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Facebook Group Admins Can Now Pin Comments to Focus Discussion

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www.socialmediatoday.com - Here's a small, but relevant update - Facebook is now letting group admins pin comments in discussion threads. Facebook now lets Group admins pin comments pic.twitter.com/VNM8jE3y7S— Matt Navarra (@M…

This is not your father's Microsoft

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www.cnet.com - Six days after sharing Microsoft's blowout earnings with Wall Street in July, Satya Nadella stops to listen to a few of the more than 23,500 employees taking part in a three-day hackathon the company…

3 SEO Traffic Hacks Every Blogger Should Know: Bigger Results, Less Work

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blog.thesocialms.com - For every website, there are only 3 forms of web traffic: Paid, Social and SEO. This article is about SEO traffic hacks – but let me get into a few basics first. Paid traffic is the easiest to get, b…

Yes, Office 2019 Will Still Require the Newest MacOS Versions - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft just warned its Mac-using Office 365 customers that they will need to upgrade to macOS Sierra (version 10.12) to use Office 2019. Sadly, this news has been widely misreported and misunderst…

Trigger Hips - Windows Weekly 583 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Leo, Mary Jo, and I discuss the future of Windows 10 on ARM, Redstone 5, Office and Xbox news, and much more. Download this episode and subscribe to Windows Weekly Enjoy Windows Weekly on YouTube Tip…

Google testing out Assistant integration with Android Messages

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androidcommunity.com - It looks like the days of Allo are truly numbered. While there has been no official announcement from Google yet, rumors are going around that the messaging app will soon go kaput. We’re seeing some …

Australia bans Huawei and ZTE from supplying technology for its 5G network

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techcrunch.com - Australia has blocked Huawei and ZTE from providing equipment for its 5G network, which is set to launch commercially next year. In a tweet, Huawei stated that the Australian government told the comp…

ServiceNow-Box integration brings together two enterprise cloud stalwarts

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techcrunch.com - It used to be a one-vendor, stack-driven world in the enterprise. Today, the cloud has changed that and best of breed and interoperability are the watchwords of the day. Two enterprise cloud stalwart…

AWS cuts the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers in half

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techcrunch.com - AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started out as a pretty basic service,…

Epic Games just gave a perk for folks to turn on 2FA; every other big company should, too

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techcrunch.com - Most internet users around the world are pretty crap at it, but there are basic tools that companies have, and users can enable, to make their accounts, and lives, a little bit more hacker-proof. One…

Wickr teams up with Psiphon to ensure your packets arrive safely no matter where you are

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techcrunch.com - Encrypted collaboration app Wickr has added a feather to its cap with a partnership with Psiphon, provider of smart VPN tools. Wickr will use Psiphon’s tech to guarantee your packets get where they n…

Russian hackers slipped up in attempt to hack senator

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techcrunch.com - Hackers that targeted a Democratic senator up for reelection this year may have left behind clues in their attack that further suggest Russian involvement. The office of Claire McCaskill, a Missouri …

DJI’s Mavic 2 brings key camera upgrades to the folding drone

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techcrunch.com - The Mavic Pro was a revelation. Introduced in 2016, the folding drone wasn’t perfect, but it helped usher in a new era of devices for DJI and the industry at large. The original Mavic helped make con…

Facebook poaches new CMO Antonio Lucio from HP

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techcrunch.com - Amidst Facebook’s biggest branding crisis, It’s just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network’s external image and cross-promote features inside its apps. Antonio Lu…

Inky’s book recommendation app helps you find new reads

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techcrunch.com - Amazon acquired social reading service Goodreads five years ago, squelching the life out of the competitive landscape, as minimal as it was. So it’s promising to see a new app appear with the goal of…

Slack must use cash hoard to find new ways to keep competition at bay

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techcrunch.com - It was quite a week for Slack, wasn’t it? The enterprise communications platform confirmed this publication’s earlier report that it had scored another $427 million investment on an over-the-moon val…

How Apple's iOS 12 Password AutoFill Feature Works With 1Password

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www.macrumors.com - How Apple's iOS 12 Password AutoFill Feature Works With 1Password Wednesday August 22, 2018 12:58 PM PDT by Juli Clover Apple in iOS 12 introduced a new Password AutoFill API for apps like 1Password …

Dealmaster: Take 20% off video game pre-orders with Prime while you can

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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 headlined by more of a PSA han an out-and-out deal: as we noted earlier this week…

Apple confirms TV series order of Asimov’s Foundation

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arstechnica.com - In April, we reported that Apple was working on developing a TV series based on Isaac Asimov's highly influential Foundation series of science fiction novels. Today, Ars has confirmed not only that F…

Comcast/Charter lobby asks FTC to preempt state broadband regulations

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arstechnica.com - Having succeeded in killing federal net neutrality rules, broadband lobby groups are now asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to avoid imposing stricter regulations on the industry. Federal Comm…

GoldenEye 007 gets quite the 21st-birthday present: An oral history

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arstechnica.com - The Nintendo 64, known before launch as the "Ultra 64." Many monumental video games have reached their 20th, 30th, and even 40th anniversaries at this point, and fans can be forgiven for missing a mi…

Infiniti looks to an all-electric future with the Prototype 10 concept

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arstechnica.com - This is Prototype 10, the latest all-electric concept car from Infiniti. The unbroken surfaces of Prototype 10 are meant to reference the uninterrupted nature of electric power delivery. "We all feel…

Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions

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arstechnica.com - Last Friday, Google quietly edited its description of the practice on its own website—while continuing said practice—to clarify that "some location data may be saved as part of your activity on other…

Why we redesigned our website ... again | Webflow Blog

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webflow.com - One of the more notable new features on our website is the popover navigation, referred to internally (and lovingly) as the MEGANAV. This not only created more room for more links and pages, we also …

A Guide to Combining Fonts

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betterwebtype.com - Combining fonts is one of the trickiest parts of typography. Here’s a guide, combined with an example to help you get font combinations right. This guide is based on chapter 5 from the book Better We…

New iPhone Specs Revealed By Apple's Mistake

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www.forbes.com - Lurking inside Apple’s Xcode developer environment is a list of target iPhones. That list represents the ‘current’ and ‘future’ iPhones in Apple’s portfolio. The old faithful iPhone SE is in there, a…

Microsoft gets rid of blockchain miners with new Ethereum blockchain service – Fanatical Futurist by International Keynote Speaker Matthew Griffin

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www.fanaticalfuturist.com - WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Mining blockchain has become a contentious issue because of the amount of energy it uses and its speed, Microsoft are trying to solve both problems. Hot on the heels of its …

Tech Giants Are Becoming Defenders of Democracy. Now What?

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www.wired.com - On Tuesday, a trifecta of tech companies announced that they had thwarted what appear to be significant cyberattacks from Russia and Iran. First, Microsoft CEO Brad Smith announced that the company h…

Why Wireless Charging Will Be 2019's Big Tech Trend

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www.inverse.com - Tech giants are cutting the cord across the board. Soon enough, a majority of smartphone brands will be retrofitting their flagship handsets with wireless charging capabilities. This means that 2018 …

Bixby 2.0 button can’t be disabled on the Samsung Galaxy Note 9

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androidcommunity.com - We believe there is no perfect device that has a perfect launch and a perfect record. As for Samsung’s Galaxy Note series, it’s been through a lot. The Note 7 fiasco especially was memorable but the …

Galaxy Watch seems to meet Samsung’s promise upon first impression

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androidcommunity.com - There is much riding on Samsung’s new smartwatch, the Galaxy Watch. Not only does it have a new name and branding, but the Korean OEM needs to get a win as both expectations and sales have fallen way…

Lenovo Announces the First Android Go Tablet - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Lenovo announced several new low-end Android tablets today. Among them, I believe, is the first Android Go-based tablet. “The Lenovo Tab E7 is a tablet that gives you a real bang for your buck,” the …

Ever Feel Like You've Been Taken? — Frank Sonnenberg Online

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www.franksonnenbergonline.com - Ever feel like you’ve been taken? Did you ever shop for something and feel so dirty during the buying process that you felt you needed to take a shower afterward? Even though you were pleased with th…

Watching a real urban planner play SimCity is incredibly satisfying

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www.fastcompany.com - SimCity is one of the greatest video game franchises of all time, if only because it demonstrates something important: Designing a city from scratch is very hard, and it’s impossible to make everyone…

The Rise Of Mobile As Part Of Human Life | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Currently close to 5 billion people in the world currently own a mobile phone, with that figure rising more and more as they become cheaper and more powerful. It is astonishing how quickly their popu…

5 Ways To Manage Your Business Application Conveniently | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - In our world today, it’s become a tiring quest to find more competent and intuitive software to help businesses thrive. Since the virtual world has come to a rise in recent years, every business need…

Microsoft Hopes to Protect Candidates Without Skirting Laws

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www.newsmax.com - Tech companies want to protect U.S. political candidates from Russian hackers ahead of the midterm elections, but could that free help count as an illegal campaign contribution? That's the question M…

Viewsonic PX747-4K Projector Review - IGN

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www.ign.com - Be sure to visit IGN Tech for all the latest comprehensive hands-on reviews and best-of roundups. Note that if you click on one of these links to buy the product, IGN may get a share of the sale. For…

Why Spotify Could Be ‘Primary Platform’ for Music

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www.barrons.com - Spotify Technology is poised to become the "primary platform" to connect music fans and artists, an analyst said in one of the most bullish reports to date on the company. "We see great monetization …

Report: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg 'Pours Millions into Midterm Initiatives' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - According to Axios, Zuckerberg, along with his wife Priscilla Chan and fellow Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, “have already poured millions this election cycle into different ballot initiatives…

Technology, Humanity, AI… and The Future of Politics (Die Welt essay by Tim Renner and Gerd Leonhard, translated from German) – Futurist Gerd Leonhard

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www.futuristgerd.com - Read the original version at Die Welt (paywall), or via the brand-new Renner/Leonhard site Thanks to Tim Cole for helping with this translation. Tomorrow is on its way, and it’ll be here faster than …

Here's How Facebook Is Trying to Moderate Its Two Billion Users

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motherboard.vice.com - This spring, Facebook reached out to a few dozen leading social media academics with an invitation: Would they like to have a casual dinner with Mark Zuckerberg to discuss Facebook’s problems? Accord…

How To Get The Most Out Of Your Car Shopping Endeavor

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carshopping.biz - Car shopping is one thing people have a little trouble with. This is often because it’s tough to know what exactly to look for. Use this guide to become an expert car shopping master quickly! Get inp…

Forget About Social Media Content Moderation; Get Ready For Internet Infrastructure Content Moderation

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www.techdirt.com - The big topic du jour, of course, has been about content moderation on social media. But that may only be just the very beginning of where all of this heads. It didn't get that much attention, but la…

For Helpful Hints About Laptops, This Is The Top Article

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Whether you’re headed off to college or just landed your dream job, you probably need a laptop. Don’t be intimidated by your lack of knowledge keep you from getting a good laptop. You can make good d…

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