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Uncrackable computer chips stop malicious bugs attacking your computer
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Reg Saddler
www.newscientist.com - EVEN if you’re not a hacker or a coder, chances are you will have heard names like Stuxnet, NotPetya or WannaCry. After all, these malicious programs have made big waves in the past few years. First …
The Nostalgia Tech Trend Is Bad
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Michael Tchong
gizmodo.com - At the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, we saw two formerly great smartphone brands—Nokia and BlackBerry—try to win their way back into consumers’ hearts with the relaunch of decidedly …
Audi and Ericsson to pioneer 5G for automotive manufacturing
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Michael Tchong
www.ericsson.com - At Audi’s headquarters in Ingolstadt, Germany, the two companies agreed on a range of activities exploring the potential of 5G as a future-proof communication technology that can meet the high demand…
An 11-Year-Old Changed The Results Of Florida's Presidential Vote At A Hacker Convention. Discuss.
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Themelis Cuiper
www.buzzfeednews.com - Election hackers have spent years trying to bring attention to flaws in election equipment. But with the world finally watching at DEFCON, the world’s largest hacker conference, they have a new strug…
Samsung's boring Note 9 and the curse of constant innovation
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Michael Tchong
www.wired.co.uk - More than an hour into the launch of the Galaxy Note 9, DJ Koh, Samsung’s president and CEO of IT and mobile communications, ended his address with an unguarded, clearly off-script comment. “You insp…
Sorry, gamers. Magic Leap means business!
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Mike Elgan
www.computerworld.com - After seven years of rumors, speculation and hype (not to mention $2.3 billion in funding from major companies like Google), Magic Leap this week started selling a real product you can buy. And I'm h…
This AI-Powered Robot Can Find Waldo Instantly
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Michael Tchong
www.popularmechanics.com - Creative agency Redpepper made a AI-powered robot that can pinpoint Waldo in 4.45 seconds (“better than most five year olds,” according to Redpepper). The robot is complete with a rubber hand that po…
A Philosophy of Leadership and Innovation - Ask Dorothy
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Michael Tchong
www.askdrdorothy.com - In our personal lives we have an option, however limiting certain choices can be, to decide whether to innovate, to keep up with the latest everything, or not. I don’t necessarily need or want to hav…
Mag-Lev : La première platine qui lévite
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Michael Tchong
www.neozone.org - Le Mag Lev est un projet Kickstarter développé par une équipe de passionnés slovène réunis autour de la même passion, l’amour de la musique. Le collectif est formé de personnes enthousiastes et expér…
Nissan Navara ST dual-cab review
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Michael Tchong
www.news.com.au - This is Nissan’s third attempt at tuning the suspension on the Navara and it improves the previous version’s decent manners when unloaded while fixing the frustration of the rear squatting and the no…
“The Lean Startup” is an unproductive legend
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Michael Tchong
qz.com - The only real measure of success for a startup is not to stay a startup. And yet, the gurus of innovation and entrepreneurship admonish us to “innovate continuously, like entrepreneurs do,” “fail for…
Innovation Vs. Transformation: The Difference In A Digital World
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Michael Tchong
www.forbes.com - Innovation and transformation are often used synonymously, but they are different in the digital world. In some instances, transformation can lead to innovation. In others, innovation can lead to tra…
4 Years of Sony AF Innovation Compared
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Michael Tchong
sonyaddict.com - Dave Dugdale performed an interesting comparison between the Sony a7S and Sony a7RIII’s AF performance while shooting video and you can clearly see how Sony’s AF has improved over time. Mirrorless AF…
Autonomous car tech startups in Detroit pitching innovation
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Michael Tchong
www.fox2detroit.com - DETROIT (WJBK) - Across the world, as iconic as Aretha Franklin's Freeway of Love, are the cars that ride on them and the city that makes them. Now the next chapter reviving up in the Motor City: mob…
Understanding smartwatches
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Themelis Cuiper
techcrunch.com - I was wrong. Several years ago I reviewed the first Garmin Fenix 3 smartwatch. This was before the release of the Apple Watch. That’s key to this story. I declared Garmin would have a hard time selli…
AI for cybersecurity is a hot new thing—and a dangerous gamble
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Egnyte
www.technologyreview.com - When I walked around the exhibition floor at this week’s massive Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas, I was struck by the number of companies boasting about how they are using machine lea…
Hacking the websites responsible for election information is so easy an 11 year-old did it
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Over the weekend at Def Con, the annual hacker convention in Las Vegas to discuss some of the latest and greatest (or scariest) trends in the wild world of hacking, a pair of election security hackin…
Spotify runs test in Australia, allowing users to skip ads at any time, potentially boosting targeting and revenues
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - If you want to test out a feature on a large, well-known, global, platform, there’s a very simple solution: Test it in Australia. At a population of 24 million and with a predominantly Western cultur…
24 hours left to apply to Startup Battlefield Latin America
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - The clock is ticking: only 24 hours left to submit your application to compete in the first TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Latin America on November 8, 2018, in São Paulo, Brazil. Is your startup one…
This is the Galaxy Note 9
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Everything you thought you knew about the Galaxy Note 9… well, it’s pretty spot on, honestly. Between the images, promo videos, teasers and that image of Samsung CEO DJ Koh using the damn phone out i…
A closer look at Galaxy Home, Samsung’s HomePod competitor
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - One thing is very clear upon first look at the Galaxy Home. Samsung is once again trying to beat Apple at its own game. The company could have gone any number of different directions with the product…
Microsoft nearly banned Gab over post saying Jews should be raised as livestock
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Microsoft Azure cloud computing service threatened to stop hosting Gab, a self-described "free speech social network," unless the site deleted two anti-Semitic posts made by a neo-Nazi who previo…
“___ Technica” is a clue in today’s NYT crossword
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - So there I was this morning, wearing my Star Trek "redshirt" bathrobe and Spider-Man slippers as I bent over my eggs and coffee, New York Times crossword puzzle splayed out on the breakfast table bes…
General Magic—how tech superfriends assembled, dreamt up smartphones, and failed
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The story of General Magic, which is chronicled in a new documentary named after this early '90s Silicon Valley company, has become both a legendary and cautionary tale. Back at a 1989 Aspen Institut…
How do you pronounce “NES”? Nintendo throws a wrench in the debate
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - What you call the system on the left could depend in part on whether or not you grew up with the system on the right... You can keep your long-running debate about how to pronounce GIF. For me, the a…
When Did Ajit Pai Know?
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Reg Saddler
gizmodo.com - Set to appear before a Senate oversight committee next Thursday, Ajit Pai will face a barrage of questions about why senior officials at the agency he leads, the Federal Communications Commission, pr…
Many Android devices ship with firmware vulnerabilities, researchers find
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Asus, Essential, LG, and ZTE have all vowed to patch security flaws found by mobile security firm Kryptowire, according to Wired. The firm’s research was meant to point out that some security meltdow…
San Francisco's housing market is so out of control, 60% of tech workers say they can't afford homes
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Anthony Casas, PhD
finance.yahoo.com - In Silicon Valley, buying a home is out of reach even for the region's tech workers. Blind, an app that lets (mostly tech) workers chat anonymously about the workplace, asked employees from 13 Bay Ar…
Hands-On with Redstone 5: Endgame - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - With Windows 10 version 1809 (“Redstone 5”) almost certainly feature-complete, we now have a full picture of the improvements we can expect from this release. And I have good news to report: This rel…
Police Bodycams Can Be Hacked to Doctor Footage
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Jay Oatway
www.wired.com - As they proliferate, police body cameras have courted controversy because of the contentious nature of the footage they capture and questions about how accessible those recordings should be. But when…
Report: Sinclair 'Toxic' After Failed Merger, Probes, Lawsuit
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.newsmax.com - Sinclair Broadcast Group's failed merger with Tribune Media was not the end of its controversy, but the beginning of mounting issues, including Tribune's $1 billion lawsuit, FCC and Department of Jus…
Tesla Killers Are Arriving From Jaguar, Porsche, Audi and More
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.newsmax.com - When the call came, Robert Wickel wasted little time. The subject? Reservations for Porsche’s all-electric Taycan were coming, even though the vehicle wouldn’t enter production until next year. Buyin…
While Hackers Find Voting System Flaws, System Vendors in Doubt
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.newsmax.com - Hackers at a computer security conference in Las Vegas this weekend were aiming to help test U.S. election security, but the makers of voting equipment are raising doubts, The Wall Street Journal rep…
Kevin's computer museum
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Mike Elgan
elgan.com - My son, Kevin, has been storing our old mobile gadgets for years. As a longtime tech journalist specializing in mobile computing, I always got the latest and greatest. Kevin benefited from this pleth…
How to Choose the Right CV Building Tool for You
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Gerri Elder
www.social-hire.com - If you need to create a professional CV quickly, then a CV builder can be a helpful tool. There are plenty of choices available on the web, but how do you know which one is right for you? Depending o…
Here You Can Locate Good Information About Web Design
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Rolf Joho
agentmonhost.com - There are many purposes behind a myriad of options for how you use your website. It is used for information sharing, an entertainment portal or a place to get information. A well trained webmaster is…
Combining brand voice and user generated content effectively
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80/20 Brand
www.smartbrief.com - There’s an adage that the average person is exposed to over 5,000 advertisements every day, with most of those ads a wasted effort. With advertising so completely entrenched in our entertainment, fro…
Advice To Use To Develop Your Video Marketing Plan
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Rolf Joho
iim.internetinfomedia.com - Video marketing strategies can help you promote your company’s services or products. The following article will offer many tips and increase its customer base. If you want to make a video to market y…
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