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Julian Assange Steps Down From Position as WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief

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gizmodo.com - WikiLeaks’ founder has been stuck in Ecuador’s London embassy for six years and cut off from accessing the internet for six months. Those circumstances have made it difficult for him to do the job of…

Opinion: Innovation must go hand in hand with conscious computing -

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techspark.co - In the last 20 years the internet, smartphone and social media have dramatically changed everyone’s life. We have unlimited and constant access to facts. Have we reached peak information? In the work…

How to Get Your Music on Spotify Playlists - New Artist Model

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newartistmodel.com - “How to get your music on Spotify playlists?” That’s the hot question in the mind of just about every indie musician on the planet. And with good reason. There are plenty of inspiring stories of musi…

Consumer Reports Recommends Surface Again ... But Not Surface Go - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Over a year after its stunning put-down of Microsoft’s Surface, Consumer Reports is once again recommending the PCs to readers. Well, most of them. “Microsoft Surface laptops are now eligible for ‘re…

Huawei Mate 20 Series: New details you probably didn’t know

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androidcommunity.com - Huawei is readying the new Mate 20 series phones and in less than three weeks, we’ll know for sure how the latest flagships will be different and better than the Huawei P20 and P20 Pro. There’s also …

Facebook’s ex-CSO, Alex Stamos, defends its decision to inject ads in WhatsApp

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techcrunch.com - Alex Stamos, Facebook’s former chief security officer, who left the company this summer to take up a role in academia, has made a contribution to what’s sometimes couched as a debate about how to mon…

India’s new technology infrastructure has created a platform to build domestic tech giants

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techcrunch.com - In the two years since Indian social media app ShareChat raised $4 million in funding from Lightspeed Ventures the converging trends of increasing smartphone use, wireless internet connectivity, and …

California cops bust crime ring that nabbed $1M worth of devices from Apple Stores

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techcrunch.com - Fear not, citizens — the law enforcement apparatus of California has apprehended or is hot on the trail of more than a dozen hardened criminals who boldly stole from the state’s favorite local busine…

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 …

TiVo’s 4-tuner $250 BOLT OTA set-top box goes after cord cutters

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techcrunch.com - TiVo today is introducing a new set-top box, the TiVo BOLT OTA, which will join its existing lineup of TiVo BOLT-branded devices, including the voice-controlled BOLT VOX DVRs, launched last year. Thi…

Berkanan is a Bluetooth-powered group messaging app

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techcrunch.com - A new messaging app is looking to give folks a way to communicate in situations with poor or no cellular connectivity. Berkanan, founded by Zsombor Szabó, is a group messaging app that uses Bluetooth…

Tech employees can make up for executives

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techcrunch.com - Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey — representing Facebook and Twitter, respectively — recently testified before Congress, this time evading questions about bias on their platforms. We frequently turn t…

May Mobility puts autonomous shuttles on the streets of Columbus, Ohio

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techcrunch.com - This December a set of autonomous vehicles will start roaming the streets of Columbus, Ohio in an effort to turn this bustling midwestern community into the first smart city. The project, which is pa…

Mozilla pushes PayPal to make Venmo transactions private by default

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techcrunch.com - Earlier this year, the FTC settled with PayPal over the company’s handling of privacy disclosures in its peer-to-peer payments app Venmo, but Mozilla doesn’t think the changes Venmo made as a result …

In-car commerce startup Cargo raises $22 million led by Founders Fund

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techcrunch.com - Cargo, the startup that helps ridesharing drivers earn money by bringing the convenience store into their vehicles, has raised $22 million in a Series A round led by Founders Fund . Additional invest…

E-Voting researchers warn of hack that could “flip the Electoral College”

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arstechnica.com - Today, six prominent information-security experts who took part in DEF CON's Voting Village in Las Vegas last month issued a report on vulnerabilities they had discovered in voting equipment and rela…

After-market car tech firm sold 363,000 emissions-cheating devices, DOJ says [Updated]

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arstechnica.com - On Monday, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a settlement with an after-market car technology company called Derive Systems. Derive was accused of selling 363,000 devices that could defeat…

Amazon’s newest brick-and-mortar store sells only top-rated products

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arstechnica.com - Another brick-and-mortar Amazon store opens its doors today: Amazon 4-star, at a new location in New York City's Soho district. The retail giant's new store only sells products that have been rated f…

Google backtracks—a bit—on controversial Chrome sign-in feature

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arstechnica.com - Google is going to partially revert a controversial change made in Chrome 69 that unified signing in to Google's online properties and Chrome itself and which further preserved Google's cookies even …

Hands-on: Oculus Quest is an intriguing new middle ground for VR

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arstechnica.com - Oculus isn't kidding about "wide-angle" sensors. These really jut out. Let's get one thing out of the way right up front: Oculus Quest is not the wireless, PC-free version of the Rift you may have be…

Carmack: Oculus Quest’s power is comparable to Xbox 360 or PS3

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arstechnica.com - Any excuse to reuse this image of Carmack is a good one. SAN JOSE—In a wide-ranging and occasionally rambling unscripted talk at the Oculus Connect conference today, CTO John Carmack suggested the Oc…

Rethinking JavaScript Test Coverage

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blog.npmjs.org - This post was written by Benjamin Coe, Product Manager at npm, Inc. and lead maintainer of yargs and Istanbul for the Node.js Collection. It covers work that has gone into introducing native code cov…

This Is the First Waterproof Drone to Fly in the Air and Submerge in Water

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mymodernmet.com - Designed to be waterproof and buoyant, the Spry is a breakthrough in drone technology. This waterproof drone and its water-resistant remote control is the culmination of two years of prototyping by S…

Google Is Celebrating Its 20th Birthday Today and Nobody Seems to Know Why

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www.inverse.com - Google celebrated its 20th birthday on Thursday, which is actually kind of weird, since that’s not when the company behind the search engine was incorporated. Or when its signature search engine laun…

Whatsapp founder: I sold out, but I walked away from $850,000,000 when I quit Facebook

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boingboing.net - In 2014, Facebook bought the messaging system Whatsapp for $22B; it was a weird fit, because Whatsapp founders had decried Facebook's surveillance-based business model and targeted advertising, and h…

Google Home Hub Smart Display charcoal variant leaked

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androidcommunity.com - October 9 can’t come any sooner for fans of Google hardware as we expect that more than just the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL will be announced that day. One of the rumored products that will be unveiled t…

Android Messages may be bringing Automatic Spam Detection soon

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androidcommunity.com - You would think that spammers would have already given up on sending numerous SMS but it’s still a problem that’s very much prevalent, especially in countries where SMS is still king. It looks like G…

Adobe Looks to AI Innovations to Life Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Adobe has announced new artificial intelligence innovations to help brands scale their delivery of personalized experiences across channels. The new capabilities are available through the incorpora…

Best Practices in Personalization: The Challenges & Opportunities for Marketers Today [Webinar Previ

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loyalty360.org - Individualized marketing, otherwise known as personalization, has become an ideal for brands trying to improve customer loyalty. The dazzling technologies that appear each week—AI engines, neural net…

Now Microsoft Will Kill Skype 7 in November - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Bad news for those hoping to stick with the classic desktop version of Skype: Microsoft is pulling the plug. Again. “As we continue to focus on and improve Skype version 8, support for Skype versions…

Windows 10 Version 1803 Surges to 90 Percent Usage Share - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - On the eve of the release of the next version of Windows 10, the current version is in use on 90 percent of compatible PCs out in the world. “Obviously, there isn’t much room for the April 2018 Updat…

5 E-Commerce Tools To Increase Your Sales | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - If you are looking to take your business to the next level and increase sales, an e-commerce solution can be the way to go. E-commerce platforms can provide you with a fully accessible e-commerce sto…

How WordPress errors can negatively affect your SEO

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searchenginewatch.com - WordPress is such a popular Content Management System that it now powers up to 30 percent of all the websites existing over the Internet. Its popularity as a seamlessly easy-to-use website builder ha…

Oppo set to release the world’s first smartphone with 10GB of RAM - KitGuru

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www.kitguru.net - While there have been some innovations made within the smartphone market, such as in-display fingerprint scanners, facial recognition and the push for bezel-less displays, there is a piqued interest …

10 Proven MLM Lead Generation Super Secrets Revealed

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Are you looking to master the art & science of MLM lead generation? Are you wondering if there really is a proven network marketing lead generation system that works to consistently drive more traffi…

The Secret Trick to Boost Your Instagram Engagement Rate • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - How would you like to boost your Instagram engagement rate? I’m so excited to be sharing with you a simple strategy that I use to increase my Instagram engagement rate. If you’re not using Instagram …

Better Your Website Design Abilities By Reading On

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agentmonhost.com - Whether you are designing your first website or your fiftieth, always remember that a very important aspect is the design. If you want visitors to enjoy your site and revisit it over and over, aesthe…

Success Comes From Learning: Read All About Lead Generation

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Generating leads is an important part of your marketing strategy.The advice will help you can do this. Remember the buying process of your consumer when you try getting more leads since it can greatl…

Easy Search Engine Optimization Tips And Tricks

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Optimizing your website can help dramatically, but only if you are smart about it. When you’re working with SEO on pages you should try to have a lot of articles that are short and about the same thi…

Startup inks ‘world’s largest deal’ for driverless grocery deliveries

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www.impactlab.net - Whether or not your grocery delivery arrives in a van with a driver behind the wheel may not matter much to you, but an increasing number of companies are nevertheless investing heavily in autonomous…

South Africa: Woolworths launches in-app shopping

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www.itnewsafrica.com - September 27, 2018 • Retail, Southern Africa, Top Stories Woolworths has launched in-app shopping in a bid to create a completely integrated customer experience via the app. The Woolworths app is a f…

Platform Value? - CXO Transform

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cxo-transform.com - Platform value offers companies the opportunity to leverage a relatively new type of value and really disrupt market dynamics. Platforms have disrupted numerous brick and mortar companies and are plo…

ANSI and VITA Ratify ANSI/VITA 57.4 FPGA Mezzanine Card Plus (FMC+) Standard

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www.embedded-computing.com - VITA, September 27, 2018 — VITA, the trade association for standard computing architectures serving critical and intelligent embedded computing systems markets, announces the ratification by ANSI and…

Embedded Software Market to hit USD 19 billion by 2024

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www.embedded-computing.com - The Embedded Software Market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $11 billion to over $19 billion by 2024; as reported in the latest study by Global Market Insights, Inc. The emb…

​Linux now dominates Azure | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Microsoft's Scott Guthrie and his impact on Azure: A six month report card What has Microsoft's Scott Guthrie done over the past six months in his new job as head of the Azure Application Platform? T…

Future of Work: The New Age of Employment

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www.futuristspeaker.com - For the past century, the work of every car designer has focused on one central activity – driving! The art of creating the perfect driving experience has been extremely complicated, with humans comi…

How Voice Technology Is Helping To Reverse Retail’s Decline - Retail TouchPoints

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www.retailtouchpoints.com - While there is a shift to digital channels, this doesn’t diminish the role of the store in the purchase decision. Perhaps the biggest issue is that traditional store metrics such as comparison sales …

Kavanaugh hearings too painful? Mute talk of sexual assault on Twitter

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www.usatoday.com - An emotional Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the US Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday. It seems almost impossible to avoid the subject of sexual assault, given the Senate testim…

NY Times Twitter Poll on Christine Blasey Ford’s Credibility Is Paper’s Latest Error

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observer.com - The New York Times is in hot water again. Sifro Gonzalez/Flickr Creative Commons The Times was not on it this morning. Like every other news outlet, The New York Times is exhaustively covering Christ…

Firefox Monitor starts tracking breached email addresses

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nakedsecurity.sophos.com - After a summer of testing, Mozilla has formally launched Firefox Monitor, a privacy-engineered website that hooks up to Troy Hunt’s Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP) breach notification database. The site – …

A CTO guide: Cyber security best practice tips - Information Age

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www.information-age.com - 'Do the basics right - hygiene, patching, get on the latest tech; and then secure the user credentials'. As part of Information Age’s Cyber Security Month, we have provided three CTO guides on cyber …

Encryption by Boxcryptor – Strong Security for the Cloud

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www.egnyte.com - The cloud enables teams to collaborate on shared files from anywhere in the world. Whether hosted internally or through a third-party provider, the cloud may very well be one of the biggest collabora…

IoT roundup: Startups, big carriers flexing their IoT muscles and California legislation

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www.networkworld.com - We’re back! Here’s the latest monthly roundup of big and not-so-big news in the world of IoT, ranging from carrier doings to a neat little startup. Buckle up. California legislates IoT security Calif…

Identity Theft: What it is and How Businesses Can Prevent it?

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aepiphanni.com - An identity theft is a crime where a party steals sensitive/personal information from another party and then uses it for fraud, other crimes or simply causes harm to the target by using their resourc…

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