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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

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First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education

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arstechnica.com - In a corner of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, a small, secretive group called Ad Astra is hard at work. These are not the company’s usual rocket scientists. At the direction of Elon …

Commentary | Find a Long-Term Solution to Net Neutrality - The Northwest Daily Marker

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www.nwdailymarker.com - Another summer, another round of debate over so-called net neutrality. It is remarkable because there has been so much back-and-forth inside the Beltway the past few years—even though the internet bl…

New Twitter users will have to verify a phone number or email address

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www.engadget.com - Going forward, Twitter will start limiting the reach of accounts it has labeled as possibly spammy. Once its systems have detected such an account, Twitter will remove it from follower figures and en…

Seattle gets its first staffed Amazon pickup delivery hub

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techcrunch.com - You’d think Seattle would be first in line for all things Amazon, but apparently the online retailer’s home city didn’t yet have a dedicated brick and mortar Amazon pickup location. The locations fun…

Google Home now supports Spanish

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techcrunch.com - Google Home has learned Spanish. Google announced this morning that its smart speakers are now able to listen and respond to users’ voice commands in Spanish. The update may help the speakers gain mo…

Tesla Model S battery re-ignited twice after fatal Florida crash, says NTSB

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techcrunch.com - The battery in a Tesla Model S re-ignited two times after it was involved in a fatal and high-speed crash in Florida, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report released Tu…

Apple launches its free Schoolwork app for teachers

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techcrunch.com - Apple this morning launched Schoolwork, a free app for teachers that was first introduced at Apple’s education event in Chicago back in March. The cloud-based app allows teachers using iPads in the c…

Firefox gets speedier tab switching, a new accessibility tool for developers and more

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techcrunch.com - Mozilla today released version 61 of its Firefox browser. By now, it’s no secret that Firefox is back in contention as a serious competitor to Google’s Chrome browser and while the new release doesn’…

Fortnite fans paying massive markup for rare retail discs

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arstechnica.com - Gearbox Software published a limited number of physical disc copies of Fortnite for PS4 and Xbox One (and the PC in Europe) alongside the game's paid Early Access release last July. That $60 release—…

Fox desperately trying to avoid selling to Comcast

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arstechnica.com - 21st Century Fox has been consistently trying to avoid selling to Comcast because Fox officials believe a merger with the largest US cable company may not be approved by the federal government. Comca…

The Art and Science of Leadership at Scale: 3 Lessons from Sheryl Sandberg

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medium.com - Companies need different kinds of leadership at different stages. And there’s a very specific kind of leadership needed in an organization that’s changing fast — so fast that the office you leave at …

Build a JavaScript Single Page App Without a Framework — SitePoint

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www.sitepoint.com - Front-end frameworks are great. They abstract away much of the complexity of building a single-page application (SPA) and help you organize your code in an intelligible manner as your project grows. …

The Teens Who Hacked Microsoft's Videogame Empire—And Went Too Far

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www.wired.com - The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to fetch a bumpe…

Charter’s gigabit internet service now available in 27 million US homes

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www.theverge.com - Telecom giant Charter says it’s now offering its gigabit internet service in more than half of the 50 million homes and businesses it provides cable to in the US, via Ars Technica. The company provid…

LG V35 ThinQ Unlocked: here’s what we know so far

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androidcommunity.com - LG has been setting new marks in the industry the past few months. Ever since we learned of its plans to change business strategies, we’re discovering new stuff from the other South Korean tech giant…

Alcatel 1 vs Alcatel 1X: where these Android Go phones differ

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androidcommunity.com - Alcatel has always been one of the many gadget manufacturers that are prolific when it comes to rolling out new Android phones. During the first half 2018, we’ve seen a few devices already including …

Whole Foods deals for Amazon Prime members roll out this week

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androidcommunity.com - When Amazon purchased the whole Whole Foods retail business, one of the things they promised is that it will become one of the benefits that their Prime subscribers will be getting eventually. It too…

Microsoft Edge on Android: What this browser has that others don’t

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androidcommunity.com - When we talk about browser apps on Android, you won’t go very far at all without talking about the top app in this category – which is Google’s very own Chrome app. The fact of the matter is that bec…

Kiwi Browser hands-on

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androidcommunity.com - A new web browser is ready to offer a whole new mobile experience for the Android consumers. If you’re familiar with Chrome, you will like the Kiwi Browser as it is recommended in reading news, watch…

Google Photos now brings your “Love Story” to digital life

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androidcommunity.com - If you and your significant other’s anniversary is coming up and you forgot to get them a gift or you don’t have the budget to spend for an elaborate surprise, Google Photos has got your back. The la…

Surface USB-C Dongle Reportedly Shipping This Week - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Announced over a year ago, Microsoft’s utterly pointless Surface-branded USB-C dongle will reportedly ship this Friday, beginning with business customers. The bulky contraption costs $80. And you do …

New Tech Trends In Gaming - VR, AR, Mobile Games & Cloud Streaming | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Following the inception of Oculus, PSVR and HTC Vive, Virtual Reality (VR) games have entered the mainstream in a big way – so much so that virtual battlefields, 3dRudder controllers for VR gaming an…

Audials Radio - Completely Free Unlimited Entertainment [Review] | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Imagine for a second that you had over 100,000 radio stations (top country-specific radio stations included), 260,000 podcasts available to you and that with just a click of a button you were able to…

Apple Follows Facebook, Will Cherry-Pick 'Trusted Sources' for Users | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Instead of letting users decide what news they want to see on their phones, Apple confirmed that it intends to deliver exclusive news and opinion to their users that have been “curated by Apple News …

How to Use Facebook Automated Rules to Manage Facebook Ad Costs : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Need to manage your Facebook ad spend more effectively? Wondering how Facebook’s Automated Rules feature can help? In this article, you’ll learn how to set up automated rules to better manage the cos…

Do you really know what your kid's doing on that device?

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apnews.com - CHICAGO (AP) — Ayrial Miller is clearly annoyed. Her mother is sitting with her on the couch in their Chicago apartment, scrolling through the teen's contacts on social media. "Who's this?" asks Jenn…

Two Keyboards at a Bar

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randsinrepose.com - INT. EVENING. CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA. BJ’S RESTAURANT AND BREWHOUSE. A RECENT FRIDAY NIGHT The bar is full. Two keyboards sit at the bar: APPLE EXTENDED II and MACBOOK PRO. The front door opens, TOUCH…

Deriving Value from the Internet of Everything - CXO Transform

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cxo-transform.com - The Internet of Everything is connecting people, processes, and data in ways that we couldn’t do before, enabling us to see data and respond in different ways, access things in different ways, and in…

LG Display is set to open China OLED plant, braces for competition

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www.businesstimes.com.sg - [SEOUL] LG Display Co. is close to starting OLED production at a new factory in Guangzhou to sell more of the next-generation screens, even as Chinese rivals gear up to enter the market. The Korean d…

Interview with Tamara Dull

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www.onalytica.com - Tamara Dull – Director of Emerging Technologies at SAS Key Topics: IOT, Big Data, Analytics, Cloud, Strategy Bio: “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” This Einstein …

Why blockchain won't transform IoT security

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www.techrepublic.com - By 2020, more than 25% of cyberattacks on enterprises will involve Internet of Things (IoT) devices, though IoT will account for less than 10% of IT security budgets, according to Gartner. While some…

Do remote workers increase your chance of a data breach? 86% of CXOs say yes

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www.techrepublic.com - The majority of C-Suite executives and small business owners (SBOs) agree cyber security risks increase with remote workers, according to Shred-it's State of the Industry Report, released Wednesday. …

The Top eCommerce Job Board | eCommerceFuel Jobs

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www.ecommercefuel.com - We’ve got some exciting news to share today. We’ve officially launched our newest venture, the eCommerceFuel Job board. Not only do we want to dive in to tell you what to expect from our curated job …

Multi-Channel Retailing Examples: Elite Brands Driving Experiential Commerce

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www.shopify.com - In multi-channel ecommerce, it is no longer enough to simply be online. Not for high-growth startups. Nor for high-volume legacy brands. As commerce evolves, creating buying experiences that are memo…

Salesforce Connects With Marketing

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www.crmbuyer.com - A good way to understand what Salesforce articulated at Connections 2018 is to recall the direction it set a few years ago, when CEO Marc Benioff said the company would develop most apps for the smal…

Dixons Carphone says it needs to make more of its multichannel strengths as it looks to boost profitability

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internetretailing.net - Dixons Carphone today said it needed to make more of its multichannel strengths, investing in staff and in the customer experience, after a year in which profits fell despite growing sales. The retai…

EU Edges Closer to Adopting Controversial Copyright Rules

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www.ecommercetimes.com - The European Union's Legal Affairs Committee (JURI) on Wednesday voted in favor of a directive on copyright in the digital single market, a proposal it has been wrestling with since its introduction …

Shopify Rolls Out Messaging App For Businesses | PYMNTS.com

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www.pymnts.com - To condense business conversations and tasks into one place, Shopify has launched a new mobile app dubbed Shopify Ping. Through the app, merchants can manage tasks through messaging without needing t…

AI Learns to Play Dota 2 with Human Precision - NVIDIA Developer News Center

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news.developer.nvidia.com - Developers from the California-based non-profit OpenAI announced today that their five deep learning neural networks they call “OpenAI Five” beat amateur human teams at the popular battle arena game …

Automotive Ecommerce Websites (Examples of Car & Auto Part Stores)

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www.bigcommerce.com - U.S. ecommerce revenue from auto and parts retail sales are projected to reach $51.6 billion in 2018, representing a 121% increase compared to 2012 revenue. With automotive ecommerce revenue growing …

Bad Cover = Bad Sales (Why you need Professional Cover Art)

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www.indieauthornews.com - Bad Cover = Bad Sales (Why you need Professional Cover Art) While writing your novel, you are a creator. A wordsmith. An artist. But, as soon as that novel’s finished, you’re about to take the next s…

WPA3 macht WLAN sicherer

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www.n-tv.de - Ein neuer Sicherheitsstandard für WLAN-Verbindungen ist fertig. WPA3 macht öffentliche WLAN-Netze sicherer und schützt auch Verbindungen mit schwachen Passwörtern. Technische Geräte, die sich über WL…

Why Live Events Are Rocket Fuel for Business Growth

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www.entrepreneur.com - Each year most of the world’s largest organizations host annual conferences. Dreamforce, WWDC, F8 and similar gatherings have become cornerstone events that excite brand loyalists, capture headlines …

How to Know When Your Negative Thinking Is Hurting You

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www.entrepreneur.com - For many of us, giving in to a negative internal dialogue is far too easy. Many times, we become stuck in a destructive mindset and forget how positive thinking can change our actions. Jack Canfield,…

Google Pay ist gestartet

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www.n-tv.de - Ab sofort steht auch in Deutschland Android-Nutzern Google Pay zur Verfügung. Sie können damit schnell und unkompliziert per App online bezahlen oder halten an Ladenkassen einfach das Gerät an das Za…

How Losing Her Job Helped Jaclyn Johnson Find Her Inner CEO

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www.entrepreneur.com - In the Women Entrepreneur series My First Moves, we talk to founders about that pivotal moment when they decided to turn their business idea into a reality—and the first steps they took to make it ha…

Find out if your MacBook qualifies for Apple's keyboard repair program

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www.cnet.com - I have a strict no-everything-bagel-near-my-MacBook policy, and even then my MacBook's butterfly switch keyboard cuts out from time to time. It's usually the spacebar or another key along the bottom …

Transformation is the goal. Digital is the tool

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www.cio.com - Why is digital transformation still a big deal? It has been on the radar for at least five years, and yet the majority of CEO’s are still saying that projects or transformation initiatives are underw…

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