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Friday, March 30, 2018

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If you like Brave but want Chrome's extensions, you'll like this coming browser overhaul

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www.cnet.com - Brave Software is moving its browser a step closer to Chrome, a move that'll mean a new look and the ability to tap into the array of extensions that customize Google's browser. The new version of Br…

IT expert reveals the extent of the data Google has has on you

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www.dailymail.co.uk - Facebook has hit the headlines in recent weeks over its handling of your private data, and now the shocking extent of information held by Google has been revealed. In a series of tweets, one IT exper…

Kanex 27W GoPower USB-C Car Charger REVIEW Fast Power keeps you connected | Mac Sources

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macsources.com - As a Xennial, I had the luxury of growing up in an evolving landscape. Sarah Stankorb coined this term “Xennial” in 2014 to refer to the gap generation born between 1977 and 1993. As a Xennial, I k…

ICO Spotlight #24 - Multiversum, Momentum, HelloGold - The Bad Crypto Podcast

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badcryptopodcast.com - Gold. Artificial Intelligence. Loyalty programs. And a 4th Generation blockchain. Four projects from across the crypto spectrum, all attempting to ambitiously tackle a real-world problem with a block…

Comcast supports ban on paid prioritization—with an exception

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arstechnica.com - Comcast would support a ban on paid prioritization as long as there is an exception for "specialized services" that benefit consumers, a company executive said this week. Comcast Senior Executive VP …

A history of the Amiga, part 12: Red vs. Blue

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arstechnica.com - The year 2000, which once seemed so impossibly futuristic, had finally arrived. Bill McEwen, president of the new Amiga Inc., celebrated with a press release telling the world why he had bought the s…

Baidu’s streaming video service iQiyi falls 13.6% in Nasdaq debut

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techcrunch.com - The streaming video service iQiyi, a business owned by China’s online search giant Baidu, dropped 13.6% in its first day of trading on the Nasdaq — closing at $15.55, or down $2.45 from its opening p…

New York City is launching public cybersecurity tools to keep residents from getting hacked

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techcrunch.com - In a week of harrowing city-level cyber attacks, New York is taking some precautions. While the timing is coincidental, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio just announced that the city will introduce …

Facebook tries to prove it cares with “Fighting Abuse @ Scale” conference

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techcrunch.com - Desperate to show it takes thwarting misinformation, fraud, and spam seriously, Facebook just announced a last-minute “Fighting Abuse @Scale” conference in San Francisco on April 25th. Speakers from …

GoPro’s new entry-level Hero camera is $199 and lacks 4K

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techcrunch.com - GoPro is launching a new entry-level camera into its lineup and it looks very, very familiar. The new camera, simply called Hero, ditches the Session form factor and takes the look of the Hero5 and H…

Wondery wants to become Hollywood’s podcast dream factory

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techcrunch.com - When Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive of Fox International, started the podcast network Wondery roughly two years ago with a seed investment from his former bosses at Fox Networks Group, podc…

Terry Myerson, EVP of Windows and Devices, is leaving Microsoft, prompting a big AI, Azure and devices reorganization

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techcrunch.com - Big changes are afoot at Microsoft . The company has announced that Terry Myerson, the longtime Microsoftie who headed up the company’s Windows and Devices businesses, is leaving the company, and alo…

Twitter makes it easier to share the right part of a live video with launch of ‘Timestamps’

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techcrunch.com - Twitter today is introducing a new feature that will make it easier to share a key moment from a live video, so those viewing the tweet don’t have to scroll to the part of the broadcast you want to t…

Every time Trump has gone off on Amazon

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techcrunch.com - Tax cuts might be the name of the game for the Trump administration, but the president has no intention of letting Amazon’s Jeff Bezos off easy. With a tweet early Thursday following an Axios report …

A Cruise car got a traffic ticket—GM says it did nothing wrong

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arstechnica.com - A car from GM's self-driving car unit, Cruise, received a traffic ticket last week from a San Francisco police officer who said that a Cruise car drove uncomfortably close to a pedestrian. Cruise dis…

John McAfee better prepare to eat a shoe because he doesn’t know how iPhones work

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arstechnica.com - Former antivirus developer and presidential wannabe John McAfee claimed a couple of weeks ago to have the perfect solution to the FBI-Apple stand-off. He offered to crack the iPhone for the FBI for f…

PC Building Simulator is (most of) the fun of building a PC—without pricey GPUs

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arstechnica.com - You can press buttons on the outside of the case or open it up and begin installing or removing components. Free-build mode gives you a full workshop to work with. There's a tutorial that explains ea…

Baltimore’s 911 system, Boeing join Atlanta in week of crypto-malware outbreaks

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arstechnica.com - Last Friday, the City of Atlanta was struck by a ransomware attack that took much of the city's internal and external services offline. As of today, many of those services have been restored, but two…

Uber told Arizona governor’s office about AV testing months before public knew

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arstechnica.com - Arizona Governor Doug Ducey and local business supporters are not happy with The Guardian newspaper, which reported on Wednesday that he and Uber "kept [Uber's] self-driving program secret, emails re…

Facebook will cut off access to third party data for ad targeting

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techcrunch.com - In a surprise change, Facebook will give up one major data source that the company uses to help advertisers target relevant users on the platform. The company just announced that it will end a featur…

"Star Trek" Tribble Creator Perfectly Predicted iPhone in 1999

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www.inverse.com - There’s no other word for it: sci-fi writer David Gerrold is a damn prophet. Or, to put it another way, he’s very, very good at his chosen job of predicting the future. The writer of the beloved Star…

Verizon and TCL to release a new Android-powered Palm smartphone

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androidcommunity.com - As early as 2009, Palm has been part of big talks within the mobile industry. It was originally known as a maker of personal digital assistants (PDAs) like the Palm Pilot and the Treo 600. These are …

Join the T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge and start changing the world

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androidcommunity.com - The Un-carrier is launching the T-Mobile Changemaker Challenge. It’s a new contest in the United States that aims to encourage teenagers and young adults to start on projects that will bring positive…

Google Assistant now lets you add your phone number for future uses

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androidcommunity.com - Google Assistant is trying to constantly improve its capabilities and features, especially in the past few weeks as they’ve been adding new things like third-party support, more features for develope…

Shipping & Logistics: The Basics - Indiegogo Education Center

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entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - As you prepare for your campaign, there are so many things to do–line up your manufacturing, build your email list, prepare your campaign video–and thinking through the logistics of shipping your pro…

Connexions Loyalty’s New Customer Service Center Reflects Commitment to Customer Experience

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www.loyalty360.org - Last year was a strong year for Connexions Loyalty, driven by more than 50 percent year-over-year growth in gross loyalty redemption transactional volume, which jumped from $2.1 billion to $3.2 billi…

What Happened to Brand Loyalty?

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www.loyalty360.org - The evolution of brand loyalty marketing Does it seem to you that customers aren't loyal to brands and their products any more? Today, shoppers research purchases online, price compare and then purch…

Russian News Service RT to Go Off the Air in the Washington Area

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www.bloomberg.com - Russia’s English-language broadcasting network RT, described by U.S. intelligence agencies as part of Moscow’s “state-run propaganda machine,” will disappear from television screens in the nation’s c…

LinkedIn Is Making In-Feed Video Ads Available to All Companies Soon

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www.adweek.com - LinkedIn began beta-testing video for sponsored content last October, and the professional network is making it available to all businesses over the next few weeks. More than 700 advertisers particip…

As Mobile Becomes Increasingly Crucial to Advertising, Brands Fail to Take Full Advantage

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www.adweek.com - Mobile advertising offers marketers a wealth of opportunities, but transparency is still causing a headache for the digital marketing industry. Just last month, Unilever, one of the biggest brand adv…

25 More Cities Are Being Added to Facebook’s Today In Local News Test

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www.adweek.com - Facebook added 25 more U.S. cities to the test group for its Today In destination for local news. The social network began testing Today In with mobile users in six U.S. cities in January—Billings, M…

Messenger Is Facebook’s Real Value to Brands

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www.adweek.com - Customer expectations matured in 2017; no longer was social customer service just about response times and a friendly tone of voice. 2017 saw “effortless service” set the tone for what consumers deem…

How Technology Has Changed The Role Of The Senior PA | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - There was a time when the role of the senior PA was keeping a paper diary, leaving post-it messages for the boss and taking minutes of meetings using a jotter pad. Now, thanks to the evolution of tec…

Using Backlinks To Drive Business To Your Website | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Developing a website that is ideal for showcasing your business should be a big part of your internet marketing efforts. But a website is only as good as the number of people who visit it. In other w…

Ecuador Cut Off Julian Assange’s Internet For His Political Tirades on Twitter

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motherboard.vice.com - WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange can’t connect to the internet anymore. On Wednesday, Ecuador’s government posted a statement on Twitter saying it cut Assange’s internet access for sending out messa…

A guide to the standard reports in Google Analytics: Audience reports

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searchenginewatch.com - Google Analytics is a tool that can provide invaluable insights into what’s happening on your website, your levels of traffic and engagement, and the success of your campaigns. If you’re a newcomer t…

Google Tracks Massive Amounts of Your Data - Here's How to Find It | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Following Facebook’s latest user data scandal, Irish web developer and technical consultant Dylan Curran took to Twitter to explain why internet users should be equally worried about the data collect…

New ‘Music Videos’ section appears in Apple Music ahead of iOS 11.3 release

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9to5mac.com - One of the features that Apple touted with iOS 11.3 was updates to music videos in the Music app, but was absent from earlier seeds. It has now started appearing for Apple Music customers (requires $…

Apple puts Facebook on notice with Business Chat in iMessage

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mashable.com - Apple's iMessage isn't just for talking to your friends, anymore. Today Apple officially rolled out its new Business Chat feature as part of the iOS 11.3 update. First previewed during last year's WW…

Facebook Executive In 2016: “Maybe Someone Dies In A Terrorist Attack Coordinated On Our Tools”

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www.buzzfeed.com - On June 18, 2016, one of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted lieutenants circulated an extraordinary memo weighing the costs of the company’s relentless quest for growth. “We connect people. …

ZUCK KNEW: Documents Reveal Facebook Was Informed App Could Sell Private User Data

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www.thegatewaypundit.com - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether the use of personal data from 50 million Facebook users by Cambridge Analytica violated a consent decree the tech company signed with the ag…

The Most Important Self-Driving Car Announcement Yet

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www.theatlantic.com - On Tuesday, Waymo announced they’d purchase 20,000 sporty, electric self-driving vehicles from Jaguar for the company’s forthcoming ride-hailing service. Waymo, Google’s sister company within Alphabe…

Facebook: ‘We’re willing to give up profitability’ to protect elections

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mashable.com - Facebook's security and product leads have been acting globally in the company's effort to regain user trust and protect the integrity of elections worldwide. The world's largest social network canno…

Why AI Companies Can’t Be Lean Startups – Machine Learnings

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machinelearnings.co - The beauty is that this applies to a number of circumstances, from companies like x.ai that help people to schedule meetings faster to computational genomics companies like Phosphorous that work with…

The Fundamentals To Being Sucessful Using Mobile Marketing

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durac.info - Mobile marketing is a dynamic strategy; you have to understand what to expect from using mobile devices to market your business. If you do it well, it can significantly increase your business’s visib…

Affiliate Marketing Tips That Are Proven To Work!

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firstadsense.com - There are internet advertising and marketing products and services that may be of assistance in internet advertising and marketing, however do attempt to research the basics on your own. While you ta…

Wonderful Web Design Tips You Can Use Today

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agentmonhost.com - Website creation may appear like an intimidating if you don’t know a lot about it. The more you learn about website creation, you’ll find it easier once you have mastered the fundamentals. Frames hav…

Tips And Advice To Fully Utilize Your Iphone

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Are you intrigued by the iphone but feel you may not have enough knowledge to properly use an iphone? Are you worried that you will be able to use it properly? Here you’ll discover some ideas to help…

Jumping Into Tablet Technology With The IPad

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laptopsandnotebook.com - The iPad is an incredible device with it. However, so that you maximize your use of the tablet, a bit of information and know-how can be critical. Use the device like an iPad expert. It easy to acces…

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