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What's in a Droid: Getting to the Heart of the Galaxy's Greatest Companions | StarWars.com
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starwars.com - Whether they’re being denied entry to a sleazy cantina or serving as punching bags for irritable Imperial officers, one terrible fact has rung far too true throughout the growing history of Star Wa...
I think about stuff in there too • /r/cats
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Jason Frovich
reddit.com - 1. Cats! Post pictures of your cats, talk about cats, ask questions, get advice. 2. We prefer that if you post photos, it be of your own cat(s) or one(s) you personally know. If clearly stated, pho...
Behind The Streams The Video Revolution Is Upon Us And The Deck Is Stacked Against You
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David Moffly
baeblemusic.com - In the video space, it has been a busy couple of months. Mergers, acquisitions, new channels, announcements on blast; it is all happening so fast you really need to a scorecard in erasable ink to k...
Netizens threaten to close accounts at BPI over Sen. Trillanes expose
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Jefferson Faudan
newscentral.ph - Netizens have threatened to close their accounts at Bank of the Philippines Islands (BPI) following the expose of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV that presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo D...
SearchCap: Bing Ads updates, latest Windows 10 release & the Jelly relaunch
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Brett Prince
searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Maximizing your mobile impact Apr 29, 2016 by Amy Bishop Sea...
Leica's new crazy expensive digital camera doesn't have an LCD screen
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Jefferson Faudan
mashable.com - A digital camera with no LCD screen? Who the heck would buy such a camera in 2016? That's the question, Leica surely asked itself when it decided to create the M-D (Typ 262), its newest rangefinder...
Joe Biden lost $10 betting a Cadillac was quicker than a Tesla
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - It was old school versus new school. And new school won. SEE ALSO: Ford's Tesla Model 3 competitor could be called the 'Model E' Vice President Joe Biden visited the Vatican recently, and, in true ...
Microsoft wants to connect all your favorite apps with Flow
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - There are so many different apps, programs and services we use on a daily basis, or even a minute-by-minute basis. Navigating through all those different things, while important, can be annoying. E...
7 Reasons to Start a Business While in College
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Reg Saddler
entrepreneur.com - I started my business in 1999 while a student in college. There were pros and cons, but I’m largely thankful for the experience and would recommend it to other aspiring entrepreneurs. Here are seve...
Google’s OnHub Router now supports IFTTT
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We're excited to see how big companies will work on the smart home arena. We've been saying that this will be the year of smart home tech so expect more related products and services to be introduc...
TiVo is getting acquired by Rovi for $1.1 billion
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techcrunch.com - You might not know Rovi, but the company is apparently quite big as it is acquiring TiVo for $1.1 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. Rovi holds a bunch of patents related to the entertainment indust...
No, Google did not try to buy us, says Telegram founder
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techcrunch.com - Reports in the Russian press that Google tried to acquire the Telegram messaging app last year for $1 billion have been firmly rebutted by Telegram founder Pavel Durov. The rumors had been widely r...
Review: Razer Blade Stealth is a svelte machine with potential
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techcrunch.com - It’s hard to figure out what the Blade Stealth is for, since it’s an ultrabook that really wants to be a gaming machine, but at first, can’t. With no real gaming capabilities other than the Core i7...
Windows 95 on the Apple Watch features the world’s most twee Start button
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Big, complex things running on tiny things is a common theme this week. Earlier we had a hack that put Counter-Strike on Android Wear, and today some maniac has installed Windows 95 on his Apple Wa...
The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee
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Guy Kawasaki
news.nationalgeographic.com - It’s the world’s most expensive coffee, and it’s made from poop. Or rather, it’s made from coffee beans that are partially digested and then pooped out by the civet, a catlike creature. A cup of ko...
Snapchat Scores Unique Deal With NBC to Showcase Olympics
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Guy Kawasaki
bloomberg.com - The Olympics are coming to Snapchat. The app scored a deal with Comcast Corp.’s NBC to show highlights from the 2016 Summer Games, the first time the U.S. network has agreed to share video of the s...
Verizon: Network sabotage during strike disrupted thousands of customers
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Verizon says its network has suffered 57 incidents of vandalism in seven states in the two weeks since 36,000 workers went on strike. The "incidents of sabotage," mostly involving the severing of f...
Jesus Marketing: How To Sell 5000 Books in Four Weeks
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Larry Wentz
taylorpearson.me - In January, I wrote an essay on How and Why I’m writing a book in 2015. In July I released that book, The End of Jobs. Here’s a brief breakdown of what has happened since the book came out: Nine mo...
Discussing the Importance of Mobile Apps • Inspired Magazine
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Webdesigner Depot
inspiredm.com - Since the first mobile applications started to appear in 2010, consumers have embraced their flexibility to a major extent. These days, we’re all using mobile apps on a daily basis, carrying out ma...
Designing a Customer Strategy Focused on Genuine Loyalty
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Reg Saddler
entrepreneur.com - Apply now to be an Enterpreneur360™ company and let us tell the world your success story. Get Started » By definition, the word “loyalty” means allegiance, faithfulness, or devotion. So it seems i...
Periscope: How Your Business Can Benefit From Live Video : Social Media Examiner
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Reg Saddler
socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to use it to connect with and grow your audience? To discover how to use Periscope for your business, I interview Kim Garst. The Social Media Marketing podcast is an on-demand talk radio show ...
Rugged phone case renders for Moto G4 prove earlier leaks
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We've been seeing leaked images and information about the Moto X but we also said that it could be the Moto G4. We're undecided if it's the X or the G but there is a possibility that both will be i...
Apple Music for Android now plays music videos, has family plan
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androidcommunity.com - Having an Apple Music app on your Android device may still seem like a strange thing for people, but yes, it has been here the past few months. And just because it is technically a “rival”, it does...
Twitter is now a 'news' app in the Apple store
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mashable.com - Twitter's app is leaving behind the crowded field of social networking apps to take a more prominent place in the news fray. The social network's iOS app has migrated from the "social networking" l...
Peoplegeist: A 100% Free Social People Search Engine that Puts You in Complete Control of What Others See and Learn about You Online - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Peoplegeist is, simply put, designed to make it easier to find information about people for the purpose of forming and maintaining stronger relationships. “Peoplegeist” is a social people search en...
Codility.com: An Automated Tool for Assessment of Programming Skills - Start-Ups.Co
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start-ups.co - Codility is an automated tool for assessment of programming skills. As per Mrs. Sobantka; Codility is an automated tool for assessment of programming skills. Codility is designed for software devel...
Marketing Day: IAB's LEAN scoring, Echo/Alexa sales & LinkedIn's earnings report
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: IAB releases 2016 plan to develop LEAN scoring, its ...
IAB releases 2016 plan to develop LEAN scoring, its effort to take on ad blocking
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Brett Prince
marketingland.com - The IAB Tech Lab announced more on how it plans to execute its LEAN ads scoring system that will be used to evaluate ad experiences on digital properties. LEAN, which stands for Light, Encrypted, A...
10 tips for successful Pinterest advertising
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Travis Wright
marketingland.com - Pinterest has always been about the sharing and discovery of ideas. It’s also becoming quite the powerful advertising platform to drive performance marketing through the concept of idea discovery. ...
What are Sitelinks and how should you be using them?
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Stephan Stavrakis
portent.com - One of the most commonly used ad extensions available in Google AdWords, Sitelink Extensions provides advertisers the ability to promote additional links to their website within a singular PPC ad. ...
Snapchat's First E-Commerce Ads From Target and Lancome Go Live
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Stephan Stavrakis
adweek.com - After slowly testing more interactive ads in recent months, Snapchat is open for e-commerce. Lancome and Target started running shoppable ads today within Cosmopolitan's Discover channel—the hub of...
Mobile Game Roundup: Spellbinders, War Tortoise and More
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Tom Maduri
adweek.com - Mobile Game Roundup: Spellbinders, War Tortoise and More If you’re looking for a new mobile game to try this weekend, you have plenty of new options available, including Disney Magical Dice from Ne...
Google Hires Ex-Motorola Chief To Head New Hardware Division - InformationWeek
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informationweek.com - Google has hired former Motorola Mobility President Rick Osterloh as its new senior vice president of hardware, as the company creates a unified hardware group to bring its vast array of devices, f...
2 Suppliers That Are Too Exposed to Apple Inc. | Fox Business
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Jefferson Faudan
fool.com - Apple recently disappointed investors with a 13% year-over-year sales decline during its second quarter. iPhone sales, which accounted for nearly two-thirds of its top line, fell 18% -- representin...
The Strategy Dashboard for Gamification Design
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Yu-kai Chou
yukaichou.com - (Below is a snippet of Gamification Book: Actionable Gamification – Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards. If you like this blog post, you will LOVE the book.) At this point, we have a built a st...
Coach Reportedly Launching Designer Apple Watch Bands
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Jason Frovich
iphonehacks.com - The Apple Watch already has a lineup of designer bands for Apple’s most personal device to date, but the lineup could be expanding yet again. According to a report published initially by David Bogl...
Elisabeth Moss to star in Hulu adaptation of 'The Handmaid's Tale'
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LeVar Thomas
mashable.com - The digital network today announced that the Mad Men alum will star in its adaption of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, which on Friday also received a straight-to-series order. The show will...
Apple Launches a 'Reimagined and Redesigned' Dedicated Support Site
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Jason Frovich
iphonehacks.com - Apple Support is one of the bedrocks of the Cupertino-based company, and now that dedicated arm has a brand new site to brag about. The new dedicated site is a big overhaul from the old iteration. ...
Amplified Robot CEO Lays Out a Case for the Role of AR/VR in Retail
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Future Lighting
streetfightmag.com - Like any nascent technology, virtual and augmented reality lack an “approachability” — a concrete applicability that can complement the operations of the everyday business. It’s all well and good f...
USB Cooling Fan LED Light Cooler Pad for Laptop
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Future Lighting
trademe.co.nz - Introductions: Anyone in need of a nice portable cooling pad, may be in luck. Thanks to this cooling cooler pad . It has a sleek and lightweight design that makes it perfect for packing in your bag...
The Boomer Approach To Online Privacy And Security | hide.me
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Tamara Dull
hide.me - Online privacy and security are issues that everyone troubles themselves with these days. With the number of cases of identity theft and data breaches reported in blogs and news platforms on the in...
Twitter just killed off the most useful Twitter account
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Jason Cramer
theverge.com - So much happens on Twitter that it can be impossible to keep track of, even if you're staring at it for hours a day. That's what made MagicRecs so useful. It was an account Twitter created that sen...
Elorza: Streetlight conversion to save $3 million a year
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Future Lighting
wpri.com - PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza formally launched a plan Friday to convert the city’s streetlights to light-emitting diode fixtures, or LEDs. The mayor got together with the...
RETAIL TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATION TOUCHSCREEN FUTURISTIC CONCEPT
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shutterstock.com - All Images All Images Photos Vectors Illustrations Footage Music search Refine Your Search Only Images with People Exclude People Any Gender Male Female Both Any Age Infants Children Teenagers Age ...
German city embeds LED red lights into sidewalks for smartphone addicts
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Tamara Dull
arstechnica.com - Distracted smartphone users will be alerted about when it's safe to cross the road, after a neat pilot traffic light system was launched in a German city. Authorities in the city of Augsburg—which ...
erp-systems-government-contractors-increasing-transparency
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abouttmc.com - A common use for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems is helping government contractors meet stricter standards for transparency. Every time you turn around, the media runs a story on how org...
New Microsoft beta lets workers build their own apps without coding
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cio.co.nz - Employees that need access to certain business data on the go can now build their own app for it using a tool from Microsoft that went into public beta on Friday. The company has announced that it'...
Media Freeware - Download our Free Business Card Maker
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Dany
mediafreeware.com - The Free Business Card Maker is a simple software tool that can be used to create various types of cards such as contact cards, business cards, ID cards and so forth. This software tool is designed...
How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code
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qz.com - A man in Oakland, California, disrupted web development around the world last week by deleting 11 lines of code. The story of how 28-year-old Azer Koçulu briefly broke the internet shows how writin...
Traffic lights in sidewalks for phone-distracted pedestrians
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boingboing.net - This video reminds me of a scene from Road Warrior. Homestead, Florida police charged motorcyclist Rone Gonzalez, 23, with misdemeanor reckless driving and auto driver Kristiian Rosa, 30, with felo...
