Thursday, June 02, 2016

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TECHNOLOGY

Commons technology and the right to a democratic city — Enspiral Tales

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medium.com - Julian Assange joined the conference by videocall from his ongoing captivity in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, reducing the auditorium to a state of religious silence. Pablo Soto (free software ...

The entire history of iPhone vs. Android summed up in two charts

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theverge.com - When the time comes to tell future generations about the epic mobile contest between Apple's iPhone and Google's Android OS, Mary Meeker's 2016 Internet Trends report will serve as a great overview...

Elon Musk just explained how Tesla's future really comes down to its battery technology

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techinsider.io - Batteries aren't exactly the most interesting thing to talk about, but Tesla CEO Elon Musk put into perspective the important role they will play in Tesla's future. Speaking at Vox Media's Code Con...

Apple TV: Should You Create An App?

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thinkapps.com - Wondering whether you should build an Apple TV app? Read on to find out whether it’s right for you. The Apple TV has been around for quite some time. In fact, it was introduced back in 2007, when t...

Snapchat will soon redesign its Discover section, reports say

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mashable.com - Snapchat is getting ready to redesign a big section of its app. The company will soon roll out a redesigned version of its Discover page, according to multiple reports. The new design will reported...

Audi says its new 354-horsepower S5 Coupé has 'high tech everywhere'

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mashable.com - The king of the tech-centric Teutonic coupes is back. SEE ALSO: BMW refocuses i brand on driverless cars instead of EVs, report says Audi pulled the covers off both its all-new A5 and S5 Coupé on T...

Acer's Chromebook 14 is the best Chromebook $300 can buy

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mashable.com - There's never been a better time to get a Chromebook. It's not Google's fault Chromebooks have taken half a decade to be considered worthy replacements for regular full-fledged laptops running OS X...

Jake Gyllenhaal reportedly reunites with Ubisoft for 'The Division' movie

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mashable.com - Ubisoft is happy enough with the success of Tom Clancy's The Division to let its motion pictures group develop a big screen story, and Jake Gyllenhaal is reportedly attached to star in and produce ...

Allrecipes Uses Beacon Technology To Offer An Enhanced Shopping Experience And Answer The Perpetual Question: What's For Dinner Tonight?

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prnewswire.com - "Marc's and our chain of stores are excited to be a part of this collaborative effort that brings together meal solutions, the grocery experience, and digital to the forefront of our customers' sho...

Computex 2016: AMD A-Series CPUs, Radeon RX Graphics, and Zen - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - While AMD long ago ceded the high-end of the PC microprocessor market to Intel, the firm has plans for a big comeback later this year with its Zen processor architecture. In the meantime, AMD is ma...

Wow—Facebook Ads on 3rd Party Sites for Non-Users

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wordstream.com - She is many advertisers’ dream girl. She’s a full-time housewife, armed with a healthy wallet and plenty of time to peruse the internet. Moreover, she lovingly serves as a part-time personal assist...

BMW refocuses i brand on driverless cars instead of EVs, report says

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mashable.com - Who would have ever thought BMW, the "Ultimate Driving Machine" brand, would someday view autonomous tech as paramount to electrified vehicles? SEE ALSO: For Volvo, driverless cars won't mean the e...

Xiaomi Mi Band 2 is a display-equipped fitness tracker for $23

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mashable.com - Xiaomi, China's electronics manufacturer known for solid products with extremely low price tags, has launched a successor to its popular Mi Band fitness tracker: the Mi Band 2. The device is a pre...

Buy a new Samsung phone from Verizon, get a 50-inch Smart TV or Gear VR

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androidcommunity.com - Mother's Day is over and so is Memorial Day. You may have shopped for new gadgets past holidays for your loved ones but another round of promos is being offered by Samsung and Verizon Wireless for ...

It’s been over a decade since Valve first promised Half-Life 2: Episode 3

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arstechnica.com - Well what do you know? We were so busy playing and talking about Overwatch this week that we failed to note an important vaporware milestone on Tuesday. Just over ten years ago, on May 24, 2006, Va...

Elon Musk doesn’t think Google will compete with Tesla — but Apple could

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techcrunch.com - Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk is watching the competition closely — including electric cars from existing manufacturers, and of course, potentially Apple. But he said at Vox Media’s Code Conference th...

Facebook to enable community-activated Safety Check

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is making its Safety Check feature more stable and easier to deploy, which means that you might start seeing more Safety Checks on the platform. Before today, engineers had to type code to...

Wype will come clean your car in situ

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techcrunch.com - Recently, I wrote about Wyper, the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, cofounder of Wype, to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disa...

Hands-on with Ricoh’s new waterproof action cam, WG-M2

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techcrunch.com - When you think action cams, any number of brands spring to mind. Ricoh may not be one of them, but on paper, the WG-M2 from Ricoh has the perfect combination of features if you like your adventures...

Dear auto entrepreneurs, please think outside the gearbox

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techcrunch.com - With Tesla’s growing popularity, Uber’s continued global expansion, incessant rumors of Apple’s entry into transit, the ascent of drones, Google’s exploration of self-driving cars and the billion-d...

13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week

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techcrunch.com - It was a short week with big news, as tech headlines saw two monster enterprise acquisitions, Mary Meeker released the annual Internet Trends Report, and Uber got a its biggest round of funding yet...

Let it beep: Google’s self-driving cars may now honk, hum, and ‘pip’

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techcrunch.com - The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is a yearly competition in which writers attempt to create the worst possible opening sentence to a novel. Google, for several reasons, should enter this year — in...

Google AI produces a melody that rivals the Casio keyboard concerts of our youth

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techcrunch.com - It’s 1989. Your parents are watching the Berlin Wall being torn down, but you’re upstairs in your room, fresh batteries in your Casio SA-1, prepping for your concert. The built-in beats are hot. Yo...

Y Combinator accepts Women Who Code

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techcrunch.com - Women Who Code is the latest diversity non-profit to enter Y Combinator, the Silicon Valley accelerator that has helped produce companies like Airbnb, Dropbox, Stripe and Instacart. Although Y Comb...

Want your app to be #1 on the App Store? Just give away a free sandwich

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techcrunch.com - Chick-fil-A just launched Chick-fil-A One, their new app that offers mobile payments, order ahead, a rewards program, and more. Specifically, customers will be able to customize their order on the ...

Tile raises $18 million to make personal belongings easy to find

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techcrunch.com - To help people find lost, stolen or misplaced personal effects with the proverbial touch of a button, a startup called Tile has raised $18 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Ventur...

Ken Segall, Dave McClure, Julia Hartz at The Europas – Voting ends today!

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techcrunch.com - With less than 2 weeks to go to this year’s The Europas Startup Conference and Awards — the new type of tech conference devised in partnership with TechCrunch — I’m delighted to announce the full s...

Four hundred miles with Tesla’s autopilot forced me to trust the machine

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arstechnica.com - As we pulled back into the showroom (or whatever Texas’ insane dealership protection laws demand Tesla call the places it’s not allowed to sell or service vehicles), I told the rep that I was drivi...

Musk’s remarks at conference imply Tesla has huge autonomous car advantage

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arstechnica.com - On Wednesday night Elon Musk grandly told audiences at the Code 2016 conference that we might be living in a simulated universe. That comment has certainly sparked attention, but he said something ...

Clinton’s e-mail scandal another case of the entitled executive syndrome

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arstechnica.com - On Wednesday, the inspector general of the Department of State issued a scathing report on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private mail server during her tenure there, further ...

How to Get Your Slice From Slideshare’s 70 Million Monthly Visitors

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neilpatel.com - Do you know that over 80% of Slideshare’s 70 million monthly visitors come from targeted search? This indicates that Slideshare is a great opportunity to get your brand tremendous exposure and buil...

How to build email subscribers from social media

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razorsocial.com - I remember reading an article years ago about email being dead. When you share something out on social media channels typically less than 5% of people actually get to see it. If you’re sharing on e...

Pictograms and symbols: how branding and visual language has to adapt in a digital age

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itsnicethat.com - Lee Coomber is creative director for Europe and Middle East for creative consultancy Lippincott. Here he tells us how branding and visual language is adapting to the digital, on-demand age through ...

Ratatouille Sketched: 130+ Hand-Drawn Vector Elements - only $7! - MightyDeals

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mightydeals.com - Ratatouille Sketched: 130+ Hand-Drawn Vector Elements - only $7! Meet the Ratatouille Sketched, a set of hand-made vector illustrations and seamless patterns. Varied and robust, it will provide you...

Common mistakes in UX/UI

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medium.com - You can see that only one picture appears on the top of the screen on mobile version and the rest of topics are listed above, while on BBC desktop each topic is followed by a picture. It might not ...

15 Things Smart, Social Savvy Business Marketers Never do on Facebook

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pammarketingnut.com - It’s no surprise that Facebook is still one of the hottest social networks around. Check out these statistics published by Facebook as of March, 2016. As with anything in life or business, when the...

How to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job Faster - Social-Hire

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social-hire.com - If you're not a huge fan of applying for jobs online, you're not alone. Here's how the typical process goes: You find a job you like, you register an account on their careers page, you upload a res...

Beyond HoloLens: Microsoft Will Offer Windows Holographic To Other Hardware Makers

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fastcompany.com - From the time it was announced in January 2015, Windows Holographic has been a bit of an outlier: a Microsoft operating system that, as far as we knew, was designed to run on a single piece of hard...

Google adds Uninstall Manager to the Play Store

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androidcommunity.com - Whether you like it or not, it is a reality: apps are getting better, bigger, and heavier. The higher the app file size is, it usually means app has great graphics and animation. That is why 8GB is...

LG G Pad X 8.0 tablet now available on T-Mobile

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androidcommunity.com - If you were already having trouble differentiating LG’s 8-inch tablets from each other, they are adding one more to the fray. T-Mobile has just announced that the LG G Pad X 8.0 is now available th...

Now on Tap now lets you select text, do image search

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androidcommunity.com - One of the things people were looking forward to if their phone gets updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow is the Now on Tap feature, which basically lets you get helpful information without necessari...

Google Cast coming to Google Fiber TV, adds access to apps and media content

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androidcommunity.com - Google is bringing two products together: Fiber TV and Google Cast--the tech giant's very own cable TV service and the media device that allows streaming of videos, music, or games. With Google Cas...

5 Real-Life Push Notifications and Why They Work (or Don't)

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loyalty360.org - There’s a lot of buzz around push notifications--how and when to use them and why they’re effective. Though a sizable number of brands have implemented the technology to send them, few have mastere...

Facebook Messenger Bots And Your Marketing Roadmap

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loyalty360.org - 5 Key Considerations For Marketing Bot Success According to stats shared by Facebook at its annual F8 conference, more than 60 billion messages are sent per day through its two chat products, Wha...

3 Online Marketing Strategies to Attract Connected Consumers

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loyalty360.org - It’s the age old question of, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” Except now the question is, “What came first, the connected car or the connected consumer?” Some argue that consumers are ev...

Customer Experience Rises Positively for Canadian Wireless Users

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loyalty360.org - Autonomy is an omnipresent trait in wireless customers in Canada, most notably Millennials (born 1982-1994), and this has led to a hands-on approach to resolving issues with their respective carrie...

Thanx Branded App Enables Simplified Brand Loyalty

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loyalty360.org - Customer loyalty solutions provider Thanx took another big step forward on Tuesday with the launch of the Thanx Branded App. The app allows businesses to incorporate a full-fledged mobile loyalty a...

Here@ : Find New Friend, Love Interest, or Find a Job - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam McCaa”, CEO of the US based start-up “Hereat” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and what your start-up is a...

ServiceSutra.com: An Online Marketplace to Hire Quality Service Providers - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustworthy, Qualified and Verified Local Service Providers in India. As per Mr. Chaudhary; ServiceSutra helps consumers compare price from Trustwort...

Textr : Group Messaging App - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Sam Getty”, Founder of the Atlanta, Georgia – USA based start-up “Textr” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactly that you do and wha...
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