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Why are people still giving Magic Leap money? – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - If Magic Leap fails, the skeptics will at least have to admire the AR startup’s keen ability to raise vast amounts of capital. The company announced today that it has locked down another $280 million…
Loyalty360 Reads: April 26, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Programs Chipotle Loyalty Program Enrolls 3 Million Since March Launch The QSR restaurant chain’s loyalty program has driven 100 percent growth in digital sales. “The fast-casual Mexican chain report…
Getting Employee Buy-In for New Tech Tools
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www.egnyte.com - During the 2018 Egnyte Customer Summit in sunny San Francisco, participants went beyond secure file sharing and data protection and discovered content management’s role in digital transformation. The…
Apple Cracks Down on Apps That Fight iPhone Addiction
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www.nytimes.com - In the United States, Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a Democratic candidate for president, recently suggested separating the App Store from Apple as part of her proposal to rein in the Am…
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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY How We Raised $300K By Inventing a New Funding Technique | Product Hunt Shared by Michael Abehsera www.producthunt.com - Like many startup stories, mine starts with a side project. The yea…
‘The Division 2’ is the brain-dead, antipolitical, gun-mongering vigilante simulator we deserve – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In The Division 2, the answer to every question is a bullet. That’s not unique in the pervasively violent world of gaming, but in an environment drawn from the life and richly decorated with plausibl…
How a blockchain startup with 1M users is working to break your Google habit – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The antitrust argument that says big tech needs breaking up to stop platforms abusing competition and consumers in a two-faced role as seller and (manipulative) marketplace may only just be getting g…
You can now take your Amazon returns to all Kohl’s stores – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It’s one thing to be able to get everything delivered to your doorstep, it’s another to then have to actually have to leave your home, brace the elements and return those things that just didn’t work…
How to organize your Google Photos collection
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www.theverge.com - Google Photos makes it possible to store a lifetime of memories, often without paying a single dime. But when you have thousands upon thousands of images, actually appreciating all of them isn’t alwa…
The Tesla Model 3, reviewed (finally)
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arstechnica.com - Few cars have been the subject of as much intense Internet debate as the Tesla Model 3. To Muskophiles, it is quite simply the safest car ever and the best vehicle on sale today from any OEM. To the …
This little electric car is the coolest thing at the NY Auto Show
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arstechnica.com - The Genesis Mint is hands-down the coolest thing you will see on display at the 2019 New York International Auto Show. It's a take on a small luxury car for the city. It's a three-box design, and the…
McAfee joins Sophos, Avira, Avast—the latest Windows update breaks them all
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arstechnica.com - The most recent Windows patch, released April 9, seems to have done something (still to be determined) that's causing problems with anti-malware software. Over the last few days, Microsoft has been a…
My quest to learn the Dvorak keyboard layout, the grand finale
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arstechnica.com - The taped injury above was not caused by attempting the Dvorak layout, I swear. I'm still switching between keyboard layouts as it suits me. While this flip-flopping is no doubt slowing down my progr…
A 1986 bulletin board system has brought the old Web back to life in 2017
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arstechnica.com - Limited to an anachronistic 1200 bits per second, it took several moments for the green-phosphor ASCII art to scroll from the bottom to the top of the screen. A login prompt and a blinking cursor inv…
Acer’s new ConceptD line is for creatives who want powerful yet quiet PCs
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arstechnica.com - The ConceptD 9 has a 17.3-inch 4K display with a DeltaE of less than 1. Similar to the Acer Aspire R13, you can tilt and move the ConceptD 9's display. The top wood panel has wireless charging capabi…
Guidemaster: The least-awful Android phones
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arstechnica.com - It's often said that a strength of the Android ecosystem is the sheer number of manufacturers out there producing devices, but that also means there is an absolutely intimidating amount of devices to…
Report: Samsung Planning New Blockchain Mainnet Featuring Samsung Coin
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cointelegraph.com - South Korean electronics giant Samsung may end up developing a public-private blockchain complete with its own cryptocurrency token, an anonymous source told crypto industry news outlet CoinDesk Kore…
Startups are racing to commercialize DeepFakes’s powerful, internet-breaking AI
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www.fastcompany.com - A little over a year ago, an anonymous Reddit user named Deepfakes changed the internet. advertisement advertisement In early 2018, they uploaded a machine learning model that could swap one person’s…
Telecom giants battle bill which bans Internet service throttling for firefighters in emergencies | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - Internet service providers (ISPs) and telecom firms are fighting a bill which would force them to provide unfettered broadband services and prevent them from throttling data use in emergency situatio…
Facebook’s latest privacy scandals open regulator floodgates | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - Facebook's damage control teams must be busy these days with data scandal after scandal appearing out of the woodwork on what seems to be a monthly basis -- all of which are gaining the interest of r…
Google bans app developer with 600 million downloads for being a fake click factory
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www.theverge.com - Google is banning a popular Chinese developer from its Google Play Store and systematically removing dozens of its apps after BuzzFeed and security researchers discovered that the developer was commi…
Apple's Shocking New iPhone Design Makes Sense
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www.forbes.com - It’s true, Apple’s new iPhones won’t win any beauty contests and they will be even more expensive. But new information reveals their most radical upgrade really does look exciting… Updated iPhone 11 …
Galaxy S10’s AR, Bixby Vision help you visualize appliances in your home
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androidcommunity.com - Buying appliances and furniture for your room or your home can sometimes be a bit stressful as you try to imagine how it will fit in your space or the already existing decorations there. Over the yea…
DHS Expedites Replacement Wall Construction on Same Day Top Auditor Warns of Ineffective Efforts
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www.govexec.com - The Homeland Security Department announced on Friday it was expediting the replacement of border barriers in several locations along the southwest border, the same day the government's top watchdog c…
How Europe's War on Social Media Could Impact Hollywood: "This Is a Complete Paradigm Shift"
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www.hollywoodreporter.com - In March, in cities across Europe, hundreds of thousands of protesters, most of them young people, took to the streets to protest the European Union's plan to update copyright law for the digital age…
Elon Musk: Okay... you can vet my tweets
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hotair.com - Elon Musk, the billionaire behind Tesla, SpaceX, the Boring Company, and other ventures, has gotten himself into a bit of trouble in recent years over some of his tweets. This seems to be particularl…
Is Facebook Marketing Going To Enhance Your Business?
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duracmarketing.com - You can get on Facebook whenever you want, so what’s the hold up? Do you want to learn how to use it for marketing? Do you want some ideas that really get you results? If you do, this article will gi…
Social Media Marketing Tips For The Inexperienced
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durac.info - Social media marketing gives an indicator of the most popular trends today. You have to understand how much success without implementing social media marketing but it’s best to include it. The follow…
Interested In Making Money Online? Read This
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getmoneymaker.com - Making money is possible by working hard. As you try harder to have multiple streams, money will always find you. This is one of the most definite truisms of making money online. In this article, you…
How To Keep Loyal Customers Loyal Using E-mail Marketing
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marketingpromotion.biz - Anyone with an email address has probably run into an email marketing in their lifetime.This form of marketing makes it easy to communicate with current and potential customers via email. Don’t send …
Beware: avoid Rally Airdrop App and James Cashiola at all costs - Yu-kai Chou: Gamification & Behavioral Design
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yukaichou.com - Rally Airdrop App (RallyApp.com and RallyAirDrop.com) is a gamification startup that “supposedly” exchanges various activities for compensation. However, stay far far away from them. They are shady a…
Most cord-cutters aren’t missing cable TV
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www.impactlab.net - What Do US Cord Cutters Miss About Cable/Satellite TV? (% of respondents, March 2019) At a time when the number of cord-cutters continues to climb, a new report indicates that most folks who ditched …
New Platform from Parabolt Helps Retailers Capture The "Magic Moment" of Sales
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martechseries.com - Parabolt, gA’s digital innovation incubator, announces the launch of OCP (Omnichannel Customer Platform), a new cloud-computing platform that enables users to deliver improved customer experiences th…
Digital Parenting: 'Eat Your Veggies, Brush Your Teeth, Strengthen Your Passwords' | McAfee Blogs
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securingtomorrow.mcafee.com - As adults, we know the importance of strong passwords, and we’ve likely preached the message to our kids. But let’s rewind for a minute. Do our kids understand why strong passwords are important and …
How to Use Social Data to Launch a Successful Marketing Campaign
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thebossmagazine.com - The success of a marketing campaign is determined by the work you do while getting ready for the campaign. And a lot of the preparation steps involve the analysis of social data that your business ha…
Walmart turns a store into an AI-powered 'working lab' to test new ideas
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www.digitalcommerce360.com - Walmart Inc. is examining whether artificial intelligence can transform the grocery shopping experience by making stores more efficient and providing better real-time information to employees. Walmar…
Think Tank: In the Customer Experience Era, Behavior Matters More than Demographics
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wwd.com - Today’s consumers use all of these devices to engage with content that drives their buying decisions. We recently surveyed 1,000 people and found that half of them use more than one device. Twenty-fi…
Hackers Breached a Programming Tool Used By Big Tech and Stole Private Keys and Tokens
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motherboard.vice.com - Docker, a company that makes software tools for programmers and developers, said on Friday that hackers had accessed one of its Docker Hub databases and could have stolen sensitive data from around 1…
Five of the most disastrous product launches
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news.sky.com - Samsung has decided to delay the launch of its new Galaxy Fold smartphone after reviewers experienced breakages within days of receiving the device. The embarrassment of a faulty product launch can b…
How to Blog Safely and Avoid Infringement of Intellectual Property
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azrights.com - In my previous post, I looked at the issue of protecting your blog content and identity. This blog briefly looks at some of the issues concerning the inclusion of other people’s materials in your con…
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