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Thursday, September 20, 2018

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Hackers stole customer credit cards in Newegg data breach

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techcrunch.com - Newegg is clearing up its website after a month-long data breach. Hackers injected 15 lines of card skimming code on the online retailer’s payments page which remained for more than a month between A…

7 Phishing Attack Examples That Caused Businesses Major Harm - Small Business Trends

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smallbiztrends.com - More scammers and hackers working the Internet are targeting your small business with phishing attacks. According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report 2018, there was a 92% increase in the n…

Intelligence artificielle : l'État exhorte les entreprises à voir plus loin que le bout de leur nez

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www.latribune.fr - Mounir Mahjoubi veut que les grands groupes français changent complètement leur logiciel vis-à-vis des données. Mardi 18 septembre, dans un communiqué de presse, le secrétaire d'État au Numérique a i…

These familiar sounds will soon disappear from our world

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www.fastcompany.com - We–writers, curators, designers, users–give huge amounts of attention to the look and feel of objects, articulated through industrial and interface design and preserved in museums, books, and other l…

5G will enable autonomous vehicles to become four-wheeled clouds

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www.techrepublic.com - CEO Synchronoss Technologies Glenn Lurie tells TechRepublic's Teena Maddox how autonomous cars will communicate through 5G. Glenn Lurie: 5G is important for a lot of reasons. And then there's a lot o…

Hackers have planted credit card stealing malware on local government payment sites

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techcrunch.com - Security firm FireEye has confirmed that a widely used web payment portal used to pay for local government services, like utilities and permits, has been targeted by hackers. Hackers have broken into…

Web Design On A Tight Budget

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agentmonhost.com - There are many people becoming increasingly interested in web design. This means that you have a lot of competition if you are building their own website. So go through this article and learn what yo…

Google Home Mini was the best-selling smart speaker in Q2

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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s Echo Dot may have been a bestseller on Prime Day, but Google’s Home Mini device is now the top-selling smart speaker worldwide, according to a new report out this morning from Strategy Analy…

Microsoft Managed Desktop lets Redmond handle your desktop devices

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arstechnica.com - Just as the cloud freed many administrators from the day-to-day tedium of tending to Exchange servers and infrastructure like Domain Controllers, Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) could do the same for…

SparkLabs is launching a cybersecurity and blockchain accelerator program in the US

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techcrunch.com - Investment firm SparkLabs has run accelerator programs across APAC, now it has announced its first that’ll be based on U.S. soil and it’s a cybersecurity and blockchain program that’ll be located in …

Amazon launches Scout, a machine learning-powered visual shopping tool

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techcrunch.com - Amazon is experimenting with a new tool called Scout designed to help shoppers better figure out what they want to buy in a more visual fashion, according to a report from CNBC, which first spotted S…

Google’s GitHub competitor gets better search tools

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced an update to Cloud Source Repositories, its recently relaunched Git-based source code repository, that brings a significantly better search experience to the service. This new …

Cloudflare wants internet route leaks to be a thing of the past

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techcrunch.com - Internet outages happen all the time. If it’s not someone cutting through a cable in the street, it’s a massive denial-of-service attack pummeling a pillar of the internet with junk data. There is an…

Fitbit targets employers and health plans with Care

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techcrunch.com - When it launched the Versa back in March, Fitbit also announced plans to pivot. While the company will continue to operate in consumer hardware, it’s also shifting much of its focus toward healthcare…

Telegram to replace iOS messaging app with Telegram X Swift rebuild

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techcrunch.com - Telegram has announced it will be migrating iOS users of its messaging app to a rebuilt-from-scratch Swift version. It’s been running two versions of its app in parallel on iOS and Android during 201…

Password bypass flaw in Western Digital My Cloud drives puts data at risk

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techcrunch.com - A security researcher has published details of a vulnerability in a popular cloud storage drive after the company failed to issue security patches for over a year. Remco Vermeulen found a privilege e…

Review: Apple Watch Series 4

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techcrunch.com - Roughly two-and-half minutes into my run, the watch kicks in. There’s a haptic buzz on my wrist. “It looks like you’re working out,” the watch face reads. That’s followed by a big, yellow button, sug…

Nvidia RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti review: A tale of two very expensive graphics cards

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arstechnica.com - Say hello to the retail GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, packed into its box. ... notice a severe reduction in heat exhaust from that panel. This is a major shift from the last few Nvidia Founders Edition GPUs, …

Sorry, Sony Music, you don’t own the rights to Bach’s music on Facebook

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arstechnica.com - Sony Music Entertainment has been forced to abandon its claim that it owned 47 seconds of video of musician James Rhodes using his own piano to play music written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Last week,…

NewEgg hit by card-stealing code injected into shopping code

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arstechnica.com - The popular computer and electronics Web retailer NewEgg has apparently been hit by the same payment-data-stealing attackers who targeted TicketMaster UK and British Airways. The attackers, referred …

Despite data caps and throttling, industry says mobile can replace home Internet

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arstechnica.com - AT&T and Verizon are trying to convince the Federal Communications Commission that mobile broadband is good enough for Internet users who don't have access to fiber or cable services. The carriers ma…

EU investigating German automakers, alleging collusion on emissions tech

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arstechnica.com - The European Commission said on Tuesday that it is opening an investigation into possible collusion among Volkswagen Group, BMW, and Daimler to avoid competition on developing state-of-the-art emissi…

Review: Ford crosses over into the mini-SUV segment with tiny EcoSport

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arstechnica.com - The crossover and SUV market, being what it is, has been sliced and diced into discrete chunks. There are the behemoths: true full-size SUVs like the Chevy Suburban. There's the luxury market, where …

Welcome to NES-flix: Testing Nintendo Online’s new 8-bit library on Switch

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arstechnica.com - On Tuesday night, at roughly 11 p.m. ET, Nintendo finally did it: they put a bunch of classic NES games on the Switch. (No, the December 2017 launch of Vs. Super Mario Bros. doesn't count, because th…

Ever wonder why the most popular apps are starting to look the same? It might be a good thing

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uxdesign.cc - Open Instagram, Airbnb, Apple Music, Twitter, Dropbox or Lyft and at first glance it might feel like it’s hard to tell the difference between which app is which: big, bold headlines with rounded sans…

Designers need to keep old people in mind

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bdtechtalks.com - Our population is aging into “demographic time bombs.” The latest headlines constantly warn us of the stark reality of our aging dilemma. Fertility rates have dropped, and life expectancy has increas…

The 12 Things You Need to Consider When Evaluating Any New JavaScript Library

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medium.freecodecamp.org - For this year’s State of JavaScript survey I wanted to dig a little bit deeper, and not only know which tools and libraries people were using, but also why they were using them. Which means I had to …

Designing great products is like parenting – Prototypr

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blog.prototypr.io - 🐻 A parenting’s perspective The first impression is always an important one. When a kid discovers something new — no matter what that is — they will observe, analyse, then try it out. They can be a …

Mark Zuckerberg Wrote a 3,260-Word Memo on How Facebook Is Fighting Election Interference. Here Are the Highlights

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www.inc.com - Mark Zuckerberg wants to make clear that he's personally leading Facebook's charge against misinformation and election meddling. The billionaire founder wrote a 3,260-word post on Wednesday detailing…

Symantec offers free website spoofing protection for US midterm elections | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Symantec, one of the largest US-based cyber-security firms, has launched today a free security service for candidates and political campaigns involved in the US 2018 midterm elections. The service is…

Apple’s Using Your Call and Text Data to Figure Out Whether to ‘Trust’ Your Devices

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gizmodo.com - Apple has an interesting new method for combatting fraud—administering “trust scores.” VentureBeat noticed a new provision inside the updated iTunes Store terms and privacy disclosure that came with …

Apple iOS 12 Has 25 Great Secret Features

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www.forbes.com - Alongside the new iPhone XS (guide), iPhone XS Max (guide) and iPhone XR, Apple iOS 12 has landed. While it focuses primarily on performance and stability (with mixed success), it still hides many gr…

Xiaomi Pocophone F1 Teardown: Easy-to-open, “cool” but not waterproof

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androidcommunity.com - When the Pocophone F1 was unveiled, the mobile device quickly received a teardown treatment by Xiaomi. The Chinese company did its own ahead of the tech bloggers. That teardown video made us wonder h…

YouTube moves Gaming experience to main app

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androidcommunity.com - Three years ago, YouTube launched a separate Gaming app to cater to the growing number of people who were going to the video sharing site to look for live streams and gaming videos. They say more tha…

Samsung Galaxy J6+, Galaxy J4+ revealed with Infinity Display, 3300mAh battery

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androidcommunity.com - Just when we thought the Samsung Galaxy J line will be no more, here’s the South Korean tech giant announcing the new Galaxy J6+ and the Galaxy J4+. These mid-range phones are part of the mid-range G…

Xiaomi Mi 8 Pro unveiled with Fingerprint on Display feature, Mi 8 Lite ready

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androidcommunity.com - The Xiaomi Mi 8 was presented to the public back in May. It soon hit DxoMark and joined the big leagues with a high score of 99. We saw that Xiaomi Mi 8 transparent back we thought might be fake. As …

Samsung Experience 10 early build now out for Galaxy S9+

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androidcommunity.com - As we’ve said before, don’t hold your breath while waiting for the Android 9.0 Pie to finally arrive for your Samsung device as it takes the OEM several months before it starts rolling the update. Bu…

BlueStacks 4.0 plays games on your PC better than on your phone

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androidcommunity.com - Mobile games were specially created so you could play games while you’re on the go, as its name states. But sometimes, you would also want to play said games on a bigger screen like your laptop or co…

Instagram adds more shopping tools in Stories, Explore

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androidcommunity.com - Instagram has become more than just a photo and video sharing app these past few years as we’ve seen the Facebook-owned app add more features. Shopping has become one of those things that people have…

Amazon Expands Tech Hub, Achieves Milestone

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loyalty360.org - Amazon has announced an expansion of its San Diego Tech Hub and plans to create 300 new technical jobs in software development, machine learning, cloud computing, and digital entertainment. To accomm…

BoCo Broadband Summit: Advisory Commission looking for broadband solutions by attracting industry leaders to two-day gathering

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www.fincastleherald.com - The supervisors appointed the Botetourt Broadband Advisory Commission earlier this year, and the group quickly turned to the idea of getting as many people and companies associated with Internet serv…

Now the EU is Investigating Amazon Too - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Following in the rich traditions of Microsoft, Intel, Apple, and Google, Amazon has finally found itself the subject of an EU antitrust investigation. I’ve not found any mention of this on the Europe…

Samsung Galaxy vs iPhone Fans - Most Energized By Product Launches? | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The Apple hype train comes in at least once a year now, and we know it creates a sizable media fuss, but what impact does it actually have on consumers and how does it compare to their rival Samsung …

The Pros And Cons Of Proxy Servers | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - There’s a wealth of information available online about proxy servers in comparison to VPNs, and what the downsides of using a proxy server are. With all of the information out there, it can be diffic…

How Technology Has Helped Small Businesses Grow Through Social Media | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - So, you have started a small business from home and hoping to make it big someday. Your first course of action is to make people aware that your business exists. There is nothing better than social m…

Why American Farmers Are Hacking Their Tractors With Ukrainian Firmware

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motherboard.vice.com - To avoid the draconian locks that John Deere puts on the tractors they buy, farmers throughout America's heartland have started hacking their equipment with firmware that's cracked in Eastern Europe …

How Much Is My iPhone Worth? - iPhone 8 Lost Least Value In 6 Months | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Is the iPhone actually a good gadget investment? We explore data provided by a US trade-in company to visualize the top iPhone price trends over the past 6 months. Over the weekend following the iPho…

Top 10 Popular Online Games In September | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Are you looking for the top-notch online games that have become all-favorites in September 2018? If so, you are welcome to check out the following well-thought list of the most outstanding online gam…

Q&A with Google on the future of search

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searchenginewatch.com - Search marketing is undergoing rapid transformation driven by new technologies. Artificial Intelligence, Voice Search, Visual Search, Amazon, and Blockchain all impact how we search for information a…

How to Improve Your Link Building Outreach Pipeline

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moz.com - Link building is probably one of the most challenging pieces of your SEO efforts. Add multiple clients to the mix, and managing the link outreach process gets even tricker. When you’re in the thick o…

Turn Your Living Room into a Theater with the ViewSonic PX706HD Gaming Projector

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Live Updates: Trump Is Visiting The Carolinas To Survey Massive Damage Caused By Florence

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www.buzzfeednews.com - In the first test of a national alert system, the Trump administration will send a message to US cellphones Thursday with the headline "Presidential Alert." The system, which has never been tested na…

European Competition Commissioner Questions Amazon in Antitrust Probe | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - CNBC reports that Vestager’s questions are designed to discover whether Amazon uses the sales data of its third-party merchants as an advantage by using that information to boost its own sales. Accor…

Sony announces the PlayStation Classic, its own mini retro console

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techcrunch.com - If you’re the kind of person who has two beers and regularly launches into the same 20 minute-long ode to the original PlayStation for playing a seminal role in the maturation of gaming as an art for…

20 Common Instagram Terms & The Instagram Language • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Instagram is one of the hottest social networks on the planet right now. However, if you are new to Instagram, you may have some questions as you start making your way around. Questions like 'what is…

Finding The Right Auto Repair Shop For Your Car

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carshopping.biz - Auto repair often seems like a complex subject, but you can easily master this topic if you are ready to some time and energy into it. Learning basic auto repairs can help you save a valuable skill t…

Easy Ways To Make Things Easier On Yourself With Your Iphone

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iphonefindmyphone.com - There is plenty of information available to help you use your iphone to its maximum capabilities. Read this article to find out great things that the iphone can do for you. Rice is an easy and quick …

Expert Advice On How To Use Facebook For Marketing

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duracmarketing.com - Getting yourself recognized on Facebook is something that can build up your brand while allowing you to speak with your customers. However, you should educate yourself on Facebook marketing before st…

Vital Information For Social Media Marketing Success

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Social media marketing doesn’t cost much, has low barriers of entry, and opens you up to a much broader audience. The next few paragraphs will give you can effectively market with social media. Wheth…

Great Hosting Advice If You Need Some Ideas

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agentmonhost.com - The company you pick will have big ramifications for your website. Like just about everything else , there are some bad apples when it comes to web page hosting. The following article will provide yo…

Some Advice To Make Car Repairs A Breeze.

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carshopping.biz - It can be overwhelming time when you find yourself staring at possible auto repairs. Don’t take an emergency kit for granted. This kit should consist of tire changing tools, changing your tire, etc. …

Helpful Ipad Tips For Maximum Benefits

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laptopsandnotebook.com - Do you love to play a lot of games?Are you in time? Do you have a lot? Are you in shape?Are you expecting a baby? Are you aware the iPad can help with those things and more? There are endless apps fo…

The Best Car Purchasing Tips For You

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carshopping.biz - Buying a new vehicle can require a stressful and confusing process. You may not know what things are essential and what you can live without. Use this article as a guideline to help make the right de…

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