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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY 5 Ways to Keep Your Email Subscribers Engaged Without Spamming Them - New Artist Model Shared by Dave Kusek newartistmodel.com - Your email list is one of your most valuable assets when it…

Cortana Gets New Smart Home Features - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is advancing Cortana’s smart home capabilities with new features this week. The company started rolling out two new features: Scenes and Rules, which allows users to automate their smart ho…

The AI market is growing, but how quickly is tough to pin down

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techcrunch.com - If you work in tech, you’ve heard about artificial intelligence: how it’s going to replace us, whether it’s over-hyped or not and which nations will leverage it to prevent, or instigate, war. Our edi…

Uber is exploring autonomous bikes and scooters

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techcrunch.com - Uber is looking to integrate autonomous technology into its bike and scooter-share programs. Details are scarce, but according to 3D Robotics CEO Chris Anderson, who said Uber announced this at a DIY…

Stung by criticism, Facebook’s Sandberg outlines new plans to tackle misinformation

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techcrunch.com - Stung by criticism of its widely reported role as a platform capable of spreading disinformation and being used by state actors to skew democratic elections, Facebook’s COO Sheryl Sandberg unveiled f…

Foxconn might slow hiring at its Wisconsin plant

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www.theverge.com - in 2017, Foxconn has said that its $10 billion manufacturing plant in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin would eventually create upwards of 13,000 jobs, lured to the state by lucrative state subsidies to rein…

Meet MASHBot, the touchscreen-tapping, Nintendo DS-playing robot

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arstechnica.com - But no matter how amazing TASBot’s performances are, there’s still a group of naysayers out there that argues that the robot’s direct connection to the controller port makes the whole thing inauthent…

Western Digital’s Black SSD is now focused on gaming, can come with a heatsink

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arstechnica.com - A render that gives you some sense of the thickness with the heatsink attached. It's a gamer brand now, so of course its marketing graphics look menacing, grimdark, juvenile, and ridiculous. Another …

Ajit Pai gives carriers free pass on privacy violations during FCC shutdown

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arstechnica.com - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai refused a Democratic lawmaker's request to immediately address a privacy scandal involving wireless carriers, saying that it can wait until after t…

Millions of customers will now pay more for Netflix—here’s how much

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arstechnica.com - Another round of Netflix price hikes is upon us. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Netflix will increase the prices of all of its subscription plans, effective immediately, for all …

Researcher: As tech firms grow rapidly, privacy violations must be intentional

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arstechnica.com - If there's one person outside of government who has stood against Facebook's crashing wave, it's Ashkan Soltani. Late last year, the independent privacy researcher was suddenly called to speak before…

Travis Strikes Again review: Switch may already have its weirdest game of 2019

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arstechnica.com - Have you heard of video game developer Goichi Suda, better known to fans as Suda51? If so, you're likely familiar with his brand of weird games, from Western cult classics Killer 7 and No More Heroes…

Apple releases official battery cases for iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR

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arstechnica.com - Today, Apple quietly began taking orders for battery-equipped cases for all three 2018 iPhone models—iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. The value proposition and designs are essentially the sam…

Trending Web Technologies to follow in 2019 – freeCodeCamp.org

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medium.freecodecamp.org - The world of web development is constantly changing and it is a challenge to keep a close eye on everything that is going on. Which frameworks will still be relevant in the coming year? And which pro…

Dolby made a secret app for recording studio quality audio on your phone

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www.theverge.com - Dolby has been quietly testing a new mobile app for recording and cleaning up audio under the codename “234,” as first spotted by TechCrunch. The app, which was available through a website sign-up fo…

Facebook could be fined millions by US regulators for privacy violations

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www.theverge.com - Federal Trade Commission officials have discussed imposing a record-setting fine on Facebook after a year of major data breaches and revelations of improper data sharing, according to the Washington …

Thinking About 5G Wireless? Here's What You Should Know

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www.digitaltrends.com - If 2019 tech will be remembered for anything, it’ll be 5G. It’s about to make a huge impact in the way we experience wireless connectivity. While often talked about in reference to mobile devices, 5G…

Does Your Business Need AI-Powered “Whisper Agents?” | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Modern businesses are obsessed with adapting to a digital marketplace, which has led many of them to throw their full weight behind any initiative powered by artificial intelligence. One such recent …

GNation Partnership That Is Going To Change The Gaming Industry | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The gaming industry is developing by leaps and bounds. In 2017 game creators and publishers earned $108 billion – it`s almost a double amount of GDP of an average Eastern European country. All the di…

From eBay To AliExpress - How To Boost Your eCommerce Presence | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The dream of running your own company is more attainable than ever in this technological age. But eCommerce can be more complex than some may believe. Digital entrepreneurship comes with a business l…

The Blockchain Is Moving On Up | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Instead of us seeing blockchain in the research and development laboratories we now see it moving into real-world applications which means that there is now a global market for the technology, and so…

10 Reasons Why You Should Buy Proxies For Your Project | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Are you wondering whether you need to buy private proxies? You might believe that your project needs protection or aggressive expansion. Now, conventional browsing does provide the comfort of familia…

Paying With Your Phone Is The New Trend In Online Games | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Perhaps one of the key improvements in online gambling tech has been mobile phone payment options. We all wish we had one button to conveniently press any time we want to pay for a service on the spo…

Retro Retread - Why Should You Revisit Classic Video Games? | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The landscape of video gaming is in a constantly fluctuating state. Every year, we experience new innovations in the technology behind the platform. From the rise of ray tracing to teases of the next…

Thieves of Experience: How Google and Facebook Corrupted Capitalism - Los Angeles Review of Books

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www.lareviewofbooks.org - WE SOMETIMES FORGET that, at the turn of the century, Silicon Valley was in a funk, economic and psychic. The great dot-com bubble of the 1990s had imploded, destroying vast amounts of investment cap…

Change Your Phone Settings So Apple And Google Can't Track Your Movements

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www.sciencealert.com - Technology companies have been pummelled by revelations about how poorly they protect their customers' personal information, including an in-depth New York Times report detailing the ability of smart…

The Type of Burnout We Rarely Talk About

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advice.shinetext.com - "Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” That saying—one of the many by the great unknown—has been floating around on the Internet for as long as I’ve been googling "inspiring quo…

This is the industry to enter if you want to basically be guaranteed a job

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www.impactlab.net - “If you are ambitious, if you’re thoughtful, if you understand yourself, and how to grow yourself, and how to learn, you will be wanted and needed, and you will find yourself progressing in the field…

6 trends that are changing the face of mobile UI design

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www.creativebloq.com - Preferences in user interface design shift and change all the time. In this article we take a look at the big trends that started bubbling up in 2018 and look set to explode this year – these are the…

The Era of Empowered Customers: How Retailers Are Catering to More Discerning Shoppers

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www.shopify.com - The power paradigm has shifted from the retailer to the customer. Even 20 years ago, businesses served as the lone “source of truth” since they owned and controlled access to product information. Cus…

The Principles of Service Design Thinking - Building Better Services

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www.interaction-design.org - Service design is all about taking a service and making it meet the user’s and customer’s needs for that service. It can be used to improve an existing service or to create a new service from scratch…

The Age of the Digital Customer [New Report] - Usabilla Blog

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usabilla.com - We are in the age of the digital customer. Expectations have shifted and the promise of superb digital experiences are now the standard. In 2019, “digital” is on the minds of business leaders; howeve…

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