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Saturday, December 30, 2017

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Taking Facebook Quizzes Could Put You at Risk for Identity Theft

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mentalfloss.com - People rate their satisfaction at their jobs by a number of factors, like day-to-day responsibilities, location, benefits, and, of course, salary. But how can you know whether you’re being paid fairl…

Developing an App or a Game? Take a (Retro) Lesson From 'PAC-MAN.'

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www.entrepreneur.com - Yes, believe it: Retro games are making a big comeback. The Commodore 64 gamer computer, a smash in the 1980s, will soon be providing players with a second round, via the upcoming release of the $70 …

Amazon did a lot of funky stuff this year and it’s paying off

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techcrunch.com - Holy hell, it’s been a year for Amazon. Jeff Bezos’ former-online-bookstore dumped $13.7 billion to buy a bunch of grocery stores, that speaker you talk to in your living room that Amazon makes is re…

You can now pick up an iMac Pro in-store, for $4,999 and up

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techcrunch.com - Apple’s super-powered iMac Pro hit the company’s online store just ahead of Christmas. Now those who’d prefer to pick one up in-person can do so by paying a visit to one of its various retail establi…

A cyclist is using a Google Assistant-controlled electric bike wheel to ride cross country to CES

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techcrunch.com - There are bad ways to get to CES, and then there’s this — a 10-day, cross-country bike ride. It’s a week and change of 17-hour days spent peddling through zero-degree temperatures across the Midwest.…

Consumers dropped $200 million on apps on Christmas, up 12 percent from last year

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techcrunch.com - Consumers spent $196 million on apps, in-app purchases and subscriptions on Christmas Day 2017 across the App Store and Google Play, according to new data from Sensor Tower. The report, while excludi…

Facebook has a 100-person engineering team that helps advertisers build tools and infrastructure

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techcrunch.com - Stories about Facebook’s advertising business tend to focus on the big numbers — its billions of users, millions of advertisers or its enormous lead over any competitor that’s not named Google. But F…

All 50 States Vote Yes On AT&T’s $40 Billion Emergency Response Network FirstNet

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techcrunch.com - From wildfires in California to hurricanes on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, communications are the bedrock of emergency response and management. However, those communications can be challenging when …

Comcast claims it’ll spend $50B because of net neutrality repeal and tax cut

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arstechnica.com - Comcast yesterday claimed that it will invest more than $50 billion in infrastructure over the next five years because of the repeal of net neutrality rules and the new tax overhaul. But the numbers …

Apple’s response to battery controversy: Have a new one for $29

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arstechnica.com - The past few weeks have been tumultuous for Apple ever since the company confirmed it slows down iPhones as their batteries age. In a message posted to Apple's website today, the company formally apo…

“I have a really weird idea”—the rise of Mr. Robot’s IRL show-hacking

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arstechnica.com - Here's Elliot's Kibana host monitoring dashboard from episode four... Here are the password libraries Elliot relies on for a brute-force approach late in S3. Mr. Robot writer Kor Adana’s in-season sc…

How Hotmail changed Microsoft (and email) forever

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arstechnica.com - Twenty years ago this week—on December 29, 1997— Bill Gates bought Microsoft a $450 million late Christmas present: a Sunnyvale-based outfit called Hotmail. With the buy—the largest all-cash Internet…

The triumphant return of Ars Technica mugs, T-shirts

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arstechnica.com - Every geek needs two things to start the morning off right: a quality coffee mug and a fresh T-shirt. Fortunately, Ars Technica now sells both, so you can leap from your bed to confront the forces of…

Was Uber’s CEO really the second-best Wii Sports tennis player?

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arstechnica.com - "In other personal pursuits, he once held the world’s second-highest score for the Nintendo Wii Tennis video game." "In other personal pursuits, he once held the world’s second-highest score for the …

There’s still time to donate for a chance to win our Charity Sweepstakes

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arstechnica.com - In addition to that sweet mixtape, here are just some of the prizes you could win by entering this year’s sweepstakes. That means we're still a long way off from the more than $38,000 we raised last …

Robocalls—and complaints about robocalls—are booming

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arstechnica.com - "Press '1' now to speak with cardholder services, as we have an amazing timeshare opportunity reserved for you. It comes with a warranty extension for your current automobile and includes a month of …

How to Use Pinterest for Business: 8 Strategies You Need to Know

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blog.hootsuite.com - With 200 million monthly users, Pinterest may not be a social media behemoth like Facebook, but it’s an important social platform with deep penetration in valuable demographics. Half of all U.S. mill…

6 Tips for Exploding Your Marketing Efforts with Chatbots

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www.inc.com - Many people believe that chatbots were invented to automate customer care processes; in reality, they're packed with capabilities that can help your teams across your entire company, and your marketi…

10 Ways Social Media Can Help You Land a Job

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money.usnews.com - Companies are checking you out online, so why not use social media to enhance your qualifications? A 2015 CareerBuilder survey of more than 2,000 hiring managers and human resource professionals reve…

LG, Samsung confirm they don’t slow down older phones

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androidcommunity.com - If we get official statements from all the major OEMs that they are not in the practice of slowing down older phones, then Apple will have lost another PR battle. We got confirmation from HTC and Mot…

Amazon says use browsers on Fire TV to access YouTube

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androidcommunity.com - We’re just a few days away from January 1 and aside from the fact that it’s a New Year, it’s also a “milestone” for owners of the Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. By the first day of 2018, users wil…

Here are the Snapdragon 845-powered smartphones coming out in 2018

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androidcommunity.com - Perhaps one of the most notable phones that will be powered by Snapdragon 845 processor is the Samsung Galaxy S9. We’ve been saying this fact over and over again since August even before Qualcomm off…

Looking Back on a Year of Clever Things for Curious Humans - Indiegogo Blog

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go.indiegogo.com - In 2017, we saw people challenging the status quo and fearlessly speaking up for what they believe in. Indiegogo was built to unify people around ideas that matter to them, and we are thrilled to pro…

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: December 29 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because there’s a chill in the air, this short New Year edition of Short Takes looks at Windows Hello security, Surface Pro with LTE, and much, much more. Security researchers from Germany have succe…

Kodi Releases Its Official UWP App for the Xbox One - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Kodi is releasing its first official UWP client for the Xbox One today. After bringing its desktop application to the Microsoft Store, the arrival of a true Universal Windows Platform application wil…

Bring Your Brand to Life With Always-Present Customer Engagement

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www.adweek.com - While brand marketers agree that the marketing landscape must expand to include meaningful, two-way conversations, such an evolution begins with a shift of current mindset. The on-demand nature of co…

The State of Shoppable Media in 2017 and Its Future in the Coming Year

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www.adweek.com - With technology advancing each day, there’s no shortage of ways for retail advertisers to promote their product or service. And one form of content known as shoppable media is quickly gaining tractio…

James Woods Trolls Fauxcahontas Over Her 'Native American DNA' After She Claims to 'Believe in Science' and 'Climate Change'

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www.thegatewaypundit.com - Elizabeth ‘Pocahontas’ Warren was triggered after president Trump trolled global warming zealots on Thursday. Warren tried to snap back at POTUS by claiming she ‘believes in science’ and ‘climate cha…

'IPhone Batteries' Apology Rattles Twitter Audience

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sputniknews.com - Shortly after admitting that the company had deliberately slowed down older iPhones in order to compensate for degrading batteries, Apple issued an apology letter to its customers. The tech giant cla…

Smartphones are driving us to distraction. Here’s help.

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www.computerworld.com - Ho-hum. Another year, another crop of amazing smartphones. The latest advancements come from Apple and Google. The new iPhone 8 line and iPhone X phones, as well as Google’s new Pixel phones, are bli…

Digital Minds and Fine Fines

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robllewellyn.com - The world is now rich in content, consultants and digital minds evangelising the prerequisites of digital leadership and transformation, along with what will happen to companies that fail to innovati…

LinkedIn for Business: How to Get Started

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www.lilachbullock.com - Social media is a big part of digital marketing today. Every business has the opportunity to engage their (potential) customers directly through social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook. Each…

The Biggest, Baddest Hardware Failures of 2017

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www.fastcodesign.com - Despite Jeff Bezos doubling down on the Amazon Echo device line in 2017, his digital majordomo is still failing to become anything but a glorified voice-activated shopping button that can play songs,…

What to Look at in Your Preliminary Design Reviews

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instapage.com - Placeholder text can confuse your visitors. The wrong font can obscure the message of your page. When so many small details come together to form a successful landing page design, overlooking just on…

Ways To Better Optimize Your Mobile Marketing Results

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internetmarketinginfos.com - Mobile marketing has become an integral part of any business plan, but it can be tricky though! There are such a variety of different mobile marketing products from which to choose.Here are some exce…

Important Things You Need To Know About Mobile Marketing

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durac.info - Marketing through a mobile services is one of the most modern ways to market your goods. Read on for some tips on how to use mobile marketing to the benefit of your business. Begin by building up you…

How To Have A Good Website Marketing Website

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durac.info - Determine exactly what your objective group is and also produce the approximately content product they’re looking for. While having a Twitter account, a Facebook internet page, as well as loads of al…

Tips And Tricks That You Need To Know About The Iphone

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iphonefindmyphone.com - It seems that everyone has an iphone today. The iphone has quickly become among the most widely-used pieces of technology, but using it sometimes can be quite tricky. If you don’t know how to use you…

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