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Friday, July 27, 2018

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Google wants you to use its new physical keys to secure your account

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thenextweb.com - You should already be using two-factor authentication to prevent unauthorized access to your online accounts. While your phone is up to the task of helping you with that, Google believes it’s time fo…

The Fast Lane: What Driverless Cars Mean For Innovation And Risk - The One Brief

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theonebrief.com - It’s coming quickly down the road: a world where we can get in a car anytime we want to but don’t own one. Where we’re all passengers. Where accidents are drastically reduced, and we don’t have to wo…

Play the long game with GDPR - Data Economy

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data-economy.com - In the face of exponential compute and connectivity demands from the Cloud, IoT and HPC, how can data centres remain fit for purpose? Mark Campion, Engineering Director, Next Generation Data (NGD), …

Entrepreneur Interview: Redstage CEO & Transformative B2B eCommerce

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redstage.com - This week, Eric Dye of the Entrepreneur Podcast Network interviewed Redstage CEO Adam Morris on the coming B2B eCommerce revolution. In this episode, the pair discuss the latest trends, market news, …

Amazon’s Rekognition messes up, matches 28 lawmakers to mugshots

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arstechnica.com - According to Jake Snow, an ACLU attorney, the organization downloaded 25,000 mugshots from what he described as a "public source." The ACLU then ran the official photos of all 535 members of Congress…

Google unveils tiny new AI chips for on-device machine learning

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www.theverge.com - Two years ago, Google unveiled its Tensor Processing Units or TPUs — specialized chips that live in the company’s data centers and make light work of AI tasks. Now, the company is moving its AI exper…

Tech companies can bid on the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud contract, starting today

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techcrunch.com - On Thursday, the Pentagon opened bidding for a huge cloud computing contract that could be worth as much as $10 billion. Given its size, the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract, known as…

LG Mobile’s losses continue but now sales are falling too

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techcrunch.com - Korean electronics giant LG is soaring to new heights, but its mobile division continues to lag well behind the rest of the company and the signs aren’t promising. LG’s latest financials released tod…

Congress members demand answers from Amazon about facial recognition software

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techcrunch.com - When we called the ACLU’s Amazon’s Rekognition press release an “attention-grabbing stunt” when we wrote about it earlier today, well, consider that attention grabbed. Several Democratic members of C…

Nintendo’s new Labo Vehicle Kit looks like a buggy full of fun

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo has just announced the latest in its Labo series of whimsical cardboard accessories for the Switch gaming console, and this one looks like a must-have. Called the Vehicle Kit for obvious rea…

ProtonMail now supports PGP encryption with other clients

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techcrunch.com - ProtonMail is arguably the easiest way to send end-to-end encrypted emails. But encryption only works by default with other ProtonMail users. The company is adding full PGP support so that you can se…

Microsoft partners with Black Girls Code to help the organization launch Seattle chapter

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft has partnered with Black Girls Code, led by Kimberly Bryant, to enable the organization to launch a chapter in Seattle, Microsoft announced on LinkedIn today. Since launching in 2011, Black…

Secondhand marketplace letgo expands into video listings

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techcrunch.com - Letgo, the secondhand goods marketplace valued at over a billion dollars, this week announced the launch of new features aimed at helping sellers: video listings and automatic pricing suggestions tha…

Daimler’s car2go car sharing service adds its first U.S. city in four years

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techcrunch.com - Car2go, the free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, launched in Chicago this week—the company’s 25th market globally. The car-sharing company, which lets customers rent out vehicles on a …

Snapchat “Storytellers” program pairs creators with advertisers

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techcrunch.com - Snapchat hopes to boost ad spend by connecting businesses with its top independent creators, but it won’t take a cut of deals it helps arrange. Today Snap Inc launches its “Snapchat Storytellers” pil…

You can buy the NES Classic and SNES Classic on Amazon now

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techcrunch.com - If you missed the first few rounds of excitement about Nintendo’s mini nostalgia machines, you’ve got another shot at paying a normal price. Nintendo’s NES and SNES Classic consoles aren’t always eas…

Google revamps local events search to include personalized suggestions

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techcrunch.com - Last May, Google launched a new events feature designed to help web searchers more easily find things to do nearby, while also challenging Facebook’s dominance in the local events space. Today, Googl…

5 Keys to Social Marketing Success From a Facebook Exec

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blog.hootsuite.com - The prevalence of mobile devices has “made traditional desktop marketing playbooks obsolete,” according to Facebook’s head of global travel strategy. Speaking at the Phocuswright Europe conference in…

GoogleVoice Grows Up and Goes To Work

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andyabramson.blogs.com - I've been a GoogleVoice user since the earliest days of GrandCentral. Back then not only was my agency handling blogger relations and social media for the disruptive startup, I was also an early inve…

Trump tweets anger at FCC after Pai blocks Sinclair/Tribune merger

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arstechnica.com - President Donald Trump yesterday lashed out at the Federal Communications Commission over its vote to block Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of Tribune Media Company. "So sad and unfair that th…

Burglar wakes up couple to ask to use their Wi-Fi network

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arstechnica.com - A 60-something couple in Palo Alto got an unpleasant surprise on Sunday when they woke up in the middle of the night to find a masked intruder in their bedroom. He said he wanted to use the couple's …

HTC, amidst a major revenue decline, brags about its VR revenue

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arstechnica.com - South Korean electronics manufacturer HTC used its position as a VR headset maker to shoot back at the industry's critics on Thursday. The resulting story HTC tells is an interesting one, both becaus…

Nintendo’s next Labo kit coming in Sept, looks like next-gen Pilotwings

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arstechnica.com - Comes with everything seen here (albeit in fold-it-yourself fashion) Once you're done folding, steer and pedal with all your new cardboard-and-controller toys. ...so long as you move your "Toy-Con Ke…

The software design trends that we love to hate

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arstechnica.com - This particular design trend found its footing in Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 design. It was all big, buttons and bright colors with no extraneous texture or ornamentation—ideas that later spread to …

Lenovo Smart Display review: The Google Assistant now has a face

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arstechnica.com - The first Android Things device is now available; Google is officially firing shots at Amazon's Echo-everywhere mentality with Lenovo's help. Lenovo's Smart Display is much like Amazon's Echo Show: a…

New developer requirements to protect our platform

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blog.twitter.com - Alongside changes to the developer account application process, we’re introducing new default app-level rate limits for common POST endpoints, as well as a new process for developers to obtain high v…

Ten Essential WordPress SEO Tips for WordPress Beginners (Tutorial Video)

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winningwp.com - SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is a huge deal for any website — or at least should be a huge deal. The fact is, for most websites, the vast majority of your visitors will come from Google – and the…

Apple's 2018 MacBook Pro Gets Another Nail In Its Coffin

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www.forbes.com - Apple isn't inspiring much confidence in their quietly refreshed 2018 MacBook Pro. Its 6-core Intel CPU variant has performance issues related to aggressive thermal throttling, which forces low clock…

If Your iPhone Keeps Dying, Check for Weirdly Behaving Apps

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lifehacker.com - Battery issues are one of the more headache-inducing problems you’ll ever deal with as an iPhone owner. Whether it’s Apple’s alleged planned obsolescence or just the simple physics of your iPhone’s b…

Decade-old Bluetooth flaw lets hackers steal data passing between devices

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arstechnica.com - A large number of device makers is patching a serious vulnerability in the Bluetooth specification that allows attackers to intercept and tamper with data exchanged wirelessly. People who use Bluetoo…

How to enable Chrome’s new Material Design refresh on desktop and iOS

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www.theverge.com - Google has been working on a Material Design refresh for Chrome across desktop and mobile in recent months, and elements of the redesign are starting to make their way to the stable version of the br…

A prescient Steve Jobs predicted our obsession with mobile apps

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www.engadget.com - Jobs starts the interview talking about how the App Store was built on top of iTunes, set to deliver content and applications directly to the iPhone without a computer getting in the way. Within the …

VLC unavailable on Huawei phones: this is why

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a Huawei Mobile phone owner, don’t be surprised if suddenly, you can’t use the VLC app on your unit. As it turned out, devices from the top Chinese 0EM have been blacklisted. This means you…

First Galaxy Note 9 teasers: longer lasting, more spacious

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androidcommunity.com - Thank God Samsung decided to forego lambasting Apple in its latest teaser ads for the Galaxy Note 9. After suffering through their Ingenius series that didn’t really do anything for us to fall in lov…

Galaxy Note 9 launch might be earlier, blame it on the Galaxy S9

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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve been following tech news for the past weeks, then you know that the sales for the Samsung Galaxy S9 have been less than impressive. There have been a lot of speculation and analysis as to w…

3 Ways to Use YouTube to Grow Your Business & Make Money

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - Sean Cannell: So I walk up to the counter. I don’t even know her name yet, right? I’m just like, “Hey. Can I get an Americano, and will you marry me?” Then I lean over the counter and I kiss her on t…

Samsung Starts Producing Power Efficient Memory Chips for Next-Gen Flagship Phones - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Samsung today announced its new memory chips for mobile devices. The firm has started mass producing its new mobile memory chips, just in time for the upcoming flagship phones coming later this year …

Samsung Built A 'Unbreakable' Flexible Display - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Samsung is building a new, unbreakable smartphone display. Samsung Display today unveiled the new flexible OLED display panel, which is capable of surviving rigorous drop tests. The unbreakable displ…

Entertainment On The Internet - How To Play Online | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The variety of lotto in Nigeria allows all citizens to play different games and choose the company with the most simple, user-friendly interface, easy-to-follow rules and guarantee of paying money to…

A Couple Of Myths And Facts About Juul That You Should Know | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - As electronic cigarettes are taking over the world by storm, one particular brand has found a large following among younger crowds in recent times. And as can be expected, this has caused a huge cont…

Google Ads intros new URL parameter options ahead of parallel tracking deadline - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google is two landing page URL parameter options in Google Ads (formerly AdWords) ahead of the parallel tracking deadline. There is a new field to add a “Final URL suffix,” which gets appended to the…

Top 5 Strategies To Improve Your Online Presence

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sd-entrepreneur.com - Everywhere you look online lately, people are offering their opinions about anything and everything. Why not put this effort to good use to further your career and showcase your expertise in a positi…

Alexa can now tell you the hours and phone numbers of local businesses

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www.theverge.com - If you ask your Amazon Echo for information about the closest drugstore, you can now not only get the hours, but other information about those that are closest to you, thanks to the recent update tha…

Alexa Cast lets you skip the Bluetooth when streaming to your Amazon Echo

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mashable.com - Apple has AirPlay so Google has Cast, so it was probably only a matter of time before Amazon made its own media-streaming technology. Amazon just debuted Alexa Cast: a new way for customers to enjoy …

Profitable Internet Advertising Ideas • Attraction Marketing Profits

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - There will be businesses who become huge and others that will stay small. The vast majority; however, will simply dissipate. Many businesses, especially online ones, fail. You can improve your chance…

The New Google Popup Penalty - Don't Get Penalized for Mobile Popups! • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Late last year, Google made an announcement that they were going to start penalizing websites (in terms of ranking) that use ‘intrusive interstitials’ on their mobile pages. We'll call this the Googl…

10 Proven MLM Lead Generation Super Secrets Revealed

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Are you looking to master the art & science of MLM lead generation? Are you wondering if there really is a proven network marketing lead generation system that works to consistently drive more traffi…

How to Get More Twitter Followers - Proven Blueprint to 4000 Followers Per Month • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Ready to get down to business on twitter and start pulling in more traffic, and leads? We're about to show you how to get more twitter followers using a simple and proven blueprint. We'll also be usi…

Wireless Carriers Have A SIM Hijacking Problem They Don't Want To Talk About

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www.techdirt.com - Wireless carriers are coming under increasing fire for failing to protect their users from the practice of SIM hijacking. The practice involves posing as a wireless customer, then fooling a wireless …

Google Employees Use a Physical Token as Their Second Authentication Factor - Schneier on Security

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www.schneier.com - Brian Krebs’s story of the success of physical keys or doggles is a little confusing and overstates the advantages of said physical USB keys. Many Krebs on Security posters point out that Titan Secur…

FBI Boss Chris Wray: We Put A Man On The Moon So Why Not Encryption Backdoors?

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www.techdirt.com - Despite the FBI finally admitting it had greatly exaggerated the number of encrypted devices it can't get into, FBI Director Chris Wray keeps pushing the "going dark" theory to whoever will listen. T…

How In-Store Retail Experiences Push Customers To Shop Online

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www.forbes.com - How In-Store Retail Experiences Push Customers To Shop OnlinePixabay Pixabay There is a lot of talk about the “retail apocalypse” and how traditional retailers are being destroyed by the shift to onl…

Quotient Technology Names Christy Wyatt to Bo... | Taiwan News

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www.taiwannews.com.tw - MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 25, 2018--Quotient Technology (NYSE: QUOT) today announced that Christy Wyatt, President and CEO of Dtex Systems, has been appointed to its Board of Direct…

5 Ways to Focus on Product Benefits for Increased Conversions | Practical Ecommerce

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www.practicalecommerce.com - Detailed product descriptions are crucial to converting the highest number of shoppers. That doesn’t always mean, though, they should be front and center. The average shopper wants to know more about…

11 WordPress Plugins for Customer Support | Practical Ecommerce

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www.practicalecommerce.com - Offering support throughout your shoppers’ purchase experience is a good way to ensure their return. If you have a WordPress site, there are a variety of customer-support plugins to help. Here is a l…

You'll be able to get your hands on Google's custom AI chips in October

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www.cnet.com - Google's tiny tensor processing unit (TPU) chips are shown perched on a pair of dice. Google, one of the top companies in the hot area of artificial intelligence, will begin letting customers directl…

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