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THE GOOD CENSOR: Tech Companies Should 'Police Tone', Give Users 'Positive Guidelines' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - The document, which can be read in full here, acknowledges that tech platforms including Google have shifted towards censorship in recent years, moving away from their original commitment to the Amer…

Dropbox competitor Egnyte gets $75 million from Goldman Sachs

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venturebeat.com - Five years after it last raised venture capital financing, enterprise cloud storage company Egnyte announced today that it has raised $75 million from Goldman Sachs. CEO Vineet Jain says that the com…

Instagram is using AI to detect bullying in photos and captions

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www.theverge.com - Last year, Instagram introduced an enhanced comment filter that uses machine learning to spot offensive words and phrases in challenging contexts. Now, the company is expanding similar coverage to ph…

Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman announce the name of their stealthy mobile video startup

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techcrunch.com - Onstage at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit in Los Angeles, Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman unveiled the name of their highly anticipated mobile video company known until now as NewTV. The n…

Google’s smart home sell looks cluttered and incoherent

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techcrunch.com - If any aliens or technology ingenues were trying to understand what on earth a ‘smart home’ is yesterday, via Google’s latest own-brand hardware launch event, they’d have come away with a pretty conf…

Nintendo’s ‘souped-up’ NES Zelda loads you with gear for an easier adventure

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techcrunch.com - Nintendo has set a strange new precedent with the release of Legend of Zelda SP on the Switch: it’s essentially the original NES game but Link starts loaded up with good gear and cash. In a way it’s …

Apple reportedly plans to give away its TV content, because that worked well with U2

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techcrunch.com - Apple has answered two questions in one day, or rather a CNBC report citing someone within the company has. Why are the shows it’s planning so allegedly boring? And what does it plan to do to get a f…

Shasta Ventures is doubling down on security startups with 3 new hires

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techcrunch.com - Early-stage venture capital firm Shasta Ventures has brought on three new faces to beef up its enterprise software and security portfolio amid a big push to “go deeper” into cybersecurity, per Shasta…

Origin launches protocol for building cheaper decentralized Ubers & Airbnbs

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techcrunch.com - The sharing economy ends up sharing a ton of labor’s earnings with middlemen like Uber and Airbnb . $38 million-funded Origin wants the next great two-sided marketplace to be decentralized on the blo…

Waymo’s self-driving cars hit 10 million miles

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techcrunch.com - Alphabet’s self-driving car company Waymo has spent years testing its autonomous vehicles on public roads. What started as a trickle of miles driven each day has exploded in the past few years. And n…

Google’s Pixel 3 vs Apple’s iPhone XS: How do they stack up?

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techcrunch.com - So you need a new phone do ya? Well, as is the case each year, there are some hot new pieces of metal and glass out there from Apple and Google, and to make sense of how they stack up against each ot…

Google’s latest hardware innovation: Price

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techcrunch.com - With its latest consumer hardware products, Google’s prices are undercutting Apple, Samsung and Amazon. The search giant just unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, tablet and smart home device, al…

Shared inbox startup Front launches a complete redesign

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techcrunch.com - Front is launching a major revamp today. And it starts with a brand new design. Front is now powered by React for the web and desktop app, which should make it easier to add new features down the roa…

Long-Term Partnerships: The Next Wave of Influencer Marketing

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www.forbes.com - Influencer marketing is paying off for brands. In fact, a Tomoson study found that for every dollar a brand spent on influencer marketing, it made $6.50. That’s no small chunk of change in an era whe…

Intel goes up to 8 cores for mainstream chips, with a 28 core overclockable Xeon

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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—Intel unveiled a range of new processors aimed at the performance-desktop segment today. For the mainstream market, there are three new K-series overclockable chips branded as ninth-generati…

Microsoft announces Project Xcloud—Xbox game streaming for myriad devices

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arstechnica.com - This controller attachment was shown in Microsoft's video, and Bluetooth wireless controller support is also planned. Microsoft included this map of Azure datacenters in its blog post. These are the …

Google+ shutting down after data leak affecting 500,000 users

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arstechnica.com - Google exposed the private details of almost 500,000 Google+ users and then opted not to report the lapse, in part out of concern disclosure would trigger regulatory scrutiny and reputational damage,…

Microsoft promises to defend—not attack—Linux with its 60,000 patents

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft has made billions from its extensive library of software patents. A number of Android vendors, including Samsung, pay the company a royalty on each phone they ship to license patents such a…

Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft has figured out why the Windows 10 October 2018 Update deleted data from some systems and produced a fixed version. The severity of the bug caused the company to cease distribution of the u…

Nintendo gives Switch subscribers decked-out NES Zelda save file

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arstechnica.com - It's dangerous to go alone. Take all of this stuff! The new version—marked with a "Special" tag in the UI and dubbed "Living the life of luxury!" in the description—doesn't seem to modify the core ga…

Google announces successor to Pixel 2, the new Pixel 3 smartphone

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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—Google announced the Pixel 3 at its event in the Big Apple today. With something like two-dozen different leaks and an entire lost box of devices that went up for sale on the black market, t…

Tesla remotely extends car batteries to help with Hurricane Michael

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arstechnica.com - Some Tesla Model S and Model X customers in the path of Hurricane Michael will get a little extra boost in the coming days thanks to a remote software update from Tesla headquarters that temporarily …

Robocallers “evolved” to sidestep new call blocking rules, AGs tell FCC

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission should let phone companies get more aggressive in blocking robocalls, 35 state attorneys general told the commission yesterday. The FCC last year authorized voic…

BMW’s all-new 3 Series goes on sale 2019, starting at $40,200

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arstechnica.com - The seventh-generation BMW 3 Series, which arrives in showrooms in March 2019. The cabin's ergonomics look good, as does the integration of the iDrive infotainment screen into the dash. The new 3 Ser…

Google Call Screening: A personal robot that talks to, hangs up on spam calls

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arstechnica.com - As expected, Google's Tuesday hardware announcement event came with a few announcements of software- and AI-driven features and products. One of those, like last year's Duplex, sees Google handling p…

Google is issuing stricter guidelines for devs after Google+ security debacle

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thenextweb.com - Last night, Google decided to shut down Google+ after the Wall Street Journal reported that the company discovered a critical bug in the platform, and decided not to disclose it. Google’s VP of engin…

How to Create Magnetic Content | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - I know I know: Content is king! You’re already sick to the back-teeth of hearing it. You’ve made your content, you know your target audience—you just want to build some links and get some darn traffi…

Achieving impossible coding tasks without knowing how to do them

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blog.sourcerer.io - As software engineers we know the quickly changing technology landscape is hard to keep up with. We’re kept scrambling by the speed of change, constantly learning new tools, techniques, languages, an…

Just Answering A Video Call Could Compromise Your WhatsApp Account

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thehackernews.com - What if just receiving a video call on WhatsApp could hack your smartphone? This sounds filmy, but Google Project Zero security researcher Natalie Silvanovich found a critical vulnerability in WhatsA…

New iPad Pro Will Boast Remarkable Features, Different Smart Connectors, Report Says

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www.forbes.com - The new iPad Pro is on its way, it looks like, and may be announced this month. But a new report at 9to5Mac indicates there’s more to the device than we’ve previously known. Some of it is, frankly, s…

Set Up Your Financial Accounts Like You're Going to Be Hacked

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twocents.lifehacker.com - In the past week alone, Experian, Facebook and Google have all experienced (or divulged, in Google’s case) security breaches of various levels of seriousness, potentially exposing people’s private in…

Leak shows Google lied when it claimed it wasn't near launching its censored Chinese search tool

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boingboing.net - When Google employees discovered last August to their horror that the company had been secretly working on a censored search engine ("Project Dragonfly) for use in China, the company assured them tha…

4 Resume Fixes That'll Make You Way More Popular With Recruiters

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www.forbes.com - It’s well documented that people only spend about six seconds looking at each resume they receive. Fortunately, there are also tons of great articles dedicated to making the most out of those six sec…

3 former Google execs explain why they left a company where just about everyone wants to work

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finance.yahoo.com - Employees routinely rank Google as one of the best workplaces in America, and deciding whether to leave the company is never an easy decision. The three founders of the startup Beeswax, all of whom a…

Google introduces Screen Call to Pixel 3, soon to other Android devices

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androidcommunity.com - When an unknown number is calling you, the first instinct would be to just ignore it. But what if it was an actually important call? You don’t want to answer of course since you don’t know who it is …

Smart Compose now on Pixel 3, will add four more languages

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androidcommunity.com - When Google introduced Smart Compose to the Gmail web app a few months ago, the idea was to make typing emails faster as it uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to suggest or guess what …

Pixel 3 cameras: AR Stickers renamed to Playground, Lens enhanced

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androidcommunity.com - One of the main highlights of the newly (and officially) announced Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are their cameras. And so it’s not a surprise that they are introducing a lot of camera-focused features in o…

More mobile accessories made by Google introduced

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androidcommunity.com - Google has officially and finally revealed the new Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 smartphones yesterday. After months of rumors and leaks, the new flagships from the tech giant are ready to be released in the m…

Samsung Galaxy S10 variants confirmed by early certification

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy S10 will be released next year after the Galaxy X phone is launched. It’s never too early for leaks and speculation when it comes to the next flagship phone offering. The South Kor…

Samsung Galaxy A9 image renders show off four rear cameras

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve ticked off another flagship offering from our October Android phone launch list yesterday with the introduction of the Google Pixel 3 duo. Today, October 11, we’ll hear from the South Korean te…

Audi building a charging infrastructure to support the launch of its e-tron

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www.theglobeandmail.com - Audi’s first EV, the e-tron, is a luxury five-passenger SUV built on the same architecture as the Q7. Audi’s e-tron reveal in San Francisco was nothing if not extravagant, involving 1,600 guests from…

Essential's Next Phone Reportedly Different Than Any Other - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Essential, the company known for its PH-1 flagship Android phone, could soon be coming back with an innovative new smartphone. The company’s first Android phone wasn’t a success at all, with poor sal…

OneNote Will Soon Sync Your Sticky Notes - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft recently launched a major upgrade for Sticky Notes on Windows 10, moving it to the cloud. The updated Sticky Notes allow users to sync their notes across devices, but there’s still no way o…

Stop the Cycle of Ambiguity—Use Plain Talk

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leadershipfreak.blog - Leave a comment on this guest post by Karen Martin to become eligible to win one of TWENTY complimentary copies of, “Clarity First.” *International winners will receive electronic versions. We’re hav…

Some large search budgets are moving to Amazon, say agency executives - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - A CNBC survey of several advertising execs found some advertisers are shifting large percentages of their Google search budgets to Amazon. Two executives said some advertisers that sell on Amazon are…

Google algorithm updates 2011 to 2018

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searchenginewatch.com - Google makes changes to its ranking algorithm almost every day. Sometimes we know about them, sometimes we don’t. Some of them remain unnoticed, others turn the SERPs upside down. So, this cheat shee…

How to Mine Bitcore Coin (BTX): Complete Beginner’s Guide

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blockonomi.com - Bitcore is a new coin based on bitcoin that was launched on April 24th, 2017. BTC holders were given free BTX. This meant that for every bitcoin you held on April 24th, 2017, you received 0.5 BTX. BT…

Google Calls Search Engine Bias a 'Conspiracy Theory' - It's Not | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Breitbart News published an 85-page internal company briefing produced by Google that argues that for a number of reasons, including the election of President Trump, the “American tradition” of free …

Report: Internal Meeting Transcript Contradicts Google's China Claims | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - A recent report from The Intercept shows that Google executives and employees have very different ideas about Google’s Project Dragonfly — a Chinese government controlled and censored search engine —…

How to Split Test Facebook Link Preview Images for More Organic Traffic to Your Website : Social Media Examiner

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how to split test Facebook link preview images without using Facebook ads? Looking for affordable tools to help? In this article, you’ll learn how to use three tools to create, test, and op…

Amazon Scraps Secret AI Recruiting Tool That Showed Bias Against Women

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www.newsmax.com - Amazon.com Inc.’s machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women. The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicant…

Our Social Media Marketing Tips Will Set You Apart From The Competition

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - Read on to learn great ways to harness this power and use social media to its fullest potential. Always post to your blogs often. If you offer new content when readers expect it, they are sure to bec…

Amazon Introduces 1-Click Blockchain Technology on its AWS for Ethereum and Hyperledger

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bitcoinexchangeguide.com - On October 9, Amazon announced that it has implemented different blockchain solutions for its Amazon Web Services. With AWS Blockchain Templates, it will be possible for customers to provide a fast a…

6 tools to conquer multicloud management

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blog.serchen.com - Scalr, RightScale, Red Hat, Pivotal, Morpheus, and Embotics take aim at multicloud deployment, management, and cost control Life changed for programmers and operations teams when the cloud arrived. I…

Google’s Waze is making a big, nationwide bet on carpooling

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www.theverge.com - For many drivers, Waze is the go-to app for circumnavigating pesky traffic jams. Now, the Alphabet-owned company is making a risky move into ride-hailing — or, more specifically, carpooling. On Wedne…

Futurist Frey to bring his predictions, insights to Fort Smith - Talk Business & Politics

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talkbusiness.net - Thomas Frey is coming to Fort Smith and he’s bringing the future with him. That future, he says, is coming fast, with humanity to “change more in the next 20 years than in all of human history.” Frey…

Lg oled pwm

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www.katarinaharth.com - Lg oled pwm lg oled pwm It was a lot better than Pulse Width modulation (PWM) is an easy way to control monitor brightness. PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) The method of introducing "breaks" to reduce t…

Create Meta-Descriptions That Land High-Quality Prospects | Marketing Insider Group

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marketinginsidergroup.com - You’ve crafted the perfect content for your reader. You know when they read it, they’ll love it and seek to do business with your company. But that’s the thing—you need to get them to actually read i…

The Amazon challenge: Choosing a marketplace strategy

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internetretailing.net - “We are not going to be able to reach the scale of Amazon,” said Shehnaaz Chenia, EMEA director of eCommerce development, at the Tech. conference last month. “We differentiate based on other things.”…

5 Awesome TED Talks for Designers

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www.interaction-design.org - We know, TED talks can sometimes feel a little… overblown. While there are loads of great talks; some of them go nowhere and don’t seem to add much to your life at all. To make things worse… there ar…

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