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Thursday, September 27, 2018

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The 20-year-old entrepreneur is a lie

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mitsloan.mit.edu - Good ideas come at any age, but it takes experience to turn them into success stories. Steve Jobs was 21 when he helped found Apple, but he was a 43-year-old CEO when the company created the iMac. Fo…

Palo Alto Apple store robbed twice in 12 hours for $100K during iPhone XS launch weekend

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9to5mac.com - Apple store burglaries have become increasingly common over the last several years, with thieves taking incredibly quick approaches to swiping valuable products. Now, Palo Alto Online reports that th…

Innovation Talks at SAP TechEd Las Vegas

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blogs.sap.com - The countdown to SAP TechEd Las Vegas has began and with the many sessions to add to your agenda, we didn’t want you to miss out on adding an Innovation Talk to your list. Innovation Talks are 20-min…

Autonomous cars and beyond: a new mindset for motoring

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www.raconteur.net - It is September 2035. You have to travel from your London home-pod to a 9.30am summit in St Andrews, the home of golf, 30 miles northeast of Edinburgh. You command your smart alarm clock, which has w…

17 Small Mistakes That Stop You From Getting Big Time Traffic To Your Blog

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blog.thesocialms.com - When you are starting out with your blog – or even when you are already blogging for a couple of months – to find an audience for your blog is often hard. The number one reason why bloggers give up, …

How to Use Twitter: Critical Tips for New Users

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www.wired.com - So you wanna tweet? Great—you're gonna (mostly) love it. Everyone from the President to Malala is tweeting it up these days, but it may take some getting used to if you're a new kid on the block. Twi…

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has built a robot porter for hotels called Space Egg

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www.theverge.com - Alibaba may not be a household name in the US, but the Chinese e-commerce firm is one of the world’s largest: its online sales in 2015 were greater than Walmart, Amazon, and eBay combined. Now, the c…

Why utility companies need to look at aglie mobile applications in order to increase productivity across the sector - IoT Now - How to run an IoT enabled business

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www.iot-now.com - The public utility space is a competitive one, and as this competition continues to increase, power and utilities providers are increasingly investing sizeable amounts in infrastructure projects desi…

No Agenda Newsletter

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - 5G Got me Fired by John C. Dvorak As you all know, I was unceremoniously fired from PC Magazine on Sept. 20th, 2018. I just figured it was the new people coming in and I was an unneeded throwback to …

Amazon will open a new brick-and-mortar store in NYC featuring its best sellers

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techcrunch.com - Amazon is expanding its brick-and-mortar footprint with a new kind of store, the company announced this afternoon. On Thursday, the retailer will open an “Amazon 4-Star” store in New York, where all …

Oculus Hybrid Apps let you use 2D & 3D software simultaneously in VR

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techcrunch.com - Oculus showed off the future of working in VR today. Rather than just splaying out 2D software on an infinite desktop, the new Oculus Hybrid Apps system lets you see both 2D screens and 3D models in …

48 hours left to apply as a TC Top Pick at Disrupt Berlin 2018

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techcrunch.com - Disrupt Berlin 2018, Europe’s most exciting tech conference, takes place on November 29-30 and plays host to hundreds of early-stage startups and thousands of attendees. We’re talking boundary-pushin…

Plex kills off support for Cloud Sync, Plugins and bookmarking features

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techcrunch.com - Plex is continuing to streamline its software by shutting down features that weren’t broadly adopted or all that functional. The company says it will soon sunset a handful of options in its media pla…

Sony is finally opening Fortnite cross-play on the PS4

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techcrunch.com - Cross-play has been one of the biggest selling points for Fortnite, allowing players to engage in the battle royale, regardless of platform. There has, however, been one major holdout — until now. Wh…

China’s Didi Chuxing adds more safety features following passenger murder

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techcrunch.com - Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing firm, is rolling out new security systems one month after a female customer was raped and murdered by a driver, the second such fatality on its Hitch servic…

Facebook poisons the acquisition well

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techcrunch.com - Who should you sell your startup to? Facebook and the founders of its former acquisitions are making a strong case against getting bought by Mark Zuckerberg and co. After a half-decade of being seen …

Hands-on with Oculus Quest, Facebook’s best shot at a mainstream VR device

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techcrunch.com - Most mobile VR headsets have left me with the impression of, “well… you have to start somewhere,” but after spending some time with Facebook’s newly-announced Oculus Quest, it’s clear that the standa…

Cloudflare partners with Microsoft, Google and others to reduce bandwidth costs

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techcrunch.com - Say hello to the Bandwidth Alliance, a new group led by Cloudflare that promises to reduce the price of bandwidth for many cloud customers. The overall idea here is that customers who use both Cloudf…

WTF is dark pattern design?

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techcrunch.com - If you’re a UX designer you won’t need this article to tell you about dark pattern design. But perhaps you chose to tap here out of a desire to reaffirm what you already know — to feel good about you…

WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulators

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techcrunch.com - WhatsApp founder, Brian Acton, who left Facebook a year ago — before going on to publicly bite the hand that fed him, by voicing support for the #DeleteFacebook movement (and donating $50M to alterna…

Google to give Chrome users an opt-out to ‘forced login’ after privacy backlash

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techcrunch.com - Google has responded to blowback about a privacy hostile change it made this week, which removes user agency by automating Chrome browser sign-ins, by rowing back slightly — saying it will give users…

FCC cracks the whip on 5G deployment against protests of local governments

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techcrunch.com - The FCC is pushing for speedy deployment of 5G networks nationwide with an order adopted today that streamlines what it perceives as a patchwork of obstacles, needless costs, and contradictory regula…

Daimler names new CEO to lead push into electric, autonomous vehicles

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techcrunch.com - Daimler said Wednesday that Dieter Zetsche is stepping down as CEO and will be replaced by a long-serving executive who has most recently been leading the automaker’s research and development efforts…

Inside Facebook Stories’ quest for originality amidst 300M users

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techcrunch.com - There’s a secret Facebook app called Blink. Built for employees only, it’s how the company tests out new video formats its hoping will become the next Boomerang or SuperZoom. They range from artsy Bl…

In Senate hearing, tech giants push lawmakers for federal privacy rules

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techcrunch.com - Another day, another hearing of tech giants in Congress. Wednesday’s hearing at the Senate Commerce Committee with Apple, Amazon, Google and Twitter, alongside AT&T and Charter, marked the latest in …

How I went from Google intern to the head of Google Maps

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www.fastcompany.com - Google is officially celebrating its 20th bithday this Thursday. But though its namesake search engine launched in 1998, the then tiny startup didn’t get around to hiring any interns until 1999. When…

How to Use Apple’s Screen Time Controls on iOS 12

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www.wired.com - The arrival of iOS 12 means you can now use Apple's long-awaited suite of Screen Time tools. The new features, which appear under Settings > Screen Time, are designed to give you a better idea of how…

Panasonic completing 3 new cell production lines at Tesla’s Gigafactory

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arstechnica.com - In a Tuesday interview with Bloomberg, the head of Panasonic's Automotive Division said that the company was on track to complete an additional three battery-cell production lines at Tesla's Nevada G…

Why Mojave’s dark mode isn’t dark enough

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arstechnica.com - The days of getting overly excited about an OS release have passed for me. Maybe I'm just getting old and cranky or maybe operating systems reached "good enough" status a while ago. But either way, i…

Ajit Pai slams cities and towns as FCC erases $2 billion in local fees

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission today finalized an order that will prevent city and town governments from charging wireless carriers about $2 billion dollars' worth of fees related to deploymen…

Apple Watch Series 4 review: A bigger, better watchOS experience

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arstechnica.com - The fourth iteration of the Apple Watch still looks like a tiny iPhone on your wrist, but for many, it was the most exciting device announced at Apple's event earlier this month. A larger screen, fa…

Perpetually licensed Office 2019 now available for corporate customers

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arstechnica.com - The perpetually licensed version of the desktop Office apps, branded Office 2019, was released today. It's available as a one-time purchase for volume-licensed commercial customers. A consumer releas…

Ex-Facebook moderator sues Facebook over exposure to disturbing images

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arstechnica.com - A Facebook content moderator named Selena Scola has sued the social media giant, claiming that repeated exposure to graphic and disturbing images has given her post-traumatic stress disorder. "From h…

Teardown reveals big changes inside the Apple Watch Series 4

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arstechnica.com - Apple announced a number of features that got people excited for the Apple Watch Series 4, and its redesigned internals show how much thought the company put into its latest smartwatch. iFixit tore d…

YouTube's Redesign Makes It Easier to Watch All the Videos

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www.wired.com - Once upon a time, YouTube was simply the place you went to watch a cat play the keyboard, or upload the video of your child, stoned out of his head after the dentist, having an existential crisis in …

Firefox has users to thank for its new security feature

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www.fastcompany.com - Three billion Yahoo email addresses, passwords, and birth dates. One hundred and forty-three million Equifax credit histories. And these are just two of the worst hacks, out of the hundreds of data b…

Optimizing Spotify's Logo in SVG - José M. Pérez

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jmperezperez.com - This post explains different ways to reduce the paylod of SVGs. I will use Spotify’s websites and logo as an example. If there is something that all Spotify sites have in common, it’s the Spotify log…

Ditch Gmail With These Alternatives

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lifehacker.com - It’s not a stretch to assume you probably use Gmail—it seems like most of the world does, these days. That reality has created consternation over some of the recent privacy and security-related chang…

The Exit Of Instagram's Founders Is Good News For Facebook

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www.forbes.com - An employee walks past signage and photograph displayed at the Instagram Inc. office in New York, U.S., on Monday, June 4, 2018. Once, Instagram was a simple photo-sharing app, a way for iPhone shutt…

Chrome 70 will let users decline linking web, browser sign-in

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www.engadget.com - Now, in response to the feedback, Google has announced that in Chrome 70, users will be able to "turn off linking web-based sign-in with browser-based sign-in." As Google Security Princess Parisa Tab…

HP Tango is an app-centric, decorative smart printer

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androidcommunity.com - Printers aren’t necessarily a priority now for those who want to have smart homes, but it can still be a necessity for some who still need to print out documents and things for their work or for pers…

Samsung Galaxy P30 may not have that on-screen fingerprint display

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung is forever busy. It doesn’t shirk or relax and that is why we believe it has the right to be considered as the No. 1 in the global mobile market. It may have a tough rival in Huawei now but w…

Jaybird Tarah Wireless headphones helps those transitioning from wired

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androidcommunity.com - While you may think that having wireless headphones is the most obvious choice for those who are running or working out, there are still those who are not yet convinced that they should cut the cord,…

9 Tips for Personalizing Emails Wisely

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loyalty360.org - There’s no question that personalized emails are powerful. Personalized emails can improve click-through rates by an average of 14 percent, enhance conversions by 10 percent, and deliver six times hi…

Navigating the Modern Loyalty Landscape

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loyalty360.org - Navigating the loyalty landscape, a terrain that is always evolving, means constantly being on the lookout for the next big thing. The masterminds of modern loyalty programs are keenly that loyalty h…

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton: 'I sold my users' privacy'

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mashable.com - In March, around the time when the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal was shaking Facebook's foundations, WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton publicly called people to #deletefacebook on Twitter. That w…

The Best Hosting Services for Musicians

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hubpages.com - Hostbaby.com provides all of the tools that you will need to get started with creating your band's website, including live editing of the site with complete design control. You can choose fonts and c…

Facebook exec blasts WhatsApp founder for being 'low-class'

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mashable.com - David Marcus wants to talk about class. Or, specifically, the lack thereof he sees in a wealthy man taking a principled stand against the conglomerate that so long buttered his bread. The Facebook he…

Free Speech Platform Gab Flies 'Investigate Twitter' Banner over Company's HQ | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Gab.com, the free-speech social media platform and a direct competitor to the Silicon Valley Masters of the Universe, flew a banner over Twitter HQ in San Francisco recently. The banner read, “Trump:…

World's first flying cars set to go on the market with pre-sales

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www.dailymail.co.uk - The world's first flying car is set to go on the market with pre-sales scheduled to begin next month. The first of the two-seat hybrid-electric vehicles, which can switch between driving and flying m…

Is a New Russian Meddling Tactic Hiding in Plain Sight?

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www.nytimes.com - “I don’t know anybody from so-called troll farms,” he said. A video interview posted to YouTube in June provided a glimpse of Mr. Malkevich in USAReally’s office in Moscow, which featured a large por…

Google's Pichai Moved Quickly to Deny the Latest Report of Political Bias at the Firm—And He Had To

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fortune.com - When it emerged late last week that Google employees discussed manipulating search results to combat prejudice and Islamophobia, the timing of the report couldn’t have been more inconvenient: a video…

How to Grow Your Instagram Following from Zero to Thousands Organically (10 ideas)

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onlinemarketingview.blogspot.com - According to eMarketer, Instagram could have 26.9 million more US users by 2020, overtaking Facebook, Twitter and every other social media network on record. The social media platform also seems to b…

Google lets advertisers set custom viewability criteria in Display & Video 360 - Marketing Land

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marketingland.com - Google on Wednesday announced the launch of three new measurement features for Google’s enterprise-level ad buying platform Display & Video 360 (previously known as DoubleClick Bid Manager). All thre…

Discover All The Things Your Ipad Can Do

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laptopsandnotebook.com - The iPad has many functions that make it great tool for everyone. When you purchase your iPad, you may be overwhelmed with all its features. Use the advice from this article to better grasp just how …

Looking For A Good Laptop? Follow These Tips.

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Are you going to go shopping for a new laptop computer? Do you want to know how you can save cash on your purchase? Do you wish to make the shopping process easier and simpler? If you have answered y…

For Tricks About Laptops, Check This Article Out

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laptopsandnotebook.com - It is not always clear what you want when purchasing a laptop. You might be unfamiliar with many of the new technological features. You aren’t alone if you are not the only one who doesn’t know what …

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