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Blog Post Ideas to Boost Traffic to Your Business Blog - Stencil

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getstencil.com - Writing for a blog takes hard work and time, especially if it’s for business. Sometimes it’s hard to come up with blog post ideas that will stir up the attention of an audience. How do you draw in th…

Sony tries to upload movie trailer to YouTube, posts entire movie instead

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arstechnica.com - Sony Pictures Entertainment endeavored to post a trailer for its limited-release film Khali the Killer on YouTube to encourage viewers to watch the movie on Blu-ray, on streaming platforms, and in se…

Snowflake expands beyond Amazon to Azure cloud

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techcrunch.com - Snowflake, the cloud data warehouse, announced a partnership with Microsoft today to expand their offering to the Azure cloud. The new product is still in Preview for now. Given that Snowflake CEO Bo…

Apply to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America

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techcrunch.com - The TechCrunch crew is practically giddy to be heading to São Paulo, Brazil to host the inaugural Startup Battlefield Latin America on November 8, 2018. This is the first time we’ve hosted an event i…

FCC looks to revamp children’s media rules, but advocates cry foul

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techcrunch.com - One of the FCC’s many jobs as a media regulator is to make sure that there is adequate time being dedicated by broadcasters to educational content for kids. As the media landscape changes, however, s…

AT&T takes stake in AR company Magic Leap at a $6.3B valuation and exclusive distribution deal

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techcrunch.com - After spending the last couple of weeks closing the deal to buy TimeWarner for $85 billion and buying ad firm AppNexus for up to $2 billion, today AT&T announced a key distribution move in its new bi…

App marketing platform AppLovinlaunches mobile application publishing studio, Lion Studios

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techcrunch.com - Selling much more than breadsticks and calamari, app marketing platform AppLovin has launched a new application publishing studio to allow developers (of primarily mobile games) to concentrate on bui…

Microsoft wants to make you a better team player by nudging you into submission

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft announced a number of new tools for its MyAnalytics tool for Office 365 users today that are geared toward giving employees more data about how they work, as well as ways to improve how tea…

Apple’s MacBook Pro refresh puts the focus back on creative pros

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techcrunch.com - New MacBook Pros seemed like a no-brainer for WWDC. Like the rest of the company’s hardware line, however, they were a no-show. Sure, Apple used the opportunity to reaffirm its comment to creative pr…

The new MacBook Pro keyboards are quieter, but otherwise unchanged

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techcrunch.com - Like any other line of work, tech journalists tend to get fixated on details. When Apple showed off its new MacBook Pros at an event this week, the company (and a small army of creative professionals…

Announcing the TC Top Picks for Disrupt SF 2018

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techcrunch.com - When we put out the call for early-stage startups to apply to be a TC Top Pick at Disrupt San Francisco 2018, which takes place September 5-7, we knew we were in for something good. But crikey! The c…

Netskope nabs Sift Security to enhance infrastructure cloud security

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techcrunch.com - Netskope, a company that focuses on security in the cloud, announced today it has acquired Sift Security, a startup launched in 2014 to help secure cloud infrastructure services like Amazon, Microsof…

Intel acquires eASIC to take its chipsets deeper into IoT and other next-generation computing

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techcrunch.com - In the wake of Broadcom failing to complete its takeover of Qualcomm, Intel is buying another chip company as it works on adjusting its own its business to fit the next generation of computing. Today…

Google’s Apigee teams up with Informatica to extend its API ecosystem

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techcrunch.com - Google acquired API management service Apigee back in 2016 but it’s been pretty quiet around the service in recent years. Today, however, Apigee announced a number of smaller updates that introduce a…

Octi raises $7.5M to create augmented reality that understands human movement

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techcrunch.com - The team at Octi says it’s building a crucial piece of the augmented reality puzzle — the ability to understand the human body and its movement. Co-founder and CEO Justin Fuisz told me that most exis…

Apple to stop selling 2015 MacBook Pro with old-style keyboard, legacy ports

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arstechnica.com - Apple doesn't waste time consolidating its product lineups—after announcing new MacBook Pro models today, the 2015 MacBook Pro has been removed from the Mac section of Apple's website. Beloved by man…

The Crew 2 review: Where is everybody?

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arstechnica.com - But what those games typically have (and The Crew 2 lacks) are solid foundations. Instead, the new open-world racing game feels so light on features, personality, and fundamentally enjoyable activiti…

Ongoing scam is still stoking concerns Dell customer data was breached

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arstechnica.com - More than 30 months after surfacing, a tech-support scam targeting Dell computer owners continues to raise questions about how the callers know sensitive information, including PC serial numbers and …

FCC limits reviews of customer complaints, claims that nothing is changing

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission today voted 3-1 to stop reviewing informal consumer complaints about telecom companies. To get an FCC review of a company's bad behavior, a consumer will have to…

All SUV, all of the time: The Range Rover Sport reviewed

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arstechnica.com - If you're going to buy a luxury SUV, why not buy it from the company that has been manufacturing them for six decades or so? That's the value proposition behind the insanely expensive $360,000 Range …

Tesla whistleblower tells SEC of alleged wrongdoing at Gigafactory

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arstechnica.com - Martin Tripp, an ex-Tesla technician who has been sued by his former employer, has now filed a formal whistleblower tip to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Tripp's lawyer, Stuart Meissner, tol…

Apple’s new 2018 MacBook Pros are now available, and the top specs are much faster

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arstechnica.com - A musician works in Logic Pro on the 2018 MacBook Pro. The new MacBook Pro running photo editing software. Today, Apple begins shipping the new 2018 refresh of the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro. Th…

Hands-on with Nintendo’s weirdest, and maybe rarest, classic console yet

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arstechnica.com - The collectability of Nintendo's "classic mini" consoles cannot be overstated. Even after restocking the NES Classic Edition's original limited supply this year, the company has barely been able to k…

Chrome enables site isolation to blunt the threat of Spectre attacks

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arstechnica.com - Google’s Chrome browser is undergoing a major architectural change to enable a protection designed to blunt the threat of attacks related to the Spectre vulnerability in computer processors. If left …

Never Stop Sneakin’ captures Metal Gear Solid nostalgia in the right way

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arstechnica.com - When you overuse nostalgia, though, it stinks of the laser-focused cynicism that launched Ernest Cline’s career. But there’s a happy medium. You can use reverence for the classics to launch into some…

Microsoft offers extended support for Windows, SQL 2008: but with a catch

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arstechnica.com - Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2, as well as SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2, are due to move out of extended support over the next few years; SQL Server in July 2019, and Windows Server in January 2020. …

Nintendo hid a load-your-own NES emulator inside a GameCube classic

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arstechnica.com - Fans of the early-2000s era GameCube version of the original Animal Crossing likely remember the game including a handful of emulated NES titles that could be played by obtaining in-game items for yo…

What Is Redux: A Designer’s Guide

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www.smashingmagazine.com - Teaching designers React at LearnReact.design. Developer. Lifelong learner. More about Linton… Upgrade your inbox and get our editors’ picks twice a month. With useful tips for web devs. Sent 2× a mo…

How Beardbrand Built Their Email Flows – Really Good Emails

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explore.reallygoodemails.com - We have a great post-purchase flow. The first email is transactional: the order confirmation email. Then there’s 11 that go after that, but it’s dependent upon what they buy. The second email after t…

15 principles of good service design

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blog.louisedowne.com - What is a good service and why are we so afraid to talk about it? I’ve been asking myself this question a lot recently. In a bid to find out, I tweeted this a few weeks ago and – bar a couple of peop…

Walmart Patents Audio Surveillance Tool to Monitor Employee Conversations

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splinternews.com - Retail colossus Walmart just patented a new technology meant to monitor employee productivity via audio surveillance of checkout counters. The technology, which Walmart calls “listening to the fronte…

Apple Leaks Reveal All Major Updates Could Be Coming to Most Hardware

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www.inverse.com - While Apple aficionados may be most fixated on the trio of iPhones that are expected to hit shelves this fall, a new research note penned by Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities …

The AI-Powered Mystic Autonomously Follows You and Recognizes Gestures

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www.thedrive.com - Airlango just launched the Mystic, an artificial intelligence-powered camera-drone that responds to your hand gestures and autonomously recognizes and follows you. The Kickstarter project has already…

Blockchain fever: HTC Exodus, FINNEY dual screen, Opera crypto wallet

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androidcommunity.com - A Foxconn-Sirin blockchain phone may be in the works. That’s what we said back in April and soon, the idea was overshadowed by the news of an HTC Exodus blockchain-powered smartphone. It’s another cr…

Galaxy Tab S4: a few more small changes

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androidcommunity.com - We’re just waiting for the official announcement of the Galaxy Tab S4. We’ve heard of this model ever since the specs were sighted on GFXBench last February. It was soon WiFi certified, already compa…

ZTE now allowed to do business with US suppliers again

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androidcommunity.com - US President Donald Trump’s Twitter mandate to his government to help ZTE out of their problems has finally been heeded. After being served a ban on doing business with US companies as punishment for…

Huawei highlights China’s expansion dilemma: espionage or profit? | The Strategist

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www.aspistrategist.org.au - The Australian government will soon announce its decision on whether to allow Huawei to participate in Australia’s 5G network. It’s one of the most important policy decisions the prime minister will …

Microsoft Launches New Modern Workplace Features for Office 365 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is launching a bunch of new modern workplace features for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 this week. The company is launching a free version of Teams today, as well as a number of upgrades to …

Microsoft Brings Whiteboard to iOS and Web, Coming to Android in the Future - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is bringing its collaborative digital canvas app Whiteboard to more platforms. The app initially launched on Microsoft’s Surface devices as a way to let users collaborate on a digital canva…

Uber Fires Self-Driving Vehicle Operators in Pittsburgh | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Employees of the smartphone-based car service were notified on Wednesday that approximately 100 “autonomous vehicle operators,” were being replaced by around 55 “mission specialists,” tasked with com…

Joy Reid Sees 20-Percent Ratings Drop After Fallout From Unverified Hacking Claims

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freebeacon.com - BY: David Rutz Follow @DavidRutz July 12, 2018 10:15 am MSNBC host Joy Reid has seen her ratings drop 20 percent since she made unverifiable claims of hacking in April to explain controversial blog p…

House set to probe anti-conservative bias by Google, Facebook on July 17 - TheResurgent.com

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www.themaven.net - The lawmakers’ letter to Alphabet CEO Larry Page said recent reports indicate that its Android smartphone operating system collects extensive user-location data and reports it back to Alphabet’s Goog…

How to Bulk Schedule Facebook Posts Without Paid Tools : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to save time by bulk scheduling your Facebook posts? Wondering how to schedule posts without using a paid third-party tool? In this article, you’ll discover a three-step process to schedule mult…

Mobile Marketing Advice That Even A Novice Can Use

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durac.info - Mobile marketing is very effective when used correctly, but knowing how to approach it effectively can be tricky. There are such a variety of different mobile marketing products from which to choose.…

Marketing On The Information Super Highway – How To Steer Into The Skid

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firstadsense.com - There is a lot of money to be earned in Internet marketing. There are virtually countless ways to start a business on the net, and they all require a significant amount of time and energy. Using time…

Social Media Marketing: Relax, Unwind And Find Success With Us

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durac.info - You need to have a place online and the best way for this is to be on the websites that many people are gathering. This is easy to do on social media networking sites than anywhere else. Social media…

MacBook Pro (2018): First look, listen, and feel!

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www.imore.com - I just got back from checking out Apple's new, 2018 MacBooks Pro. I'm excited because I didn't just get the regular old product briefing and hands-on time with the new displays and new keyboards — ye…

Looking To Market Using Facebook? Try These Ideas!

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duracmarketing.com - Facebook is one of the largest social media platforms out there with millions of subscribers. You are quite likely a member yourself. When you work at or own a business, reaching out to those users i…

Useful But Relatively Unknown Iphone Tips And Tricks

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iphonefindmyphone.com - Many people do not understand the full functionality of how to use fancy gadgets like iPhones.This article will offer various tips and tricks that you can feel comfortable with your smartphone. Keep …

Small internet providers face a fight for their lives

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www.engadget.com - Filed in May this year, that petition would essentially get rid of a key requirement in the 1996 Telecommunications Act: that incumbent telephone companies are required to sell parts of their copper-…

The Ins And Outs Of Hosting

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agentmonhost.com - Hosting might initially seem to be a confusing subject to understand. However, when broken down into simple tips and bits of information, the difficult information becomes easier to process. The arti…

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