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Wednesday, March 27, 2019

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No more confusion: Google gives core update a name, and a structure - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - It appears Google heard about the confusion with the namings of the broad core algorithm update from March 12 and decided to clear things up. Google said on Twitter, “Our name for this update is Marc…

4 Obsolete SEO Tactics That You Shouldn’t Be Using If You Want To Rank

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www.jeffbullas.com - This time next year, your business will rank No. 1 in search results! – Every SEO company ever. Why do they all sound the same? Because it’s these magic words that attract new clients. Small-to-mediu…

Backblaze Reddit IAmA & World Backup Day 2019

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www.backblaze.com - World Backup Day is March 31st and to celebrate this year, we’re going back in time and revisiting one of the most fun things we’ve done here at Backblaze, a Reddit IAmA! When — Mark Your Calendars O…

How to Make Millions Using Video Sales Letters

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www.entrepreneur.com - This article is written by Jason Capital, best-selling author of “Higher Status,” millionaire copywriter, and an Advisor in The Oracles. Few skills will put more money in your bank account than learn…

Advertising is Changing -- Know How to Lean into the Change

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www.entrepreneur.com - It's more important than ever that organizations harness the power of creativity. This isn't solely about artistry. Creativity spans every profession and job from a data scientist to a marketer to th…

Apple’s new ‘Sesame Street’-themed TV show will teach kids coding basics

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techcrunch.com - The original “Sesame Street” TV show taught preschoolers basics like numbers and letters, but Apple’s new Sesame Street-themed show will instead focus on teaching kids coding basics. Introduced onsta…

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Samsung Galaxy A70 debuts as the biggest from the series yet

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androidcommunity.com - The first time the public heard about the Samsung Galaxy A series was in 2014. Back then, the South Korean tech giant wasn’t serious in the mid-range category because it was all about the premium fla…

Arlo Ultra security camera system now available in 4K HDR

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androidcommunity.com - Gone are the days when only the ultra-rich can afford to put security cameras in their mansions. Over the past few years, we’ve seen more affordable security systems that anyone can use to protect th…

Samsung Galaxy A90 to arrive with notchless display, new camera system

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androidcommunity.com - Aside from the Galaxy A70, the Samsung Galaxy A Series will be joined by a few more models. One device is the Galaxy A90 which has been mentioned several times already since January. It surfaced as m…

10 Myths That Can Ruin Your Mobile UX

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fireart.studio - It goes without saying that mobile usage continues to rise. People engage with their smartphones daily and in very important moments. This is something that defines associated industries such as mobi…

Google tries to reassure gamers about Stadia speed and latency concerns

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arstechnica.com - Google's Phil Harrison (you may remember him from his days at Sony). The controller connects wirelessly, as the icon there clearly indicates. From the data center to any screen. That's Stadia's promi…

AMP for email is a terrible idea

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techcrunch.com - Google just announced a plan to “modernize” email with its Accelerated Mobile Pages platform, allowing “engaging, interactive, and actionable email experiences.” Does that sound like a terrible idea …

Adobe launches its Commerce Cloud, based on its Magento acquisition

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techcrunch.com - Adobe today announced the launch of its Commerce Cloud, the newest part of the company’s Experience Cloud. Unsurprisingly, the Commerce Cloud builds on the company’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Mage…

‘This is Your Life in Silicon Valley’: Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf discusses Prop C, Uber, Bay Area Sports and more

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techcrunch.com - Welcome to this week’s transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. We’re running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words – so you…

Former NEA partner Jon Sakoda takes the wraps off his new, Cisco-backed venture fund, Decibel

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techcrunch.com - Jon Sakoda needed to decompress, he says. The founder-turned-venture investor had logged a dozen years with the investing heavyweight New Enterprise Associates after selling his last startup to Syman…

The danger of “I already pay for Apple News+”

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techcrunch.com - Apple doesn’t care about news, it cares about recurring revenue. That’s why publishers are crazy to jump into bed with Apple News+. They’re rendering their own subscription options unnecessary in exc…

Mozilla’s free password manager, Firefox Lockbox, launches on Android

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techcrunch.com - Mozilla’s free password manager designed for users of the Firefox web browser is today officially arriving on Android. The standalone app, called Firefox Lockbox, offers a simple if a bit basic way f…

Apple News+ is a great deal, but what does ‘full access’ really mean?

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techcrunch.com - Curious whether you should cancel your existing magazine subscription and just subscribe to Apple News+? Apple certainly seems to believe News+ is an outsized bargain for you. The company’s claim tha…

No Man’s Sky’s next update will let you explore infinite space in virtual reality

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techcrunch.com - No Man’s Sky just figured out a way to make a wildly absorbing space exploration game even more immersive. Announced during Sony’s first PlayStation State of Play update, No Man’s Sky devotees will s…

Tell us who designed your startup’s brand

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techcrunch.com - Before people ever use or buy your product, they’ll interact with your brand. What does your company stand for? How is your product different? Branding is an often overlooked, but essential component…

Spotify expands personalization to its programmed playlists

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techcrunch.com - Spotify this morning announced a major change to how its playlists will operate, with the news that some of its previously human-curated playlists will now be personalized based on listeners’ tastes.…

Spotify acquires true crime studio Parcast to expand its original podcast content

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techcrunch.com - Spotify, the music streaming platform with 207 million users, is making good on its commitment to invest up to $500 million into its new podcasting business — a promise it made in February after anno…

Game streaming’s multi-industry melee is about to begin

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techcrunch.com - Almost exactly 10 years ago, I was at GDC participating in a demo of a service I didn’t think could exist: OnLive. The company had promised high-definition, low-latency streaming of games at a time w…

Adobe announces deeper data sharing partnership with Microsoft around accounts

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft and Adobe have been building a relationship for some time, and today the two companies announced a deeper integration between the two platforms at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas. It involves sha…

Adobe announces two new analytics tools to help marketers fill in the customer picture

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techcrunch.com - Today at Adobe Summit in Las Vegas, Adobe announced some enhancements to its Analytics Suite that are supposed to help marketers understand their customers more deeply, including a new tool to track …

FTC tells ISPs to disclose exactly what information they collect on users and what it’s for

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techcrunch.com - The Federal Trade Commission, in what could be considered a prelude to new regulatory action, has issued an order to several major internet service providers requiring them to share every detail of t…

The updated Apple News app kept crashing for some users this morning

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techcrunch.com - While you’ll have to wait for a not-yet-announced date to pay a not-yet-announced price for several of the subscription services that Apple announced yesterday, Apple News+ actually launched pretty q…

Daily Crunch: Apple doubles down on subscriptions

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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Here’…

Keeping your Social Media Content On Brand Isn’t Hard, Read These 11 Tips - Small Business Trends

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smallbiztrends.com - Social media has become an integral part of any modern company’s marketing strategy. However, as each platform handles content a little differently, it can be difficult to come up with a consistent s…

Learn Ulysses: Organize Your Notes, Ideas, and Writing

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thesweetsetup.com - A: Yes! You get 30 days to check out the class, which is more than enough time to go through all the material. If, for any reason, you’re not completely satisfied just let us know and we’ll be glad t…

New Huawei phone has a 5x optical zoom, thanks to a periscope lens

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arstechnica.com - That under the square cover is a mirror, which allows the whole camera assembly to be horizontal. This gives you an idea of just how much more room Huawei has to work with thanks to the periscope. Th…

Dashcam video shows Tesla steering toward lane divider—again

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arstechnica.com - The afternoon commute of Reddit user Beastpilot—who requested that we not use his real name—takes him past a stretch of Seattle-area freeway with a carpool lane exit on the left. Last year, in early …

Gearbox teases likely Borderlands 3 announcement for March 28

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arstechnica.com - Here at Ars, we're usually reluctant to write stories about the mere announcement that yet another announcement of a video game is coming soon. But we'll make an exception today for apparent news abo…

How Microsoft found a Huawei driver that opened systems to attack

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arstechnica.com - Huawei MateBook systems that are running the company's PCManager software included a driver that would let unprivileged users create processes with superuser privileges. The insecure driver was disco…

Windows Virtual Desktop now in public preview

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arstechnica.com - Initially announced last September, Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) service has now entered public preview. The service brings together single-user Windows 7 virtual desktop infrastructure …

The Roger Stone indictment shows a conspiratorial comedy of Opsec errors

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arstechnica.com - Former Trump advisor and self-proclaimed "dirty trickster" Roger Stone—the man with a Richard Nixon tattoo on his back and a penchant for playing the evil genius—was arrested early on January 25 by a…

Fast and fun, but flawed: The Acura RDX reviewed

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arstechnica.com - Like anything else, an automobile can evoke mixed feelings. This is especially true for the 2019 Acura RDX, which marks the third generation of Acura's midsize SUV. The luxury automaker offers a pair…

Lion Air 737 MAX crew had seconds to react, Boeing simulation finds

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arstechnica.com - In testing performed in a simulator, Boeing test pilots recreated the conditions aboard Lion Air Flight 610 when it went down in the Java Sea in October, killing 189 people. The tests showed that the…

Sony stops selling digital game codes at physical retailers

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arstechnica.com - PlayStation 4 owners who like buying downloadable game codes directly from brick-and-mortar stores will soon be out of luck. That's because Sony has confirmed to The Verge that it will stop selling s…

Verizon refuses to admit that its “first to 5G” commercials are misleading

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arstechnica.com - The advertising industry's self-regulatory division has urged Verizon to stop claiming that it has America's first 5G network, but Verizon claims that its "first to 5G" commercials are not misleading…

Free Zip Code & Radius API For Web Developers - Hongkiat

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www.hongkiat.com - The US is full of zip codes regulated by the USPS. These can pose a confusing mess to organize manually. The free Zip Code API is way simpler and it makes pulling zip codes a breeze. At the moment it…

TravelTime maps API lets users search by time rather than distance - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - In the world of digital maps, distance is king. Distance (proximity) has become an explicit ranking signal for mobile search on Google. But for many, time is the more important variable — it’s a kind…

Android ecosystem of pre-installed apps is a privacy and security mess | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - An academic study that analyzed 82,501 apps that were pre-installed on 1,742 Android smartphones sold by 214 vendors concluded that users are woefully unaware of the huge security and privacy-related…

Verizon Suspends Worker Who Rescued Cat Using His Work Equipment

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www.boredpanda.com - Not all heroes wear capes some wear hardhats and yellow vests. Maurice German, a Verizon employee, was working in Port Richmond when he answered the distressed call of neighbors regarding their cat P…

Telegram now lets you remotely delete private chats from both devices | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - To improve the privacy of the Telegram messaging application, its developers have now upgraded the "Unsend" feature to allow users to remotely delete private chat sessions from all devices involved. …

Samsung Galaxy Note FE finally gets Android Pie update

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re one of the few people who own a Samsung Galaxy Note FE (Fan Edition) the long wait for the latest (well, almost latest) Google update is finally here. It seems that Samsung has finally star…

Xiaomi Super Charge Turbo to offer super fast charging, full batt in 7 mins

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi definitely knows the gadget business. It may no longer be the top Chinese OEM (no thanks to Huawei) but it is definitely the most prolific. It has since grown from a mobile phone maker into a …

Pocket Casts version 7.0.2 brings back some features from version 6

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androidcommunity.com - When it comes to app updates, not everything is welcomed with open arms. There will always be complaints and “why did you remove this and that?” questions. More often than not, developers will ignore…

Samsung and KT’s efforts hit 1Gbps speed over the air in South Korea

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androidcommunity.com - The 5G Internet connectivity is expected to be really fast. The technology is almost ready after years of development and testing. More hard-core trials are being made before the commercial release. …

How Q.bo One Earned and Preserved Backer Trust - Indiegogo

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entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - We’ve teamed up with Arrow Electronics to help entrepreneurs develop and manufacture hardware products. Learn about the Arrow Certification Program here. The most successful Indiegogo campaigns are t…

ICF Next Executive Discusses Personalized Creative

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loyalty360.org - The importance of personalization for brands trying to create brand affinity cannot be understated. Due to technological shifts, customers have come to expect that brands offer highly personalized of…

Life After Google: How Co-Ops and Dark Lines Could Be Fiber’s Future

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www.govtech.com - Google Fiber stopped all services in Louisville, Ky., and left town last month. Meanwhile, the Internet company’s efforts to bring its high-speed Internet service to places like Nashville, Tenn., and…

SwitchPod — The minimal, versatile, handheld tripod.

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www.kickstarter.com - Switch between handheld and tripod modes (and back again) in seconds. Filming yourself isn’t easy. You’re often on the go with tons of people looking at you like you’re crazy while you hold a camera …

Introducing AMP'd Up Podcasting—My New Advanced Podcasting Course!

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - A couple of weeks ago, I shared some stories of SPI audience members who had taken my Power-Up Podcasting course and used what they learned to not just build a better podcast, but to use that podcast…

EU Rejects U.S. Call for Huawei Ban - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The European Commission said today that EU nations will work together to assess and prevent security risks associated with 5G networks. In doing so, the EU has effectively rejected demands from the U…

Dynamic Emails Are Coming to Gmail and Outlook - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google-owned AMP Open Source Project is launching a major new feature today. AMP Project is releasing support for dynamic emails on AMP Email, allowing companies to create dynamic emails that you can…

BBC is Blocking Google Podcasts - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The BBC has admitted that it is blocking all of its podcasts from appearing in Google Podcasts, Search, and Assistant. For some reason. “The BBC requires platforms (such as Google’s Assistant) to mee…

How Your Security And SOC Team Can Benefit From SOAR And Email Integration

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www.bitrebels.com - Welcome to the universe of flooding guidelines and consistency models, of developing a foundation and the ever-present information break. Every year, the deceitful movement represents $600 billion in…

Tesla's Navigation Eliminates The Need To Plan Charging Stops On Road Trips | CleanTechnica

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cleantechnica.com - Tesla posted a new video to its YouTube account that shows yet another perfect family in their perfectly clean Tesla Model S taking a road trip to a ski resort in Austria for vacation. My Tesla Model…

Google Ads Keyword Planner gets new (and old) features - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google has added several features to Keyword Planner. The next time you log into Keyword Planner in Google Ads, you’ll see an announcement of several new features. Some of these updates are older fea…

Is Virtual Reality The Next Generation In Security Awareness Training?

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cybersecurityventures.com - Northport, N.Y. – Mar. 21, 2019 Inspired eLearning claims to have the first ever virtual reality training course in the security awareness market. Kyle Metcalf is all about culture — the security kin…

Google's Mobile-Friendly Testing Tool Lets Users Test and Edit Actual Code - Search Engine Journal

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www.searchenginejournal.com - Google’s mobile-friendly and AMP testing tools have been upgraded with the ability to test actual code. Previously, these tools only supported the testing of live URLs. Being able to test code gives …

Why was the $599 entry-level Google Pixel Slate announced if it doesn’t exist?

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9to5google.com - Sometimes companies announce products that just don’t materialize. Given Apple’s AirPower has been in this product purgatory for well over a year, it’s been a hot topic on that side of the pond latel…

Will 5G Improve Battery Life? A Brief Overview - RAVPower

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blog.ravpower.com - A theme of the Mobile World Conference was connectivity; specifically, how network advances like 5G will impact the wider world. As the MWC19 Theme Report states, We cannot think about the network’s …

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