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Thursday, September 13, 2018

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Inbox, Google’s playground for email innovation, is going bye-bye

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www.fastcompany.com - Back in 2014, the folks at Google responsible for Gmail did something unexpected: They introduced a new email app. On the back end, Inbox was the same thing as Gmail, and worked with your existing Gm…

10 Examples Of How The Future Of Shopping Will Be Transformed By VR

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www.forbes.com - Shoppers try a virtual reality (VR) experience at the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Photographer: Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg The days of going to a store to shop or bro…

Google's latest change has search marketers rethinking keyword match types - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Marketer reactions to the news that Google is yet again degrading the original intent (much less meaning) of exact match to include “same meaning” close variants is ranging from pessimism to ho-hum t…

Adobe Unveils Next Generation of Video Innovation at IBC 2018

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indieshooter.com - SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sept. 12, 2018 — Adobe (Nasdaq:ADBE) today unveiled new video features coming to Adobe Creative Cloud that will speed up production timelines, enable more seamless workflows and de…

Deep Learning and the Innovator's Dilemma

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www.deeplearningweekly.com - Mostly everyone seems to agree that AI, carried by a wave of deep learning breakthroughs, will 'disrupt' industries left and right. Of course, the term disruption is often somewhat carelessly and imp…

Denis Liotta : "Nous voulons industrialiser le savoir-faire de Marseille Innovation"

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marseille.latribune.fr - Lorsque l'on a été vice-président en charge du numérique, n'est-il pas finalement logique de (re)prendre les manettes présidentielles ? Depuis juin, c'est donc Denis Liotta qui succède à l'un des fon…

Innovation is a Social Process - and Collaboration is Key | Chase Jarvis Photography

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www.chasejarvis.com - When you think of “innovation,” what comes to mind? A turtleneck-clad “creative” sketching impossibly elegant, otherworldly product designs? Maybe a Minority Report-like scene of a scientist solving …

RYOT to Open Los Angeles-Based Innovation Studio This Fall (EXCLUSIVE)

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variety.com - Oath’s immersive entertainment studio RYOT is opening up a physical studio space with a focus on cutting-edge media production technologies this fall. The RYOT Innovation Studio is scheduled to launc…

LEAKED VIDEO: Google Leadership's Dismayed Reaction to Trump Election | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - The video is a full recording of Google’s first all-hands meeting following the 2016 election (these weekly meetings are known inside the company as “TGIF” or “Thank God It’s Friday” meetings). Sent …

Verizon 5G home Internet: $70/month, 300Mbps to 1Gbps speeds, no data caps

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arstechnica.com - Verizon Wireless will start offering a 5G-based wireless home Internet service next month in parts of four US cities, with service coming to other cities at an as-yet-unspecified date. "Typical" down…

Panasonic TOUGHBOOK FZ-L1 tablet is built for the mobile workforce

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androidcommunity.com - Sometimes for the workforce that is mostly out of the office and in the field, a normal mobile device is not enough. You may need to have a tougher and more rugged device that is still chock-full of …

Apple is releasing iOS 12 on September 17th

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techcrunch.com - Even if you don’t plan on buying a new iPhone, you’ll be able to get a bunch of new features next week. Apple plans on releasing iOS 12, the next major version of iOS, on Tuesday, September 17th. As …

Introducing Rapide E, Aston Martin’s first electric sports car

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techcrunch.com - Aston Martin is finally sharing some specs and a couple of teaser photos of the upcoming Rapide E, the British automaker’s first all-electric sports car. The upshot: It’ll be fast and rare. The comp…

Watch Apple’s ‘Mission: Impossible’ style spaceship HQ tour

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techcrunch.com - Apple kicked off its hardware event today with a charming little video that did double promo duty, both introducing the event in a lighthearted way and giving a quick curated tour of the company’s ne…

Say goodbye to Inbox by Gmail

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techcrunch.com - With the launch of the new Gmail, the writing was on the wall, but today Google made it official: Inbox by Gmail, the company’s experimental email client for Gmail, will shut down at the end of March…

Apple watchOS 5 ships on September 17

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techcrunch.com - Apple today formally introduced the next generation of Apple Watch devices, the Series 4. Alongside the new devices, the company announced the updated watchOS 5 mobile operating system will ship on S…

HQ Trivia nabs Target to sponsor game with biggest ever single winner prize of $100K

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techcrunch.com - HQ Trivia is aiming to attract more players following a slight decline in downloads with a new, large prize. The company announced today it has bagged Target to sponsor to sponsor a special Emmy-them…

Hulu and Discovery announce partnership for live and on-demand programming

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techcrunch.com - Hulu and Discovery this morning announced a wide-ranging partnership that will see Discovery’s live and on-demand programming added to Hulu’s streaming service. The multi-year agreement will see near…

Tesla just lost its head of global finance

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techcrunch.com - Tesla’s head of global finance is leaving the automaker, the latest high-level executive departure that comes just days after chief accounting officer Dave Morton resigned after barely a month on the…

Snapchat shares hit all-time low as search acquisition Vurb’s CEO bails

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techcrunch.com - Snapchat’s sagging share price is making it tough to retain talent. Bobby Lo, founder and CEO of mobile search app Vurb that Snap Inc acquired for $114.5 million two years ago is leaving day-to-day o…

Wasabi just landed $68 million to upend cloud storage

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techcrunch.com - Chances are you see a story about cloud storage, and you yawn and move on, but Wasabi, a startup from the folks who brought you Carbonite backup, might make you pause. That’s because they claim to ha…

So long then, iPhone home button…

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techcrunch.com - … it was nice pressing you. Well, at least some of the thousands and thousands of times. Apple has finally abandoned a feature that’s been a staple of its smartphones since the very start, over a dec…

The 7 most egregious fibs Apple told about the iPhone XS camera today

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techcrunch.com - Apple always drops a few whoppers at its events, and the iPhone XS announcement today was no exception. And nowhere were they more blatant than in the introduction of the devices’ “new” camera featur…

Where the heck is Apple’s AirPower wireless charging mat?

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techcrunch.com - With a full year since its last mention onstage at Apple’s last hardware event, Apple’s AirPower wireless charger mat is still missing. At the company’s iPhone event this morning in Cupertino, there …

Integrate.ai pulls in $30M to help businesses make better customer-centric decisions

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techcrunch.com - Helping businesses bring more firepower to the fight against AI-fuelled disruptors is the name of the game for Integrate.ai, a Canadian startup that’s announcing a $30M Series A today. The round is l…

Uber is getting a new look

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techcrunch.com - Uber has broken up with the bits and atoms logo it unveiled in 2016. This morning, the company updated their website and app with a brand spankin’ new logo as part of a rebrand it’s rolling out in th…

Apple, AT&T, Amazon, Google among tech giants called to Senate Commerce Committee

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techcrunch.com - If you weren’t done watching tech giants get grilled by lawmakers, mark your calendar for September 26 in what’s expected to be another riveting round of questioning. Policy chiefs from AT&T and Char…

Grammarly now saves you from embarrassing mistakes in Google Docs, too

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techcrunch.com - Grammarly now supports Google Docs. Over the course of the last few years, Grammarly has made a name for itself as one of the better grammar and spelling checkers on the market. As a Chrome extension…

Apple’s Watch isn’t the first with an EKG reader but it will matter to more consumers

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techcrunch.com - Apple’s COO Jeff Williams exuberantly proclaimed Apple’s Watch was the first to get FDA clearance as an over-the-counter electrocardiogram (EKG) reader during the special event at Apple headquarters …

Porsche picks Turo for official peer-to-peer car sharing partner pilot

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arstechnica.com - The experience of renting a Porsche through the peer-to-peer car sharing platform Turo is about to get an upgrade. On Tuesday, Porsche and Turo announced a new pilot program, one of a number being tr…

Apple won’t include a headphone jack dongle with new iPhones any more

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arstechnica.com - Apple will no longer include a Lightning-to-3.5mm headphone jack adapter with new iPhone purchases. The change looks like it will apply to the three new iPhone models launched on Wednesday—the iPhone…

Introducing Ars Pro, the new Ars Technica subscription program

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arstechnica.com - Later this year, Ars Technica will turn 20 years old. Our success has always been inextricably linked to the dedication of our readers, with 15 million of you arriving each month from around the worl…

With Florence bearing down, Tesla remotely extends some cars’ batteries

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arstechnica.com - With Hurricane Florence bearing down on the East Coast, Tesla has temporarily given some customers extended battery range using a software update, Electrek reports. "We are temporarily enabling your …

Blackmagic external GPU review: A very Apple graphics solution

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arstechnica.com - The Blackmagic Design eGPU has a sleek, simple design. You could use it as a Thunderbolt and USB dock, if you wanted. The full package: a MacBook Pro with Apple's sanctioned eGPU, and Apple's sanctio…

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…

15 Best Google Fonts by the Numbers for 2018 (Best Practices)

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kinsta.com - At the time that we’re writing this article, there are 884 different Google Font families available for free. That’s a lot of choices! Which is why you might be looking for someone to help you find t…

Why async: how JavaScript interacts with the real world

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frontarm.com - Up until just a few years ago, JavaScript developers often had no choice but to perform complex logic with nothing but callback functions. In fact, you might have heard the phrase “callback hell” bef…

Apple is happy to use women and people of color as art, not authority

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www.engadget.com - That's a fairly clinical breakdown of the video, but it's true at its core, and Apple carried this theme of half-baked diversity throughout its show. It continuously used women and non-white people a…

Should You Upgrade to Apple's Newest iPhones?

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lifehacker.com - A large chunk of Apple’s audience is already lighting their bank accounts on fire in anticipation of all the neat new gear they can start preordering this week. That’s just the way it is, and partly …

23,000 Millennial and Gen Z workers listed their dream employers and there's 1 key difference

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www.cnbc.com - If you were born in the '80s, '90s or early 2000s, you probably can't remember a time without a smartphone or computer. There's also a chance you might see Google, Apple or Amazon as the ultimate emp…

It's Official: Google Is a Democratic Party Front

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www.powerlineblog.com - Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the 2016 election. The video features Google’s co-founder, Sergei Brin, its CEO, Sundar Pichai…

Android 9 Pie significantly improves battery life and efficiency

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androidcommunity.com - The Android 9 Pie is getting more updates so expect a better, faster, and “tastier” Pie. Tastier could mean many things but for us, any Android Pie device will be more feature-rich and able to last l…

Plex Cloud service to discontinue by November 30

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androidcommunity.com - For users of the Plex Cloud service, which lets you link your media to online storage services like Dropbox or Google Drive, the writing has been on the wall for some time now. Ever since they stoppe…

Raley’s Launches New Mobile Pharmacy App

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loyalty360.org - Raley’s has launched a new mobile pharmacy app which will allow users to address their help needs while shopping or on the go. The app, called RxRefills On-The-Go app, is a result of a new partners…

Lost in the Keynote, Apple Raises Prices on iPhone and Watch - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - As expected, Apple announced several new products today including a new Watch that packs a lot of technology inside and also three new iPhones, Xs, Xs Max, and Xr. Terrible naming aside, the company …

Oops, Microsoft Is Doing It Again - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft has been pushing its Edge web browser quite a lot in Windows 10. The company recommends users to install Edge on its official websites, and asks users to use Edge instead of a different bro…

Forza Horizon 4 Has Gone Gold - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft today announced that it has completed development of Forza Horizon 4 and is readying the game for physical media and digital release. And the official demo is now available. “The official F…

Hey Siri, how do I responsibly invest in voice-activated technology at work?

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searchenginewatch.com - Globant released a recent report on the rise of voice-activated technology in 2018. In this post, Globant CTO Diego Tartara shares data from the report and insight into what businesses can do to adap…

EU approves controversial copyright directive aimed at Google, Facebook, Twitter - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - The European Parliament has backed a highly restrictive copyright directive intended to benefit traditional European news publishers and copyright holders at the potential expense of user-generated c…

Top 5 Strategies To Improve Your Online Presence

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sd-entrepreneur.com - Everywhere you look online lately, people are offering their opinions about anything and everything. Why not put this effort to good use to further your career and showcase your expertise in a positi…

Jeff Sessions 'Exploring Potential Investigation' of Google, Facebook, Twitter | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - According to Bloomberg, Sessions will “be briefed on Sept. 25 by Republican state attorneys general who are already examining the firms’ practices,” and will “help Sessions decide if there’s a federa…

Kevin McCarthy: 'It's Time for Google to Answer Some Questions' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - In a recent tweet, GOP House Majority leader Kevin McCarthy stated that tech giant Google will have to answer a number of questions about its operations before Congress as Facebook and Twitter did re…

How to Get More Twitter Followers - Proven Blueprint to 4000 Followers Per Month • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Ready to get down to business on twitter and start pulling in more traffic, and leads? We're about to show you how to get more twitter followers using a simple and proven blueprint. We'll also be usi…

The New Google Popup Penalty - Don't Get Penalized for Mobile Popups! • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Late last year, Google made an announcement that they were going to start penalizing websites (in terms of ranking) that use ‘intrusive interstitials’ on their mobile pages. We'll call this the Googl…

Is furiously appsturbating keeping you up at night? Here’s how to tap out

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www.wellandgood.com - by Mary Grace Garis, September 12, 2018 It’s 3 a.m., dark, and even though it’s gross, I can’t help doing it: I pick up my phone, I open my apps. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Instagram, Facebook. In…

InnoTrans 2018: Syslogic Launches AI Rail Computer

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www.embedded-computing.com - Just in time for the railway fair InnoTrans in Berlin at the end of September Syslogic is presenting its AI (Artificial Intelligence) Rail Computer. Syslogic is one of the leading companies manufactu…

eBay’s HeadGaze brings hands-free input to the iPhone X using ARKit

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www.theverge.com - Today, eBay revealed a nifty new piece of augmented reality software that makes use of both the front-facing iPhone X camera and Apple’s ARKit framework. By tracking head motions using the 3D sensors…

The 10 most innovative countries in the world

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www.techrepublic.com - Patents—the set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor in exchanged for public disclosure of an invention—have protected entrepreneurs and t…

Avnet Releases Low-Cost Gigabit Network FMC Module

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www.embedded-computing.com - PHOENIX – September 11, 2018 – Avnet (Nasdaq: AVT), a leading global technology solutions provider, today introduced the Avnet Network FMC Module, offering designers of emerging industrial Internet o…

eSync Alliance – join the movement toward whole car OTA updates and data gathering

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www.embedded-computing.com - Almost daily, the news is filled with breathless announcements of massive investments and big plans for autonomous vehicles. But the stories don’t mention the swarm of bugs that are invading every ve…

How to Invest in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)

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blog.serchen.com - Back in 2000, if you were filing your taxes with Intuit’s TurboTax, you would buy its software on a compact disc, download the software onto your computer, and input your data into the program. With …

Google, Amazon, Facebook, And Apple Are Hiring To Defend Against The ‘Techlash’

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www.cbinsights.com - Tech giants are hiring people to help solve problems and repair the companies' images in areas including user privacy, elections security, AI and ethics, and more. Massive customer data breaches, ina…

Everywoman’s Health Centre: UX Redesign and Responsive Design

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medium.com - From the content audit, we have a rough idea of how we are going to display the categories and contents in the nav bar and for every page. Second meeting with clients made us confirm the design of si…

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