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Easily transform your boring bike into an ebike with the GeoOrbital Wheel
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Michael
www.digitaltrends.com - As many popular transportation options make the switch to electric, bicycles are definitely not getting left behind. But if you aren’t interested in splurging on a fully electric bike, a company call…
This is how technology turns us into addicts
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Gerd Leonhard
theconversation.com - The World Health Organisation is to include “gaming disorder”, the inability to stop gaming, into the International Classification of Diseases. By doing so, the WHO is recognising the serious and gro…
My Journey From Struggling Actress to Successful Tech CEO - Women 2.0
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www.women2.com - If you asked me 10 years ago where I thought my career would take me, I would have answered with one word: “Broadway.” As far as I was concerned, I was on my way to becoming a leading stage actress, …
'Tell Microsoft to drop ICE as a client or lose us as GitHub users,' say coders
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www.cnet.com - The CEOs of GitHub (far left, Chris Wanstrath) and Microsoft (middle, Satya Nadella), plus Microsoft's vice president of developer services (far right, Nat Friedman). Some programmers were a little w…
Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers
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techcrunch.com - Set the “days without a Facebook’s privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics weekly summary email had been…
A look back at the best tech ads of the last 35 years
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techcrunch.com - Last week the Association of Independent Commercial Producers announced the winners of its annual awards honoring the best moving image marketing of the year and Apple’s “Welcome Home” ad took home t…
After 20 years of Salesforce, what Marc Benioff got right and wrong about the cloud
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techcrunch.com - As we enter the twentieth year of Salesforce, there’s an interesting opportunity to reflect back on the change that Marc Benioff created with the software-as-a-service (SaaS) model for enterprise sof…
Google Assistant’s ‘Continued Conversation’ feature is now live
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techcrunch.com - Google I/O was awash with Assistant news, but Duplex mystery aside, Continued Conversation was easily one of the most compelling announcements of the bunch. The feature is an attempt to bring more na…
WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist
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techcrunch.com - Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management …
CommonSense Robotics makes your warehouse work like clockwork
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techcrunch.com - Meet CommonSense Robotics, an Israel-based startup focused on optimizing e-commerce warehouses with cute little robots and a comprehensive software solution. We talked with the startup last month and…
Twitter ‘smytes’ customers
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techcrunch.com - Twitter today announced it was acquiring the “trust and safety as a service” startup Smyte to help it better address issues related to online abuse, harassment, spam, and security on its platform. Bu…
Plexus gloves bring VR sensations to your fingertips
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techcrunch.com - Bringing a user’s hands into VR has been a pretty logical move for ambitious companies in the space. The mouse and keyboard just don’t make sense, and while more conventional physical controllers mak…
Reddit launches a ‘News’ tab into beta testing
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techcrunch.com - Reddit is rolling out its “news” tab into beta, the company announced this week. The expansion follows on Reddit’s initial test of a news-related feature that began this May, when an alpha version sh…
Apple launches service program to address MacBook Pro keyboard woes
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arstechnica.com - Apple has publicly acknowledged that the butterfly switch keyboards in some MacBook and MacBook Pro computers have given consumers some trouble, and it has launched a new repair service program that …
Valve revamps its next controller, should make using hands in VR feel way cooler
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arstechnica.com - A better angle to see the new "thumbpad" and joystick. Dubbed Knuckles EV2, the mold-to-your-hand controller is still a developer-only prototype, but a huge dump of official information reveals how f…
More details leak on “Snapdragon 1000,” Qualcomm’s chip for Windows 10 laptops
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arstechnica.com - Details of the SDM1000, tentatively named Snapdragon 1000, a new Qualcomm chip built for Windows 10 laptops, have started to trickle out. Microsoft's development of Windows 10 for ARM has seen the co…
Tesla to cut nearly 20 percent of its SolarCity installation locations
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arstechnica.com - Tesla is planning to close 13 or 14 solar installation locations that were set up by SolarCity before Tesla purchased the company in 2016. Tesla will also end its partnership with Home Depot at the e…
Apple just banned cryptocurrency mining on iOS devices
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arstechnica.com - Apple recently announced new restrictions on the use of cryptocurrencies on iPhones and iPads, a change first noticed by Apple Insider on Monday. "Apps may not mine for cryptocurrencies unless the pr…
The unseen value of brand design – Airtasker Design – Medium
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medium.com - It’s that time at your company. You’ve made it in one country for a number of years. You’re now considering launching in another one. All the research is done and you are now able to make it all a re…
Dozens of PC games drop tracking software after surveillance fears
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www.wired.co.uk - PC gamers are an inquisitive breed – if a developer inserts a file into their games, even without announcing it, one adventurous player diving through the game’s directories will eventually find it. …
How to Change the Font Size in WordPress (Video Tutorial) - WinningWP
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winningwp.com - If you’ve ever looked at your site and thought “I’d like to make some of the font sizes on the page bigger (or smaller)…”, the below video is for you! In this video, we’ll show you how to change vari…
Elon Musk Is Right. Paranoid is the New Normal
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Reg Saddler
www.inc.com - Twenty-one years ago, Andy Grove entitled his obligatory CEO How-To business book "Only the Paranoid Survive." At the time, the title was tongue-in-cheek, more akin to "if something can go wrong, it …
Four major phone carriers just did something to actually protect your privacy
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Reg Saddler
futurism.com - by 1791 If you own a cell phone, you’ve probably had an app ask for permission to access your location. Most of the time, you probably don’t think twice about granting it — after all, how is your Lyf…
Microsoft now brings visual search to Bing
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androidcommunity.com - It looks like visual search is the name of the game now, at least when it comes to Google, Samsung, and now Microsoft is joining the party. Samsung brought the Bixby Vision to their newer higher-end …
Sony Xperia XZ1, XZ2 screens show distracting stripe patterns when rubbed
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androidcommunity.com - The Sony Xperia XZ1 was made official August last year at the IFA event in Berlin. We’ve got our hands-on of the phone together with the XZ1 Compact variant. We haven’t heard much about the XZ1 but w…
Google Account experience update: time to check those settings
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androidcommunity.com - Regularly checking your account settings isn’t the most fun thing to do but if you use a lot of Google products and you link it to most of your digital and online life, you should check on them every…
Microsoft News hands-on: what’s new
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androidcommunity.com - There’s a new news app in town: Microsoft News. The app was recently renamed from MSN News and has been redesigned before the relaunch. We told you about it a couple of days ago and told you what mak…
Appdates: Measure for ARCore, Files Go sharing, Chrome offline content
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androidcommunity.com - ARCore is a software development kit (SDK) launched by Google to allow developers to create mixed reality apps. It’s similar to Project Tango but that one is already dead. Before 2017 ended, Google p…
The 2018 Buick Regal TourX is the American station wagon's last stand...sort of
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Bruce Wayne Swedal
www.foxnews.com - The Buick Regal TourX is the only station wagon you can buy from an American brand today, which is an improvement. For the past four years there haven’t been any. The last was the Cadillac CTS Sport …
Is In-House Custom Software Development Right For You? | Bit Rebels
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www.bitrebels.com - Enterprises looking to improve their business processes consider custom software solutions. Despite the ease-of-use associated with off-the-shelf software, many choose to take the custom route to add…
Amazon employees protest sale of facial recognition software to police
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www.theverge.com - Workers at Amazon have demanded that their employer stop the sale of facial recognition software and other services to the US government. In a letter addressed to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and posted on …
Twitter bought an anti-harassment startup and immediately shut it down
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www.cnet.com - That's what I always told myself. Twitter is totally great, it's so helpful. I can stay up to date with the news, talk to my friends, find out about what's going on in the world. The memes! Oh... the…
The Glitch Mob spent a year making a VR experience as otherwordly as their music
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www.digitaltrends.com - Watching electronic dance music (EDM) group The Glitch Mob perform would seem to be the perfect greeting after being abducted by aliens. The group’s current stage design is a space-inspired work of a…
NPR Sued for $57MM in Defamation Lawsuit Over Seth Rich Coverage
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.thegatewaypundit.com - A $57 million defamation lawsuit has been filed against National Public Radio over their 2017 report that accused Texas-based financial advisor Ed Butowsky of colluding with President Donald Trump an…
Liberals Target Microsoft For Working With ICE on Software to Keep Americans Safe
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www.thegatewaypundit.com - Liberals are taking aim at Microsoft for working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as Silicon Valley tech workers continue their revolt against conservatives and the Trump Administration. Over…
PIA review: A fast and secure VPN, but Netflix users need not apply
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James Hickey
mashable.com - Good security features • Lightning-fast internet speeds • Easy to use • Great for torrenting If you want security while surfing the web and fast internet speeds for torrenting, PIA is a great choice …
TED Talk Organization Under Fire for Bizarre 'Pedophilia' Lecture | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - On May 5, medical student Mirjam Heine spoke at an independently organized TEDx Talk event at the University of Würzburg in Germany. In a description of the event, the TED Talk website explained that…
Supreme Court: Your digital location is protected by the Constitution
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Mike Elgan
www.computerworld.com - The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that access to historical cell-site records of a person's location based on their mobile phone will require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching a p…
Curiosity Marketing: A Better Way to Win Loyal Customers : Social Media Examiner
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Themelis Cuiper
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how to spark people’s interest? To explore how to use curiosity in your marketing, I interview Chalene Johnson. The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show from Socia…
Self-driving cars meet risk compensation theory
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Mike Elgan
elgan.com - As HAL 9000 used to say in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, "it can only be attributed to human error." Nowadays, we have real A.I., and the people should still be blamed. Police in Tempe, Arizona, s…
4 Easiest Ways to Make Your Own Quote Picture for FREE • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO
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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Want to make your own quote picture for social media but just not sure how to go about it? This article will show you exactly how to do it! NOTE: We just updated this post with a bonus application! N…
How to Recruit MLM Leaders for Fast Network Marketing Success
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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - The problem is that most people go after their broke friends and family because they think it is easier. The actual reality is it is often much more difficult to recruit these recruit these individua…
Helpful Web Page Design Tips That Give Your Internet Presence A Boost
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Rolf Joho
agentmonhost.com - There are many purposes behind a website is used for. It can serve as a hub for information, a social network for communication, or communicate with your customers and colleagues. A well trained webm…
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