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The Memo: Trump takes aim at tech giants
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thehill.com - President TrumpDonald John TrumpWeird Al joins Hollywood Walk of Fame: 'Please don't pickaxe my star' Vietnam veteran gives Cindy McCain his war medallion GOP senator warns Trump: Anyone who trash-ta…
96 Percent of Google Search Results for 'Trump' News Are from Liberal Media Outlets
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pjmedia.com - Is Google manipulating its algorithm to prioritize left-leaning news outlets in their coverage of President Trump? It sure looks that way based on recent search results for news on the president. Con…
Instagram Gets Twitter-Style Verification and a Better Way to Secure Your Account
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gizmodo.com - On Tuesday, Instagram will start rolling out some new tools designed to help weed out fake accounts and better inform users. Popular accounts will soon have the option for other users to see more det…
IFA 2018: Intel Announces New 8th Generation Mobile Processors
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Paul Thurrott
www.pcper.com - Tonight at the consumer electronics trade show IFA in Berlin, Intel announced their latest processors aimed at thin-and-light notebooks and 2-in-1 devices. Continuing the ever elongated 8th generatio…
Canvas Parent/Guardian Access - ICCSD Technology & Innovation Blog
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innovation.iowacityschools.org - Changes to the Canvas app and authentication system in early August caused our previous instructions for using the parent app to no longer work. Please follow the instructions below to create a pare…
'You can't fill a talent pipeline with a leaky bucket'
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Michael Tchong
www.chicagobusiness.com - During a career that included top jobs at Facebook, Google and the government's Darpa, Regina Dugan has had a bird’s-eye view of the gender divide in tech. Women have made gains in the past two decad…
Spy Contractor’s Idea Helped Cambridge Analytica Harvest Facebook Data
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Eric Garland
www.nytimes.com - The connections between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica were thrust into the spotlight by Mr. Wylie’s testimony on Tuesday. Both companies are linked to tech-driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump…
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
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techcrunch.com - Facebook users are complaining the company has removed the cross-posted Tweets they had published to their profiles as Facebook updates. The posts’ removal took place following the recent API change …
Huawei bags Apple’s 2nd place spot in global smartphone sales: Gartner
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techcrunch.com - Another analyst has Huawei overtaking Apple in the global smartphone rankings for the second quarter this year. The latest figures from Gartner put Huawei ahead on sales to end users in Q2. Overall, …
Yahoo still scans your emails for ads — even if its rivals won’t
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techcrunch.com - A deep dive in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday dug out new details on a massive email scanning operation by Oath, the Verizon-owned subsidiary that’s the combined business of AOL and Yahoo. The em…
Instagram announces verification requests, transparency tools and stronger 2FA
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techcrunch.com - Instagram has introduced a wide-ranging set of new tools today with security and transparency in mind. In a blog post titled “New Tools to Keep Instagram Safe,” the company is announcing three signif…
New Knowledge just raised $11 million more to flag and fight social media disinformation meant to bring down companies
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techcrunch.com - Back in January, we told you about a young, Austin, Tex.-based startup that fights online disinformation for corporate customers. Turns out we weren’t alone in finding it interesting. The now four-ye…
Will big brands disrupt higher education?
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techcrunch.com - In the years to come, who will hospitality hiring managers trust to credential students: Cornell University or the Four Seasons? Will it be Google or Penn State that sets the standards that determine…
Microsoft will soon automatically transcribe video files in OneDrive for Office 365 subscribers
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techcrunch.com - Microsoft today announced a couple of AI-centric updates for OneDrive and SharePoint users with an Office 365 subscription that bring more of the company’s machine learning smarts to its file storage…
Pandora introduces capabilities for shorter, more personalized ads
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techcrunch.com - Pandora announced three new capabilities for advertisers today — the ability to dynamically assemble different audio ads for different listeners, the ability to sequentially target ads so that they f…
Very Good Security makes data ‘unhackable’ with $8.5M from Andreessen
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techcrunch.com - “You can’t hack what isn’t there,” Very Good Security co-founder Mahmoud Abdelkader tells me. His startup assumes the liability of storing sensitive data for other companies, substituting dummy credi…
Bernie Sanders’ problem with Amazon
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techcrunch.com - Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is seeking additional information about the working conditions in Amazon warehouses in advance of legislation he’s preparing to introduce on September 5. Income inequal…
Spotinst, excess cloud capacity management service, snares $35M Series B
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techcrunch.com - Spotinst, the startup that helps companies purchase and manage excess cloud infrastructure capacity, announced a hefty $35 million Series B today led by Highland Capital. Existing investors Leaders F…
Mozilla publishes its Firefox user data
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techcrunch.com - As an organization, Mozilla has always championed transparency, and today, it’s taking this one step further by pulling back the curtains on its internal data for how many people regularly use Firefo…
How to Create a Live Show on YouTube : Social Media Examiner
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Guy Kawasaki
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering what you need to stream a live video show? Looking for tips on working with the hardware and software? To explore what you need to create a live show on YouTube, I interview Dusty Porter. T…
Robocalls tell seniors net neutrality raises phone bills by $30 [Updated]
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arstechnica.com - A campaign to stop net neutrality rules in California is targeting senior citizens with robocalls claiming that the rules will raise cell phone bills by $30 a month and slow down their data. The robo…
HDR10+ is coming to new Samsung and Panasonic TVs, but good luck finding content
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arstechnica.com - Certain Panasonic and Samsung TVs just became some of the first to support the new HDR10+ HDR standard thanks to a new firmware update. The update was rolled out to "select 2018 television models," a…
Nintendo confirms popular indie games Into the Breach, Towerfall for Switch
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arstechnica.com - Nintendo used a YouTube-exclusive presentation on Tuesday to announce a few more popular indie games coming to its Switch system. If you're looking for a summary, you could call it a few big checkmar…
Netflix will now interrupt series binges with video ads for its other series
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arstechnica.com - Netflix has confirmed a major change to its video-streaming service, effective as of this week for at least some users: video ads for other Netflix series between episodes. The news emerged via user …
AMD to use TSMC to make its 7nm CPUs, GPUs as GloFo abandons 7nm development
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arstechnica.com - In a big change of alignments, AMD has announced that its next generation of CPUs and GPUs will be manufactured by TSMC, not GlobalFoundries. GlobalFoundries was spun off from AMD in 2009. The once-i…
Intel launches Whiskey and Amber Lakes: Kaby Lake with better Wi-Fi, USB
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arstechnica.com - Intel has launched its latest mobile processors: six new chips designed for Ultrabooks and other thin-and-light systems. Three 15W U-series chips are codenamed Whiskey Lake, and another three 5W Y-se…
Facebook is deleting timeline posts that users cross-published from Twitter
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Facebook appears to have scrubbed all timeline posts that were cross-published from Twitter from its users’ profiles following privacy-minded API restrictions imposed on third-party developers, accor…
Automakers are tapping nostalgia to promote electric cars — and it’s working
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - Automakers around the world have spent the last few years promoting hybrid and electric drivetrain technology in order to show how they’re thinking about the future. But lately, some of them are look…
Google Go now has a feature to read websites out loud to you
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androidcommunity.com - While most people who scour the web probably prefer to look at pictures or watch videos rather than read long articles, there are times when you will still need to do the latter. If you really think …
Samsung gives free Gear VR headset adapter for the Galaxy Note 9
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androidcommunity.com - The latest Galaxy Note 9 is slightly shorter and wider than the Galaxy Note 8. We find it impressive because its screen is 0.1″ bigger at 6.4-inches. That’s not much noticeable to the naked eye but t…
LG G7 Fit, LG G7 One heading to IFA 2018 later this week
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androidcommunity.com - Dozens of companies will be showcasing their latest products and technologies in Berlin as the IFA 2018 opens this week. A number of brands are already making their early announcements. We’ve already…
How to Start an Email List in 2018: Step-By-Step—UPDATED!
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www.smartpassiveincome.com - Now, you may be thinking, “Why do I even need an email service provider? I’ve got a Gmail account and can just send emails to my friends and family that way.” Here’s the thing: don’t send bulk busine…
Microsoft Brings Video Transcription to OneDrive's Business Users - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is launching some new features for OneDrive and SharePoint today. Most of these features are arriving later this year, but Redmond is giving us an early look at what’s to expect. First, One…
Google Go Gets 'AI-Powered" Read-Out-Loud Feature - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Google is launching a new read-out-loud feature for its official Go app on Android. Google’s Go app on Android is meant for emerging markets where devices usually have poor internet connections. Go a…
Sticky Notes 3 for Windows 10 Launches With Syncing, Dark Theme, More - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is today launching the brand new Sticky Notes app for Windows 10 in a preview. The company has been teasing the major new update for Sticky Notes over the last few weeks, and Insiders in Sk…
Want To Solve Your Company's Culture Problem? Don't Follow This Fable
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www.forbes.com - This is a fable about Volkswagen's culture problem. The company "has only begun to take steps necessary to prevent future scandals," reports The New York Times. Attorney Larry D. Thompson has been mo…
5 ways to improve ROI on seasonal pages by optimizing your SEO crawl budget - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Google’s goal is to make useful information available to people searching the web. To accomplish that, Google wants to crawl and index content from quality sources. Crawling the web is costly: Google…
Survey: 82 percent of smartphone shoppers conduct 'near me' searches - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - The smartphone is now the primary digital tool for most consumers under 50. And the large majority of smartphone owners conduct local searches with varying degrees of frequency. This fact is well est…
How to scale content production to capture the long-tail opportunity
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searchenginewatch.com - Here’s something we all know so well that nobody needs to say it anymore: content is king. We know it because we’ve been hit over the head with the phrase more times than you can shake a page view at…
Trump Slams Google For Biased Search Results
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www.breitbart.com - The president suggested that the tech giant may be behaving in an illegal manner by skewing its search results, and promised that Google’s biased search results “will be addressed.” Trump previously …
Wired: 'Keeping Tesla Public Won't Save Elon Musk From the SEC—or Angry Investors' | Breitbart
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.breitbart.com - The article titled “Keeping Tesla Public Won’t Save Elon Musk From the SEC — or Angry Investors” outlines how Tesla CEO Elon Musk will still have to answer for his tweets in which he claimed that he …
Don’t Pretend Facebook and Twitter’s CEOs Can’t Fix This Mess
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Susan Cooper
www.wired.com - It’s not often you hear some of the richest, most powerful men in the world described as naive, but it’s becoming pretty commonplace. Mark Zuckerberg, after a dark period for Facebook, has been calle…
Windows on Chromebooks? Stay tuned.
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Mike Elgan
www.computerworld.com - Windows 10 on Chromebooks? At first, it sounds downright stupid. You can already do just about everything on a Chromebook with Chrome OS, including running a ton of Windows apps. Why bother? I have s…
How I Boosted My Rankings Without Creating Content or Building Links
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Themelis Cuiper
neilpatel.com - I know what you are thinking, this isn’t impossible. Because the more content you have and the more links you have, the higher your rankings will be. Although that is true, it doesn’t mean that conte…
The Job Seekers Guide to Navigating the ATS
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Gerri Elder
www.social-hire.com - The job market is far better than it was just a few years ago, but, it's still no picnic searching for a job that matches your skills and desired culture. It's about more than just filling a role for…
Iphone Tips: Useful Features That You May Have Missed
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Rolf Joho
iphonefindmyphone.com - You might be somewhat overwhelmed if you have a smartphone. There are a lot of phones available that seem to do the same things. You may not know which device truly is better than the rest. The iphon…
Easy Tips To Help You With Website Development
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Rolf Joho
agentmonhost.com - Even experienced website creation are sometimes stumped when it comes time to develop a mobile-friendly website or application. If you are dealing with something similar now, keep reading for some gr…
How To Make Article Advertising Work For Your Business
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Rolf Joho
marketingpromotion.biz - Article promotion is a useful tool for businesses looking to promote the products they sell. The suggestions below will give you with article syndication the right way. Offer a short report that’s fr…
The Greatest Tips For Best Webhosting Efforts That Work
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agentmonhost.com - If you are in the process of developing a website of your own, you will need to have a web host service at some point. You probably have a few questions about what constitutes quality best webhosting…
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