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Wednesday, February 21, 2018

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Facebook told to stop tracking users that aren’t logged in

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - In late 2015, a Belgian court ordered Facebook to stop tracking internet users in the country, even when they were not logged into – or even members – of its site. Failure to comply within 48 hours w…

SpaceX to use a net boat called ‘Mr. Steven’ to recover next rocket fairing

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techcrunch.com - SpaceX is all about reducing the cost of launching things into space, and right now one of those costs it think it can eliminate is having to use a new fairing every time it launches a rocket. The fa…

Chef InSpec 2.0 helps automate security compliance in cloud apps

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techcrunch.com - How many times do you hear about a company exposing sensitive data because they forgot to lock down a data repository on Amazon? It happens surprisingly often. Chef wants to help developers and opera…

6D.ai is building AR tech that crowdsources a 3D mesh of the world

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techcrunch.com - The problems that augmented reality startups aim to solve often could seem pretty trivial. Just as the HBO show Silicon Valley skewered the industry’s obsession with placing digital mustaches precise…

Spotify job listing hints the company’s ‘first physical products’ are coming

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techcrunch.com - Spotify so far has been content to partner far and wide on hardware, via its Spotify Connect platform, which allows anyone building a connected speaker, mobile device or piece of AV equipment to turn…

Say goodbye to Android Pay and hello to Google Pay

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techcrunch.com - As we reported last month, Google is uniting all of its different payment tools under the Google Pay brand. On Android, however, the Android Pay app stuck with its existing brand. That’s changing tod…

Mozilla and NSF awards $380K to small projects connecting the unconnected

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techcrunch.com - The FCC may be hard at work at “bridging the digital divide,” as Chairman Pai so frequently puts it, and the Connect America Fund II will help. But while the big players are setting up, people all ov…

Mixer, Microsoft’s Twitch competitor, adds game sales

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techcrunch.com - Twitch has long since allowed its streamers to generate revenue from their channels through things like subscriptions, virtual tipping, and game sales. Today, Microsoft is adopting one of those featu…

Nuance ends development of the Swype keyboard apps

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techcrunch.com - The party is over for third party keyboards. But hey, it was fun while it lasted. Nuance, the company that acquired veteran swipe-to-type keyboard maker Swype — all the way back in 2011, shelling out…

Qualcomm now plans to close the NXP acquisition for $44 billion as quickly as possible

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techcrunch.com - Qualcomm, Broadcom and NXP are on a boat. Broadcom wants to acquire Qualcomm, Qualcomm wants to acquire NXP. While Qualcomm has planned on buying NXP for over a year, NXP shareholders were a bit disa…

Snapchat adds GIF stickers via Giphy, plus new Friends and Discover screen tabs

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techcrunch.com - Snapchat is bringing one of the best recent features of Instagram Stories to its own app, with the ability to add GIF stickers from Giphy to your posts. This is a notable reversal of the typical patt…

Spotify is building a hardware product, and it could be a smart speaker

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arstechnica.com - Job listings recently posted by Spotify suggest that the company is close to launching one or more connected hardware products. Currently open job listings relevant to the company's hardware ambition…

Latest Prime perk: 5 percent back at Whole Foods with Amazon Visa

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arstechnica.com - Amazon's latest grocery push focuses on enticing Prime members to shop at Whole Foods with cash back. Amazon announced that Prime members using the company's Rewards Visa card will now get 5 percent …

Doom on Switch may have changed everything with new motion controls

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arstechnica.com - id Software and partner studio Panic Button rolled out a patch to the Nintendo Switch version of Doom on Monday, and players dug in, hopeful for fixes to a few glaring issues. Indeed, we saw updates …

Tesla cloud resources are hacked to run cryptocurrency-mining malware

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arstechnica.com - Add Tesla to the legion of organizations who have been infected by cryptocurrency-mining malware. In a report published Tuesday, researchers at security firm RedLock said hackers accessed one of Tesl…

Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones—now it’s dead

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arstechnica.com - Swype, the influential smartphone keyboard, is dead. XDA Developers is reporting that Swype's owner, Nuance Communications, is discontinuing development of the popular keyboard app. While it might st…

Official TWRP now available for Redmi Note 5, Redmi 5 Plus

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androidcommunity.com - Well that didn’t take long at all. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 is actually a rebranded version of the Redmi 5 Plus – they are basically the same phone. The Redmi Note 5 was launched not too long ago, and…

GCam Tool fixes the way modded Google Camera apps save portrait mode images

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androidcommunity.com - Here’s a problem that was born out of the Google Camera modding spree we seem to be having at the moment. As Google developed a really great camera app that is only officially available for the origi…

WyzeCam version 2 now up for pre-order, still at $20

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androidcommunity.com - When you say security cameras, chances are you’re already computing in your head how much you’d have to set aside for your monthly budget to be able to afford one. But over the past few years, we’ve …

Can Phone Charging Stations Help Build Customer Loyalty?

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www.loyalty360.org - What do phone charging stations have to do with customer loyalty? It’s an interesting question, and Loyalty360 asked Anthony D'Eramo, Vice President of Sales for Brightbox, for the answer. Bright…

Loyalty360 Reads: January 26, 2018

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www.loyalty360.org - The latest news in the world of customer experience and customer loyalty. Facebook CMO leaving Facebook CMO Gary Briggs announced this week that he was retiring from the social media giant—four yea…

Samsung unveils world’s largest SSD with whopping 30TB of storage

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www.theverge.com - Samsung has unveiled the world’s largest solid state drive — an unassuming-looking bit of kit that boasts a whopping 30.72 terabytes of storage. It’s the most storage ever crammed into the 2.5-inch f…

22 Tips On How To Create A Good Website - Solopreneurism

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solopreneurism.com - Building a website is not difficult. But to create a good website that attracts many visitors, you have to pay attention. Because a good website is more than a collection of web pages linked to each …

This Digital Ad Format Guru Lives and Breathes Outside the Box

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www.adweek.com - Sport-bike racer, six-patent holder, biometric lab creator—these are just a few of Walter Geer’s self-earned epithets. But his actual title is vp and creative director at Verve Mobile, where he creat…

BlackBerry Refuses to Give Up

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www.adweek.com - On Oct. 20, 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was aboard a C-17 Globemaster military plane bound for Libya. While waiting for takeoff, Clinton—wearing a pair of dark sunglasses—began pecking a…

Alibaba unveils plans for an electric vehicle vending machine

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futurism.com - Retail giant Alibaba has inked a deal to market electric vehicles built by Ford in China. The company plans to use a massive vending machine in order to facilitate sales. Customers will scan a car th…

How to sync your keywords and ad labels with an AdWords Script

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searchengineland.com - The label functionality in AdWords can sometimes be a bit bewildering, and manually having to label a lot of ads or keywords is a task we wouldn’t wish on anyone. We’ve all been there: You make a bid…

Reddit Ads: A Quick, Targeted, Simple Way to Increase Landing Page Traffic

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instapage.com - Reddit — the self-proclaimed “Front Page of the Internet” — is the most engaged and most influential community online with countless viral topics being discussed among thousands of diverse communitie…

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…

Tips To Follow For Email Promoting Success

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marketingpromotion.biz - This is the perfect place to learn how to use marketing via email more people into your network.Many people are not sure how to increase the number of subscribers to their email promoting list, and t…

Adapt or die: How the travel industry can survive in the era of digital Darwinism - Brian Solis

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www.briansolis.com - Why bridging the gap between current guest experience and their expectations holds the key to the travel industry’s success. We live in an era of digital Darwinism, where technology and society are e…

Turn Your IPad Into An Efficient Machine

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laptopsandnotebook.com - You want make better use of your iPad, but the technology might be confusing you. Do not allow this device to simply be an expensive app used for gaming console. You can do so many amazing things on …

The 25 best books for IT leaders

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www.itpro.co.uk - Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech Author: Sara Wachter-Boettcher Technically Wrong is a must-read for anyone interested in the invisible biases of the…

Blockchain, AI, Machine Learning And IOE Will Make You Money in 2018

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www.forbes.com - Everyone loves annual assessments. Mine for 2018 are simple: AI is making real progress, IOE is spreading, blockchain is real, lots of digital content is fake, and big, rich companies will eventually…

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