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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

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TECHNOLOGY

The One Big Tech Innovation I Never Saw Coming

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uk.pcmag.com - Over the years, I've had some success forecasting the future of mobile computing, desktop publishing, and multimedia computing and smartphones. I started writing about VR in the mid-1990s and AI begi…

EIT Digital révèle le futur de l’innovation européenne

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www.maddyness.com - Délivrer des innovations numériques de rupture et former des talents entrepreneuriaux, telles sont les missions que s’est fixée EIT Digital à sa création en 2010 grâce à son accélérateur européen, se…

Creative Content Marketing In A Boring Niche

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blog.thesocialms.com - The following is a guest post by Luisa Brenton. Luisa Brenton is a blogger. She was born in Italy, graduated from The St. Louis School of Milan and went to Chicago to pursue higher education at the C…

How Fast Data Is Driving Unexpected Innovation

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www.forbes.com - Historically, big data is about collecting vast amounts of information in the hope of finding some way to glean insight on trends, predictions, potential problems, etc. But an increasing number of co…

How to Watch The Weather Channel's Coverage of Hurricane Florence Without Cable TV - Cord Cutters News

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www.cordcuttersnews.com - Hurricane Florence could be the first cat 5 or a very high 4 hurricane to hit the US in many years. Recently many of our readers have been wondering how to access The Weather Channel without a 2 year…

44 Of The Best Damn Photos On The Internet This Afternoon

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brobible.com - Welcome! It’s my job to bring you the best funny memes of 2018 each day. Here at BroBible, I put out the ‘Best Damn Photos’ daily pic dump in the morning and afternoon, 52 weeks a year. This is your …

Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy?

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www.newyorker.com - At ten o’clock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook, opened the front door of his house in Palo Alto, California, wearing the tight smile of obligation…

Optoma UHL55 4K UHD: Projector with Alexa and Google Assistant, 4K resolution

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androidcommunity.com - We haven’t featured Optoma products lately but we remember that pair of Optoma NuForce BE Free8 Truly Wireless Premium Earphones that launched almost a year ago. It’s about time a follow-up pair is i…

Zendesk expands into CRM with Base acquisition

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techcrunch.com - Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction, you need a customer system of …

Vietnam’s new automaker shows off first vehicles “designed” by its citizens

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techcrunch.com - VinFast, Vietnam’s new and only automaker, turned to its citizens to decide what its inaugural vehicles should look like. Now, VinFast is sharing the first images of the final product—a sedan and SUV…

Can Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon Wear chip breathe life into Wear OS?

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techcrunch.com - Snapdragon’s been talking up its new wearable chip architecture since Google I/O back in May. The component giant finally took the wraps off the product at an event earlier today in San Francisco. As…

Adobe looks to AI to lift customer experience business

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techcrunch.com - For years, marketers have been trying to optimize the online shopping experience to better understand their customers and deliver more customized interactions that ultimately drive more sales. Artifi…

Sphero launches Bolt, as education moves front and center

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techcrunch.com - On the face of it, Bolt represents a kind of return to Sphero — back to the early days of Orbotix. The Colorado startup had a bonifide hit on its hands with its first Sphero robotic ball, enough so t…

Joe Biden is headed to IGTV

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techcrunch.com - What better way to reach millennial voters ahead of a 2020 presidential run than through Instagram? Joe Biden, in partnership with ATTN:, will host a 10-episode series streaming on IGTV beginning Sep…

Adobe supercharges Photoshop’s content-aware fill so you have more options, fewer AI fails

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techcrunch.com - Everyone went nuts for Adobe’s “content-aware fill” in Photoshop when it came out. The boring-sounding feature is in fact an incredibly useful tool, essentially an AI-powered clone stamp that intelli…

Apple’s 5G iPhone conundrum

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techcrunch.com - Wednesday is Apple’s big product release day, where analysts expect the company to release the next edition of the iPhone. While the usual upgrades to the screen, CPU, and storage are expected as alw…

Mercedes-Benz’s vision for autonomy is flexible and fugly

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techcrunch.com - Mercedes-Benz shared on Monday its vision for how people and packages will someday move in dense urban environments. It’s called Vision Urbanetic—an all-electric autonomous concept vehicle that can c…

Instagram confirms it’s testing video tagging with a percentage of users

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techcrunch.com - Instagram is testing a way to allow users to tag their friends in their video posts, not just in photos, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The option works similarly to tagging photos…

LinkedIn sucks

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techcrunch.com - I hate LinkedIn. I open it out of habit and accept everyone who adds me because I don’t know why I wouldn’t. There is no clear benefit to the social network. I’ve never met a recruiter on there. I’ve…

Impossible Aerospace raises $9.4M to sell drones stuffed with battery cells

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techcrunch.com - Much like smartphone manufacturers, drone companies have been adding plenty of features over the past several years to devices while making only modest improvements to battery life. But while your ph…

32% of U.S. consumers now own a smart speaker, up from 28% at start of year

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techcrunch.com - Smart speaker ownership continues to grow, according to new research from Adobe Analytics out this morning. The company found that as of August 2018, 32% of consumers now own a smart speaker, up from…

Fortnite reaches 15 million Android downloads without Google Play

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arstechnica.com - For context, the iOS version of the game saw roughly 11 million installations in its first month, according to analysis firm Sensor Tower, though the first two weeks of that period were a more limite…

Apple’s September 12, 2018 event: What we expect to be “gathering round” for

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arstechnica.com - On September 12, 2018, Apple will hold its second major event at the Steve Jobs Theater at the company's new Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California. An invitation was sent out to press and other …

Ajit Pai helped Charter kill consumer-protection rules in Minnesota

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arstechnica.com - A court ruling that limits state regulation of cable company offerings was praised by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai, who says the ruling supports his contention that the FCC can…

What's New for Designers, September 2018 | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - This month’s collection of new tools and elements for designers has a common theme – productivity. There are so many things here to help you do work better and more efficiently. But there’s fun too…m…

What is a CDN (Content Delivery Network) – A Quick Video Explanation

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winningwp.com - Site speed is big business. Why? Because the faster your site, the happier your visitors will be: and therefore the more likely they will be to interact with your content, stick around and — hopefull…

Why don't more people over 60 have YouTube channels? | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Despite media coverage suggesting "mature" vloggers (anyone over 40) are up and coming in the beauty sector, there are not many successful YouTube channels that showcase skills, talents, and passions…

Government seizes fraudulent military recruitment sites

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boingboing.net - Individuals willing to lay down their lives—or at least risk them for the promise of steady employment—shouldn't have to put up with phony websites designed to snag and sell their personal informatio…

Google might be bringing dark theme for non-Pixel phones

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androidcommunity.com - Everyone seems to be going dark these days, at least when it comes to their smartphones. We’re seeing apps and brands offer an option for those who don’t like all the light and white space by bringin…

Samsung to show off its first foldable smartphone, here’s when

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung is working on a flexible-foldable smartphone. We’re already certain of that since the idea has been passed around since the year 2016. We’ve filled pages about the subject and we’re excited t…

Xiaomi Note 5 Pro Durability: Watch the phone gets scratched, burned, and bent

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi rolled out the Redmi Note 5 and Note 5 Pro in India earlier in February and soon reached Europe and other regions. Zack Nelson aka JerryRigEverything has finally given its attention to the Not…

Nokia Penta-camera phone in the works, five lenses may not be enough

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androidcommunity.com - Technology is definitely fast-moving. It is moving almost twice as fast each year, thanks to quick innovations, developments, and discoveries in several industries. When it comes to smartphones, the …

Deep Web Roundup: New Search Engine + Tor Browser, Same Old War on Drugs - Bitcoin News

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news.bitcoin.com - In this latest edition of our periodic deep web series, we bring news of Tor 8 – the most feature-rich onion browser yet. We also take a first look at a clearnet web browser that trawls the darknet, …

What I Learned From Growing My Email List 3,418% (Nearly 200k) in Just 11 Days

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - A note from Pat: I’m in Australia right now with my family—part vacation, and partly to give the keynote presentation at the ProBlogger event this weekend on the Gold Coast! It’s been such an amazin…

SMS Connect Comes to Skype Insider Preview - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is now offering its first external peek at SMS Connect for Skype, which lets you receive Android-based text messages on your PC. “Starting today, SMS Connect will be gradually rolled out to…

Apple to Limit Availability of New 6.1-inch iPhone Called iPhone Xr - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Apple’s big hardware event of the year is just about 2 days away. The hardware maker is expected to introduce a ton of new hardware on Wednesday, ranging from new iPhones to Apple Watch smartwatches.…

After Google manual actions expire, algorithms may handle some of those site penalties - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - With Google manual actions, real people at Google apply penalties to websites that are not complying with Google’s Webmaster guidelines. Google launched a manual actions viewer in Google Search Conso…

Wealth Management Firm: Tesla Is the 'Absolute Epitome of Instability' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Tesla and its CEO Elon Musk have faced a rough few days, with Goldman Sachs predicting a 30 percent drop in Tesla’s stock price over the next six months, suppliers growing skeptical of Tesla’s produc…

Couple accused of swiping homeless man’s donations will ‘likely be indicted’

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nypost.com - The New Jersey couple accused of pilfering a GoFundMe campaign meant to help a homeless vet will “likely be indicted” for the misuse of the funds, the pair’s lawyer wrote in a recent court filing. Er…

Take A Look At These Handy Iphone Tips

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iphonefindmyphone.com - You can easily integrate your social media based accounts and put them into your iphone. Many people don’t know how to accomplish this for some reason.This article will give you some great tips on ho…

ISPs Push Employees To Urge Governor Brown Veto New California Net Neutrality Bill

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www.techdirt.com - Last week we noted how California managed to shake off ISP lobbyists and pass meaningful net neutrality rules. The rules largely mirror the FCC's discarded 2015 rules, in that they prohibit throttlin…

Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims - Slashdot

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news.slashdot.org - with net neutrality, content publishers and distributors get to peer directly with an isp and flood their network with whatever data the content provider wants. No, that's not how that works. Content…

Great Ways On How To Effectively Use Your Ipad

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laptopsandnotebook.com - The device known as iPad is very popular. Its size makes it easily transportable.You can use it do some work, some research, chatting to people or working, and use it to practically manage your life.…

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