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Next Samsung tech may hide the selfie camera
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androidcommunity.com - Now that Samsung’s plans to launch an on-screen or in-display fingerprint sensor are expected to become a reality soon, we’re more than excited to know what other technologies and advancements the So…
Tesla is rolling out a cheaper, mid-range Model 3
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techcrunch.com - Tesla is now offering a new, cheaper mid-range battery version of the Model 3 that starts at $45,000 before federal tax incentives. CEO Elon Musk announced the new variant, which has an estimated bat…
Smart home makers hoard your data, but won’t say if the police come for it
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techcrunch.com - A decade ago, it was almost inconceivable that nearly every household item could be hooked up to the internet. These days, it’s near impossible to avoid a non-smart home gadget, and they’re vacuuming…
Microsoft’s new expense tracker Spend hits the App Store
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techcrunch.com - The team behind mileage-tracking app MileIQ, a company Microsoft acquired a few years ago, is out with a new application. This time, the focus isn’t on tracking miles, but rather expenses. The new ap…
PlayStation Vue is first U.S. pay TV provider to integrate with Apple’s TV app
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techcrunch.com - Sony’s live TV streaming service, PlayStation Vue, announced this week it has become the first U.S. pay TV provider to integrate with Apple’s TV app. Until now, Apple’s TV app has featured content fr…
TrackR is rebranding to Adero as it looks beyond small devices to track lost items
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techcrunch.com - When TrackR raised $50 million from investors that included Amazon a year ago, the Santa Baraba startup made a big splash in the growing market for small connected dongles that you could attach to “d…
Buggy software in popular connected storage drives can let hackers read private data
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techcrunch.com - Security researchers have found flaws in four popular connected storage drives that they say could let hackers access a user’s private and sensitive data. The researchers Paulos Yibelo and Daniel Esh…
In My Humble Opinion, This Is the Single Best iPhone Hack
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Guy Kawasaki
nymag.com - A week-long series of workouts to get your devices in shape. Tech sites are always yammering on about hacks. I myself have been guilty of hack proselytizing from time to time. But I am here today to …
Fortnite, GTA V hackers face legal action for online cheating
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - It's pretty standard for game developers to use a variety of technical and community management methods to try to stop cheaters from ruining the online experience for legitimate players. But some gam…
Entire broadband industry sues Vermont to stop state net neutrality law
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arstechnica.com - The nation's largest broadband industry lobby groups have sued Vermont to stop a state law that requires ISPs to follow net neutrality principles in order to qualify for government contracts. The law…
Comcast gigabit cable available to nearly 58 million homes and businesses
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arstechnica.com - Comcast's gigabit cable service is now available to nearly all of the 58 million homes and businesses in the company's US territory, Comcast announced yesterday. Comcast, the nation's largest ISP wit…
This business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
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arstechnica.com - The KY-O1L next to a credit card, for size comparison. A marketing image of the KY-O1L next to a MacBook. With Apple and most Android OEMs making increasingly larger phones while Apple discontinues t…
Vivaldi 2.0 review: The modern Web browser does not have to be so bland
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arstechnica.com - Here are a few of the Vivaldi 2.0 features the company itself highlights (like the browser welcome page). We'll call out a few specifics ourselves throughout the piece. Web Panels are the small windo…
iPhone XS and XS Max review: Big screens, big performance, big lenses, big prices
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arstechnica.com - With last year's iPhone X, Apple introduced the most significant redesign to the iPhone since the iPhone 4. All three of the phones Apple announced this fall—the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone …
Should You Sell Website Support or Maintenance Services? | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - By now, you’ve likely encountered and worked your way out one of the more common problems freelancers face. In moving your business model from one that bills by the hour to value-based pricing, you b…
Google ushers in the Age of Conversational Ads with the launch of AdLingo - MarTech Today
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martechtoday.com - Marketers now have a new generally-available ad type for their campaigns: conversational ads. That’s the result of Google’s launch on Tuesday of its new AdLingo conversational marketing platform, whi…
Want to understand the future of Android in Europe? Look at China
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Reg Saddler
www.theverge.com - By the end of the month, Google will charge a licensing fee in Europe for the Play Store and apps like YouTube and Gmail in order to comply with the European Commission’s antitrust ruling. Device mak…
Aphex Twin’s Massive Catalog, Including Rare Unreleased Tracks, Is Now Free to Stream Online
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www.openculture.com - Few things connect the electronic music of the 90s to that of today like Aphex Twin. The long career of Richard D. James—he of the sinister grinning face plastered on buxom models and a gang of viole…
Why You Should Doodle at Work
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www.payscale.com - Doodling is as old as time itself; Heck, even cavemen doodled. When you doodle, you’re not taking notes. Instead, you could be making geometric shapes, drawing images that represent a conversation yo…
Microsoft fired the guy overseeing its NFL partnership for allegedly scalping company Super Bowl tickets and trying to fake $1.4 million in invoices (MSFT)
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finance.yahoo.com - A federal grand jury has indicted Microsoft's former director of Sports Marketing and Alliances Jeff Tran for allegedly trying to create more than $1.4 million in fake invoices, the Department of Jus…
Should We Still Be Sending Thank-You Notes After Interviews?
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Anthony Casas, SHRM-SCP
www.payscale.com - Yes, handwritten thank-you notes are still totally relevant. Handwritten letter-writing practices have been on the decline for quite some time. But just because a lot of us (especially younger worker…
Google Maps now makes it easier to share your ETA
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androidcommunity.com - When you’re driving on your way to a family gathering or a dinner with friends, you don’t want to be bothered with constantly updating them as to what time you are expected to arrive. Also, it’s prob…
Samsung’s Always On Display for Android Pie may get colored notification icons
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androidcommunity.com - We’re probably still a long way or at least a few months from getting Android 9.0 Pie updates given what we know about the “speed” that they roll out these updates. But one thing that Samsung flagshi…
Spotify Premium update streamlines navigation, better search, artist radio
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androidcommunity.com - If Spotify is one of your most used apps in your smartphone, every update that it brings is almost always welcome. As long as it doesn’t mess with what you’re basically used to and if it improves on …
NVIDIA SHIELD, Google Home integration expands with more voice commands
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androidcommunity.com - If you already have your SHIELD TV, we’re certain you’re satisfied with the device especially now that it’s getting a number of important updates including that SHIELD Experience Upgrade, game stream…
No More Creepy! Gain a Competitive Edge with Data Privacy
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loyalty360.org - Everyone wants the love of their customers. Marketers collectively spend billions of dollars each year to attain it, while consumers are increasingly resistant to give it. Too often, marketers are in…
Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL First Impressions - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Not sure whether I could handle the notch on the larger handset, I ordered both a Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL to see which I prefer. Here are my initial thoughts on each, mostly about the hardware …
Why search marketing matters in 2018
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searchenginewatch.com - First let me ask you: how many unread emails are in the “promotions,” “updates,” and “other” tabs of your inbox? When I got to work on Monday morning, there were 248. How many of those did I read, yo…
Julian Assange Sues Ecuador for Violating His 'Fundamental Rights' | Breitbart
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Chris From WI
www.breitbart.com - According to Sky News, “Baltasar Garzon, a lawyer for WikiLeaks, has arrived in Ecuador to launch the case, which is expected to be heard next week in a domestic court.” WikiLeaks' lawyer Judge Balta…
WSJ: Amazon Revisits NYC, Newark, N.J., Chicago as HQ2 Decision Looms
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Chris From WI
www.newsmax.com - Amazon.com Inc. executives have made a fresh round of visits to several of the 20 finalists for its $5 billion second-headquarters project, fueling added anticipation as it nears a decision in a proc…
Google Plus Is Dead! Now What? So What!?! -
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philgerbyshak.com - Have you heard the news? This week, Google announced they are killing Google+. If you were like many, you didn't use Google+. They also shared the average user was spending 6 seconds per login on the…
Sales for Oct. 19: Save on iPads, Epson printers, FitBits, Beats headphones, Keurigs, Echo Show, and more
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mashable.com - With the weekend here (woot!), we rounded up the best deals on electronics, stuff for the kitchen, and Amazon devices for video streaming and home security so you can do some online shopping during y…
How Snapchat Launched Spectacles to Prepare Us for Augmented Reality
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - This article is written by Contributing Writer Erik van Mechelen along with Yu-kai Chou. First, it built a cool mobile-only camera and messaging app with millions of engaged users. Snaps are ephemera…
Today’s best deals: $30 Echo Dot, Instant Pot, $20 fast wireless charger, Philips Hue sale, more
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sg.news.yahoo.com - We’re wrapping up the week with what is quite possibly the best roundup of daily deals we’ve had all month. Highlights include Echo Dot refurbs within $5 of the lowest price ever, Fire TV Stick refur…
Addicted to clicks? Would you try online retail rehab? - Taking stock of retail tech
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www.computerweekly.com - In early October 2018, fintech firm iZettle ran a rehab centre for online shopping addicts to show the impact e-commerce has on the highstreet. But will this change customer habits? Spoiler alert, th…
OLED vs QLED: For your viewing pleasure
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www.khaleejtimes.com - Televisions are, as it is said, 'the cheapest form of entertainment'. But with innovations over the decades, this might be a thing of the past. However, it's great that spending power is increasing o…
Irrelevance, Excruciating Painful Decline & Death - CXO Transform
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Rob Llewellyn
cxo-transform.com - Amazon’s Jeff Bezos constantly reminds his people of the biggest enemy being irrelevance, then excruciating, painful decline and death. So when the CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing, disrupti…
Amazon investing in British tech talent |Chain Store Age
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www.chainstoreage.com - With the holiday season’s official retail kick-off just weeks away, retailers need to be alert to the most common issues that can cause Web or mobile site outages or slowdowns. The Black Friday-Cyber…
The smartphone is eventually going to die, and then things are going to get really crazy
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panah
www.businessinsider.com - Make no mistake: We're still probably at least a decade away from any kind of meaningful shift away from the smartphone. (And if we're all cyborgs by 2027, I'll happily eat my words. Assuming we're s…
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