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Tuesday, April 23, 2019

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How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store | CSS-Tricks

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css-tricks.com - PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, each time I try explaining it to clients, the same question pops up: "Will my users be able to install the app using app stores?" …

What Is Customer Journey Mapping and How to Start?

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boagworld.com - Customer journey mapping has become a favourite tool for visualising the customer’s experience. But what exactly are they, how do you create them and what is the best way to use them? Listen to this …

A Regal Ride! The 2019 Buick Regal GS | stupidDOPE.com

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stupiddope.com - When we think Buick, we think comfort, luxury and an icon in the American automobile lexicon. Buick has been steadily updating and upgrading their fleet of rides, adding a modern appeal while keeping…

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on the future of software engineering and the better world ahead

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om.co - My friend Kevin Scott has a unique vantage point from which to speak about the future of software engineering. He is a very gifted and accomplished man who serves as CTO at Microsoft, but his career …

A Visionary Roadmap for Digital Leaders - CXO Weekly

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robllewellyn.com - In an exponential digital age, many of us need to refine our way of thinking to avoid becoming hung up on antiquated business models and more irrelevant to the future as each day goes by. While citin…

The Top 10 Benefits Of Blogging On Your Website

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www.forbes.com - I’m often asked whether blogging is really a necessary part of running a business. This question is most often asked by small business owners who simply don’t have the time or skills to regularly cre…

McAfee ATR Team Discovers New IoT Vulnerability in Wemo Insight Smart Plugs | McAfee Blogs

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securingtomorrow.mcafee.com - From connected baby monitors to smart speakers — IoT devices are becoming commonplace in modern homes. Their convenience and ease of use make them seem like the perfect gadgets for the whole family, …

Design A Lead Gen Landing Page For Mobile That Converts — Smashing Magazine

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www.smashingmagazine.com - Suzanne Scacca is a former WordPress implementer, trainer and agency manager who now works as a freelance copywriter. She specializes in crafting marketing, web … More about Suzanne… Upgrade your inb…

TPS Consulting Daily

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Watch: Stunning Video Shows Parked Tesla Spontaneously Explode In Chinese Garage Shared by Blair Semenoff www.zerohedge.com - About 24 hours ahead of Tesla's coming "Investor Day" and just…

Google Photos update shows what needs to be backed up

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re using Google Photos as your default gallery app on your phone, it doesn’t always mean that the photos you view there are already backed up to the cloud. There are times when you delete item…

Accuracy takes power: one man's 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator

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arstechnica.com - Emulators for playing older games are immensely popular online, with regular arguments breaking out over which emulator is best for which game. Today we present another point of view from a gentleman…

Vine reboot Byte begins beta testing – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Twitter shut down Dom Hoffman’s app Vine, giving away the short-form video goldmine to China’s TikTok. Now a year and half since Hoffman announced he’d reimagine the app as V2 then scrapped that name…

Streaming TV service Philo gets a little more expensive

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techcrunch.com - As the internet TV services have matured, their pricing has as well. The majority have raised their price points — some have even done so multiple times. Today, Philo is following suit…but only by a …

SiriusXM’s new streaming-only ‘Essential’ plan targets smart speaker owners

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techcrunch.com - Last week, Amazon and Google rolled out free music streaming services to cater to the growing base of smart speaker owners. Now, SiriusXM is going after this market, too. The company has launched a n…

Smartcar accuses $50M-funded rival Otonomo of API plagiarism – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Ruthless copying is common in tech. Just ask Snapchat. However, it’s typically more conceptual than literal. But car API startup Smartcar claims that its competitor Otonomo copy-and-pasted Smartcar’s…

Tencent’s latest investment is an app that teaches grannies in China to dance

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techcrunch.com - Besides churning out video games for China’s young generations, Tencent has also been attuned to the need of silver-haired users: its latest bet is an app that teaches middle-age and elderly users, m…

Tesla’s computer is now in all new cars and a next-gen chip is already ‘halfway done’

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techcrunch.com - The Tesla computer, a new custom chip designed to enable full self-driving capabilities, is now in all new Model 3, X and S vehicles, CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s Autonomy Day. Tesla switc…

Audioburst raises $10M to build A.I.-powered infotainment systems for cars, ad solutions

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techcrunch.com - Audioburst, a startup that uses A.I. technology to extract the best bits from podcasts and talk radio to create new listening experiences, has raised an additional $10 million in strategic funding fr…

Down To Shop is a tongue-in-cheek mobile shopping network

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techcrunch.com - Cyrus Summerlin and Max Hellerstin, who previously created the Push for Pizza app (which allowed users to order a pizza with the push of a button), are officially launching their new startup today, D…

Facebook makes its first browser API contribution

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techcrunch.com - Facebook today announced that it has made its first major API contribution to Google’s Chrome browser. Together with Google, Facebook’s team created an API proposal to contribute code to the browser,…

JCPenney explains why it dropped Apple Pay

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techcrunch.com - JCPenney quietly ditched Apple Pay this month. The decision was announced in response to a customer complaint on Twitter, but without any context or further explanation at the time. JCPenney had firs…

Tesla plans to launch a robotaxi network in 2020 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Tesla expects to launch the first robotaxis as part of broader vision for an autonomous ride-sharing network in 2020, CEO Elon Musk said during the company’s Autonomy Day. “I feel very confident pred…

Huawei says it shipped 59M smartphones in Q1 as revenue jumped 39% to $27B

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techcrunch.com - Fresh from an $8.8 billion profit last year, much-maligned Chinese tech giant Huawei is touting yet more growth. The firm said today that revenue in the first quarter of 2019 grew 39 percent year-on-…

A hotspot finder app exposed 2 million Wi-Fi network passwords – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - A popular hotspot finder app for Android exposed the Wi-Fi network passwords for more than two million networks. The app, downloaded by thousands of users, allowed anyone to search for Wi-Fi networks…

Tesla vaunts creation of ‘the best chip in the world’ for self-driving – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - At its “Autonomy Day” today, Tesla detailed the new custom chip that will be running the self-driving software in its vehicles. Elon Musk rather peremptorily called it “the best chip in the world…obj…

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, …

Goldman Sachs doesn't think Apple can compete with Samsung's new foldable phone

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www.businessinsider.com - Apple and Samsung may offer similar features when it comes to their flagship smartphones — both the latest iPhones and Galaxy phones include edge-to-edge displays and facial recognition, for example.…

Galaxy S10+ review: Too many compromises for the sky-high price

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arstechnica.com - The big new design change is the bigger display with a hole punch for the camera. Here's the back. There's no fingerprint reader, since it now has an in-screen sensor. There are a lot of cameras. Mai…

Mazda brings a new diesel CX-5 SUV to the US—but why?

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arstechnica.com - You can be forgiven for thinking that "diesel" is now a dirty word. For a while, this liquid hydrocarbon fuel looked like it might be an important tool in helping fight climate change. After all, die…

Bug in French government’s WhatsApp replacement let anyone join Élysée chats

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arstechnica.com - On April 17, the French government introduced an Android application meant to be used by government employees as an internal secure channel for communications. Called Tchap, it was touted as a replac…

Millimeter-wave 5G will never scale beyond dense urban areas, T-Mobile says

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arstechnica.com - 5G mobile networks have started arriving but only in very limited areas and amidst misleading claims by wireless carriers. While all four major nationwide carriers in the United States have overhyped…

This semi-autonomous truck tech could seriously boost fuel efficiency

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arstechnica.com - Hype necessarily recedes as the blunt realities of actually developing autonomous vehicles sets in. For the companies developing robotaxis, that means a scaling back of ambition (like Waymo) or the p…

Loose online lips sink hack targeting governments and embassies

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arstechnica.com - Security researchers gave mixed grades to a recently discovered hacking campaign targeting government finance authorities and embassies. On the one hand, the attacks used carefully crafted decoy docu…

Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased against white men

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arstechnica.com - Some Microsoft employees are criticizing the company's efforts to increase hiring from under-represented demographics to make its staff more diverse, according to messages leaked to Quartz. Threads s…

Galaxy S10+ review: For $1000, Samsung needs to offer a more complete package

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arstechnica.com - The big new design change is the bigger display with a hole punch for the camera. Here's the back. There's no fingerprint reader, since it now has an in-screen sensor. There are a lot of cameras. Mai…

Ars asks: What’s stopping your workplace from adopting newer technology?

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arstechnica.com - One of the things I enjoy most about writing for Ars is the opportunity to interact with such an enormous pool of brilliant IT folks. The Ars readership is overflowing with that most valuable of demo…

Windows 10’s “Sets” tabbed windows will never see the light of day

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arstechnica.com - For two periods last year, those using preview builds of Windows 10 could access to a feature called Sets: a tabbed interface that was eventually to allow tabs to be put in the titlebar of just about…

Tesla doesn’t yet know why a Model S burst into flames in Shanghai

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arstechnica.com - Tesla is sending an investigative team to a Shanghai parking garage to see if it can determine what caused a Model S electric vehicle to explode into flames over the weekend. News of the car's sponta…

Tesla has three of the 11 most popular cars shared on Turo

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arstechnica.com - In honor of Earth Day, the folks at Turo got in touch to tell me about the rising popularity of electric vehicles on the car sharing platform. For the uninitiated, Turo is a site that lets people ren…

How Small Businesses Can Use Instagram to Sell Your Services

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - In a previous article, I discussed how product-based businesses can sell on Instagram. For service-based businesses, the rules and opportunities to sell on Instagram are a little different. Regardles…

How our redesign helped us grow 10x in a year — a UX case study

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medium.com - We, at Map My Customers, have been creating an all-in-one suite for managing outside sales. It has a ton of amazing capabilities on the web that changes the way sales people work and helps increase t…

Mouse Trail

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noahyamamoto.com - I wanted to make something that would add some flair to my website, and after seeing another developer implement something similar on their website I figured I'd give it a shot. My first attempt was …

Does Facebook Survive Because Of Its Size Or Because We Gave Up On Privacy And Security?

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www.forbes.com - Getty Reflecting on the shear egregiousness of Facebook’s latest security breach, from demanding users hand over their email passwords to silently harvesting their contact lists without their permiss…

How Recommendation Algorithms Run the World

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www.wired.com - This March, a book that advances an outlandish conspiracy theory—a theory whose name I will not mention—soared in Amazon's sales rankings. The book's rise was helped greatly when the ecommerce giant …

How to Install Google Chrome’s Experimental Reader Mode

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lifehacker.com - For people who hate ads, auto-play videos, and busy web pages, we’ve got some good news: Google Chrome is adding a reader mode. Reader mode, which strips away all the design elements of a web page ex…

EMUI 9.1 coming to more Huawei, Honor phones and tablets

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androidcommunity.com - The EMUI 9.0 Android 9 Pie for Huawei was released just before 2018 ended. It rolled out for the Honor 10, the Honor View 10, and Honor Play. We said it’s happening very soon and it finally did back …

Google Lens may be undergoing another revamp with “filters”

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androidcommunity.com - Are you now using Google Lens regularly, especially since it has undergone a revamp the past year? If yes, then Google’s plan is working and if not, then it looks like they are coming up with another…

Huawei P30 Pro Durability Test: Of course, the phone survives

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androidcommunity.com - The Huawei P30 Pro Durability Test is done. We’ve only been waiting for this since reviews have been favorable. The smartphone is currently the DxOMark King, replacing the Mate 20 Pro and the Huawei …

Nubia Alpha is here, launching later this week

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androidcommunity.com - The Nubia Alpha was introduced to us in February. It is described as a smartphone-smartwatch at the same time. We said the wearable slap bracelet phone will be available soon. The Nubia Alpha phone w…

French government creates in-house encrypted messenger app

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androidcommunity.com - When it comes to inter-office communications, there are a lot of enterprise apps out there but most still use the regular ones like WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, etc. But while some of them are alre…

OnePlus 7 Pro will boast three rear cameras, 48MP lens included

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androidcommunity.com - Another week, another round of leaks about the upcoming OnePlus 7. The phone series has been a hot topic since last year, the first time we heard the phone wouldn’t implement 5G tech yet. A 5G phone …

Yota dual-screen phone maker declared bankrupt

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androidcommunity.com - Remember the YotaPhone? The smartphone was first introduced to us back in 2012 as a special device with dual screens. It was followed by the YotaPhone 2 and the YotaPhone 3. We haven’t heard anything…

Instagram testing the waters for hiding post “likes” from other users

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve seen a lot of articles warning us on the dangers of apps where how many likes you get on a post can sometimes dictate what you post or worse, how you feel about yourself or others. It looks lik…

Moto Z4 may come with a 25MP selfie camera, Snapdragon 675

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androidcommunity.com - The future of Motorola is still unknown but we know the brand isn’t going anytime soon. The Lenovo-owned company has a number of mobile devices in its line up. The Motorola One is getting a software …

Lenovo Z6 Pro video teaser surface a day before official launch

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androidcommunity.com - Before we get caught in the idea of a Lenovo foldable phone, the company still has other smartphones in store for the public. There’s the Lenovo Tab V7 and Lenovo Tab E10 announced in February. The s…

Samsung’s Quick Measure app works with Galaxy S10 5G only

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androidcommunity.com - When you think of augmented reality or AR, you probably only think of games like Pokemon Go or some other marketing gimmicks that brands are doing. But it has a lot of other functions that can bridge…

Rahul Sood, CEO and Co-Founder of Unikrn | The Rob McNealy Program

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robmcnealy.com - In this podcast, Rob McNealy interviews Rahul Sood, the CEO and Co-Founder of Unikrn, a global esports, gaming and entertainment platform built on cutting-edge blockchain technologies. Unikrn is back…

Through Visa Next, Visa Looks to Expand Customer Offerings

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loyalty360.org - Visa has introduced a new platform with a set of beta APIs, specifications, and development tools for issuers and issuer processors to begin building and beta testing new payment products to help mee…

Edge Mobile Will Support SSO and Conditional Access - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft announced today that its Edge for Android and iOS will support Single Sign-On (SSO) and conditional access, two enterprise access protection technologies. “Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + S…

Sorry, But Sets is Dead - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Citing multiple sources, Mary Jo Foley reports that Microsoft has quietly canceled plans to add Sets to Windows 10. As you may recall, Microsoft announced Sets in late 2017, and originally planned to…

What Happens If You Delete A Paid App On Your Iphone or Ipad?

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www.dumblittleman.com - At times, you may download a new paid application to your iPhone or iPad. You try to make it work, but it just doesn’t function like you hoped it would. What happens if you delete paid apps on iPhone…

Google takes baby steps to monetize Google Assistant, Google Home - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google isn’t concerned about making ad revenue from Google Assistant and Google Home right now. The company is more focused on gaining market share for the moment. Nonetheless, it’s starting to inser…

We Surveyed 1,400 Searchers About Google - Here's What We Learned

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moz.com - Google’s search results have seen a whirlwind of major changes in the past two years. Nearly every type of modern-day search queries produce a combination of rich results beyond the standard blue lin…

Top advanced YouTube SEO tips to boost your video performance

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searchenginewatch.com - YouTube is not just a social media platform. It’s a powerful search engine for video content. Here’s how to make the most of its SEO potential. There are more than 1.9 billion users who use YouTube e…

The Government's Added 12,000 Pieces of Data to Your Smart Speaker

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www.gizmodo.co.uk - Talking out loud to the government usually involves yelling "NO, I SAID SELF ASSESSMENT" down the phone to HRMC's robots, which then declare that the queue is too long and hang up on you. But now, th…

New Google smart bidding signals coming: price competitiveness, seasonality for Shopping campaigns - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Google’s automated smart bidding algorithms can take many signals into account at the time of the each auction — device information, search query, location, etc. Soon, it will add more signals to tha…

Tesla investigating after video shows vehicle exploding in car park

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news.sky.com - Tesla is urgently investigating a video that appears to show one of its cars exploding in a Shanghai car park. The video, first posted to social media in China, shows a Tesla Model S billowing smoke …

Appeals court to Manning: If you want out of jail, start talking

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hotair.com - Chelsea Manning may not believe in the grand jury system, but the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals certainly does. In a terse, unanimous decision handed down this morning, the court rejected Manning’s ap…

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