390 million in TrueDepth component maker Finisar

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techcrunch.com - Apple announced a substantial investment in Finisar. Apple is giving Finisar $390 million to build a new 700,000-square-foot manufacturing plant in Sherman, Texas. Finisar is going to hire 500 people…

Commission Impossible, part two: How enemies gathered around net neutrality

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techcrunch.com - One would think that the classification of internet providers as telecoms or not, and which federal agency has authority over them, is about as in the weeds as it gets. But it is a symptom of the tim…

Microsoft makes Azure Bot Service generally available for developers

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework over two years ago and companies have building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made the Microsoft Azure Bot Service and…

The new reality of mobile AR and computer vision venture capital

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techcrunch.com - Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. Mobile AR from Apple (ARKit), Google (ARCore) and Facebook (Camera Effects) and computer vision/machine learning (CV/ML) are focusing the minds and wal…

Amazon expands same-day delivery and one-day shipping to thousands more cities

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techcrunch.com - Amazon announced today it has expanded its same-day delivery and one-day shipping service to thousands more markets across the U.S., just in time for last-minute holiday shopping. Before, these servi…

Samsung refreshes its Notebook 9 laptop line

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techcrunch.com - They say Christmas season gets earlier every year, and the same seems to apply to CES. The year’s biggest tech show is a little less than a month away, yet Samsung’s already showing off what’s likely…

Here’s what people were Googling in 2017

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techcrunch.com - There are few metrics in the world that offer as much insight into our society as Google’s annual “Year in Search.” More than any of the other year-end download and streaming roundups, Google’s offer…

Plenty of Fish adds new conversation features to differentiate itself from Tinder

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techcrunch.com - Match Group, which houses a large portfolio of dating app brands – including most notably, Tinder, Match, and OKCupid – is prepping a notable upgrade to one of its older brands: Plenty of Fish. The d…

Any lawful device: Nearly 50 years after the Carterfone decision

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arstechnica.com - As tomorrow's FCC net neutrality vote looms, Ars has been sharing as much of our reporting on the topic as possible. And this week, a longtime reader nudged us about this classic on the FCC's Carterf…

Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the GNOME

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arstechnica.com - And now almost exactly six years after Ubuntu first switched from GNOME 2 to the Unity desktop, that has been dropped, too. The distro is back to GNOME, and Canonical recently released Ubuntu 17.10, …

DOJ confirms new criminal probe linked to Waymo v. Uber lawsuit

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arstechnica.com - A newly-released letter has formally acknowledged what was only briefly stated last month in a San Francisco courtroom: federal prosecutors have an open criminal investigation into Uber. Late last mo…

T-Mobile promises to end the “complete bulls—t” from TV companies in 2018

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arstechnica.com - T-Mobile CEO John Legere announced today that the mobile phone operator intends to acquire TV service Layer3 TV and next year offer a TV service that lets you watch "what you want, when you want, whe…

“Suspicious” event routes traffic for big-name sites through Russia

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arstechnica.com - Traffic sent to and from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft was briefly routed through a previously unknown Russian Internet provider Wednesday under circumstances researchers said was suspicious…

Couple takes pics of Star Wars figure they bought, gets DMCA notice from Lucasfilm

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arstechnica.com - These aren't the figurines Lucasfilm is looking for. For the last decade, Marjorie Carvalho and her husband have produced Star Wars Action News, a podcast dedicated to Star Wars collectibles of all s…

Everything you need to know about Apple’s GymKit, now out in the US

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arstechnica.com - While the Apple Watch is seen by many as the ultimate wearable fitness tool, it's somewhat out of place in the gym. The native Workout app has a number of exercise profiles to choose from, including …

Ronnie Moas and the Future of Bitcoin | Bad Crypto Podcast ep. 60

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badcryptopodcast.com - The last time we met, things got crypto-ridiculous as we discussed the CryptoKitties craze. But on this episode, we’re going to get crypto-serious as we welcome an extremely knowledgeable guest to th…

Comcast to Customer Who Noticed It Secretly Injecting Code: Maybe It’s Your Fault?

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gizmodo.com - Comcast is once again under fire for injecting JavaScript code into websites its customers visit. Last week, user bham3dman took to the Xfinity forum to complain about Comcast inserting hundreds of l…

Hackers Are Out to Wreck 2018: Here's How

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www.inc.com - Uber is not alone in its reliance on Amazon Web Services, but it may be a bellwether, since the digital solution du jour may have led directly to the catastrophic data breach the embattled taxi-kille…

How Many Tweets Is Too Many Tweets?

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simplymeasured.com - As Community Managers, we’re constantly trying new things. Whether it’s a new network or a new CTA, experimentation is in the job description. Unfortunately, we, as Community Managers, are also reall…

weMessage lets you use/get iMessages on your Android (sort of)

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androidcommunity.com - Many developers have already attempted to do so, but none of them lasted long enough to make an impression, mostly because of both Apple’s and Google’s policies. Now a teenager is hoping that his app…

SEO 101: Tricks and Tips - Indiegogo Education Center

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entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - Search engine optimization (SEO) has been one of the hottest tech industry terms for over a decade. Today, having an SEO strategy is critical to managing a successful digital marketing campaign. As a…

Create a Facebook Timeline Cover With Your Instagram Photos

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www.valuewalk.com - If you are an Instagram user and have captured some beautiful shots, then you can set those photos as your Facebook Timeline Cover with the help of a web app named as InstaCover. This app lets you cr…

4 Tips to Drive Store Traffic with Mobile Coupons this Holiday Season

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www.loyalty360.org - The holiday season is the biggest time of the year for retailers and can account for as much as 30% or more of a retailer’s annual sales, according to the National Retail Federation. It’s the perfect…

Are We Living in the Age of Too Much?

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www.loyalty360.org - Too many experts, too many choices, too much technology, too much data, too much media, yet it seems fewer and fewer real choices. As we have discussed in the past, there is a great opportunity to cr…

Address Link Between Brand Identity and Customer Loyalty

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www.loyalty360.org - There is a myriad of opportunities and challenges for loyalty marketers today, yet one of those that falls into the opportunity basket revolves around brand identity and customer loyalty. Loyalty360 …

Build Greater Customer Loyalty Through Non-Transactional Behaviors

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www.loyalty360.org - While loyalty programs have become a must-have feature of most companies’ acquisition and retention strategy, many of these programs are failing at actually creating loyal customers. According to a r…

Winning With Content: Staying Competitive With Amazon This Holiday Season

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www.adweek.com - As retailers gear up for the most important months of the year, there are a variety of factors kept top-of-mind throughout the planning and optimization stages of holiday strategy. Arguably more than…

Your Favorite Websites Could Soon Disappear Courtesy of the MSM

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www.thecommonsenseshow.com - It is not just Facebook. All the MSM is engaged in a plot to silence the alternative media. This a crtically important issue. The alternative media, or as I prefer, the Independent Media, is beating …

Condé Nast Announces 2 Semi-Exclusive Products for Advertising Partners Interested in Video

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www.adweek.com - In the spirit of the season, Condé Nast is unwrapping two new programs for its advertising partners. The first incorporates a TV-style approach for buying ads against videos Condé Nast produces. Inst…

Setting up an online presence for your small business? Make sure you check off these 10 things.

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www.portent.com - Preface: This blog post is one in a series of articles that Portentites produced in a pair-writing experiment. It’s a little more broad than usual because it represents two subject matter experts fro…

Quit Multi Tasking Before It's Too Late

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www.lifehack.org - When you’ve got a full schedule, multitasking looks like a good way to free up time. Almost everybody does it. Kids eat while watching TV or playing on an iPad. Adults simultaneously text and surf th…

It Is Magically Possible To Work Less And Still Do More

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www.lifehack.org - Working long hours is pretty common these days. If your Monday to Friday feels like a constant slog of work and projects with no real time for a breather, is this because you have too much work or is…

5 Ways to Maximize Your Video Strategy on Facebook

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www.adweek.com - As video increasingly becomes the medium of choice for consuming content, many advertisers have embraced this shift. Yet adoption has been shockingly slow. As technology, particularly mobile, continu…

HP Created 2 Delightful Holiday Films, Reminding the World to Come Together

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www.adweek.com - When the world feels like it continues to break apart, day by day, some brands find spreading positive messages of unity and family can brighten the mood. This holiday season, HP has released two equ…

Why T-Mobile Just Bought a Digital Streaming Service

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www.adweek.com - T-Mobile is acquiring cable killer Layer3 TV, a three-year-old streaming TV service that offers every major broadcast and cable channel in HD, to select U.S. markets. “People love their TV, but they …

Forget About Your Receipts and Get Instant Cash Reward Now With This App

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www.lifehack.org - Everyone these days are looking for ways to save money on the items that they buy. One of the more popular ways that manufacturers use to get consumers to buy their product is to offer a rebate after…

The FCC Is Blocking a Law Enforcement Investigation Into Net Neutrality Comment Fraud

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motherboard.vice.com - The FCC is blocking a law enforcement investigation into fraudulent comments designed to provide bogus support for the agency’s looming net neutrality repeal. New York Attorney General Eric Schneider…

Google Search Console beta adds 12+ months of data to performance reports

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searchengineland.com - The new beta version of Google Search Console has now added over 12 months of historical data to the performance reports. Here is a screen shot showing the options of date filters for the report, inc…

Hackers could turn off school and military base heating systems

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news.sky.com - Vulnerable controllers have been improperly installed on military bases and in schools, with government buildings and business premises also affected. An MoD spokesperson told Sky News: "We take the …

Twitterians Go Wild as Network Rolls out New 'Threads' Feature

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sputniknews.com - In an attempt to boost its user-friendliness, Twitter is constantly reinventing itself. A few weeks ago, the company developers expanded the character limit of tweets. This time, they introduced a ne…

Astroturf: Federal agencies flooded with hundreds of thousands of fake comments on regulations - Hot Air

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hotair.com - The Wall Street Journal investigated the millions of comments which have come into the FCC and other federal agencies on proposed regulations and found hundreds of thousands which were duplicates, ma…

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