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Thursday, August 2, 2018

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Adults now spend HALF of their time awake each day online

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www.dailymail.co.uk - US adults now spend almost half of their waking hours interacting with social media, watching television, or playing video games, according to a new report. This amounts to a shocking 11 hours spent …

Mike's List of Chrome Extensions

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elgan.com - Chrome extensions collectively make up the building blocks of what I call the Super Internet. This list will be improved and updated constantly. Please come back early and often for the updates. Go h…

GamingTechLaw | Big data is the money maker in the IoT

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www.gamingtechlaw.com - Data generated through Internet of Things (IoT) technologies are expected to be its main source of income, but needs forward looking privacy rules to be fully exploited. I have just run a presentatio…

A2 Hosting Reviews & Ratings - August, 2018

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insidehost.net - Official Site: https://www,a2hosting.com A2 Hosting was founded in 2001. It claims 20X faster speed with its turbo servers as compared to standard hosting. If are looking for a developer friendly and…

The 2018 Top Programming Languages

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spectrum.ieee.org - Welcome to IEEE Spectrum’s fifth annual interactive ranking of the top programming languages. Because no one can peer over the shoulders of every coder out there, anyone attempting to measure the pop…

Are Blockchain and IOT made for each other?

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blogs.cisco.com - As 20 billion connected devices come online in the next few years1, The internet of things is poised to play an increasingly important role in our economy. IDC expects IOT based spending to top $1 tr…

Is Twitter, Facebook or Google+ The Best Social Networking Site For Your Message Spread?

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womenspowerbook.org - Is Twitter, Facebook or Google The Best Social Networking Site For Your Message Spread? Although grouped as ‘social networking sites’, when rivalry & peculiarities are considered, commonality amongst…

Harley-Davidson : bientôt une moto et un vélo électriques

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www.futura-sciences.com - La célèbre marque américaine de motos Harley-Davidson veut se démocratiser via une gamme de deux roues électriques qui ira jusqu'aux vélos. La première moto électrique de la marque sortira l'été proc…

Activists push back on Facebook’s decision to remove a DC protest event

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techcrunch.com - A number of activists and organizers in the Washington DC area are disputing Facebook’s decision to remove a counter-protest event against a rally organized by Jason Kessler, the white nationalist fi…

Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Official: All the details here

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androidcommunity.com - We didn’t expect this one: Samsung announcing a new Galaxy tablet ahead of the August 9 Unpacked event. We’re thinking at least one tablet would be unveiled together with the Galaxy Note 9 or all new…

Five IoT Predictions For 2019

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www.forbes.com - I don’t need to tell you that the IoT is growing at an exponential rate. Vehicles, wearable gadgets, RFID sensors and software are advancing past basic function and the network is growing to include …

“P is for Power”—How Google tests, tracks, and improves Android battery life

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arstechnica.com - With the last version of the Android P Developer Preview released, we're quickly heading towards the final build of another major Android version. And for Android P—aka version 9.0—battery life is a …

Techmeme introduces contextual ads tied to news topics

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techcrunch.com - Tech news aggregator Techmeme is trying out a new way to make money — ad units that are directly tied to the stories on the front page. The idea is that advertisers can specify company names or news …

Facebook loses its chief security officer Alex Stamos

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techcrunch.com - Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer since 2015, is leaving the company to take a position at Stanford University. The company has been shedding leadership over the last half a year largely…

Reddit breach exposes user data, but not much

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techcrunch.com - Reddit announced today that it suffered a security breach in June that exposed some of its internal systems to the attackers, although what was accessed was not particularly sensitive. Notably the ha…

Tesla is building its own AI chips for self-driving cars

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techcrunch.com - “We’ve been in semi-stealth mode on this basically for the last 2-3 years,” said Elon Musk on an earnings call today. “I think it’s probably time to let the cat out of the bag…” The cat in question: …

Atari games are coming to Teslas via software update

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techcrunch.com - Here’s some unexpected fun, courtesy of the man himself. Elon Musk announced via Twitter today, that Teslas will be getting a handful of classic Atari titles in the next four weeks, courtesy of a sof…

Naked Labs raises $14M Series A led by Founders Fund for its 3D body scanning mirror

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techcrunch.com - When it comes to measuring your fitness progress, there’s only so much your weight scale can tell you, actually there’s only one thing it can convey. That one metric hardly encapsulates all of the su…

Apple is ending its App Store Affiliate Program in October

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techcrunch.com - Seemingly out of the blue, Apple has just announced that its iTunes Affiliate Program will no longer include apps for iOS or macOS. These changes will go live on October 1st, 2018. The program previo…

Formlabs goes unicorn with latest funding round

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techcrunch.com - With its latest funding round, Formlabs has achieved unicorn status. The Massachusetts-based 3D printing startup just raised another $15 million. The latest round brings its total funding up to $100 …

Facebook and Instagram now show how many minutes you use them

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techcrunch.com - It’s passive zombie feed scrolling, not active communication with friends that hurts our health, according to studies Facebook has been pointing to for the last seven months. Yet it’s treating all ou…

PSA: Cross-posting tweets to Facebook no longer works as of today

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techcrunch.com - You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook . Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end, and users will instead have to copy a tweet’s URL if they want…

Original Content podcast: Hulu’s ‘Castle Rock’ is full of mysteries

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techcrunch.com - Hulu’s taking an interesting approach to adaptation with Castle Rock — instead of basing the series on a specific book by Stephen King, it’s telling a new story about (you guessed it) Castle Rock, th…

iOS beta hints at dual SIM iPhone

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techcrunch.com - Apple released the fifth beta of iOS 12 a few days ago. 9to5mac discovered strings in configuration files that reference dual SIM devices. You should expect at least one new iPhone model with two SIM…

Tesla posts bigger-than-expected loss, bigger-than-expected revenue

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arstechnica.com - Tesla expects to be "cashflow positive every quarter from here on out, absent paying down a big loan," said Elon Musk on a financial call on Wednesday. The CEO came to the call contrite, apologizing …

Valve’s first new game in 5 years, Artifact, coming in November, starting at $20

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arstechnica.com - Valve Software's first brand-new video game since 2013, the digital card-dueling game Artifact, finally has a release date: November 28. This is the first Valve game since Counter-Strike: Global Offe…

Password breach teaches Reddit that, yes, phone-based 2FA is that bad

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arstechnica.com - A newly disclosed breach that stole password data and private messages is teaching Reddit officials a lesson that security professionals have known for years: two-factor authentication (2FA) that use…

Bay Area: Join us 8/8 to discuss writing a novel with machine learning

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arstechnica.com - Robin Sloan writes about machine learning, but he's writing with it, too. His 2017 novel Sourdough has been hailed as one of the best and most accurate novels about machine learning ever published. I…

Elon Musk to video game devs: Help me put “super fun games” on Tesla screens

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arstechnica.com - Scrutiny over Tesla autodriving issues apparently hasn't dissuaded the car maker's CEO from suggesting potentially unsafe products—and for once, we don't mean The Boring Company's $500 flamethrowers.…

MetaMask Browser Extension Pulled From Google Chrome Store for 5 Hours, ‘Unsure’ of Cause

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cointelegraph.com - MetaMask, a browser extension for interacting with the Ethereum network, was pulled from the Google Chrome Web Store, it announced in a tweet Wednesday, July 25. The app has since been listed again, …

How to stop getting distracted by your phone – The Happy Startup School – Medium

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medium.com - Do you ever find yourself aimlessly staring at your phone? If you’re anything like me, then definitely. It’s because your phone was designed in a way to make you spend as much time on it as possible.…

Dark Pattern Design — It’s Downright Unethical & Irresponsible

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uxplanet.org - Dark patterns are tricks on a website or application that mislead the users so they do something they have no intention to do. For instance, sharing their data and upgrading their account. Apart from…

Playing Monopoly: What Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn From Bill Gates

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www.wired.com - By totally dismissing the power of fake news right after the 2016 election Zuckerberg had, yet again, willed the historical parallel between Facebook and Microsoft into existence. This time, however,…

How to Make an eCommerce Website - A Complete Step-by-Step Video Guide!

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winningwp.com - Creating your own online eCommerce shop can be hugely profitable — and if you’ve already decided to use WordPress to do it*, well done: you’ve chosen an excellent platform! But how best to get starte…

The Ultimate Email Subject Line Testing Checklist

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www.campaignmonitor.com - Email subject lines are always on the minds of email marketers. Because they are tied directly to open rates—and people actually seeing your emails in their inboxes—email subject lines should always …

How to Design for iPhone X | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Designing for the iPhone X will bring some new challenges, but also some new design opportunities. In this article, I’ll share a few suggestions that will help you design apps and games that look and…

Comcast, Charter dominate US; telcos “abandoned rural America,” report says

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arstechnica.com - You already knew that home broadband competition is sorely lacking through much of the US, but a new report released today helps shed more light on Americans who have just one choice for high-speed I…

Huawei overtakes Apple, global mobile market sees a decline in Q2 2018

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve always believed it will happen someday: Huawei overtaking Apple in the global smartphone market. What used to be the third largest phone maker in the world is now number 2. It happened despite …

HOW TO: Enable YouTube app’s ‘dark’ theme without the hassle

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androidcommunity.com - Earlier this year, Google made an announcement about a new feature in the YouTube app, and unfortunately for us, it still is NOT the one where the audio continues playing even when the display is off…

YouTube testing out a swipe motion to skip to the next video

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androidcommunity.com - YouTube is more than just a place that you watch videos. It is actually the second most popular social networking site in the world. And it is also being used as a search engine every time people wan…

Note 9 leaked video shows horizontal rear camera, improved bezels

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androidcommunity.com - We’re just a few days away from the official unveiling of the Samsung Galaxy S9 but of course, some won’t be able to resist looking for all the leaks and rumors that are coming out of the woodwork. W…

Samsung to bring “new form factor” in 2019 devices

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androidcommunity.com - The news is out that Samsung is facing a sort of mini-crisis, at least when it comes to their sales performance in the second quarter of 2018. It wasn’t really such a surprise given the rumored poor …

Netflix Calibrated Mode ready on new Sony MASTER Series 4K HDR TVs

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androidcommunity.com - We never doubted Netflix would be big. We’re pretty sure many of you have already ditched your TV cable subscription or have stopped downloading torrents because media streaming is enough. You’ve und…

AppSumo

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appsumo.com - Thanks to vooPlayer, you can host your videos on rock-solid, cloud-based servers or use any link from YouTube, Vimeo, AWS, Facebook and more. vooPlayer’s video player is optimized for better playback…

The Power of the Press: How to Generate Media Attention for Your Campaign - Indiegogo Education Center

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entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - Whether it’s a film or tech product, coming up with a great idea is the easiest part of starting a campaign. The hard part is being successful, which requires a lot of hard work to build buzz around …

The ultimate guide to using Bing Webmaster Tools - Part 1 - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - If you are a website owner, you’ve invested a lot of time and resources to create your site. Once it’s become active, you want everyone to see and find your site when they search on Bing. There is no…

How to Become an Author Expert and Strut Your Stuff - The Book Designer

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www.thebookdesigner.com - If you’re an author in today’s cut-throat competitive marketplace, you need every advantage to convince readers that they should spend their time and money with you versus the millions of other autho…

Google Might Be Ready to Play By China’s Censorship Rules

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www.wired.com - In 2010, Google made a moral calculus. The company had been censoring search results in China at the behest of the Communist government since launching there in 2006. But after a sophisticated phishi…

Creative Instagram Features for Marketers : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to make your Instagram presence more business-oriented? Wondering which Instagram tools can help? In this article, you’ll discover six Instagram features marketers can use to support business go…

Facebook Mobile Messenger Marketing for Traffic, Leads & Sales

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Facebook Messenger (otherwise called Messenger) is an instant messaging solution. The software program application was released in August 2011 by Facebook. Unlike a lot of SMS message applications, M…

How to Get More Facebook Likes - Get Massive Likes on Facebook

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - When it comes to social media in general and Facebook in particular – getting more likes, followers and fans is critical to gaining enough “social proof” and cause your content to often go viral. Gai…

The Bullshit Web

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pxlnv.com - My home computer in 1998 had a 56K modem connected to our telephone line; we were allowed a maximum of thirty minutes of computer usage a day, because my parents — quite reasonably — did not want to …

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