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Arm acquires Treasure Data to set the stage for IoT transformation

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www.arm.com - By Nandan Nayampally, vice president and general manager, Client Line of Business, Arm Over the last five years, advances in Arm technology have brought desktop-class PC performance into our smartpho…

Adobe launches Scan for Bixby Vision with Samsung Galaxy Note9 - Marketing Tools 365

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www.marketingtools365.com - Adobe unveiled a smart way to turn the new Samsung Galaxy Note9 into a portable PDF scanner with the introduction of Adobe Scan for Bixby Vision. Break free from paper and use the Adobe Scan app on t…

Introducing Unitii - An innovation in communication

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www.journalism.co.uk - WITH more people than ever working remotely and staff constantly on the move, an intranet is an essential tool, even within smaller companies. And one South West firm has developed and launched an af…

Can You 'Future Proof' Your Mobile Payments? | PYMNTS.com

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www.pymnts.com - The shift to digital and mobile forms of payments and commerce is undeniable across various areas such as retailing, banking and B2B payments. But that does not mean a proactive mindset reigns when i…

#Startup : l'innovation, un jeu d'équipe | 1001startups

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1001startups.fr - L’autoradio fait retentir la voix et la guitare de Bob Dylan sur l’air de « Like a Rolling Stone ». Il est tôt ce matin d’août 1983 sur le campus d’Apple à Palo Alto. En sortant de sa voiture, Steve …

Mapping The Obstacles To Innovation In Law

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abovethelaw.com - Allow me to crowdsource, if you will. Next month, I will be meeting with a group of state bar officials to discuss what they can do to promote legal services innovation and access to justice. In prep…

Innovation : L’américain Fossil dévoile sa toute dernière montre connectée à écran tactile

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www.lactuwebdedith.com - (TIC Mag) – La marque américaine Fossil vient de présenter sa quatrième génération de montres connectées issues de la gamme Fossil Q. « Cette gamme offre aux clients des fonctionnalités connectées tr…

The ABA Center for Innovation Content Survey | JD Supra

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www.jdsupra.com - JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations. This Privacy Policy describes how JD Supra, LLC (…

Why Augmented Reality Is the Next Disruptive Mapping Technology

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knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu - As an executive for a digital mapping technology startup in the innovation’s early days, Bill Kilday has had a front seat in the development of digital navigation that forever changed the way people …

Streaming TV services now reach 5% of U.S. Wi-Fi households, up 58% since last year

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techcrunch.com - The number of U.S. households watching streaming TV services – those that deliver cable TV-like programming over the internet – has grown a remarkable 58% over last year, according to new data from c…

Google One is more proof of commoditization of consumer cloud storage

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techcrunch.com - We have long known that the price of cloud storage services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive have been getting cheaper over time. Yesterday’s launch of Google One in the U.S. dropped…

Autonomous retail startup Inokyo’s first store feels like stealing

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techcrunch.com - Inokyo wants to be the indie Amazon Go. It’s just launched its prototype cashierless autonomous retail store. Cameras track what you grab from shelves, and with a single QR scan of its app on your wa…

New whistleblower claims against Tesla allege drug trafficking, theft and phone hacking coverup

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techcrunch.com - Employees at Tesla’s Nevada gigafactory were allegedly involved in a massive drug ring, stole $37 million worth of precious metals and equipment, and illegally spied on former employees at the behest…

China is the fastest growing smart speaker market

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techcrunch.com - No surprise that smart speaker sales are on the rise. That certainly comports with recent numbers from NPD. The latest report from Canalys, however, pulls the camera back a bit to give a better pictu…

Work-Bench enterprise report predicts end of SaaS could be coming

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techcrunch.com - Work-Bench, a New York City venture capital firm that spends a lot of time around Fortune 1000 companies, has put together The Work-Bench Enterprise Almanac: 2018 Edition, which you could think of as…

Arm wants to power your next laptop

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techcrunch.com - Arm, the company that designs the chips that power virtually every smartphone and IoT device, published its roadmap for the next two years today. That’s the first time Arm has done so and the reason …

Intel buys deep-learning startup Vertex.AI to join its Movidius unit

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techcrunch.com - Intel has an ambition to bring more artificial intelligence technology into all aspects of its business, and today is stepping up its game a little in the area with an acquisition. The computer proce…

What AR/VR/XR needs to go big

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techcrunch.com - AR/VR/XR are going to be big, but not everyone will win. Today’s market is a collection of related point solutions to specific problems, but not a fully functioning ecosystem. Not yet. For the market…

Facebook awards $200K to Internet Defense Prize winners

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techcrunch.com - Facebook announced today the winners of its annual Internet Defense Prize and awarded first-, second- and third-place winners a total of $200,000 for research papers that addressed topics of internet…

Designers are hilariously mocking Trump’s Space Force logos

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www.fastcompany.com - Last week, Donald Trump’s reelection campaign shared a selection of terrible logos for Space Force (or Space Farce, as I call it), the new arm of the military that the president invented to fire up h…

Here's the Letter 1,400 Google Workers Sent Leadership in Protest of Censored Search Engine for China

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gizmodo.com - Following similar action against secretive AI drone imaging program for the U.S. military, Project Maven, Googlers are once again organizing internally to push back against their leadership—this time…

Windows 10 to get disposable sandboxes for dodgy apps

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft is building a new Windows 10 sandboxing feature that will let users run untrusted software in a virtualized environment that's discarded when the program finishes running. The new feature w…

Twitter suspends Alex Jones for urging people to keep “battle rifles” ready [Update]

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arstechnica.com - After holding out for a few weeks, Twitter joined the chorus of social media and tech giants that have punished conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for questionable content. Twitter suspended Jones from h…

Google reportedly plans flagship retail store (again), this time in Chicago

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arstechnica.com - As Google makes more and more hardware products, it makes more and more sense for the company to have some kind of retail arm to show off its stuff. Google has a few "stores within stores" at places …

Dealmaster: Get 6 free months of Apple Music with a Verizon unlimited plan

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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today's list is led by a promotion for subscribers of Verizon's "unlimited" mobile plans: startin…

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…

How to Debug a Node.js app in a Docker Container | @RisingStack

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blog.risingstack.com - In this post, we'll take a look at how you can debug a Node.js app in a Docker container. In case you're wondering: "Why should I acquire this knowledge?" The answer is simple: In case you're wonderi…

It’s a Mads, Mads, Mads, Mads World

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www.underconsideration.com - Launched in 2008, Evernote is a mobile app for taking notes, clipping web pages, organizing, making task lists, and archiving. Developed by Evernote Corporation — a global, privately-owned company he…

How a wily Californian beat Google and Facebook’s influence operation

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www.theverge.com - Amid a national reckoning over the perils of social media, a looming question has been whether — and how — the US government might respond. A series of hearings in Congress raised the specter of oner…

Fake social accounts: Another problem for marketers to monitor - MarTech Today

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martechtoday.com - If any marketers felt their list of things to worry about was getting too short, here’s another one to add: Not just fake social followers, or fake influencers. Those are separate items on your list.…

Google Coach will be an AI-powered health and fitness assistant

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androidcommunity.com - Google collects a lot of data from us as we use our Android phones, tablets, wearables, smart speakers, etc. And because of AI technology, they are able to craft products that are more personal and u…

T-Mobile Team of Experts now live for postpaid customers

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androidcommunity.com - While other networks are thinking of new mobile and data plans and smartphones to offer, here is T-Mobile working to make customer service better. The company has recently launched ‘Team of Experts’ …

Google Play Store now has “App download preference” option

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androidcommunity.com - When you’re downloading a huge app and you’re not connected to WiFi, you will probably get a warning that you’re just using your mobile data to download that app. If you’re on a limited data plan and…

Project Fi’s text forwarding feature will be no more

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androidcommunity.com - This may be a minor mobile feature you don’t always use it but text forwarding is still deemed important. Some people just use the standard copy-and-paste feature. Usually, people only see the value …

WhatsApp Backup won’t take up space in Google Drive anymore

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a heavy WhatsApp user and you use it as one of your primary communication platforms, you probably regularly back it up on Google Drive to save and archive messages. But if you’re on a limit…

Beijing start-up admits China’s ‘home-grown browser’ is built on Google’s Chrome

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www.scmp.com - A Beijing-based start-up that claimed to have developed an original China web browser admitted it had based its software on Google’s Chrome, following online accusations that it had ripped off the Am…

Google Admits to Location History Collection - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Just days after an explosive report claimed that Google was collecting location data when disabled by the user, the online giant has admitted to the behavior. The issue is clear enough: Google provid…

Sony Has Sold 3 Million PlayStation VR Systems - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Sony announced this week that it has now sold over 3 million PlayStation VR systems and about 22 million PS VR games and apps. This milestone is interesting on a number of levels. “We’d like to thank…

Gmail Brings Confidential Emails to Mobile - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google is today rolling out one of Gmail’s modern features to mobile devices. The company today launched Confidential Mode for emails on Gmail, letting users protect the emails they send. Gmail’s con…

Intel Brings 8th-Generation Core Chips to the NUC - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Intel this week announced a new family of NUC kits and mini-PCs that utilize its quad-core 8th-generation Core chipsets. And for the first time, Intel is offering discrete graphics options in its mai…

Lenovo Notes PC Sales Surge in Earnings - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Lenovo this week announced its most recent quarterly earnings. Of particular note, the firm saw its best PC sales growth in four years. “Personal Computers and Smart Devices reported $7.7 billion in …

7 Road Safety Tips For Large Truck Drivers | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - When on the road, be careful! How many times have you heard or seen that? From authorities to family, everyone seems to be saying the same thing. Well, safety is paramount. As more and more people ta…

Easy Ways To Download YouTube To MP3 Video Converters On Desktop, iPhone & Android | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - If you are a person who likes to travel a lot, you know how boring long distances can be. No matter if you travel on national or international routes, your favorite books, videos or music become your…

The evolution of search: succeeding in today’s digital ecosystem – part 1

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searchenginewatch.com - The world has fundamentally and irreversibly changed; since the launch of the smartphone, technology has enabled on-demand access to information and opened a Pandora’s box full of anything our hearts…

Obama campaign used security keys during both elections to prevent hacks

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www.cnet.com - Former President Barack Obama on a laptop at the White House. As political campaigns in the 2018 midterm elections fight off hackers, they might want to look back to Barack Obama's campaign team and …

Les 5 acteurs Luxe qui trustent la sphère digitale chinoise

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journalduluxe.fr - Paru la semaine dernière, le rapport Digital IQ Index : China Luxury 2018 édité par l’institut Gartner L2 a dévoilé les scores d’influence digitale de différentes Maisons de Luxe présentes sur le ter…

Proven PPV Marketing Secrets Revealed - Pay-Per-View Pays

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - PPV marketing (pay-per-view) is the system of creating a promo pop-up window to appear on a website that accepts pop up ads. The advertiser is charged by the number of times the ad pops up and is “vi…

Do You Want To Learn About Facebook Marketing?

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Do you want to improve your questions about marketing strategy? Do you want to find advice that really works? This article goes into the techniques for a format that is easy to understand. Coming up …

Twitter Addresses Why They’ve Broken Twitter for Third-Party Clients

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daringfireball.net - Good piece by Sarah Perez at TechCrunch regarding a Twitter internal email on why they’ve broken significant functionality for third-party clients: And Twitter wonders why users don’t want to use its…

Transcript of Using Convenience to Disrupt the Competition – Local Internet Marketing

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andyrkelly.com - John Jantsch: How would you like to disrupt your entire industry, disrupt your competition? Well, it’s possible, and today, the way that you do it is that you are just easier to do business with, you…

How to Get Alex Jones Off Twitter Once and For All – Shannon Coulter – Medium

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medium.com - This article is a Medium-based version of a viral Twitter thread I wrote about a very specific way we can encourage Twitter’s leadership to drop Alex Jones from its platform. So many people have part…

Are You Concerned About Your Data Privacy? You Should Be.

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blog.dashlane.com - Between the massive Equifax breach, the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal, and all of the publicity generated by the European Union’s new GDPR legislation, now is as good a time as any to dive…

Are Targeted Ads Stalking You? Here’s How to Make Them Stop

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www.nytimes.com - The trackers can tell if you are interested in buying something. They look for signals — like if you closed the browser after looking at the blender for awhile or left the item in the site’s shopping…

4 futuristic transport methods that will change how we travel around the world

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www.impactlab.net - Since the invention of air travel, the world has felt like a smaller place – it’s now possible for pretty much anyone to fly around the globe, learning about different countries and cultures. It’s pr…

Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent (BAT) are now valued at a combined $1 trillion USD.

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www.impactlab.net - Alibaba and Tencent alone now account for almost one-third of the MSCI China Index, fueling its 47 percent gain in 2017. As of this past March, China had skyrocketed to 164 unicorns, worth a combined…

Twitter users are protesting Alex Jones with a viral block list

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www.theverge.com - Last week, we talked about why Facebook banned Alex Jones — and Twitter didn’t. Facebook saw that Jones, who had already violated any number of the platform’s rules, had no intention of reforming him…

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