Tuesday, May 31, 2016

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TECHNOLOGY

The TV industry will unravel faster than you think. — Lightspeed Venture Partners




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Mike Elgan




medium.com - I appeared on Cheddar TV a few weeks ago to talk about venture capital, virtual reality, and a few other topics with Jon Steinberg and his team. Cheddar is building an internet-native news network:...

24 Cool Tech Startups You Should Know About This Year




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Michael




inc.com - Earlier this month, I attended TechCrunch Disrupt NY, an annual startup conference at which many tech-related startups showcase their offerings, including some new products and services that first ...

Crypto-ransomware Attacks Windows 7 and Later, Scraps Backward Compatibility - TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog




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Paul Thurrott




blog.trendmicro.com - How do you know that something has become very popular? Simple – when poorly-made knockoff versions start to hit the marketplace. Ransomware, it seems, has hit that point. The writers behind the ne...

Michael Schack Plays This




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drummerMichaelSchack




playsthis.com - Depending on the project or gig, I have five different setups. And each one has a name :) For the SquarElectric and my solo SmashUp shows, I’m playing Roland TD-30KV V-Drums combined with two SPD-3...

Lean Startup Circle - Montreal




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Michael




meetup.com - Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. What works? What doesn't? It's entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs helping each other. Lean Star...

Backpack VR PCs are now a thing: MSI, HP, and Zotac unveil new models




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.co.uk - Now, I know what you're thinking, and yes, you could just pick up a powerful gaming laptop—one of those GTX 980-based ones should do the trick—stick some shoulder straps on it, and call it a day. I...

Iran's new data policy could mean end of local access to Telegram app




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Jefferson Faudan




mashable.com - One of the popular messaging apps in Iran, Telegram, will soon be forced to hand over user data to local government authorities, according to reports. The rule, initiated by Iran's Supreme Council ...

Ferrari just built a one-off supercar for a very lucky (and rich) British buyer




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LeVar Thomas




mashable.com - Turns out, Ferrari will make you a one-of-one car, if you ask nicely — and pay dearly, I presume. SEE ALSO: Maserati's Ghibli S Q4 sparkles, bellows and dazzles. But is it any good? Ferrari just un...

Ford ready to innovate, but not at the expense of customer needs




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Jefferson Faudan




mashable.com - RANCHOS PALOS VERDES — Ford wants to innovate, but not at the expense of its customers and core business. That's the core takeaway from Ford CEO Mark Fields' sit down on Monday with Recode's Kara S...

Facebook spares humans by fighting offensive photos with AI




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Facebook’s artificial intelligence systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, marking a major milestone in the social network’s battle against abuse, the company tells me. AI could qu...

Would Apple really change the design cycle of the iPhone?




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Dũng Gờ




mashable.com - One of the confounding things about the latest swath of Apple rumors is that most of the information leaking out isn't even about the 2016 iPhone — the iPhone 7 — but about the one after that. You...

Help Google help you optimize your content for search




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Chris Abraham




biznology.com - It’s really hard to get Google’s attention. Content marketing is indeed a silver bullet — why do you think I’m writing this — but there are ways of wooing search engines beyond starting a blog. Goo...

Facebook may add end-to-end encryption to Messenger, report says




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Jefferson Faudan




mashable.com - Facebook Messenger may follow WhatsApp in implementing stronger encryption, according to a new report. The social network could add end-to-end encryption to its Messenger app later this year, even...

Australia is putting traffic lights in the ground because you're glued to your phone




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Jefferson Faudan




mashable.com - For the average pedestrian, it's immensely hard to look up from an Instagram scroll when you need to, say, cross a four-lane freeway. That's why the New South Wales state government is looking to t...

Microsoft working on FlashBack to deliver high-quality VR




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - The year 2016 is when virtual reality will finally take its flight. We've seen a few VR headsets already but the industry has yet to become more common. The smartwatch is already in that level afte...

UX Flowchart Cards: Easily Plan Your Website Structure - only $24! - MightyDeals




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Webdesigner Depot




mightydeals.com - UX Flowchart Cards: Easily Plan Your Website Structure - only $24! Please select... Cards + $6 worldwide shipping: $30 Worldwide shipping - $5 Please select... Cards + $6 worldwide shipping: $30 Bu...

Get fit for summer with these workout apps




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Summer is almost here, which means…it’s time to download some workout apps! TechCrunch tested out dozens of the best fitness apps and we narrowed it down to our three favorites. Sworkit is perfect ...

Periscope introduces real-time comment moderation




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Livestreaming app Periscope is rolling out a new experiment with real-time comment moderation, the company announced today. While its parent company Twitter has struggled over the years with spam a...

Inventory shortages may herald rebirth of Apple’s aging Thunderbolt Display




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Apple’s Thunderbolt Display, first introduced in the summer of 2011, may be getting a refresh at WWDC, if inventory shortages at retail stores are any indication. Just try getting one at your local...

Simply Hired is shutting down June 26, reportedly as part of an acquisition




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Simply Hired — a job search engine with 30 million monthly users that is active in 24 countries and 12 languages — is shutting down on June 26, with one report claiming that at least some of the co...

The app to nowhere




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Lorelei Kelly leads the Resilient Democracy Coalition, a group working to make sure Congress succeeds in the Information Age. Smartphone apps have improved convenience for public transportation in ...

Not all startups need the bright lights of the big city




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Ben Fischberg is an investment banker at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he focuses on the technology sector. His interest in tech in the developing world has motivated him to live in Rwanda a...

Xiaomi inks Microsoft patent deal and agrees to pre-install Office apps on its phones




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Xiaomi is moving closer to launching its smartphones in the U.S. market. Today the Chinese company announced a partnership with Microsoft that includes a cross-license and patent transfer agreement...

Instagram officially announces its new business tools




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Instagram this morning officially announced the launch of its tools for business users, including new business profiles, analytics and the ability to turn Instagram posts into ads directly from the...

Microsoft confirms Microsoft Ventures VC arm, renames old one ‘Microsoft Accelerator’




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - As Google moves ahead to develop its Area 120 in-house incubator program, Microsoft is also looking to get more of its startup ducks in a row. On Monday, the company quietly, officially unveiled Mi...

With its new wireless ecosystem, Mophie wants to remove cords from your life




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - More often than not, mobile devices are a permanent dash from power socket to power socket. Mophie is the #1 brand in extending your range between charges, and with the launch of “Charge Force”, th...

Robin makes the office smarter with $7 million in new funding




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - One of the first-world problems most plaguing the new corporate world is the time wasted trying to find and secure a meeting room. At least, that’s the premise Robin is based on. Robin is a company...

Energysquare is a wireless phone charging pad that doesn’t use induction




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TechCrunch




techcrunch.com - Meet Energysquare, a thin charging pad so that you don’t have to plug your phone charger ever again. Energysquare doesn’t rely on induction like most wireless chargers out there. Instead, Energysqu...

AMD Bristol Ridge APUs: Same Carrizo design, 20 percent more performance




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - AMD has fully taken the wraps off its brand new seventh generation APU architecture Bristol Ridge, which it announced earlier this year. It promises users around a 20 percent boost in CPU performan...

Asus Avalon is a bold, cable-free DIY PC




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - Thanks to standardised components and simplified operating systems (RIP MS-DOS), building a PC isn't all that difficult these days—so long as you're comfortable with wielding a Phillips head screwd...

No Man’s Anger: A peaceful game’s delay sparks online hate




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - As someone who has been immersed in gaming and Internet culture for decades, I'm no stranger to how fans with enflamed passions can spew some heated and at times hateful rhetoric about their favori...

AMD Radeon RX 480 revealed: Polaris debuts in a £160/$200 card designed for VR




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - AMD's first Polaris-based graphics card is here: the Radeon RX 480. Rather than launch a high-end card to compete with the likes of Nvidia's GTX 1080 or 1070, AMD's RX 480 is pitched at the wider m...

Fallout 4 on Xbox One gets mod support today




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - For decades, PC gaming elitists have lorded their ability to download imaginative game mods over their dirty console gaming peasant cousins. That advantage goes away today... at least for one major...

How can billiards work in VR? PoolNation has an answer




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - The motion-sports craze has given us approximations of just about every pub game, parlor game, and lawn sport, from darts to bowling to bocce. But one Western real-gaming staple somehow never got a...

Intel’s post tick-tock “Kaby Lake” CPUs definitely coming later this year




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Ars Technica




arstechnica.com - New enthusiast CPUs include new tech and more cores but stick with old chipsets. Intel's main Computex announcement was the launch of its high-end (and high-cost) Broadwell-E chips, but the company...

5 Things Beginning Bloggers Struggle With the Most




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Larry Wentz




blogherald.com - Ever since Justin Hall launched the first blog in 1994 with links.net, blogging has redefined the way people publish and share the written word. Now, Huffington Post is the most popular blog on the...

Will Facebook Messenger Chat Bots Replace Humans?




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Reg Saddler




adweek.com - As a natural response to Facebook’s push to get more pages to use Messenger as a platform, brands are developing chat bots to handle customer service. How well is this working? At the Socialbakers ...

10 Years Ago Hollywood Awoke The Pirate Bay 'Beast' - TorrentFreak




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Reg Saddler

torrentfreak.com - Most of the site’s current users are probably unaware that without a few essential keystrokes in the site’s early years, The Pirate Bay may have not been here today. May 31, 2006, less than three y...

Pump Express 3.0 battery charging tech charges to 70% in 20 minutes




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - Still a huge problem for a lot of mobile users is the fact that the more high tech their phone becomes and the more features the OEMs bring, the faster our batteries drain. They still haven’t figur...

OnePlus opens The Lab as OnePlus 3 Peer Review Program




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - OnePlus has yet to launch the OnePlus 3 but the Chinese company is already launching The Lab. This is an effort to get help from the whole OnePlus community to give feedback on the upcoming new sma...

Samsung to reportedly launch Mini Pay app for online transactions




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - While Samsung Pay is still trying to establish itself in the midst of stiff competition from Android Pay and Apple Pay, rumors of a secondary product are already making the rounds. Sources are sayi...

mophie Charge Force gives the Galaxy S7 a magnetic personality




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - When mophie revealed the juice pack for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge last February, it came with a rather puzzling feature. It boasted of wireless charging capabilities that Samsung's flagships...

Samsung Pay partners with Citibank ahead of Singapore launch




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - Samsung Pay is set to make its debut in other countries aside from South Korea and the US later this year. They would need to as they are already behind their competitors like Apple Pay and Android...

Tiny Towers now back on Google Play Store under new listing




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Android Community




androidcommunity.com - Five years ago, when Tiny Towers first made its way into our smartphones, we could not stop letting these pixelated little characters into various buildings. But for some reason, it was published u...

Sigma boosts AF speed of 150-600mm f/5-6.3 lenses by up to ‘50%’




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Greg Wilson




amateurphotographer.co.uk - Customers can install the free firmware update via a Sigma USB dock (using Sigma Optimization Pro software) or by contacting the company directly (for details, see below). The update applies to bot...

Customer Experience Metrics Strong at GameStop




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Loyalty 360




loyalty360.org - Customer experience is seen as a key differentiator today among loyalty marketers. For GameStop, that is certainly the case, as CEO Paul Raines attested to during the company’s fourth quarter earni...

The Connected Consumer: Integrating Car And Home




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Loyalty 360




loyalty360.org - Since the dawn of the smartphone, consumers around the world have been on a lightning fast path towards ubiquitous connectivity. Almost a third of U.K. consumers feel it’s essential to always be re...

Rocky Brands goes with Clutch for Unique Loyalty Program Development




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Loyalty 360




loyalty360.org - Part of designing a successful loyalty program is knowing the audience. Program features that attract some members may be the same things that drive others away. Rocky Brands, maker of a wide varie...

Customers Looking for More Social Loyalty Programs




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Loyalty 360




loyalty360.org - In the age of social media and digital connection, customers everywhere are looking to connect with one another more than ever before. From linking social accounts, to competing with friends to see...

Point Shout : Mobile App to Listen, Engage and React to Customers' Needs - Start-Ups.Co




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Debbas




start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Ionut Danifeld”, Co-Founder at the Brussels – Belgium based start-up “PointShout” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you d...