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Thursday, August 16, 2018

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Documents Reveal Successful Cyberattack in California Congressional Race

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www.rollingstone.com - WASHINGTON — FBI agents in California and Washington, D.C., have investigated a series of cyberattacks over the past year that targeted a Democratic opponent of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA). Rohrabac…

FCC shuts down Alex Jones’s flagship radio station

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thehill.com - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has shut down conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s flagship radio station. The Austin American-Statesman reported Wednesday that the pirate radio station, Libe…

Les jeux vidéo font plonger le géant chinois Tencent en Bourse

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www.lesechos.fr - Le géant chinois des nouvelles technologies Tencent, propriétaire notamment de la plate-forme sociale WeChat, a affiché le premier déclin de ses profits trimestriels depuis plus de dix ans : une bais…

We're about innovation without chaos: Mars global marketing head

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www.prweek.com - Throughout a conversation with Andrew Clarke—at the time of the interview Mars global CMO but now global president of Mars Wrigley Confectionery—one word and one phrase recur: "balance" and "test and…

How to Use Minio and B2 in Multi-Cloud Environments

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www.backblaze.com - While there are many choices when it comes to object storage, the largest provider and the most recognized is usually Amazon’s S3. Amazon’s set of APIs to interact with their cloud storage, often jus…

Making way for new levels of American innovation

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techcrunch.com - Matt Weinberg is a former White House appointee with the U.S. Small Business Administration, where he served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Investment and Innovation. New fifth-generation “5G” …

YC China + Qi Lu

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blog.ycombinator.com - I am delighted to announce that Qi Lu is joining YC to launch and run YC China. I have been trying to recruit Qi for many years—he is one of the most impressive technologists I know. Our mission at Y…

Video: SIGGRAPH 2018 - The art and innovation

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channellife.co.nz - Thanks to NVIDIA, I had the chance to check out the latest and greatest tech at SIGGRAPH 2018 in Vancouver this week. Below is a video with highlights from the Emerging Technologies, Production Galle…

5 Ways to Unlock Your Open Innovation Ecosystem - Crowdsourcing Week

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crowdsourcingweek.com - Ahead of CSW Global 2016, April 11-15, Roland Harwood, Co-Founder and Managing Director of 100%Open, shares practical and pragmatic ways to make that all important breakthrough in finding your open i…

His part-time job is Russian troll hunter

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www.wthitv.com - When it comes to hobbies, Josh Russell concedes he gets a little obsessive. No matter his interest, be it videogames or miniature figurine board games, he always wants to be the best. Perhaps that ex…

Here are the Nokia phones getting the Android Pie update

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androidcommunity.com - Now that Google has officially announced the next Android dessert, expect to hear from different OEMs their schedule and timeline for the said OS update. Essential Phone went ahead with its Android 9…

Owl raises $10 million for two-way car dashboard camera

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techcrunch.com - Owl, the two-way dash cam founded by a team of ex-Apple and Dropcam executives, has secured a $10 million Series A1 round led by Canvas Ventures. This brings Owl’s total funding to $28 million. “We’v…

Oracle open sources Graphpipe to standardize machine learning model deployment

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techcrunch.com - Oracle, a company not exactly known for having the best relationship with the open source community, is releasing a new open source tool today called Graphpipe, which is designed to simplify and stan…

Gaming star Ninja sparks outrage by refusing to stream with women

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techcrunch.com - At a Samsung event last week, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins explained why he doesn’t stream with female gamers. “If I have one conversation with one female streamer where we’re playing with one another, and …

Grabb-It wants to turn your car’s window into a trippy video billboard

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techcrunch.com - Maybe it’s because it looks a bit futuristic – a bit unreal. Maybe it’s because I’m looking at an ad somewhere I never expected to see one, like the skyscraper-height ads of Ridley Scott’s future. Gr…

Top execs from 6D.AI are joining us at TechCrunch Sessions AR/VR

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techcrunch.com - While the potential for entertainment in virtual and augmented reality has grabbed the most headlines, these new platforms promise radical transformations across industries and the very way that peop…

Twistlock snares $33 million Series C investment to secure cloud native environments

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techcrunch.com - As the world shifts to a cloud native approach, the way you secure applications as they get deployed is changing too. Twistlock, a company built from the ground up to secure cloud native environments…

Spotify is falling behind on lyrics and voice

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techcrunch.com - Spotify’s lack of full lyrics support and its minimal attention to voice are beginning to become problems for the streaming service. The company has been so focused on the development of its personal…

LinkedIn to relaunch Groups in the flagship app as it looks to reverse ‘ghost town’ image

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techcrunch.com - LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social networking platform for the working world with over 500 million users, is making a significant change as it continues to look for ways to make its platform more u…

Tesla whistleblower tweets photos of allegedly damaged batteries

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techcrunch.com - Martin Tripp, the former Tesla employee who was fired from Tesla and then sued by the company, has tweeted a number of photos that allegedly show damaged batteries and flawed practices at Tesla’s bat…

Google releases a searchable database of US political ads

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techcrunch.com - In an effort to provide more transparency and deliver on a promise to Congress, Google just published an archive of political ads that have run on its platform. Google new database, which it calls th…

Meet the Disrupt SF 2018 Virtual Hackathon judges and our semi-finalists

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techcrunch.com - Holy hackathon, people. Here’s an exciting update on the judges and semi-finalists who are set to make the Virtual Hackathon — at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 on September 5-7 — an event tha…

Coinbase acquires Distributed Systems to build “Login with Coinbase”

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techcrunch.com - Coinbase wants to be Facebook Connect for crypto. The blockchain giant plans to develop a “login with Coinbase” identity platform for decentralized app developers to make it much easier for users to …

Sit? Stand? Nifty new workstation lets you lie down on the job

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arstechnica.com - California startup Altwork has what may be the solution with its first product: the Altwork Station. While adjustable sit/stand desks have been done before, the Altwork Station takes things to the ne…

Diablo III’s Switch version leaked ahead of official unveil, coming “2018”

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arstechnica.com - Blizzard's first-ever video game for the Nintendo Switch, Diablo III, was unveiled on Wednesday following an article's apparent accidental publication. Forbes published an article on Wednesday confir…

Are diesel’s days numbered? A view from a trip to BYD’s electric bus factory

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arstechnica.com - LANCASTER, CALIF.—One single diesel transit bus consumes the equivalent of 10,440 gallons of gasoline a year, according to the Federal Highway Administration. Replacing that diesel-burning transit bu…

10 Ways to Design Your Website for Mobile Speed | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Have you performed a mobile speed test lately? How does your website rank? A slow website can turn mobile users away. Ideally, you want your design to load just as quickly for 3G users on phones as i…

Why Pinterest should be in every brand's strategy | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Video: Brands and social media: A good app and a compelling hashtag will go a long way Pinterest is continuing to grow its platform. Over 200 million people use the platform, which gives brands a hug…

Google may still be tracking you, even if you opted out

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futurism.com - GOOGLE’S GRAY AREA. When you tell Google to turn off location tracking, seems like the company takes it as more of a suggestion than a command. On Monday, the Associated Press (AP) published an inves…

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 60 vulnerabilities resolved including two active exploits | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Microsoft's Windows Patch Tuesday resolves a total of 60 vulnerabilities, many of them critical, in addition to two zero-day security flaws which are being actively used in attacks today. The Redmond…

Democrats to FCC chair Ajit Pai: Why did you lie to us about DDoS attack?

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www.fastcompany.com - The biggest thing Republican FCC chair (and ex-Verizon attorney) Ajit Pai has done since being appointed by President Trump is roll back network neutrality protections. He proposed a new rule doing j…

How to nail an interview with a chatbot

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www.fastcompany.com - The chatbots are coming. And you may need to impress them to have a shot at your next job. advertisement advertisement As key functions of human resources (HR) are ripe for automation, 15% of HR lead…

Huawei Mate 20 phone may arrive with a front 3D camera

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androidcommunity.com - Huawei is unfazed even when it is facing some challenges in the United States. A defense policy bill banning Huawei and ZTE was recently signed by President Trump but the top Chinese OEM believes it …

NVIDIA SHIELD TV Smart Home Edition: Ready on Amazon, Best Buy

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androidcommunity.com - The NVIDIA SHIELD TV Smart Home Edition is here. Don’t be confused yet because there are many SHIELD products available but this is more of a new bundle that includes a dongle plus a number of improv…

Sprint teaming up with LG to bring first 5G smartphone in 1H of 2019

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androidcommunity.com - The race to release the first 5G smartphone in the US is officially on as Sprint announced that they are partnering with LG to make that a reality in the first half of 2019. This comes after the rece…

Tip: Enable OneDrive Folder Protection - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - OneDrive’s folder protection feature is now available to everyone with Windows 7 or newer. Here’s how to enable it and use this feature to protect your PC’s most important files. Folder protection wa…

Google's political ad transparency report & library offers more accountability around election ads - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google is building more transparency into the political ads and advertisers running campaigns on its ad networks. After updating its political ad policies in May — enforcing new ID requirements for a…

Analysts say Amazon's advertising business will surpass AWS by 2021 - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - For the past few years, Amazon’s ad business has often been talked about as a sleeping giant. Well, the giant is awake and ready to stretch out. Amazon’s advertising business is just getting going, s…

Virgin Galactic’s Rocket Man

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www.newyorker.com - He began flying for United Airlines, and sold mortgages for a few years, before going on active duty with the Air Force, in 2003. A year later, he deployed to Iraq. In an e-mail to friends and family…

The case against teaching kids to be polite to Alexa

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www.fastcompany.com - Should children be polite to virtual assistants? advertisement advertisement It’s a simple question. And for most parents and child development experts, the answer is simple, too: Yes, of course they…

How to Use Pinterest Search Ads : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want more visibility on Pinterest? Wondering how to use Pinterest search ads to promote your products and services? In this article, you’ll discover how to use Pinterest search ads to reach your idea…

Master Youtube Video Marketing Online for Traffic, Leads & Sales

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Video marketing is the process of producing, publishing, and distributing to promote or market a brand, product or service. Think video reports, step-by-step tutorials, customer testimonials, videos …

Facebook LIVE for Business? 5 Simple Steps to Instantly Get Targeted Prospects to Talk to with Facebook LIVE! • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Getting people signed up to ManyChat is super simple. Just one click on a link can sign them up as a subscriber to YOUR ManyChat bot. Even cooler is that when someone simply leaves a comment on your …

6 Types of Emails to Send to Your List to Build Rapport & Grow Your Income • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - So you’ve been creating great content, generating leads, and building your list. But now you might be wondering, “Ok, so what the heck do I actually send to my subscribers to get them to open my emai…

Instagram Algorithm Update & Tips For Staying Alive On Instagram • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - The Instagram algorithm was updated on March 15th, and as Instagram promised, it was one of their biggest updates to date. It will affect the way you view your posts. They stated on their blog,”You m…

Useful Advice For Improving Marketing Via Email Knowledge

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Have you ever thought about getting into marketing via email but are having a hard time finding out where to start? If you’re trying to create an e-mail marketing campaign that works, keep reading! R…

Proposed Australian law threatens Apple with $7.3M fine, jail time, over encrypted data

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9to5mac.com - The Australian government has today proposed a new law which would require tech companies like Apple to give authorities access to encrypted data on receipt of a warrant. Failure to comply would leav…

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