Wednesday, August 17, 2016

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TECHNOLOGY

Hacking group offers ‘stolen NSA cyber-weapons’ in bitcoin auction

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rt.com - Over the weekend the so-called Shadow Brokers collective released “samples” of the files the group said belonged to the Equation Group, which is believed to be a National Security Agency's (NSA) af...

Gartner Recognizes EMC as a Leader in the 2016 Data Center Backup and Recovery Software Magic Quadrant - EMC Pulse

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pulseblog.emc.com - EMC has maintained its leadership position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Center Backup and Recovery Software for the 17th consecutive year– a triumph no other vendor in the IT industry has...

The PULSE of IT - Is Pikachu the latest, greatest threat to BYOD security?

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thepulseofit.com - A new, location-based augmented reality (AR) mobile game has thrown a whole lot of cold water on BYOD security. Pokemon Go exploded onto the mobile gaming scene in mid-July, with legions of gamers ...

Picovico : Cloud Based Service To Convert Photos Into Videos - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - We had an interesting chat with Mr. “Yogesh Aggrawal”, Global Marketing Associate of the Kathmandu Nepal-based start-up “Picovico” Below is the interview we conducted with him: 1. What is it exactl...

Privacy lawsuit over Gmail will move forward

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arstechnica.com - Thanks to a judge's order, Google must face another proposed class-action lawsuit over its scanning of Gmail. The issue is a lingering headache for the search giant, which has faced allegations for...

Are We Becoming A #hashtag World?

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sd-entrepreneur.com - With all the different Social Media Platforms out there like the ones named above, marketers and businesses are looking for ways to curate content and reach a target market of group of people via #...

Samsung swings for the fences with the Galaxy Note 7

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techcrunch.com - The original was a gamble. Big and strange and sporting, of all things, a stylus — that forgotten (and at the time, gauche) piece of productivity hardware that had seemingly died out with the physi...

Intel will start producing ARM chips to boost foundry business

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techcrunch.com - Chip maker Intel and British semiconductor IP company ARM announced an agreement that could help boost the chip giant’s custom foundry business. The deal, revealed today at the the Intel Developer ...

Samsung’s low-cost VR headset gets even better

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techcrunch.com - Everyone’s got a VR headset these days. Well, everyone who isn’t Apple, at least. For most companies, it’s mostly a matter of hedging bets — dipping their toes in the water with a slightly souped-u...

The OMEN series is HP showcasing it has real PC gaming savvy

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techcrunch.com - The arrival of new gaming products from HP is very infrequent. After all, HP isn’t a PC gamer’s first choice in hardware, at all. Well if you’re Hewlett-Packard, what do you do? Well, you design a ...

Ford and Baidu put $150M behind LiDAR for self-driving cars

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techcrunch.com - Carmakers continue to look to the Valley for help paving the way for the future of cars – Ford has teamed up with Baidu to jointly invest $150 million in Velodyne, a company making LiDAR sensors in...

How to Unlock Your Phone’s Trusty Call-Blocking Powers

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wired.com - Telemarketers, scammers, and political surveyors have one thing in common: They can all ruin your day with a barrage of unsolicited phone spam. If the Do Not Call List isn’t doing its job for you, ...

The startup framework to validate your idea before you spend $1 — The Startup

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medium.com - Today I want to share the simple framework we used to validate our first idea, in the hopes that it will help other entrepreneurs avoid failure. Validating the demand for your product is more impor...

Hangouts On Air will now be available on YouTube Live and not Google+

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androidcommunity.com - If you need further evidence that Google may either be doing away with Google+ or changing its very nature, we have another piece of the puzzle available. The tech giant has now announced that one ...

Google Photos brings back rotating video feature in latest update

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androidcommunity.com - One of the things that we’ve loved about Google Photos, which they eventually removed, is now making a comeback in the latest update. People have spotted that the ability to rotate videos on the ph...

Twitter Develops Standalone App to Provide Even More Avenues for Digital Customer Engagement

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loyalty360.org - As a social media platform, Twitter has been one of the most influential brands in the past decade. The platform has impacted the way people communicate online, engage with brands, and even interac...

KindCritic.com: A Social Platform that Allows you to get Crowdsourced Feedback on your Creative Projects - Start-Ups.Co

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start-ups.co - KindCritic is a social platform where creatives can give and get crowdsourced constructive feedback on their creative works from real experts in their field of interest. “KindCritic” is A Social Pl...

The Ultimate Guide to Small Business Keyword Research

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ducttapemarketing.com - Keyword research is an important strategic marketing practice that, when thought of correctly, never really ends. While many people think of this type of thing as a technical aspect of search engin...

HP Targets the DIY Crowd with New High-End Gaming Gear - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - HP continues its assault on the premium PC segment with its most impressive gaming gear yet: A stunning new OMEN X Desktop that is aimed a the Do It Yourself (DIY) crowd, a 17-inch OMEN laptop, an ...

1. Blacks more likely than whites to see – and post – race-related content on social media

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pewinternet.org - Social networking sites are often used to discuss social and cultural issues, and a substantial majority of social media users – white, black and Hispanic – report they encounter content on these p...

Aldo launches World Trade Centre location designed by Canada's Kinetic Café

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mobilesyrup.com - “Today’s launch at Westfield World Trade Center is the culmination of countless hours of passion and creativity by everyone at Kinetic and Aldo. It highlights the power of Kinetic’s Retail Innovati...

9 Tools to Help You Work Remotely | Daily Bits Blog

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blog.dailybitsof.com - I turn on the computer and there they pop. The three Google Docs that I was working on yesterday now have my colleague’s comments appended. I chat with him in Slack to clarify what he meant. It onl...

Snapchat is paying $200 million to buy a search engine that helps people find things to do

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uk.businessinsider.com - Snapchat is buying search startup Vurb in a stock and cash deal totaling around $200 million, as first reported by The Information. About half of that money will go to investors, while the rest wil...

KVYcam – program for video capture and splitting

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kvy.com.ua - 1. Capture video from your webcam and send it to other programs (splitting). 2. Capture of video clip (film) and send it to other programs. 3. Capture of PC’s desktop and send it to other programs....