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Friday, August 10, 2018

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Why Deep Learning Is Suddenly Changing Your Life

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fortune.com - Over the past four years, readers have doubtlessly noticed quantum leaps in the quality of a wide range of everyday technologies. Most obviously, the speech-recognition functions on our smartphones w…

Qualcomm Accelerates IoT Growth Through Innovation and Expanded Channel

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www.iiotevent.com - Recently, Qualcomm publicly began a discussion about the growing momentum across many Internet of Things (IoT) business verticals at its IoT industry analyst workshop. It also announced that it has e…

Five Expert Insights into Digital Manufacturing and Mass Customization

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www.industryweek.com - The triumph of product standardization, a core principle of mass production, was manufacturing’s man-on-the-moon moment. As essential to industrial revolution as the division of labor and machine-ass…

What Silicon Valley still gets wrong about innovation

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venturebeat.com - Silicon Valley well exemplifies the saying “The more things change, the more they stay the same.” Very little has changed over the past decade, with the Valley still mired in myth and stale stereoty…

Lack of encryption makes hacks on life-saving pacemakers shockingly easy

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arstechnica.com - Life-saving pacemakers manufactured by Medtronic don’t rely on encryption to safeguard firmware updates, a failing that makes it possible for hackers to remotely install malicious wares that threaten…

Careers – US, UK and Poland – Egnyte

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www.egnyte.com - Egnyte is looking for a high-energy individual who is experienced in working on SaaS products and leading top-notch engineers. You will work on Egnyte Protect which is a brand new SaaS product in the…

As Google shifts to mobile, its referrals to news sites keep growing

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www.poynter.org - A shift in the way Google views and ranks web pages may be sending more traffic to news publishers in a continuation of a trend that started early last year. On July 1, Google switched to mobile-firs…

Easy Website Design Techniques You Can Try

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agentmonhost.com - There are many reasons for you. It can serve as a hub for information, inform a constituency, or communicate with your customers and colleagues. A well trained webmaster helps with the key to making …

UX Case Study: Google Maps vs. Waze Mobile Apps - Usability Geek

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usabilitygeek.com - We are back in business with another app showdown! To give a recap for those of you that are new here: in this UX case study series, we put two similar apps head-to-head and see which boasts the bett…

Hacking a Brand New Mac Remotely, Right Out of the Box

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www.wired.com - Apple's supply chain is one of the most closely monitored and analyzed in the world, both because of the control the company exerts and keen interest from third parties. But there's still never a gua…

Galaxy Note9 hands-on—Samsung ships a bigger battery, not much else

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arstechnica.com - The fingerprint reader has moved out of the camera assembly and onto its own island. It's a lot easier to reach now. The throngs of people hoping to get some hands-on time with Samsung's latest. The …

Not all level 2 driver assists are equal, IIHS finds after testing

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arstechnica.com - Not all adaptive cruise control and lane keeping systems are created equal. That should be obvious, but in case it isn't, recent tests by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety will serve as proo…

This isn’t a game: We try out a professional driver-in-the-loop simulator

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arstechnica.com - Devotees of racing games love to throw shade at each other. Xbox versus Playstation, console versus PC, controller versus wheel; you name it, people will argue about it on the Internet. And one of th…

Red Dead Redemption 2 sees Rockstar raising the bar for realism in open world games

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techcrunch.com - Open worlds have been a staple of gaming for a long time, but recent titles like Breath of the Wild and Horizon: Zero Dawn have significantly pushed the boundaries of what players expect from their e…

War changes: Fallout 76 is series’ first in a decade to skip Steam

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arstechnica.com - Bethesda has become the latest video game publisher to begin pulling a major game series from rivals' download services. The publisher's latest announcement about the online RPG Fallout 76 included h…

Trump wants campaign donors to vote on the logo for the Space Force

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arstechnica.com - The first two logos offered to Trump campaign supporters as options for a proposed Space Force. I wonder if NASA has been on the phone to a copyright and trademark lawyer yet? Options three and four.…

Amazon launches grocery pickup at Whole Foods for Prime members

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arstechnica.com - A new perk is coming to Whole Foods for Amazon Prime members: grocery pickup. Amazon announced today that it will roll out a new grocery pickup service at Whole Foods locations, starting with stores …

Apple defends decision not to remove InfoWars’ app

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techcrunch.com - Apple has commented on its decision to continue to allow conspiracy theorist profiteer InfoWars to live stream video podcasts via an app in its App Store, despite removing links to all but one of Ale…

Dealmaster: Get a 32GB Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet for $60

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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 an excellent deal on the 32GB variant of Amazon's Fire HD 8 tablet, …

Hands-on: Securing iOS, pwning your kids with Apple Configurator 1.2

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arstechnica.com - My teenage son's iPad, after being put into "supervised mode" by Apple Configurator. Apple recently released the latest version of Configurator, the company's management software for iOS devices, for…

Siri is now trained to recognize your local, weirdly named small businesses

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techcrunch.com - Getting directions to the nearest Starbucks or Target is a task Apple’s virtual assistant can handle with ease. But what about local businesses with names that Siri has never heard, and might mistake…

Discord is launching a game store

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techcrunch.com - Just a few weeks back, Valve moved into Discord’s turf a bit with a dramatic overhaul of Steam’s chat system. Today, Discord is returning the favor by playing with the idea of selling games through i…

Announcing the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 Agenda

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch Disrupt is the world’s biggest and most impactful tech startup conference, and this year, we’re upping the stakes even more. Taking place at Moscone West, Disrupt SF will feature the bigge…

7 takeaways from Samsung Unpacked 2018

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techcrunch.com - Samsung introduced a wide range of gadgets and upgrades today at its Unpacked event in Brooklyn. The overarching theme of the event centered on increased productivity throughout its connected ecosyst…

Starry launches pilot program with Boston Housing Authority to expand affordable internet access

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techcrunch.com - Internet service provider Starry announced today the launch of its Starry Connect program with a pilot through Boston Housing Authority (BHA) to help provide free access to internet for residents liv…

Dropbox announces COO Dennis Woodside is leaving as its second quarterly check-in with Wall Street once again outperforms

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techcrunch.com - Back when Dennis Woodside joined Dropbox as its chief operating officer more than four years ago, the company was trying to justify the $10 billion valuation it had hit in its rapid rise as a Web 2.0…

Jeffrey Katzenberg’s mobile video startup NewTV closes on $1 billion

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techcrunch.com - Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new mobile video startup NewTV, now headed by CEO Meg Whitman, has closed on a billion in new funding in round led by Meg Whitman and Jeffrey Katzenberg, the company has confirme…

Samsung Galaxy Watch comes with new branding, better battery life

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androidcommunity.com - As expected, along with the new Galaxy Note 9, Samsung has also unveiled its new wearable device and it comes with a new name/branding and also other features that improve on their smartwatch line. T…

60,000 board gamers, one convention hall: Gen Con 2018 in pictures

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arstechnica.com - The new official Choose Your Own Adventure card game is a delightful nostalgia hit. The halls are always packed with roaming gangs of gamers. I forgot to pack my necronomicon for my nightly dark ritu…

Musical.ly investor bets on internet radio with $17M deal for Korea’s Spoon Radio

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techcrunch.com - One of the early backers of Musical.ly, the short video app that was acquired for $1 billion, is making a major bet that internet radio is one of the next big trends in media. Goodwater Capital, one …

Lowe’s Ventures backs Moved, a startup that makes moving less stressful

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techcrunch.com - Adam Pittenger knows that moving is tough — after all, he said he’s moved eight times in the past seven years. Pittenger said that there are several reasons why the process can be stressful, like the…

Sony’s 10″ Digital Paper Tablet is an ultra-light reading companion that needs to do more

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techcrunch.com - Last year I had a good time comparing Sony’s DPT-RP1 with the home-grown reMarkable. They both had their strengths and weaknesses, and one of the Sony’s was that the thing was just plain big. They’ve…

Samsung teases a three-legged Bixby smart speaker called the Galaxy Home

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arstechnica.com - The Samsung Galaxy Home is Samsung's long-rumored Bixby smart speaker. There's a set of touch controls for playback on top. It looks like it will have a fabric coating similar to Apple's HomePod. Sam…

After years of hype, Magic Leap starts selling $2,300 AR headset

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arstechnica.com - Is this the future of computing? You can find out for just $2,300. You, too, can look this cool staring at an apparently empty table. We'll be impressed if the field-of-view offered by the actual gla…

Smash Bros. Ultimate adds fan faves Simon Belmont, King K Rool, tons more

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arstechnica.com - Belmont shows up just in time to see poor Luigi slashed by a demon. In addition to his classic whip attack, Belmont will also use holy water, axes, and his throwable cross. The Dracula's Castle stage…

Dealmaster: Get a Nintendo Switch for $264 and more in this eBay sale

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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! It’s your old pal The Dealmaster, checking in from his Sisyphean quest to find good tech deals with another PSA: eBay is currently holding a one-day sale that takes 15% off nearly…

Cryptography May Hold the Key to Preventing a Surveillance Dystopia

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www.inverse.com - We know very little about how much private data has been handed over to law enforcement by tech companies like Google and Facebook, and that’s partly by design. After all, some criminal cases would f…

Tesla's Solar Factory Is Reportedly Struggling to Meet Elon Musk's 'Aesthetic Demands'

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gizmodo.com - Two years ago, Elon Musk promised the world that Tesla would produce solar panels virtually indistinguishable from roof tiles. But his solar factory isn’t producing panels that are to his liking yet,…

Xiaomi Pocophone F1 sighted running on AnTuTu, watch leaked video here

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androidcommunity.com - After Xiaomi Mi 8 Explorer and the issue of it having a fake circuit board as revealed by a teardown analysis, here’s the Chinese OEM working on something really special. There is no official announc…

Meizu 16, Meizu 16 Plus launch: Ready with slim bezels, under-display sensor

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androidcommunity.com - Meizu has been prepping the Meizu 16 and Meizu 16 Plus. We knew the two would be arriving soon but not today when we’re anticipating for another big device from the top South Korean tech giant. Befor…

Fortnite Mobile for Android: video leaked before Galaxy Note 9 launch

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androidcommunity.com - It’s been a crazy half-year of Note 9 rumors and leaks. We probably know all there is to know about the next-gen premium flagship phablet from the South Korean tech giant. In a few hours, Samsung wil…

Samsung gives preview of upcoming Galaxy Home

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androidcommunity.com - It’s not a surprise anymore that Samsung will have a surprise or two up their sleeves when they make their major announcements for products. This is much needed since we’re all aware of their financi…

Anki’s Vector is a tiny robot to obey your commands (well, sort of)

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androidcommunity.com - Have you always dreamed of having a tiny robot that is cute and recognizes you, follows your commands and basically is the early stage of the takeover of our robot overlords? Well, we may be exaggera…

Indiegogo Hardware Happy Hour with mifold

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www.eventbrite.com - Join us Thursday, August 30, for the Indiegogo Hardware Happy Hour with mifold at the Galvanize campus in Boulder, Colorado. Discover how to successfully launch your product by hearing insider tips a…

Microsoft's VR Social Network Now Lets You Build Custom Worlds - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is rolling out a major update to its VR social network, AltSpaceVR. Back in June, Microsoft added a new lobby to the AltSpaceVR community where users can gather around. Today, the company i…

SearchCap: Google's latest algorithm update, local SEO myths & the Mary G. Ross doodle - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The new text ad format will continue to roll out this fall. In the meantime, standard t…

3 Crucial Ingredients to Create a Killer Instagram Marketing Strategy • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - If you're looking for a simple Instagram Marketing Strategy that absolutely anyone can follow, no matter how busy or tech UN-savvy you are, then you'll want to devour this post. This is about as simp…

Tips To Gain Business Through Marketing With Email

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marketingpromotion.biz - When did you last take the time to look at your email last? Most people tend to check their email box a few times a day. Marketing with email is a great way to reach out to your audience. Here is som…

Struggling With Car Shopping? The Tips Below Will Make It Easy

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carshopping.biz - Car shopping often conjures images of throwing money at a fairly simple process. This guide will teach you great tips on car shopping. It’s important that you pay attention to this advice so you’re a…

Follow This Simple Article To Learn More About Auto Repair

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carshopping.biz - Have you ever wanted to do auto repairs yourself? You will save yourself money and make your car last longer. Read these tips to learn about doing your own vehicle. Get a good battery charger to keep…

Information That Will Simplify The Iphone For You

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laptopsandnotebook.com - There are good and bad points about owning the iphone. The phone can seem mind boggling. You can use your headphone cord as well. Press the button on the headphone cord when you are ready. This can h…

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