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Tuesday, May 7, 2019

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Microsoft touts AI, circular microphone advances in overlapped speech recognition work | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - At the Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad, India, this week, Microsoft researchers will be talking up advances in overlapped speech recognition that they've achieved. Part of the solution they'…

There’s a Battle Brewing at Google Over Employee Speech. The Outcome Affects Us All.

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www.aclu.org - The outcome of a battle heating up at Google over the limits of employee free speech will have huge consequences for all of us. Will Google shut down internal dissent and silence whistleblowers? Or w…

microsoft/Terminal

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github.com - Welcome! This repository contains the source code for: Please take a few minutes to review the overview below before diving into the code: Windows Terminal is a new, modern, feature-rich, productive …

Digital trends in 2019

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ze-us.xyz - These numbers show the importance of incorporating video into your digital marketing strategy in 2019: And don’t think of YouTube. To observer higher appointment with your video marketing, you can bu…

How Tech Culture Has Changed Since The GDPR

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www.forbes.com - As we approach the one-year anniversary of the GDPR which went into effect on 25 May 2018, we can now review the benefits and pitfalls of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation. While many busin…

Breaking: Google Censors the Claremont Institute

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www.powerlineblog.com - Last week Facebook kicked Milo Yiannopoulos, Alex Jones, Louis Farrakhan and Paul Watson off of their platform because of their extremism. While I have no brief for any of these individuals, I agreed…

Toradex Releases Yocto-based Industrial Linux Software, Torizon

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www.embedded-computing.com - HORW, SWITZERLAND. Toradex has released Torizon, an open-source, Yocto Project-based Linux software platform that simplifies the development of embedded software. Torizon will be free with all Torade…

TPS Consulting Daily

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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Use these Fortune 500 lessons on data governance for your small business Shared by Egnyte medium.com - It’s easy to aspire to be just like a Fortune 500 company — killer quarterly earnings…

OnePlus 7 Pro will be water-resistant, faster with UFS 3.0

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androidcommunity.com - In about a week, the public will finally see what the OnePlus 7 will be all about. The new series consists of the regular OnePlus 7 and the OnePlus 7 Pro variant. This is the first time the Chinese O…

Find out how to save an extra €200 on Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Holy smokes, or should we say heiliger strohsack? Either way, we’re coming back to the Arena Berlin to host TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2019 — two program-packed days focused on early-stage startups ac…

Microsoft launches Visual Studio Online, an online code editor – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft today announced the private preview launch of Visual Studio Online, an online code editor the company is positioning as a companion to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. The service is b…

Apple and Google Play remove three dating apps after FTC warning about underage users – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The Federal Trade Commission said today that Google and Apple have removed three dating apps from their app stores because they could potentially be used by sexual predators to find children. In a pa…

Marshall continues to impress with new retro portable speakers – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Marshall, the headphone company and not the loudspeaker company of the same vintage, today announced two new portable speakers. Like the company’s previous offerings, these speaks ooze a retro vibe. …

Twitter gives Retweets an upgrade – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Twitter is finally letting you do more with Retweets. In a small but useful update rolled out today, Twitter will now allow users to add a photo, video, or GIF to a Retweet, instead of only text. The…

Facebook updates its video guidelines to promote original content, loyal and engaged viewership – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Facebook today announced a series of changes to the way it ranks videos on its social network, which determines how widely they’re distributed. According to the updated guidelines, Facebook will now …

Dropbox adds cold storage layer to reduce cost of storing less frequently accessed files – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Dropbox started shifting workloads away from AWS to its own data centers several years ago because it needed more control over how files were stored and accessed. It developed a storage architecture …

Watch Microsoft’s Build 2019 keynotes right here – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It’s early May and that means it’s time for all the big developer conferences. After Facebook F8 last week, this week, it’s Microsoft’s and Google’s turn, with Microsoft going first. The company is h…

Populus AI CEO, co-founder Regina Clewlow at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Behind all those on-demand shuttles, ride-hailing vehicles, dockless scooters, bikes and someday even autonomous cars is data. A lot of data. Numerous startups have popped up and several large, estab…

Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge browser will get new privacy controls, IE mode and Collections – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft today announced a number of new features for its new Chromium-based Edge browser, which saw its first public release only a few weeks ago. One of these features addresses some worries from …

An Xbox controller with a built-in braille display is Microsoft’s latest gaming accessibility play – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft has been leaning into accessibility in gaming lately, most visibly with its amazing Adaptive Controller, and a new patent suggests another way the company may be accommodating disabled game…

Microsoft’s IntelliCode for AI-assisted coding comes out of preview – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - IntelliCode, Microsoft’s tool for AI-assisted coding, is now generally available. It supports C# and XAML in Visual Studio and Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Python in Visual Studio Code. By defaul…

Microsoft wants you to work less – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft today announced updates to its MyAnalytics platform and a new Outlook feature that are meant to help you work less, find more time to focus on the work that actually matters and, by extensi…

Sendbird snags additional $50M for messaging API tool, as it extends Series B to $102M – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Sendbird, a startup that enables developers to add messaging to their apps with a couple of lines of code, announced a secondary Series B investment of $50 million today. This additional funding come…

Microsoft wants to reinvent documents and collaboration with its new Fluid Framework – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - At its Build developer conference, Microsoft today announced the Fluid Framework, a new software development kit that is meant to help developers build faster and more flexible distributed applicatio…

Show off your developer skills in the Hackathon at Disrupt SF 2019 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - We’re inviting hundreds of think-outside-the-boxers — coders, devs, engineers and tech makers — to compete onsite at the TechCrunch Hackathon, which takes place during Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on O…

Google refreshes Android Auto with new features and a darker look – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Android Auto — the in-car platform that brings the look and functions of a smartphone to the vehicle’s central screen — is getting a new look and improved navigation and communication features that w…

Microsoft and GitHub grow closer – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft’s $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub closed last October. Today, at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft announced a number of new integrations between its existing services and…

Inside Electrify America’s plan to simplify electric car charging

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arstechnica.com - Electrify America, a new national electric vehicle charging network, launched a new mobile app and EV charging membership plans on Monday morning. The company, which is coming to the end of its first…

BlizzCon 2019 tickets revolve around invasive, poorly reviewed smartphone app

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arstechnica.com - BlizzCon, the annual fan expo hosted by game studio Blizzard Entertainment, typically doesn't struggle to sell out—and the event's first wave of tickets did just that on Saturday, May 4. But it wasn'…

Spot the not-Fed: A day at AvengerCon, the Army’s answer to hacker conferences

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arstechnica.com - FORT MEADE, Maryland—Late last year, I was invited to a relatively new hacker event in Maryland. Chris Eagle, a well-known researcher in the field of malware analysis and author of The IDA Pro Book, …

Guidemaster: High-tech gift ideas for Mother’s Day

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arstechnica.com - No physical item can repay your mother for all the love she's sent your way, but Mother's Day is still a good time to give Mom some token of your affection. So, as we've done in the past, we've round…

Firefox add-ons mass-disabled by certificate bug, hotfix (for some) ready

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arstechnica.com - On Friday, the expiration of a Mozilla certificate used to check the signatures of add-on codes in Firefox desktop and Android Web browsers caused a nearly universal failure of Firefox plug-ins and e…

The streaming service that wants to save the retro gaming biz from piracy

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arstechnica.com - A bit more of the game selection. Antstream promises 500 of its 2,000 licensed games will be available at launch, with an average of ten more added each week. Many games will have associated challeng…

Amazon discriminates against pregnant women, seven lawsuits have said

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arstechnica.com - Over the last eight years, Amazon has faced at least seven lawsuits from pregnant women who worked at Amazon warehouses and say they were fired after the company refused to accommodate their needs du…

Microsoft’s plan for Edge: Integrated IE compatibility, better privacy

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft has outlined its plans for the next stage of development for the new Chromium-based Edge browser, and those plans include a trio of new features. The first is a big nod to enterprise custom…

Report: Facebook looking to disrupt credit cards with cryptocurrency

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arstechnica.com - Facebook is considering raising as much as a billion dollars for a new cryptocurrency-based payment network that could compete directly with conventional credit cards, The Wall Street Journal reports…

Refunds for 300 million phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales

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arstechnica.com - The four major US wireless carriers are facing proposed class-action lawsuits accusing them of violating federal law by selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties. The complain…

Microsoft Releases Blockchain Manager App

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cointelegraph.com - Microsoft announced its fully managed Azure Blockchain Service in a press release on May 2. The new blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) platform will purportedly allow users to build blockchain applicatio…

Trust in Facebook Plummets Yet New Approach to Privacy Should Help Small Business Owners

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - Mark Zuckerberg started 2018 with a renewed commitment to bringing people closer together, prioritizing more meaningful interaction, and ensuring time users spend on Facebook was well spent. However,…

CSS masonry with flexbox, :nth-child(), and order

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tobiasahlin.com - On the surface it seems fairly easy to create a masonry layout with flexbox; all you need to do is set flex-flow to column wrap and voilà, you have a masonry layout. Sort of. The problem with this ap…

Shifting the mindset on accessibility in design

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www.mynameisjehad.com - In the software industry, much of the discussion around accessibility is around compliance and cost. When we talk cost, we’re referring to the actual dollars we’re losing or the cost of fixing the ac…

Google Confirms It Will Automatically Delete Your Data -- What You Need To Know

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www.forbes.com - Ahead of the annual Google I/O developer festival opening its doors on Tuesday, Google has already made one major announcement: it will soon start deleting your data automatically. Writing in the off…

Scrub Google of Your College Mistakes With This Extremely Necessary Service

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www.inverse.com - You go online to look up the hours of the pizza place down the street and see an ad for a medication that matches the diagnoses you received two weeks ago. Wow, that’s creepy, you think, but you move…

Google Is Probably Tracking Your Location Right Now—Here’s How to Stop That

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mentalfloss.com - When news broke that a tool called the Location History Visualizer could use Google data to create a heat map of all the places you’ve ever been, it was met with equal parts fascination and trepidati…

See the WiFi Passwords for Every Network You've Connected to With this Android App

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lifehacker.com - I tend to change gadgets a lot more than most people, which means when I visit friends with a laptop or tablet in-tow it’s more than likely not the same laptop or tablet I had the last time I was the…

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 coming to the UK, here’s when exactly

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androidcommunity.com - This is going to happen tomorrow: Xiaomi launching the new Redmi Note 7 in the UK. After numerous leaks and teasers, the Chinese OEM is announcing a new flagship. The phone will be unveiled in the Un…

Honor 20 phone arriving soon with other variants

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androidcommunity.com - The first time we heard about the Honor 20 was earlier in March when specs and latest images surfaced on Weibo. It was expected to arrive with the Honor 20i with three color variants. The phones are …

LG G8 ThinQ Durability Test: See how the phone fares

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androidcommunity.com - All durability tests tell us one thing–well, the strength of a smartphone. JerryRigEverything knows what he’s doing and the process he does the Scratch, Burn, and Bend Tests is always appreciated. Th…

Huawei P Smart Z sighted on Amazon ahead of the official launch

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androidcommunity.com - A couple of weeks ago, the Huawei P Smart Z with pop-up selfie camera image renders surfaced online. The phone is different from the Huawei P Smart 2019 Edition announced with dual AI cameras and a d…

Libre Music is a music player app that has CUE sheet support

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androidcommunity.com - While there are already a lot of music streaming apps like Spotify, Pandora, YouTube Music, that makes our music listening life a bit easier, there are still those who prefer to listen to music files…

Honor 20 Lite debuts with triple rear cams, 32MP selfie shooter

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androidcommunity.com - Huawei’s sub-brand is as prolific as its mother company. We noted earlier the Honor 20 variants are arriving with other variants. The Honor 20 Lite is here and it’s slightly different from the Honor …

4 major US carriers facing lawsuit over selling of location data

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androidcommunity.com - Four of the biggest mobile carriers in the US are now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that they were selling their customers’ location data to bounty hunters and low level law enforcem…

Google Fi charges Pixel 3 phone owners full price by mistake

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androidcommunity.com - If you are subscribed to Google Fi (formerly Project Fi) and are using the Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL, you may want to check your account. Some consumers have been complaining of being charged for the ful…

OnePlus urged to drop the file manager cleanup feature

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androidcommunity.com - OnePlus wants to know if you want the file manager feature kept. The last OnePlus 6/6T open beta update brings the file cleanup. This allows a OnePlus phone owner to manage storage. It’s like any oth…

Facebook to discontinue Bonfire app by May

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androidcommunity.com - By now, we’ve probably gotten used to the fact that Facebook will come out with apps that are suspiciously similar to the current popular social media app. And then later on, when their app doesn’t c…

Samsung files patent for Galaxy Buds with changeable batteries

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung always wants to one-up its staunchest rival Apple not just with smartphones but even with accessories and peripherals. Their Galaxy Buds were an obvious competitor to the Apple AirPods. But n…

Loyalty360 Reads: May 6, 2019

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loyalty360.org - Forbes Seven Tips for Successful Customer Loyalty Programs in 2019 Forbes has published a fun shortlist of tips for today’s loyalty programs. One highlight: “Offer Easy Ways to Earn and Redeem Points…

Is YouTube Even Worth it Anymore? Life after Getting Serious about Video

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - I’ve had a YouTube channel since 2009. But for most of that time, I didn’t really take this platform all that seriously. That all changed in February 2018. Since then, I’ve jumped into the deep end w…

Android Auto is Getting a New Design this Summer - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google announced that it is launching a major design overhaul of Android Auto that will roll out to all compatible automobiles this summer. “The new interface is built to help you get on the road fas…

Data Recovery Should Be Common Place Business Practice And Here̢۪s Why

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www.bitrebels.com - In an ever-increasing continual shift to complete electronic communication, being able to recover data is an essential part of any organization’s information technology setup. We’ve all seen the unfo…

Key local stats every marketer needs to know - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Local is the Rodney Dangerfield of digital marketing; it simply doesn’t get the respect it deserves. But when we look at the totality of the data, it becomes clear that the majority of brands and ret…

Fox News: The Masters of the Universe Violate Americans' Civil Rights | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Ned Ryun, the CEO of American Majority, argued in a column on Monday that the recent bannings of conservative figures by Facebook should spark a debate about the level of power that social media comp…

Perspective | Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time

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www.washingtonpost.com - By Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler Technology columnist based in San Francisco Email Bio Follow Technology columnist May 6 at 9:00 AM Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep th…

How to Measure Your Instagram Stories ROI: Advanced Techniques

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Are your Instagram stories helping you reach your business goals? Wondering how to dig deeper into your Instagram stories’ performance? In this article, you’ll learn how to combine Instagram Insights…

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