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Twitter Drops SPLC Following Controversy. Are Facebook and Google Next?

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thelibertarianrepublic.com - Twitter distanced itself from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) following reports suggesting that the group scams liberal donors out of money. Facebook has not yet revealed whether it plans on e…

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY 15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook Shared by OM www.wired.com - The streets of Davos, Switzerland, were iced over on the night of January 25, 2018, which added a slight element of dan…

Animating URLs with Javascript and Emojis

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matthewrayfield.com - You can use emoji (and other graphical unicode characters) in URLs. And wow is it great. But no one seems to do it. Why? Perhaps emoji are too exotic for normie web platforms to handle? Or maybe they…

Sila Nano’s battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler partnership and $170 million investment

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techcrunch.com - Sila Nanotechnologies and its battery materials manufacturing technology are now worth more than $1 billion. The company, which announced a $170 million funding led by Daimler and a partnership with …

Pokémon GO and the April Fools’ joke that made billions

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techcrunch.com - It’s the morning of March 31st, 2014, and the Google Maps team is about to release its April Fools’ Day gag to the world. It wasn’t the first time this team had goofed around with an April Fools’ day…

FCC looks to slap down China Mobile’s attempt to join US telecom system

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techcrunch.com - The FCC has proposed to deny an application from China Mobile, a state-owned telecom, to provide interconnect and mobile services here in the U.S., citing security concerns. It’s another setback to t…

Wonderloop’s networking app lets you swipe left on video profiles instead of pictures

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techcrunch.com - There isn’t much left to be done in online networking apps. We are all familiar with professional (LinkedIn), social (Facebook), realtime (Twitter), and dating (Tinder, Bummble etc). But profile phot…

Co-Star raises $5 million to bring its astrology app to Android

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techcrunch.com - If you haven’t heard of Co-Star, you might just be in the wrong circles. In some social scenes it’s pretty much ubiquitous. Wherever conversations regularly kick off by comparing astrological charts,…

Google Cloud brings on 27-year SAP veteran as it doubles down on enterprise adoption

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techcrunch.com - Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform. That vision involves…

Apple Pay comes to Uber Eats in nearly 20 markets

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techcrunch.com - Apple Pay has been a payment option in Uber’s app since fall 2014, but the payment option hadn’t made its way over to Uber’s food delivery app, Uber Eats. Now, that’s changing. Uber today announced t…

Daily Crunch: Apple and Qualcomm settle their patent dispute

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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. Apple…

Apple may combine ‘Find My iPhone’ & ‘Find My Friends’ apps, launch a Tile-like tracking device

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techcrunch.com - Apple is working to combine its tracking apps, “Find My iPhone” and “Find My Friends” into one unified app available on both iOS and Mac, according to a new report from the Apple news site 9to5Mac. I…

100 Car2go Mercedes hijacked in Chicago crime spree

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techcrunch.com - The Chicago Police Department was alerted by Car2Go that some of their vehicles may have been rented by deceptive or fraudulent means through a mobile app, a spokesperson wrote in an emailed statemen…

How-to video maker Jumprope launches to leapfrog YouTube

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techcrunch.com - Sick of pausing and rewinding YouTube tutorials to replay that tricky part? Jumprope is a new instructional social network offering a powerful how-to video slideshow creation tool. Jumprope helps peo…

Wisconsin governor says Foxconn won't meet target goal of 13K new jobs

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thehill.com - Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) said Wednesday that he plans to renegotiate the state’s contract with Chinese company Foxconn because it will not be able to deliver on its promise to create the 13,000 …

3 pieces of advice in Jeff Bezos’ Shareholder Letter

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om.co - In my previous post, I urged you all to take a moment and make some price comparisons before buying from Amazon, which is no longer the cheapest or the best place to buy stuff. Other options are equa…

Nintendo Labo VR review: There’s no “Nintendo magic” inside these lenses

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arstechnica.com - Above all the other failings of Nintendo Labo VR, the biggest might be its lack of "Nintendo magic." Virtual reality has already emerged as a millions-selling gaming genre, complete with beautiful, c…

Bendgate 2.0: Samsung’s $2,000 foldable phone is already breaking

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arstechnica.com - Steve Kovach of CNBC had his Galaxy Fold die right along the display crease. The Verge's Galaxy Fold review unit had something press against the back side of the screen, killing several rows of pixel…

Why $249 is an unsustainable price for the first all-digital Xbox [Updated]

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arstechnica.com - [Update: Since Microsoft's announcement, the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition has appeared for pre-order on retailers such as Amazon and Best Buy for the MSRP for $249.99. As outlined below, the more c…

Rumored lidar shopping suggests Apple is still serious about autonomy

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arstechnica.com - Apple has talked to at least four different companies about purchasing lidar sensors, Reuters reports. Apple is also reportedly working on a home-built lidar sensor. The news suggests that Apple is s…

Electric vehicles are center stage at the 2019 Shanghai auto show

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arstechnica.com - This compact little thing is Audi's AI:ME. Does it point the way to an eventual MEB-based electric Audi? Volkswagen's ID Roomzz goes on sale in 2021. Whether VW will have recovered from its Z obsessi…

Logitech’s latest universal remote gives Alexa the keys to your home theater

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arstechnica.com - This is Logitech's new universal remote, the Harmony Express. Note the big honking Alexa button at the top there. It comes with this hub that works with IR, Bluetooth, and WiFi, as well as a mini IR …

Don’t buy a Mercedes-AMG GT R unless you plan on taking it to the track

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arstechnica.com - The Mercedes-AMG GT R is street legal, but it's not at its best on public roads. At 3,500lbs it's no lightweight, but the car shrinks around you. The twin-turbo V8 sends 577hp and 516lb-ft to the rea…

Two reports describe major new iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 features

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arstechnica.com - Two reports by Guilherme Rambo at 9to5Mac citing "people familiar with the development" of both macOS 10.15 and iOS 13 may have revealed some notable new features in Apple's operating systems for Mac…

Google won’t build that flagship retail store in Chicago after all

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arstechnica.com - Last year, a report from the Chicago Tribune claimed that Google was "close to finalizing a lease" for a flagship retail store in Chicago. The 14,000-square-foot space would have been Google's first …

Ethereum Core Developers Consider More Frequent and Smaller Hard Forks

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cointelegraph.com - Ethereum (ETH) core developers are considering implementing more frequent and smaller hard forks, according to the most recent bi-weekly meeting held on April 12. The question of time between hard fo…

Google’s AI Experts Try to Automate Themselves

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www.wired.com - Just before 9 am last Thursday, an unusual speed dating scene sprang up in San Francisco. A casually dressed crowd, mostly male, milled around a gilt-edged Beaux Arts ballroom on Nob Hill. Pairs and …

Case Study: Dominic Berzins' Single Page Portfolio Site

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www.awwwards.com - I wanted to have a single page site that would read as a kind of a story and wouldn’t require the user to have to navigate menu systems or sub-pages I knew I wanted to have a single page site that wo…

12 Ways to Create Exit-Intent Popups That Guarantee Signups

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icons8.com - Marketing often gets a bad rap as it can be difficult to link marketing activities to bottom-line results. With all the advanced technology available today, it’s getting easier to make the connection…

Why You Should Consider Google AI Platform For Your Machine Learning Projects

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www.forbes.com - At Cloud Next 2019, Google announced the launch of AI Platform, a comprehensive machine learning service for developers and data scientists. Google has many investments in the space of machine learni…

How to spot fake Amazon reviews: Experts warn "suspiciously perfect" five-star results are flooding website

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www.newsweek.com - Amazon is losing the battle against fake reviews due to a recent flood of “suspiciously perfect” comments which could influence consumer purchases, researchers claim. U.K. consumer rights group Which…

Misinformation And Restoring Provenance To The Digital Marketplace Of Ideas

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www.forbes.com - One of the greatest driving forces behind the modern deluge of misinformation and false information is the increasing mediation between the production and consumption of information by digital platfo…

We finally know why the Instagram founders really quit

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www.theverge.com - Last year, in an effort to give shape to The Interface’s coverage area, I posted a public list of questions that I hoped to investigate over time. I saved my favorite one for last: why did Kevin Syst…

Motorola’s first foldable phone seen on Bluetooth site, may arrive this 2019

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androidcommunity.com - 2019 will be the year of the foldable display smartphones, or at least the start of a new trend in the mobile industry. Samsung and Huawei have already announced their respective devices and it has b…

OnePlus 7 series smartphones will launch officially next month

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androidcommunity.com - The OnePlus 7 is the next premium flagship phone on our radar. We’re filling pages before the official announcement and we don’t doubt more believable information will be available. It’s only a matte…

HTC apps removed then reuploaded due to new Google Play policy errors

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androidcommunity.com - Owners of HTC devices might have panicked a little when news started going out that HTC apps were disappearing from the Google Play Store. Apps like the HTC Mail app were unpublished last February an…

OnePlus 7 image renders, 360-video shown before official launch

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androidcommunity.com - Like any other premium flagship we know, OnePlus 7 information has been floating around the web for months. The first time we mentioned the phone was November last year when we noted it wouldn’t impl…

Google Pay update lets you import tickets, cards from your Gmail

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androidcommunity.com - While it’s pretty easy to search through your Gmail app when you’re looking for a ticket or a booking, it would still be convenient to have all of these things in just one place where you don’t have …

Qualcomm, Apple dropping all litigation cases against each other

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androidcommunity.com - Qualcomm and Apple are rivals not in the smartphone industry but in the business of mobile processors. It’s been a long-standing battle and we don’t think it will end anytime soon although we believe…

Facebook Messenger’s Dark Mode finally universally launched

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androidcommunity.com - Just last month, users of Facebook’s Messenger app were pretty excited when they figured out there was a way to finally enable the dark mode. All you had to do was to send an emoji of the crescent mo…

Pixel 3 Android Q beta update released from Google Play Store

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androidcommunity.com - The Pixel 3 is getting the new Avengers Playmoji stickers in time for the movie. It will also be sold soon on T-Mobile, ending the Verizon exclusivity. The phone may have a number of bugs and issues …

Justin Clark, Founder of Veterans Referring Veterans | The Rob McNealy Program

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robmcnealy.com - In this podcast, Rob McNealy interviews Justin Clark, the founder of Veterans Referring Veterans, a veteran owned business directory and networking organization, which advocates for and promotes, vet…

Say Hello to the HelloWorld Loyalty Barometer Report: Part II

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loyalty360.org - This article is the second in a series in which Gina Fleck, HelloWorld’s Director of Loyalty, discusses key insights from her organization’s 2019 Loyalty Barometer Report. Be sure to read the first p…

Google Delivers Android Studio 3.4 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google has announced the availability of Android Studio 3.4, the latest version of its Android app development environment. As with the previous release, this version focuses on quality updates to th…

Living on the (New) Edge: Reading - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - If you’re coming to the new Edge from Google Chrome, you may be surprised by the browser’s integrated Reading View functionality. This kind of functionality is user-friendly, of course, because it re…

Microsoft Will Not Provide Facial Recognition Software to California - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Citing human rights concerns, Microsoft announced that it will not provide facial recognition software to the state of California. The announcement was made by Microsoft president Brad Smith, who was…

Intel Kills 5G Modem Plans - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - In the wake of Apple’s blockbuster settlement—read: defeat—in its Qualcomm patent case, Intel has thrown in the towel on its 5G modem plans. “We are very excited about the opportunity in 5G and the ‘…

Microsoft Announces Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - As rumored, Microsoft will combine Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass into a single monthly subscription called Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. (Both services will still be available separately as well.) “Th…

12 Pro Tips on Shooting Sharp Aerial Photographs

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www.shutterstock.com - Whether you’re shooting from a helicopter, a plane, or using a drone, shooting sharp aerial photographs can be difficult when you have so many elements to consider. In a helicopter or airplane, it mi…

Google adds short names and URLs to Google My Business listings - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google My Business is now rolling out a feature to let businesses create a short name and short URL, according to a report by Mike Blumenthal, a Local Guide for Google. The feature is designed to giv…

Does Google owe us more than just an apology over de-indexing? - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - There is an ecosystem in the world of the Internet. You have the content producers, you have advertisers and you have people searching for content. In this world, Google is the primary destination pe…

Far-Right Activists Are Taking Their Message To Gen Z On TikTok

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www.huffpost.com - As Facebook, YouTube and Twitter continue a slow purge of users who violate their policies prohibiting hate speech, some extremists kicked off those platforms have found a safe space on TikTok, the C…

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