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Mueller Report: Assange Smeared Rich to Cover for Russians

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www.thedailybeast.com - Julian Assange not only knew that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer wasn’t his source for thousands of hacked party emails, he was in active contact with his real sources in Russia’s G…

An Exercise In Free Speech - Ar15 Printable Magazine Code Book de Ivan Troll (eBooks) – Lulu FR

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www.lulu.com - Le Digital Millennium Copyright Act (« DMCA ») est une loi américaine sur la propriété intellectuelle établissant une législation pour les fournisseurs de services en ligne contre les violations des …

Verified Expert Brand Designer: Ramotion

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techcrunch.com - Ramotion is a remote branding and product design agency that has worked with Bay Area tech startups since 2014. While they typically do branding for funded, fast-growing startups, Ramotion has helped…

Business Transformation Enabled by IDC DecisionScapes

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robllewellyn.com - The future of business will be technology fuelled and driven. Future technologies (Mobility, Cloud Computing, Social Media, Crowd-sourcing, Internet of things, Industry 4.0, Big Data, 3D printing) or…

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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Meet the first judges for The Europas Awards (27 June) and enter your startup now! Shared by TechCrunch techcrunch.com - I’m excited to announce that The Europas Awards for European Tech S…

Millions of Instagram passwords stored unsecurely, Facebook admits

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androidcommunity.com - It was just four weeks ago when Facebook admitted that they discovered that millions of users’ passwords were being stored in plain text and in an unsecured program. At that time, they said that arou…

ASUS ZenFone Live L2 launches as a budget smartphone

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androidcommunity.com - ASUS first launched the ZenFone Live in Taiwan back in 2017. A follow-up was introduced the following year–the ZenFone Live L1. And now, here’s the ZenFone Line L2. There’s no surprise here because w…

New automation features are coming to macOS in Shortcuts—but not for every app

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arstechnica.com - According to a report at 9to5mac citing people familiar with Apple’s plans, several iOS features will come to the Mac in macOS 10.15. First and foremost among these is Shortcuts, the automation appli…

Fastly, the content delivery network, files for an IPO

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techcrunch.com - Fastly, the content delivery network that’s raised $219 million in financing from investors (according to Crunchbase), is ready for its close up in the public markets. The eight-year-old company is o…

Netflix says it’s testing a shuffle feature for when you don’t know what to watch

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techcrunch.com - Netflix is testing a new feature that can help you start streaming when you don’t know what to watch. The company confirmed it’s testing a shuffle mode of sorts, that will allow you to easily click o…

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, more than half of the startup’s staff sign…

Extra Crunch Membership

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techcrunch.com - Sign up today to help us support builders like you. Original Research and Reporting Extra Crunch membership offers exclusive access to analysis of successful startups, resources on company building, …

Apply now to be a TC Top Pick at Disrupt San Francisco 2019

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techcrunch.com - Psst! We’re looking at you, early-stage startup founders. How would you like your startup to be a media and investor darling at Disrupt San Francisco 2019? If you think your startup has what it takes…

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…

Behind the benchmarks: SPEC, GFLOPS, MIPS et al

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arstechnica.com - What has the power to make or break a company or a career? What has the power to generate heated controversy, hard feelings, and bold accusations? A sex scandal? Litigation? Nope?try benchmarks. Ever…

LG’s latest, greatest OLED TVs will start shipping in April

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arstechnica.com - As usual, LG included lifestyle marketing images with its press release. Here, a whole galaxy apparently awaits those who install OLED TVs in extremely stark, modernist apartments. You can watch LG T…

Microsoft buys Express Logic, adds a third operating system to its IoT range

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arstechnica.com - Not content with having a Windows-based Internet of Things platform (Windows 10 IoT) and a Linux-based Internet of Things platform (Azure Sphere), Microsoft has added a third option. The company has …

In new gaffe, Facebook improperly collects email contacts for 1.5 million

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arstechnica.com - Facebook's privacy gaffes keep coming. On Wednesday, the social media company said it collected the stored email address lists of as many as 1.5 million users without permission. On Thursday, the com…

FTC may hold Zuckerberg personally responsible for Facebook privacy failures

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arstechnica.com - Federal Trade Commission officials are discussing whether to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg personally accountable for Facebook's privacy failures, according to reports by The Washington Post and …

Everything we know about the first discless Xbox One, coming May 7 for $249

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arstechnica.com - This is the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. Sure looks like an existing Xbox One S, doesn't it? The existing Xbox One S and its new, no-disc sibling. Other than that solid panel where the disc drive …

Unexpected protection added to Microsoft Edge subverts IE security

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arstechnica.com - A researcher has uncovered strange and unexpected behavior in Windows 10 that allows remote attackers to steal data stored on hard drives when a user opens a malicious file downloaded with the Edge b…

Google+ is back! Meet the enterprise-focused “Google Currents”

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arstechnica.com - Google+ may have shut down its consumer side earlier this month, but the code base still lives on at Google. After diving into the social media wars and getting routed, Google+ will live out its reti…

Gearbox’s Pitchford: Steam may be “a dying store” in 5 to 10 years

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arstechnica.com - While acknowledging that Epic's platform currently lacks many quality-of-life features available on Steam, Pitchford pointed to Epic's public road map for adding many of those features before Septemb…

Google Fiber exits Louisville, pays city $3.8M to clean up the mess it left

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arstechnica.com - Google Fiber yesterday shut off service in Louisville, Kentucky, and has agreed to pay the local government $3.84 million to remove exposed fiber cables left behind by the ISP's failed nano-trenching…

World of Goo’s devs answer questions about HD update, Epic Games Store launch

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arstechnica.com - As has become a regular occurrence lately, Epic Games announced another solid free video game coming to all of its Epic Games Store users, which has so far been an every-two-weeks promo for the relat…

Google’s constant product shutdowns are damaging its brand

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arstechnica.com - It's only April, and 2019 has already been an absolutely brutal year for Google's product portfolio. The Chromecast Audio was discontinued January 11. YouTube annotations were removed and deleted Jan…

Apple debuts its own credit card with a physical version to complement the app

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arstechnica.com - The app also gives you an overview of your spending and balance. "Daily cash" is accumulated daily, as the name implies, and as cash rather than as points. Apple Card app gives you a view of your wee…

Iron Man VR preview makes me want to put on nerdy headgear again

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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—In some ways, I am the worst candidate among the Ars Technica gaming braintrust to demo the world premiere of Iron Man VR, a video game slated to launch on PlayStation VR by the end of …

Reverse review bomb? AC: Unity draws praise for Notre Dame preservation

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arstechnica.com - The impetus for this reverse review-bomb (Review rocket? Review scaffolding? Review hug?) came earlier this week after the tragic fire in Paris' Notre Dame cathedral. On Wednesday, Ubisoft announced …

Understanding E-Commerce: What You Need to Know About Amazon Marketplace

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - Online shopping just keeps growing. Last year, U.S. consumers spent over $513 billion on the Internet, an increase of more than 14 percent compared to 2017, according to figures released in March fro…

6 Tips for Posting Content Anonymously | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - For one reason or another, you may find yourself wanting to publish things online anonymously. Now to some, the “A-word” conjures up images of hackers, Guy Fawkes masks, and people generally saying t…

Facebook Asked Some Users for Their Email Passwords, Then 'Unintentionally Uploaded' 1.5 Million Contact Lists Without Consent

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gizmodo.com - Earlier this month, Facebook admitted that it was asking some users who signed up on desktop while using email addresses not supporting the OAuth open standard to give them the passwords to their ema…

How to Delete the Contacts That Facebook Uploaded Without Your Permission

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lifehacker.com - Facebook’s public image has been taking a beating lately, and things just keep getting worse for the social media platform. According to a recent report from Business Insider India, Facebook has been…

The Mueller report confirms we're living in a cyberpunk dystopia

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futurism.com - When the Justice Department released a heavily-redacted version of the Mueller Report Thursday, the conversation quickly devolved into partisan bickering. Only time will tell what the report means fo…

If you value your privacy, switch to Signal as your messaging app now

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www.fastcompany.com - It’s hard to remember what life was like before modern messaging apps came onto the scene a little over a decade ago. Since their rise alongside the smartphone, they’ve quickly become a primary way p…

HP Chromebook 15 2019 arrives with a large, touchscreen display

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androidcommunity.com - Chromebooks are still a thing but we haven’t featured anything new lately. The last related information we shared was that Instant Tethering feature for Chromebooks becoming available. That after the…

Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL official renders appear

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androidcommunity.com - Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL image and video renders are a dime a dozen. We’ve lost count of how many times but rest assured, an official set will be shared soon. Perhaps these new images now are the clo…

T-Mobile, Comcast have first cross-network STIR/SHAKEN protection

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androidcommunity.com - Apparently, one of the most reported problems and cause of annoyance now is robocalls and spam/scam calls. We’ve seen reports of various US carriers working on their own solutions to fighting this gr…

LG V40 ThinQ reviewed by DxOMark, see its imaging performance

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androidcommunity.com - DxOMark currently has a new king–kings actually as the Samsung Galaxy S10 5G tied with the Huawei P30 Pro. They won’t be overtaken or replaced anytime soon but we won’t be surprised if some OEM dares…

BBM consumer version to sunset by May 31 (but Enterprise still alive)

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androidcommunity.com - More than a decade ago, the Blackberry Messenger, more popularly known as BBM, was probably one of the most popular ways to get in touch with people aside from text messaging. But when messaging apps…

Amazon Music now offers limited free access for Alexa users

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androidcommunity.com - Playing the game started by Spotify and very recently by YouTube Music, Amazon Music is now offering a free tier for those who want to experience their music streaming service without making any comm…

Learn How to Code in Today’s Top Languages for $31 [DEALS]

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androidcommunity.com - As the economy trends digital, the demand for programmers continues to skyrocket. After all, what’s a competent business without a team of savvy programmers to build websites, manage data, and overse…

Alcatel Avalon V available from Verizon Wireless

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androidcommunity.com - TCL is another prolific OEM out there, releasing phones from different brands. The last batch we featured was the Alcatel 3T, Alcatel 3 and 3L, and Alcatel 1S. The company is currently the third bigg…

T-Mobile MONEY promises no overdrafts, bank fees

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androidcommunity.com - The Un-Carrier isn’t stopping. It won’t as one of the most aggressive brands we know. After making it known to the public it will start selling the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL and maybe the upcoming Pixel…

YouTube coming to Fire TV; Prime Video to Android TV, Chromecast

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androidcommunity.com - All is well between Amazon and Google. The battle isn’t really bothersome to the companies because they still make a lot of money but the consumers are affected. Okay, so YouTube missing from Amazon …

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…

Subaru and the ASPCA Partner for a Unique Auto Show Experience

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loyalty360.org - Sometimes, unexpected partnerships can get consumers to look at brands in a whole new light. Now, an automotive brand and an animal rescue service have teamed up. Subaru of America has announced it w…

Apple Bringing Major iPhone Features to the Mac With macOS 10.15 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Apple is expected to unveil the next major versions of its operating systems at WWDC this June. Details of what’s to expect in iOS 13 have already been talked about before, but there are some more de…

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: April 19 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because I heard you missed me, I’m back, this edition of Short Takes looks at Surface Flub 2S, Waas and Windows 7, it’s like a riding a bike, Microsoft makes AI and refuses to sell it to customers, G…

Searching for facts, directions, local businesses are top digital assistant use cases, says survey - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Nearly three-fourths (72 percent) of smartphone owners are using digital assistants, according to a new report from Microsoft. The findings are based on two surveys – one from mid-2018 that includes …

Why featured snippets could be less of a win going forward - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - I’m one of those freaks who thinks that Featured Snippets are not perpetual manna from heaven and could see their divine role on the SERP diminished as time goes on. I understand this could be consid…

Yes, Julian Assange Is a Journalist — But That Shouldn’t Matter

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www.infowars.com - Julian Assange was arrested last week in London, and he awaits legal proceedings designs to extradite him to the United States to be tried on hacking charges. At least, those are the charges currentl…

Life After Facebook: The Untold Story Of Billionaire Eduardo Saverin’s Highly Networked Venture Firm

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www.forbes.com - hen Eduardo Saverin greets entrepreneurs who come to visit him in his eighth-floor offices at the Singapore Land Tower, the 36-year-old knows he’ll get asked the question. The Facebook question. The …

Microsoft turned down facial-recognition sales on human rights concerns - Reuters

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www.reuters.com - PALO ALTO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp recently rejected a California law enforcement agency’s request to install facial recognition technology in officers’ cars and body cameras due to human rights co…

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