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Sunday, May 6, 2018

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Why Google Assistant will beat Siri, Alexa and Cortana

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www.computerworld.com - Apple’s Siri virtual assistant is the best-known out there. Amazon dominates the home virtual-assistant appliance market with its Echo line. But the early leaders rarely end up the market winners. Ju…

Facebook building a “simple way to clear your cookies and history”

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arstechnica.com - On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company is working on a tool that would allow users a "simple way to clear your cookies and history." While the company didn't say so expli…

Ars Technica System Guide, Spring 2018: The show-your-work edition

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arstechnica.com - In the December 2017 System Guide, we discovered the unexpected. Given the bevy of pre-built computing devices now available, there's a lot of debate and confusion about building one yourself these d…

Google Daydream VR goes standalone with Lenovo’s Mirage Solo

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arstechnica.com - Daydream, Google's foray into the crowded virtual reality space, has hitherto used headsets that are simply holsters, a way of holding an Android smartphone right in front of your face so that it wor…

Cambridge Analytica shuts down after Facebook user data scandal

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arstechnica.com - Cambridge Analytica, the embattled London-based data analytics firm that famously did work for the Donald Trump presidential campaign, has shut down. According to The Wall Street Journal, the company…

Sorry Elon Musk, there’s no clear evidence Autopilot saves lives

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arstechnica.com - Elon Musk is angry at the media for focusing on the Autopilot-related crash that occurred in March in Mountain View, California—while ignoring what he views as the clear safety benefits of autonomous…

Experts say Tesla has repeated car industry mistakes from the 1980s

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arstechnica.com - Production had been halted for much of last week in Tesla's car factory in Fremont, California, and its battery factory near Clark, Nevada. In a Tuesday note to employees, CEO Elon Musk said that the…

ISPs should charge for fast lanes—just like TSA Precheck, GOP lawmaker says

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arstechnica.com - Congressional Republicans want to impose "net neutrality" rules that allow Internet service providers to charge online services and websites for priority access to consumers. Making the case for paid…

Researchers link a decade of potent hacks to Chinese intelligence group

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arstechnica.com - Researchers said Chinese intelligence officers are behind almost a decade's worth of network intrusions that use advanced malware to penetrate software and gaming companies in the US, Europe, Russia,…

The digital revolution is leaving black people behind

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www.vox.com - Black Americans are frequent users of technology, and have helped build social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram into the giants they are today. But they aren’t reaping the same economic ben…

AT&T explains why it blocked Cloudflare DNS: It was just an accident

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arstechnica.com - AT&T has been blocking the new Cloudflare DNS service, but AT&T says the blocking was unintentional and that it will fix the problem soon. The blocking is affecting AT&T home Internet customers who u…

So, yeah: Facebook is mining your Instagram photos, too

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futurism.com - Facebook is so ubiquitous it’s sometimes easy to forget that it’s reach spans much further than your likes, comments, and groups on its main platform. Reminder: the tech giant owns Instagram and What…

Here's What Apple Knows About You (Spoiler: Not Much)

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lifehacker.com - Apple likes to say that it cares more about your privacy than other tech giants like Facebook, Google, and Amazon, but does that claim actually hold up? It turns out the answer is a pretty resounding…

SweeTARTS Just Got Sweeter with HelloWorld

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www.loyalty360.org - This week, to celebrate the launch of its new SweeTARTS gummies, Nestlé is inviting consumers to show off their passions for a chance to win $10,000 or over a hundred sweepstakes prizes, including $7…

SPI 227: 15 Entrepreneurs Answer: "What I Wish I'd Known Before Starting My Own Business" - The Smart Passive Income Blog

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - In this week’s episode, I’m trying something a little different. Instead of hearing from just one guest today, you’ll hear from 15. I asked my favorite fellow entrepreneurs, “What do you wish you’d k…

How to Create Twitter Lists & 5 Genius Ideas for Using Them

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www.searchenginejournal.com - Twitter lists are a wonderful feature – one that’s often overlooked by marketers, even though Twitter lists been around since 2009. Lists help you spend your time more effectively on Twitter because …

Facebook F8 Announcements: What Marketers Need to Know : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Welcome to this week’s edition of the Social Media Marketing Talk Show, a news show for marketers who want to stay on the leading edge of social media. On this week’s Social Media Marketing Talk Show…

How to Measure Your Marketing ROI | Website Designs Content Marketing

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website-designs.com - There are a number of ways to measure your Marketing Return on Investment commonly referred to as ROI, in relation to your content such as your articles, videos, social media posts, email marketing, …

You should change your Twitter password right now

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techcrunch.com - Yes, it’s that time again — password changing time. On Thursday, Twitter revealed that a bug caused the platform to store user passwords in unmasked form. Normally, sensitive personal data like passw…

Gamification Analysis of Snapchat: How Snapchat is Changing Storytelling

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yukaichou.com - This article is written by Contributing Writer Erik van Mechelen. Snapchat has surpassed Facebook and Instagram as the go-to app for teens. Having famously turned down a $3-billion offer from Faceboo…

8 Game Techniques to Effectively Use Scarcity and Impatience in your Life

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yukaichou.com - This series is written by Erik van Mechelen, based on the Octalysis framework designed by Yu-kai Chou. There’s not enough time. So we better get started now. Time and attention might be the baseline …

Digital Disruption Common Sense

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cxo-transform.com - Facebook took 3.5 years to acquire 50 million customers, Whatsapp took 15 months, Angry Birds took 15 days. Since 1995 when Clay Christensen and Joe Bower published the HBR article Disruptive Technol…

Top 5 camera phones under Rs 20,000

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www.dailyo.in - The sub-Rs 20k segment of the smartphone market has become a fiercely contested space. With a number of new brands such as Xiaomi, Vivo and Lenovo jumping in the fray, competition has only increased.…

DriveSpark - Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid 2018 India Launch Details — Borrows Technology From The 918 Spyder

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www.drivespark.com - Apart from the E-Hybrid version, the new SUV will also be offered in two other variants: the Cayenne and the Cayenne S. Bookings for the car is said to have already begun. The standard Cayenne and it…

Google Assistant is now in 5,000 smart-home devices

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www.usatoday.com - New reports show that Google has ten times the personal information stored on you as Facebook. Tony Spitz has the details. Buzz60 As far as Google is concerned, there’s no place like home. Ahead of i…

There Is Light At The End Of The IoT Tunnel

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www.forbes.com - From Alexa’s random outbursts of laughter to claims that your smart refrigerator wants to kill you, it is easy to see why the Internet of Things (IoT) invokes negative connotations. Some may even say…

How To Hire an Interior Designer for Your Retail Store (And Why You Need One)

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www.shopify.com - When you're used to being a bootstrapping entrepreneur, you might have a tendency to take a DIY approach to tackling most challenges in your retail business. Whether you're opening a pop-up or commit…

How to Grow Your Affiliate Marketing Efforts: Develop an Audience-First Paid Media Strategy – Shopify

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www.shopify.com - The first two posts in this series emphasized the importance of an audience-focused approach to growing your affiliate marketing business. In the first post, we covered how to identify your unique au…

How to get started on Shopify - SBNN

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sbnn.co.uk - So, you’ve started creating your first products, whether they be hand-knitted sweaters, craft beer or eBooks, and you want to sell them online, or perhaps you’ve decided to start drop-shipping and wa…

How to build relationships with ISPs to improve email delivery

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www.econsultancy.com - Having a healthy working relationship with internet service providers (ISPs) – via your email service provider (ESP) – can pay dividends (especially if you’re a big sender). But this isn't the type o…

Qualcomm: Meet the new boss of everything mobile | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - This week, T-Mobile US and Sprint announced their intention to merge, which -- if approved -- would create the second largest mobile telecommunications provider in North America behind Verizon Wirele…

Review | Oculus Go is the first VR gadget you might actually buy

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www.washingtonpost.com - If all the hype about virtual reality were true, you’d be reading this column through VR goggles. But in actual reality, tech’s next big thing has been stuck as tech’s niche market thing. When VR for…

Gartner Survey Reveals That CEO Priorities Are Shifting to Embrace Digital Business

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www.gartner.com - Growth, Corporate Strategies, IT and Workforce Issues Continue to Top CEOs' Priorities in 2018 Growth tops the list of CEO business priorities in 2018 and 2019, according to a recent survey of CEOs a…

dataxu Launches Enhanced Omnichannel Contextual Suite, powered by Grapeshot

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www.martechadvisor.com - Boston: dataxu®, the provider of programmatic marketing software for marketing professionals and media companies, announced today the launch of its enhanced Omnichannel Contextual Suite, powered by C…

Don't believe the hype: Only 1% of CIOs have adopted blockchain tech

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www.techrepublic.com - Building a slide deck, pitch, or presentation? Here are the big takeaways: Blockchain has become a major tech buzzword of 2018—but virtually no companies are actually adopting the ledger technology, …

How to create your own auto direct message Twitter bot for free 💬

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medium.freecodecamp.org - Creating a welcome message for your new followers in Twitter is the first step to getting more people to engage with your tweets and links. As you might know, there are many online services that help…

Microsoft Dynamics ERP Systems Demo - Systems Integrations

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abouttmc.com - Hello and welcome to this TMC video; Dynamics 365 Workflows and Approvals Workflows are automated processes to manage the approval process. For those transactions or activities that need to be contro…

Everything You Need to Know About Chatbots in Ecommerce

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www.sellbrite.com - Online shopping doesn’t follow a single path. Instead, there’s an abundance of ways to make an online purchase — apps, email, social media. These multiple options can be disorienting to customers if …

As Retail Reconfigures Into Click and Mortar, a New Kind of Employee Is Born

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www.entrepreneur.com - Many people were surprised in the last year to witness Amazon opening physical bookstores. In one way, it made perfect sense: Amazon is the largest seller of books in the United States. But in anot…

Replacing Accounting Software | The Business Owner's Guide 2018

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abouttmc.com - Use this guide to learn about the benefits of a modern technology platform, better understand the advantages of a cloud-based solution, and know what questions to ask when evaluating your options. Re…

Cyntoia Brown, Sex Trafficking Victim Serving Life For Killing Pimp, Granted Clemency Hearing

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www.theroot.com - For the last 13 years, Cyntoia Brown, a sex trafficking victim, has been serving a life sentence in a Tennessee jail for killing her pimp. Brown, who was tried as an adult when she was 16 years old, …

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