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Friday, September 14, 2018

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Amazon's Bezos Will Hire a Team to Run Nonprofit Preschools

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www.bloomberg.com - Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos will hire an executive team to run a network of nonprofit preschools serving low-income communities. Bezos expanded on a pledge announced early Thur…

The Maltese MacBook

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www.backblaze.com - It was a Wednesday and it would have been just like any other Wednesday except Apple was making its big fall product announcements. Just my luck, I had to work in the San Francisco store, which meant…

RYOT To Open Innovation Studio As Verizon Announces LA Launch Of 5G The Home

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deadline.com - RYOT is opening a new production facility in Los Angeles this fall to experiment with forms of storytelling that leverage parent-company Verizon’s 5G wireless technology. Located on Verizon’s Playa V…

Dell has its 4K monitors on sale for $200 off, plus get a free $100 Dell gift card

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mashable.com - In the market for a new monitor but trying to not spend a ridiculous amount? You have a few options: Like waiting until the holidays for a massive sale or meeting up with a sketchy dude from Craigsli…

Defense Innovation Advisory Board - Wikipedia

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en.wikipedia.org - Eric Schmidt and Ash Carter meet about Defense Innovation Board for the DoD The Defense Innovation Board is an organization set up in 2016 to bring the technological innovation and best practice of S…

Call Center: Become a Customer Experience Rep - Bluefield (Pocahontas, Virginia)

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www.jobs.as - Call Center: Become a Customer Experience Rep - Bluefield Dish Network Pocahontas, Virginia Job Description Summary DISH is a Fortune 200 company with more than $15 billion in annual revenue that con…

MRC’s Brent Bozell: Congress MUST Investigate Claims Google Tried to Fix Election

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www.newsbusters.org - RESTON, VA – Today, the Media Research Center (MRC) said Congress must hold hearings to investigate Google for possibly trying to fix the presidential election following a bombshell report by Fox New…

Everything Apple didn’t announce at its event: Macs, iPads, and more

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www.fastcompany.com - Apple focused on just two product lines at its big press event on Wednesday, announcing larger Apple Watches and three new iPhones. If you were hoping to hear about new Macs, iPads, AirPods, or the i…

Nintendo finally announces some more new games for the Switch

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo is at last (at last!) bringing some new content to the Switch! Yes! In a Nintendo Direct, the company let fly a number of games and a couple of original titles. The biggest Nintendo-produced…

JBL’s smart display combines Google smarts with good sound

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techcrunch.com - If you’re looking for a smart display that’s powered by the Google Assistant, you now have two choices: the Lenovo Smart Display and the JBL Link View. Lenovo was first out of the gate with its surpr…

Google Street View rival Mapillary collaborates with Amazon to read text in its 350M image database

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techcrunch.com - Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world by way of a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, is taking an interesting step in the development…

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 compa…

Nintendo’s NES Switch controllers activate the nostalgia centers (and wallets) of retro gamers

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techcrunch.com - The news that Nintendo would be adding NES games to the Switch as part of its paid online service had a mixed reception, but the company has made up for this controversial decision by releasing wirel…

It’s the end of crypto as we know it and I feel fine

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techcrunch.com - Watching the current price madness is scary. Bitcoin is falling and rising in $500 increments with regularity and Ethereum and its attendant ICOs are in a seeming freefall with a few “dead cat bounce…

The White House’s website deleted the whole archive of its daily newsletters

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qz.com - American citizens can get daily updates on the government directly from the White House’s “1600 Daily” newsletter, which was launched in March 2017. The newsletter shares daily updates from the White…

Official NES controllers coming to Nintendo Switch alongside paid online service

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arstechnica.com - New official wireless NES pads for the Nintendo Switch! Apparently the same size as the original American controllers. Though the NES controllers will snap onto the sides of your Nintendo Switch... U…

AT&T and Verizon want to manage your identity across websites and apps

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arstechnica.com - The four major US mobile carriers have unveiled a system that would let them manage your logins across any third-party website or app that hooks into it. "Project Verify" from a consortium of AT&T, V…

Your new $1,000+ iPhone won’t come with a headphone dongle in the box

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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…

Linux Foundation Launches New Hyperledger Blockchain Training Course

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cointelegraph.com - The Linux Foundation has opened enrollment for its new advanced training course for Hyperledger Fabric blockchain technology, according a press release published September 5. The new course, ‘Hyperle…

Uber Unveils Simple New Rebrand | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - A little less than three years ago, Uber rebranded as the cab-service of choice for dystopian sci-fi pac-man fans. It was a move reportedly intended to recast the startup as the choice of every day p…

Disruptive Interfaces & The Emerging Battle To Be The Default

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medium.com - A new battle is brewing to be the default of every choice we make. As modern interfaces like voice remove options, augmented reality overlays our physical world, and artificial intelligence gains our…

Type designer Kia Tasbihgou on how “knowing cool designers and nice fonts isn’t enough”

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www.itsnicethat.com - As a graphic designer and custom type designer, Kia has worked with the likes of Nike, Christie’s and Vanity Fair. His type designs are original and contemporary, embodying the distinct personality o…

My aha moment as a UX designer – UX Collective

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uxdesign.cc - When I started my career in UX, I was brought onto the task of improving our user onboarding experience. I spent quite a lot of time reading articles about this “magic moment” that people experienced…

Brave browser files GDPR breach complaints against Google in the EU | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - The team behind the Brave internet browser have filed a complaint with authorities in Ireland and the UK regarding privacy violations perpetrated by Google and other "ad tech" companies under the EU'…

Samsung Health 6.0 brings more intuition, interaction, and personalization

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androidcommunity.com - There are a lot of health and fitness apps there that are vying for the attention of the health-conscious or those who want to have a fitter lifestyle. Sometimes 3rd party apps actually give users so…

Alibaba Establishes Premium Loyalty Tier

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loyalty360.org - Alibaba Group Holding has rolled out a premium loyalty program tier, 88 VIP, that offers exclusive benefits to members across the Alibaba ecosystem. Rewards cover commerce, entertainment, and local s…

Verizon's ultrafast 5G home internet service will begin rolling out October 1 and offer download speeds 10 times as fast as the US average

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www.businessinsider.com - Verizon announced on Tuesday evening that it would begin selling the first 5G home internet service starting Thursday at 8 a.m. ET, with the service rolling out to four cities beginning October 1. 5G…

Five insights on voice technology

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www.blog.google - Over the last couple years something interesting happened—millions of people began having conversations with their speakers, cars, computers and phones. Voice technology is fundamentally changing the…

Today, Europe Lost The Internet. Now, We Fight Back.

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www.eff.org - Today, in a vote that split almost every major EU party, Members of the European Parliament adopted every terrible proposal in the new Copyright Directive and rejected every good one, setting the sta…

The ultimate guide to using Bing Webmaster Tools - Part 6 - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - In the first five parts of the Bing Webmaster Tools series, I covered both the publicly facing tools as well as the tools that require login to and a Webmaster Tools account to access. With all of th…

Here’s How Washington Could Really Unfriend Facebook

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www.bloomberg.com - Congress has warned Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook Inc. chief executive, that the era of self-regulation for social media is likely over, following Facebook’s data breach and Russia’s use of the socia…

Hey, Google, Facebook, Twitter – Trump's got a point. You need to do a better job of self-regulating

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www.foxnews.com - President calls out Google, Twitter and Facebook for 'suppressing conservative voices' with their search results; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports on the charges. President Trump …

Mark Zuckerberg subtly made a case for not breaking up Facebook

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mashable.com - It's not hard to understand why Mark Zuckerberg loves the empire-consolidating Augustus Caesar. The 3,300 word note Mark Zuckerberg published Thursday about Facebook's approach to election interferen…

Nolte: New York Times Covered Up Google Tape's Most Newsworthy Details | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - On Tuesday, Breitbart News obtained video of an hour-plus long company meeting at Google that took place shortly after the 2016 presidential election. You can watch the full video to judge the contex…

Revolving Door: Dozens of Clinton Staffers Hired by Google — and Vice-Versa | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - At least twelve employees from the Clinton Global Initiative, the Clinton Foundation, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative went on to work for Google, while at least fifteen Google employees went…

Google Employees Mocked for 'Cult-Like' Propeller Caps | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - For many people, it was the first time they had seen the hats — which are iconic at Google — but more or less unknown in the general populace. the hats! pic.twitter.com/JODk5kbsCK — Amanda House (@Am…

THE GOOGLE TAPE: Employees Applauded Company for Taking 'Bold Stance' Against China | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Ironically, under two years later, it was revealed that Google has been working on a censored search engine for China in cooperation with the Chinese government. According to reports, the search engi…

Apple finally moves beyond the shadow of Steve Jobs with a truly life-changing product | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Think that it was the iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max that stole the show at yesterday's Apple event? Nope. The real innovation isn't in creating a smartphone that costs over $1,000 . The real innovation …

Europe just voted to wreck the internet, spying on everything and censoring vast swathes of our communications

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boingboing.net - Lobbyists for "creators" threw their lot in with the giant entertainment companies and the newspaper proprietors and managed to pass the new EU Copyright Directive by a hair's-breadth this morning, i…

The Truth About Handling Overwhelm in the Information Age • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - If you ask 10 leaders in the world of online business how to handle feelings of overwhelm I bet you would get 10 different answers. Very recently I learned a significantly different idea about overwh…

How To Use Mobile Marketing Like A Pro

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internetmarketinginfos.com - Mobile marketing is actually kind of exciting to deal with once you just have reasonable expectations of what mobile devices to market your business. It can be a great way to get exposure for your bu…

Get The Best Bang For Your Buck With These Laptop Tips

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Laptops are a very important piece of today’s technology. Whether you’re getting a laptop to do work on, work, or to entertain you, it can help you live a better life. The advice laid out here helps …

Simple Website Design Tricks You Must Know

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agentmonhost.com - Many individuals build websites on their own, and some choose the wrong type of font.This article will give you on how to improve your font size and many other aspects of site design. Ensure that lin…

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