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Your Volvo Will Soon Call The Cops On You If It Thinks You've Been Drinking
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Blair Semenoff
www.zerohedge.com - Call it a mix between an auto pilot and big brother. Volvo has always been synonymous with safety in the automobile world. Now, the Swedish automaker is taking drastic steps to push the borders betwe…
Why you should stop using mobile data
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Mike Elgan
www.computerworld.com - The worst thing about digital distraction is that the problem keeps growing. The time spent, the distraction, the damage — the toll of smartphone addiction never stops increasing. I have come up with…
New personalized, Shopping Actions-enabled Google Shopping debuts in France - Search Engine Land
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DotOnline (.ONLINE)
searchengineland.com - A look at the new Google Shopping now rolling out in France. Source: Business Insider France Google’s overhaul of its Shopping portal began rolling out in France this week. It incorporates Google Sho…
Clearing the table
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Raymond Philippe
seths.blog - Centralized control gives us predictable, reliable, convenient results. Until it suffocates. Google promises websites free attention at a time when attention is harder than ever to obtain. It promise…
TPS Consulting Daily
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Mike Dacre
followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY 9 Powerful Ways To Combine Social Media and Email Marketing Shared by Leeanne Nuttall-Lowe www.jeffbullas.com - Social media marketing is great for reaching new people. Email marketing is …
Hackers conquer Tesla and win a Model 3
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - A pair of security researchers dominated Pwn2Own, the annual high-profile hacking contest, taking home $375,000 in prizes including a Tesla Model 3 — their reward for successfully exposing a vulnerab…
What to expect from Apple’s ‘Show Time’ event
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - The biggest surprise about next week’s Apple event may be the fact that the company has anything left to announce. This week, several core pieces of Apple hardware received upgrades, including the iP…
What latency feels like on Google’s Stadia cloud gaming platform
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - After peppering Google employees with questions regarding Stadia’s latency, pricing and supported devices, to mostly no avail, I got my hands on one of their new controllers and pressed play on the D…
A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password. The app, Family Locator, built by …
The damage of defaults
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Apple popped out a new pair of AirPods this week. The design looks exactly like the old pair of AirPods. Which means I’m never going to use them because Apple’s bulbous earbuds don’t fit my ears. Thi…
Google’s multiyear quest to overcome id’s Stadia streaming skepticism
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—Back in 2016, when Google first approached id Software about bringing some games to a potential new streaming service, the game developer was skeptical to say the least. "The proposal i…
Hands-on with the new $399 Oculus Rift S: More pixels, zero webcams, better fit
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—One thing was conspicuously missing from the Oculus demos at GDC 2019: cameras. You need at least two (if not three) of the company's signature webcams to run its PC headset, the Oculus…
UX rant: The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - I’ve been an Apple guy since the beginning. My first laptop was a Powerbook 100 with a built-in plastic trackball. But unlike the vast majority of Apple products, which are marvels of engineering and…
Mini-review: Fitbit sticks to the bare necessities in the $159 Versa Lite
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Versa Lite confused me at first. When Fitbit announced the new Inspire and Inspire HR fitness trackers, the company also debuted the new Versa Lite. This smartwatch looks identical to the origina…
Ethereum Devs Once Again Approve ASIC-Resistant Algorithm ProgPoW
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Joel Comm
cointelegraph.com - Ethereum (ETH) core devs once again discussed the proposed Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC)-resistant Proof of Work (PoW) algorithm ProgPoW during their weekly meeting on March 15. This…
Did All This Pirated 4K Content Leak From iTunes?
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Reg Saddler
gizmodo.com - Many file sharers want the highest quality copy of a film they can find, and until recently, those would most often come from ripping a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray disc. Links to these files are clearly labe…
Facebook's Password Breach Suggests The Public Sees Cybersecurity As Obsolete
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Reg Saddler
www.forbes.com - Facebook logo. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Getty Facebook’s busy week included its acknowledgement of yet another massive security breach. This time the company acknowledged that as many…
The Stockholm Lights That Can Be Controlled By Anyone With A Phone
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Reg Saddler
www.amusingplanet.com - The 72-meter tall Phone Tower at the former headquarter of Ericsson at Telefonplan, in southern Stockholm, is a known landmark. It is the tallest building in the neighborhood for miles around. Every …
Android Smartphone Running Slow? Try Deleting the App Cache
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Reg Saddler
lifehacker.com - Android smartphones are great, but they’re not immune to the ravages of time. While scratches or physical wear can be prevented with cases and mindful handling, it can be much harder to stop system s…
Nokia 7 Plus found sending data to a Chinese server
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Phones sending out data and information to outside servers are nothing new. We’ve heard similar incidents already most notably involving OEMs and China. There is a reason why Huawei isn’t allowed in …
Mozilla Releases Firefox for iPad - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Mozilla has announced a new version of its flagship Firefox web browser that is designed specifically for Apple’s iPad. “We know that iPads aren’t just bigger versions of iPhones. You use them differ…
Hands-On with Microsoft's New Edge Browser Built on Chromium - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Late last year, Microsoft notified the world that its browser, Edge, would be switching to the Chromium engine. Up until today, this browser has been locked behind the walls of Redmond but that I hav…
Boost Productivity With Timeline Software: 9 Apps for Better Planning - Toggl Blog
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Raymond Philippe
blog.toggl.com - Time for some real talk: You and your team worked your fingers to the bone but just couldn’t keep things organized and on track. Or have you ever forgotten about a project and it’s due date altogethe…
Internet Access While Traveling: Tips for Keeping Your Data Safe
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Raymond Philippe
www.dumblittleman.com - Are you tired of unreliable and painfully slow internet when traveling? Do you worry about your security? It does feel like an endless battle waiting for apps to respond and pages to load. Imagine sp…
Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?
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Jay Oatway
www.nytimes.com - Thousands of A.I. researchers from across the industry have signed a separate open letter saying they will oppose autonomous weapons. The Pentagon has said that artificial intelligence built by the l…
Google apologizes for rel=next/prev mixup - Search Engine Land
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DotOnline (.ONLINE)
searchengineland.com - Google confirmed yesterday that it hasn’t supported rel=next/prev for years. Google admitted that it was an oversight, a mixup. It removed support but didn’t communicate that until someone on the Goo…
The rise (and further rise) of Google My Business spam - Search Engine Land
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DotOnline (.ONLINE)
searchengineland.com - Back in 2017, Google proudly told the world that it had eradicated 70 percent of all fake Google Maps listings in the two years prior. They put this down to innovations in machine learning and new bu…
Freetown Man Arrested for Keeping Flat-Screen TV Delivered to Him by Accident With Amazon Order
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Susan Cooper
gizmodo.com - It would seem nothing good is ever really free—even in Freetown. A Massachusetts man was reportedly arrested Monday over a flat-screen TV that he kept after it was delivered to his home by accident, …
A walk through the Google graveyard, where all discontinued products and apps from the company rest in peace
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Mike Elgan
yourstory.com - Just when we thought Google Plus was going to be the only loss we mourn this year, the tech giant served another blow announcing the digital death of its Inbox app. An email service (aside from Gmail…
Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou had a MacBook, iPhone and iPad when she was arrested
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Dan Parks
www.theverge.com - This is not a piece of serious news. I don’t think it’s a huge indictment that Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou — who’s currently under house arrest in Canada while she fights extradition to the US — happened…
Apple leaves Facebook offices in disarray after revoking app permissions | The Guardian
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Dan Parks
www.theguardian.com - Move comes after Facebook exploited loophole to harvest data about apps installed on people’s iPhones Apple has left Facebook’s campus in disarray after the company revoked the social network’s permi…
Learn Everything About Car Shopping Here
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Rolf Joho
carshopping.biz - Shopping for a car can be a lot of effort.Many people don’t know much about cars, and they don’t want to get ripped off. You will be wasting your money if you refrain from negotiating the price lower…
Begin Your Website Marketing Adventure With These Amazing Tips
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Rolf Joho
firstadsense.com - Web marketing allows you to reach a large amount of people. Most people today use the Internet every day. Future generations won’t know what yellow pages. Marketing on search engines is very subtle a…
How Yu-Kai Chou Designed the Gamification system on his blog
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - Over the past several years I’ve been playing around with different Gamification widgets and platforms to experiment with a Points, Badges, and Leaderboard (PBL) system for this blog. Now, as I’ve de…
Facebook Fails… Again! Hundreds of Millions of Passwords Stored in Plain Text
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Egnyte
medium.com - News just broke that Facebook has dropped the ball on security… again! As reported by Brian Krebs of Krebs On Security, “between 200 million and 600 million Facebook users may have had their account …
ASUS ProArt PQ22UC 4K OLED Monitor: £4699, ~$5150
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Future Lighting
www.anandtech.com - ASUS announced its first professional OLED display back at CES 2018 over a year ago. The compact and lightweight 21.6-inch 4K monitor covering 99% of the DCI-P3 color aimed at professionals attracted…
Hidden & Fake Apps: How Hackers Could Be Targeting Your Connected Home | McAfee Blogs
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Lee Munson
securingtomorrow.mcafee.com - Like most parents, before you go to sleep each night, you take extra care to lock doors and windows to keep your family safe from any outside threats. The only thing you may have overlooked is the sm…
8 Uber-cool App Smart Gaming Robots -
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panah
www.iphoneness.com - Robots are going to play bigger roles in our lives in the future. There are already a bunch of them that can handle simple household chores and even teach your kids how to code. You can also pick up …
How to Make Your MVP Truly Cost-Effective
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WorldConsultingGroup
www.entrepreneur.com - Creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is the best way for entrepreneurs to validate their assumptions about the viability of their business model. Taking the roadmapping approach and starting out b…
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