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Generation Z: What to expect from the newest addition to the workforce

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www.visualcapitalist.com - Every generation approaches the workplace differently. While talk over the last decade has largely focused on understanding the work habits and attitudes of Millennials, it’s already time for a new g…

Twitter Blocks Account Of Julian Assange's Mother

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www.zerohedge.com - The social media giant has given no reason to Christine Assange who had turned to Twitter to campaign for the liberty of her son... Christine Assange with Ecuador chancellor Ricardo PatiƱo in Quito, …

AT&T CEO interrupted by a robocall on stage during live interview

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finance.yahoo.com - AT&T (T) CEO Randall L. Stephenson was interrupted by a robocall while on stage at an event at the Economic Club of Washington, DC. “I’m getting a robocall,” he said. “It’s literally a robocall.” The…

Blog Post: Radio’s Tempting Fate

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musicfirstcoalition.org - The writing is on the wall. The proof is in the pudding. You can probably add in plenty of other idiomatic expressions to say the same simple thing: Radio continues to steadily lose its influence on …

Analysis of a Chrome Zero Day: CVE-2019-5786 | McAfee Blogs

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securingtomorrow.mcafee.com - On March 1st, Google published an advisory [1] for a use-after-free in the Chrome implementation of the FileReader API (CVE 2019-5786). Clement Lecigne from Google Threat Analysis Group reported the …

Win That Pitch: How SEO Agencies Can Land New Business

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moz.com - If you’re a digital agency, chances are you have your sights set on a huge variety of clients — from entertainment and automotive, to travel and finance — all with their own unique SEO needs. So how …

Ethereum Co-Founder Joseph Lubin: Blockchain Will Be Most of the Economy in 10-20 Years

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cointelegraph.com - Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Joseph Lubin said that he expects the global economy will be 10 times larger in 10 to 20 years, when blockchain is fully ramified, and blockchain will be involved in most of…

PicsArt hits 130 million MAUs as Chinese flock to its photo editing app

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techcrunch.com - If you’re like me, who isn’t big on social media, you’d think that the image filters that come inside most apps will do the job. But for many others, especially the younger crowd, making their photos…

Amify, which has long promised more profits to third party sellers on Amazon, just raised its first outside venture round

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techcrunch.com - Small businesses have a complicated relationship with Amazon . While they fear the company because they have no control over it, Amazon’s platform is also a great way to reach shoppers, particularly …

How CrunchMatch helped Yoolox increase distribution

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techcrunch.com - German startup Yoolox, makers of a portable wireless charger for smartphones, tablets and laptops, exhibited in Startup Alley at Disrupt with the goal of spreading awareness of their first products, …

Optimus Ride brings self-driving cars to private communities in NY and CA

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techcrunch.com - If you live in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, you could be one of the first consumers to ride in a self-driving car in the state of New York. That’s thanks to autonomous vehicle startup Optimus Ride, which …

Opera’s VPN returns to its Android browser

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techcrunch.com - Opera had a couple of tumultuous years behind it, but it looks like the Norwegian browser maker (now in the hands of a Chinese consortium) is finding its stride again and refocusing its efforts on it…

Markforged raises $82 million for its industrial 3D printers

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techcrunch.com - 3D printer manufacturer Markforged has raised another round of funding. Summit Partners is leading the $82 million Series D round with Matrix Partners, Microsoft’s Venture Arm, Next47 and Porsche SE …

Postmates’ newest feature is like Uber pool for food delivery

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techcrunch.com - Postmates is launching a new feature called Postmates Party that lets customers within the same neighborhood pool their orders. In return, these customers get the food delivered for free, eliminating…

Ahead of third antitrust ruling, Google announces fresh tweaks to Android in Europe

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techcrunch.com - Google is widely expected to be handed a third antitrust fine in Europe this week, with reports suggesting the European Commission’s decision in its long-running investigation of AdSense could land l…

Microsoft warns Windows 7 users of looming end to security updates

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft has rolled out a patch that will warn Windows 7 users that security updates will soon come to an end. The patch rolled out Wednesday warning users of the impending deadline, January 14, 202…

Law enforcement needs to protect citizens and their data

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techcrunch.com - Over the past several years, the law enforcement community has grown increasingly concerned about the conduct of digital investigations as technology providers enhance the security protections of the…

Despite short-term questions, games software/hardware to top $200 billion by 2023

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techcrunch.com - There has been some negative sentiment surrounding the games industry recently, with stock prices of public games companies in question in both the U.S. and China. While being contrarian to market se…

Dyson launches a vacuum with better battery, a desk lamp and a personal air purifier

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techcrunch.com - Dyson’s got a very specific way of doing things. The British company makes super-high-quality products for a world where price isn’t an option. Using their devices is a bit like driving a sports car …

TC Sessions: Mobility, a one-day session event on the future of transportation

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techcrunch.com - The way people and packages move from Point A to Point B is in the midst of a remarkable transformation driven by technological innovations in AI, robotics, electric battery development, digital plat…

Former Oath CEO Tim Armstrong is exiting Verizon with a payout worth more than $60 million

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techcrunch.com - Tim Armstrong will leave Verizon Communications with an awards and benefits package worth more than $60 million. The Wall Street Journal calculated the total amount based on a securities filing from …

Why Canva is challenging its HQ privilege, and how you can too

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product.canva.com - Our three office locations as of 2019: Sydney, Manila and Beijing This week we renamed Canva’s largest Slack channels. Up until last week, Canva employees around the world missed out on valuable comp…

The Silicon Valley Guide to Thriving

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thriveglobal.com - I’ve worked in Silicon Valley since 1983 when I joined the Macintosh Division of Apple. I started several software companies and a venture capital firm, served a second stint at Apple as its chief ev…

Epic CEO: “You’re going to see lower prices” on Epic Games Store

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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—The Epic Games Store's much-ballyhooed 88-percent revenue share has been great news for developers who are no longer forced to accept Steam's de facto 70-percent standard. But this new …

4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video

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arstechnica.com - Internet service providers in Australia have temporarily blocked access to dozens of websites, including 4chan and 8chan, that hosted video of last week's New Zealand mass shooting. New Zealand ISPs …

Was the Connaught Type-D the best car never built?

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arstechnica.com - Not everyone will be a fan of the Connaught's looks, but I am! It's not quite as elegant as the mockup in the preceding image, though. It's reminiscent of cars like the Gordon Keeble GT, a low-volume…

Guidemaster: The best Windows ultrabooks you can buy right now

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arstechnica.com - Buyers looking for premium Windows laptops today have plenty of choices; every few months sees some splashy launch of a new high-end PC. Ultrabooks have become the standard design for most premium Wi…

The next Zelda game on Switch is an indie mash-up with Crypt of the Necrodancer

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arstechnica.com - Face familiar boss characters (now with musical instruments). On Wednesday, Nintendo used the 2019 Game Developers Conference as an opportunity to unveil a litany of indie games, and like last year's…

Windows 10 version 1903 heads for the finish line

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arstechnica.com - It's clear that Microsoft is in the very final stages of development of Windows 10 version 1903, the April 2019 Update. The fast distribution ring has seen two builds arrive this week after two last …

More mid-range Google Pixel rumors include updated specs, OLED display

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arstechnica.com - These slots on the bottom edge are new. With the missing bottom-front speaker grill, at least one of these is probably a speaker. It's amazing that, despite originally hitting the rumor mill almost a…

Quantic Dream, Ubisoft lead next wave of Epic Games Store exclusives

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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—At a Game Developers Conference presentation today, Epic announced a number of new titles that would be coming exclusively to its Epic Games Store platform in the coming months. Chief a…

Oculus Quest’s powerful, portable VR, as proven by the fun of Beat Saber

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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—We're not sure what exactly is up with Oculus this week, but it's on a roll. Today sees the VR company not only launch a brand-new PC-only headset, the Oculus Rift S, but also promote a…

AT&T and Comcast claim “anti-robocalling milestone” with new Caller ID tech

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arstechnica.com - AT&T and Comcast today said they've completed a successful cross-network test of a new Caller ID authentication system, and they plan to roll out the technology to consumers later this year. AT&T and…

Eight tips for improving contact form conversions

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www.catswhocode.com - All in all, however, boosting conversions and lead generation is a matter of optimizing your forms. Here’s how you can alleviate some of the necessary evils that come with forms. Every form has a sub…

Firefox 66.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes

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www.mozilla.org - Release Notes tell you what’s new in Firefox. As always, we welcome your feedback. You can also file a bug in Bugzilla or see the system requirements of this release. Download Firefox — English (US) …

How To Begin A Career In Cyber-Security

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www.forbes.com - What are some good tips for people who want to begin a career in cybersecurity? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better …

Augmented reality when? We asked Magic Leap, Facebook, Google, and more

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www.fastcompany.com - Today, most of us see the internet on some variation of an opaque rectangular screen. Think of them as little digital islands—black mirrors—dwarfed by the real world around them. Then imagine a scree…

Google announces official end date of Inbox (it’s April 2)

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve known for some time now that Google is ending the life of the Inbox email app. But in case you were still in denial, we now have an end date in sight: April 2, 2019. The ending actually begins …

Nintendo gaming phone is just a dream we want to come true

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androidcommunity.com - Nintendo as a brand is almost synonymous to gaming. Everything we know about games, we’re certain the Japanese tech giant knows about it. We won’t bore you what Nintendo games have made it big becaus…

Oppo launches new Color OS 6 platform based on Android Pie

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androidcommunity.com - If you have a new or new-is Oppo device you can expect an update to your device soon as the OEM has officially unveiled the new Color OS 6 platform. Based on Android Pie, the user interface is alread…

New Samsung flagship store in Japan has 1,000 Galaxy phones in facade

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androidcommunity.com - To celebrate the recent launch of its newest flagship device, the Galaxy S10, Samsung has unveiled a new flagship store in Shibuya, Japan. Now they do have a number of similar stores globally but wha…

Chrome testing out a touchless mode for feature phones

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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve been living with a smartphone for the longest time, then you probably think all phones are like this. But there is still a pretty substantial feature phone market out there and Google has e…

Instagram now lets you buy from brands within the app

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androidcommunity.com - It’s no secret that Facebook has been trying to find ways to monetize not just their main app but also their other sister apps, especially Instagram. We’ve seen them add shopping-related features to …

SpeakSee wins $50,000 in flash funding from Arrow

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go.indiegogo.com - SpeakSee joins Waggit and Anyware as winners of flash funding from Arrow in 2018. Become part of the Arrow Certification Program to qualify for your own chance to win flash funding, and learn about S…

Six Ways CPGs Use Loyalty to Drive Revenue

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loyalty360.org - As CPGs continue to navigate the direct-to-consumer landscape and finding ways to improve their customer experience and campaigns, loyalty continues to be the primary tactic to enable personalization…

Google to Introduce a Browser Ballot on Android in the EU - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Now there is literally nothing that Microsoft has done that Google won’t copy: The online giant revealed today that it will offer a browser ballot on Android in the EU, duplicating the choice that Mi…

Oculus Launches Next-Gen Rift S VR Headset - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Oculus is launching its newest VR headset today. The company’s Rift S is its new VR headset part of the Rift lineup, and it introduces some major changes. Firstly, Oculus is building the Rift S in pa…

Feeling Negative and Cynical? You Could Be Burning Out

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www.psychologytoday.com - A few years ago, I spoke about burnout at a national meeting of an association of specialist physicians. I’m always a little more nervous than usual when speaking to physician colleagues, and this wa…

Instagram adds in-app checkout as part of its big push into shopping

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www.theverge.com - Instagram took its next step to becoming a full-fledged commerce business today, announcing that it is bringing a checkout feature to its mobile apps. With checkout, you can store your payment inform…

Analysis | The Technology 202: Elizabeth Warren says 'it's not even hard' to break up Big Tech companies like Amazon

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www.washingtonpost.com - Ctrl + N Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) speaks with Anand Giridharadas at the South by Southwest (SXSW) conference and festival in Austin on March 9. (REUTERS/Sergio Flores) AUSTIN — South by Southw…

Google fined €1.49BN in Europe for antitrust violations in search ad brokering

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techcrunch.com - The European Commission has just announced another antitrust fine for Google. The latest fine — €1.49BN (~$1.7BN) — relates to its search ad brokering business, which involves Google selling advertis…

Google Ads Removing Average Position: What Does This Mean for Advertisers?

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instapage.com - Why is average position important? Why you should care about the metric being removed What is changing & what is replacing the metric? Why is the change happening? 3 Ways to take advantage of the cha…

SEO Tips So You Can Rank Higher

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durac.info - Search engine optimization is the process of tweaking your website in order to raise its position on the search engine rankings. SEO is a huge industry.There are some people who would say that SEO wo…

Feel Confident The Next Time Your Car Needs Repaired

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carshopping.biz - When you have car trouble, you want to fix the problem right away. Not having a vehicle can significantly hinder your entire life complicated. You don’t always need to spend a lot of money on car rep…

Biggest Badminton Racket Market Dhaka? Wholesale & Retail ? Best Price/Best Quality Racket !

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badmintonracket.biz - Click Here to visit the Badminton Racket Shop! Biggest Badminton Racket Market Dhaka? Wholesale & Retail ? Best Price/Best Quality Racket ! Address: GALAXY SPORTS 28, Moulana Bhashani, Hockey Stadium…

Advice To Help You Use Social Media Productively

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firstadsense.com - Many business owners neglect social media in their online presence.They do not understand social media marketing is very powerful. This article has a lot of tips that will help you begin on social me…

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