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Latest Google Update Slams Traditional Publishers
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www.pubexec.com - Google’s long love affair with traditional, respected publishers may have come to an abrupt end last month. Such venerable publishing brands as The Atlantic, Vanity Fair, and Harvard Business Review …
SEO Tools | TechnicalSEO.com
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Leeanne Nuttall-Lowe
technicalseo.com - Test and validate your robots.txt. Check if a URL is blocked and how. You can also check if the resources for the page are disallowed. Quickly and easily generate an XML Sitemap with alternate tags (…
As Notre Dame burned, an algorithmic error at YouTube put information about 9/11 under news videos
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Susan Cooper
www.niemanlab.org - It’s terrible news for anyone who values history, loves Paris, or read Victor Hugo: Notre-Dame Cathedral, the Gothic gem at the historic center of Paris, is on fire. It’s obviously far too early for …
Mutiny at HQ Trivia fails to oust CEO
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techcrunch.com - This week’s banishment of host Scott Rogowsky was merely a symptom of the ongoing struggle to decide who will lead HQ Trivia. According to multiple sources, over half of the startup’s staff signed an…
Blogging Best Practices - The Free Beginner's Guide from Moz
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Raymond Philippe
moz.com - WordPress: One of the most popular blogging platforms in existence, WordPress is a free and open-source tool that can be hosted either on WordPress or on another domain of your choice. Incredibly fle…
The most overlooked path to commercialize AI is for companies to do it themselves
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techcrunch.com - Editor’s note: John Mannes is an investor at Basis Set Ventures, a $136 million early-stage venture capital fund focused on supporting startups using machine learning to address big problems across i…
Apple said to be spending more than $500M on Arcade gaming subscription effort
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techcrunch.com - Apple’s new gaming subscription service Apple Arcade may have been a bit of a footnote at its Services event earlier this month compared to the stage time given to more primetime-ready efforts like A…
Verified Expert Brand Designer: Mark Forscher
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techcrunch.com - After leading design teams at Code and Theory, ABC News and Newsweek Digital, Mark Forscher retired his managerial hat and decided to start his own creative studio called Under After in 2008. His nat…
HBO’s mobile apps to gain a million new downloads courtesy of ‘Game of Thrones’ premiere
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techcrunch.com - In addition to exciting its loyal legion of fans, HBO’s “Game of Thrones” premiere was also once again great news for installs of the network’s app for cord cutters, HBO NOW, which shot to the top of…
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr says ‘the gods of Silicon Valley’ have broken democracy
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techcrunch.com - On the same day that she became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work bringing the Cambridge Analytica scandal to light, journalist Carole Cadwalladr took the stage at TED to “address you directly, …
Daily Crunch: Turmoil at HQ Trivia
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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. Mutin…
Chilly reception for marijuana tycoon game shows games industry’s backwards stance on drugs
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techcrunch.com - Intense and graphic violence is something we’ve come to simply expect from games, but sexual and other adult themes are still largely taboo — including, as publisher Devolver Digital is learning, dru…
Lyft brings back the taxi line as it desperately tries to crack the airport pickup
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techcrunch.com - Ride-sharing companies and airports have always had a bit of a fractious relationship. Riders looking to catch an Uber or Lyft have had to walk to parking garages, follow makeshift signage, find arbi…
Lyft adds Citi Bikes to its app for NYC riders
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techcrunch.com - Lyft is going to integrate Citi Bike into its app for some riders in New York City. Lyft acquired bike-share startup Motivate back in July and proceeded to become a one-stop transportation app in thr…
Hulu buys back AT&T’s minority stake in streaming service now valued at $15 billion
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techcrunch.com - Hulu has paid $1.43 billion to buy AT&T’s minority stake in the streaming video company. The companies announced Monday that the transaction valued Hulu at $15 billion. As a result, AT&T’s 9.5 percen…
New registrations for electric vehicles doubled in U.S. since last year
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techcrunch.com - Electric vehicles, still a small percentage of the total automotive market in the U.S., are beginning to gain ground, according to analysis by IHS Markit. There were 208,000 new registrations for ele…
Guy Kawasaki On The 11 Lessons That Changed His Life (And Can Change Yours, Too)
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www.forbes.com - “Take the high road…you’ll find out there’s not much traffic there,” shares Guy Kawasaki as we sit to chat about what he’s learned so far in his 65 years. Those years have been full as he’s worked at…
Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Late on Friday, some users of Outlook.com/Hotmail/MSN Mail received an email from Microsoft stating that an unauthorized third party had gained limited access to their accounts, and was able to read,…
Google teases a cheaper Pixel 3 unveiling at on May 7th
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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. A few years have gone by since we've seen hardware at Google I/O, but…
Twitter blocks EFF tweet that criticized bogus takedown of a previous tweet
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arstechnica.com - Twitter and Starz have given us a new example of how copyright enforcement can easily go overboard. At Starz's request, Twitter blocked an April 8 tweet by the news site TorrentFreak, which had poste…
DVD and Blu-ray sales nearly halved over five years, MPAA report says
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arstechnica.com - In its annual Theatrical Home Entertainment Market Environment report, the Motion Picture Association of America described an immensely sharp drop-off of physical media sales over the past five years…
For today's IT professional, the iPad is an addition, not a replacement
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arstechnica.com - It may not replace everything, but the iPad belongs in an IT professional's tool belt. When I think about the iPad as a sysadmin's tool, I don't think about it in terms of can/can't. Obviously, the i…
You can now buy Intel’s priceless, power-hungry i9-9990XE
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arstechnica.com - We learned in January that Intel was planning a new top-end Core i9 Extreme Edition processor: the i9-9990XE. Though it would have fewer cores than the previous top—14 cores and 28 threads compared t…
Report: “All Digital” Xbox One coming May 7, for €229 in Europe
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arstechnica.com - Thurrott.com's Brad Sams, who has been reliable on Microsoft-related hardware rumors in the past, this weekend pointed to reporting from German site WinFuture which "confirm everything I have reporte…
Elon Musk says Tesla is “vastly ahead” on self-driving
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arstechnica.com - Tesla is less than two years away from full self-driving, CEO Elon Musk said in an interview with MIT researcher Lex Fridman published on Friday. And he said Tesla was far ahead of other companies wo…
"Ethics" and Ethics - iA
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ia.net - Quotes are a bad habit, in written text as much as in air quotes, but in this case, they are deserved. What Google, Amazon, Facebook & Co discuss these days is not ethics. It’s “ethics”. The discussi…
3 unique, comprehensive methods for generating blog traffic - GoSquared Blog
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www.gosquared.com - Generating blog traffic can be challenging. One surefire way to make it even more challenging is to not be strategic about it. You’ve probably read a half dozen blog posts on promoting your blog cont…
Facebook ships Oculus controllers with the message: Big Brother is Watching | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - Facebook's virtual reality (VR) arm Oculus has admitted to an amusing -- and ironic -- mistake in which virtual reality headsets are going to be accidentally shipped to customers containing messages …
ActionDash 2.0 ready with deeper insights, better security
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - The digital wellbeing app ActionDash was first introduced to the Android community back in January by the same team that launched the Action Launcher. It brings the numerous Digital Wellbeing feature…
Microsoft notifying Outlook users they may have been breached
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androidcommunity.com - It’s not just Facebook and Google that are experiencing several security issues the past few months. Now it’s Microsoft’s turn to have some compromised data problems as they have informed some of the…
Magic UI 2.1 coming to Honor View10, Magic 2 phones
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Huawei’s Honor sub-brand may not be making any major announcement about some updates and upgrades but the Magic 2 and Honor View 20 smartphones are getting the Magic UI 2.1. This improvement brings i…
Galaxy Note 10 Pro could be one variant’s final name
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androidcommunity.com - It’s no secret that the Galaxy Note 10 is said to be available in two variants. They may be a regular Galaxy Note 10 and another smaller one. Today, we’re learning one version could be the Samsung Ga…
Nubia foldable phone with flexible display designs illustrated
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androidcommunity.com - The foldable phone era is just starting. Alongside 5G phones, these foldable phones are expected to deliver major changes in the mobile industry. Just last month, we saw ZTE foldable phone image rend…
Pixel 3A XL price information in Canada sighted online
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Before the Pixel 4 series is launched, Google is scheduled to introduce the upcoming Pixel 3a variants next month. This is the first time the tech giant is introducing new models in between the last …
AT&T Prepaid now offering 16GB data for $40 for new sign-ups
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re wanting a new prepaid line that offers double the data usually offered, AT&T wants to reel you in with a limited time only promo. Normally, their $50 prepaid line gives you 8GB of data but …
Tasker update allows long press volume button
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Tasker was updated only last month. It allowed quick remapping of Bixby. Before that, we learned the app was ineligible for some permissions after the Play Store update. It’s getting another round of…
OnePlus 7 flagship killer to launch soon, here’s when exactly
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androidcommunity.com - OnePlus 7 launch already has a date. A source tells us all that we want to hear about the next-gen flagship from the Chinese OEM. It’s something we’ve been anticipating since last year when we first …
Google’s location history now used as a tool by law enforcement
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androidcommunity.com - While Google uses your location history, once enabled, primarily to send you targeted ads and other location-based services, we kind of knew that sooner or later, law enforcement would be using this …
Microsoft to Take on AirPods with Surface Buds - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Late last year, Microsoft surprised many with the announcement of the Surface-branded headphones. The premium peripheral has opened the door to the company exploring where else they can apply the Sur…
Huawei “Open” to Supplying 5G Chips to Apple - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei said this week that his firm is “open” to selling its 5G chips to Apple, which has been badly burned by its reliance on slow-moving Intel. The revelation came as p…
Living on the (New) Edge: What’s Missing - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Whether you’re coming from classic Edge, Chrome, or some other browser, the new Edge is probably missing a feature you need. That’s understandable, as Microsoft has only been publicly testing this br…
Why we shouldn’t forget about PageRank in 2019 - Search Engine Land
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Raymond Philippe
searchengineland.com - Before we talk about anything else, let’s address the elephant in the room. The last official public PageRank update happened in December 2013. In October 2014, Google’s John Mueller confirmed what w…
5 Laptops Under $300 That Will Rock Your Gaming World
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Linda
www.bitrebels.com - Since I can remember, digital gaming has been a big thing in our lives. It may have all started with your basic 8-bit Game Boy back in the 80’s, or the very first Nintendo and Atari consoles that wer…
Internet Explorer Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Your Files Even If You Don't Use It
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fossbytes.com - Internet Explorer was already useless for most of us, but now it is dangerous to have the obsolete browser on your computer. A security researcher, John Page, found a new security flaw in Internet Ex…
12 Steps to Lightning Page Speed
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moz.com - At Wall Street Oasis, we’ve noticed that every time we focus on improving our page speed, Google sends us more organic traffic. In 2018, our company's website reached over 80 percent of our traffic f…
Life Without the Tech Giants
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Gerd Leonhard
gizmodo.com - Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple collectively make products that we love, products that we hate (but can’t stop using), and products that dictate how we communicate and how we are seen.…
How to Improve Your Facebook Group Community
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Themelis Cuiper
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to improve the value of your Facebook group? Looking to encourage more meaningful conversations? In this article, you’ll discover five Facebook Groups features you can use to guide engagement an…
The Key Difference Between Omnichannel Personalization & Multichannel with 4 Ways to Succeed
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Tyson Quick
instapage.com - What is omnichannel personalization? The difference between omnichannel & multichannel Multichannel marketing Omnichannel marketing Personalization and omnichannel marketing Omnichannel personalizati…
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