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ARK: Survival Evolved, Available Now on Windows 10 with CrossPlay!
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Paul Thurrott
survivetheark.com - Survivors! The wait is finally over, ARK has officially launched on the Windows 10 platform, and from 8 AM PST will be available to purchase on the Microsoft Store! It includes the base game along wi…
Windows 10 Pro for Workstations: Power through advanced workloads - Windows For Your Business
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Paul Thurrott
blogs.windows.com - In the new world of work, advanced professions increasingly require high-performance computing capabilities. We’re working to ensure Windows meets your needs, even in demanding and mission-critical s…
Top 10 Content Creation Steps For Bloggers - How To Make Money Online
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Retireat21
www.incomediary.com - When it comes to content creation, writing a blog post and hoping for the best is not an option! Top quality content takes time, effort, energy, resources, and knowledge. In this article, we have put…
15 Epic UX Tips For Your Homepage Design In 2017 (Case studies, Examples)
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Redstage
medium.com - What is the main thing you want your users to do on your website? The homepage follows the same rules of a landing page: The least secondary call-to-actions, the best. Users don’t want to think or wo…
4 Online Marketing Tactics Brick-and-Mortar Stores Can Leverage to Thrive
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Aepiphanni
www.entrepreneur.com - Many physical retailers continue resisting ecommerce. These businesses are hesitant to venture online, fearing they’ll dilute their existing business model or confuse customers but ignoring mounting …
Apple has a plan for universal apps across iOS and macOS, report says
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Citing people familiar with the matter, a Bloomberg report claims an internal Apple project seeks to make it possible for app developers to publish apps that work on both mobile iOS devices and Mac c…
Amazon filed for ‘AmazonTube’ trademark after Google pulled YouTube from the Echo Show
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Susan Cooper
techcrunch.com - Google’s decision to block YouTube content was a real kick in the pants to Amazon as it got ready to launch its Echo Show device. After all, YouTube videos are the perfect content for the device and …
Facebook Becomes Even More Intrusive by Asking Users to Map Their Face - Breitbart
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Glen Woodfin
www.breitbart.com - For the low, low cost of free — insofar as “free” constitutes permission to access, store, and use your face — Facebook will add another layer of convenience to the largest data harvesting experiment…
What Needs to Happen Before Electric Cars Take Over the World
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Tamara Dull
www.nytimes.com - Electric vehicles have only a tiny market share, but the auto industry is betting billions that they will soon be as cheap as conventional cars. On the slope of a thickly forested Czech mountain, thr…
Geekbench and Reddit think they’ve cracked why iPhones get slower over time [Updated]
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Based on anecdotal observation, many iPhone users have long believed that older iPhones get slower over time. Generally, people have assumed that this is because of new features and additions in new …
Apple revises its controversial guidelines on template-based apps
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Apple today announced it’s amending the App Store guideline that banned apps created using templates and other app generation services. When the company had revised its policies earlier this year, th…
Google’s mobile-first search index has rolled out to a handful of sites
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techcrunch.com - Just over a year ago, Google announced a major change to the way its search index will rank sites: it will go mobile-first. As the company explained at the time, Google’s algorithms will eventually p…
SendBird raises another $16M to help developers add chat functions to a service
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techcrunch.com - If you go to any company’s website these days, you’re probably starting to see some chat functionality more and more often — and for good reason, as it’s a quick way for those companies to get in tou…
Improving search and advertising are the next frontiers for voice-activated devices
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Lisa Lacy is a reporter who covers digital and search marketing. Despite millions of orders for voice enabled devices, vendors have yet to map the uncharted territory of voice enabled search and adve…
Apple will reportedly unify iOS and Mac apps in 2018
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Apple is said to be working on a way to allow developers to build apps that work with touchscreen input on iPhone and iPad, and with mouse and trackpad on Mac devices, to be implemented next year, ac…
Amazon Music to end support for streaming your uploaded MP3s
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - In the early days of streaming music services, some aimed to differentiate themselves by offering users the ability to upload their personal collection of MP3’s, which could be streamed alongside the…
Alibaba Cloud is opening its first data center in India
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techcrunch.com - Alibaba is bringing its cloud computing business into India as it continues to expand its fast-growing business unit. The Chinese firm said today that its first data center on Indian soil will come o…
Review: GoPro Fusion 360 camera
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Spherical cameras seem to be one of the more undesired tech trends to be pushed on people in the past couple of years. Consumer tech companies have opted to develop these expensive products as a segu…
The benefits of police body cams are a myth
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techcrunch.com - Harlan Yu is the executive director of Upturn and one of the primary authors of the Police Body-Worn Cameras Policy Scorecard. Malkia Cyril is founder and executive director of the Center for Media J…
Walmart is developing personal shopping services and cashier-free stores
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techcrunch.com - Walmart’s Code Eight, led by Rent the Runway co-founder Jennifer Fleiss, has started testing personal shopping services for moms in New York City, Recode reports. Code Eight is part of Walmart’s star…
Pokémon GO gets a new and improved augmented reality mode (but only on iOS)
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techcrunch.com - Remember back in June, when Niantic took the stage at WWDC to show off a beta build of Pokémon GO? The one that used Apple’s new augmented reality framework, ARKit, to beef up the game’s AR abilities?
Ooma acquires AI-powered video camera platform Butterfleye for its home security service
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techcrunch.com - Ooma, the company that’s probably still best known for its VoIP platform, today announced that it has acquired Butterfleye, an AI-powered video camera and security platform that produces a smart secu…
Cryptocurrencies have an everything problem
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techcrunch.com - A mom from Arkansas, a major donor to Republican causes with very little experience in technology, wants to invest $50,000 in bitcoin. A man from Switzerland curses during a Skype call because his Ko…
Magic Leap shows off its Magic Leap One ‘Creator Edition’ AR headset, shipping in 2018
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techcrunch.com - At long last, the day has come. Magic Leap has shared a first look at what they’ve been building with the cash they’ve raised from Google, Alibaba and others. Today, the highly valued augmented reali…
UBTECH’s robotic First Order Stormtrooper patrols AR battlefields
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techcrunch.com - UBTECH’s Stormtrooper missed Force Friday and The Last Jedi’s release — no surprise, really. The robotic toy moves pretty slowly, all things told. Perhaps it was a matter of getting things just right…
Apple addresses why people are saying their iPhones with older batteries are running “slower”
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techcrunch.com - Due to a Reddit post and the loose interpretation of subsequent benchmark tests posted by Primate Labs’ John Poole, the ‘Apple throttles old iPhones’ meme has reared its head again. The gist, as it a…
The truth about a suspicious Killzone 2 trailer in 2005 finally comes out
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - A few examples of the E3 2005 sizzle reel that was presented to gamers as "real-time" footage running on a PlayStation 3. Many of the demo's other effects eventually found their way to PS3 games, but…
The triumphant return of Ars Technica mugs, T-shirts
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arstechnica.com - Every geek needs two things to start the morning off right: a quality coffee mug and a fresh T-shirt. Fortunately, Ars Technica now sells both, so you can leap from your bed to confront the forces of…
Neither Microsoft nor Google looks good in this Chrome-installer squabble
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Google built a little application that downloaded and installed Chrome, and the company submitted that application to the Microsoft Store. Because the Microsoft Store actually imposes minimal verific…
Currency-mining Android malware is so aggressive it can physically harm phones
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - A newly discovered piece of Android malware carries out a litany of malicious activities, including showing an almost unending series of ads, participating in distributed denial-of-service attacks, s…
The Biggest Threat to Your Productivity — and What to Do About It
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Larry Wentz
medium.com - Although it might seems like the odds are stacked against you, there are several things that you can do to increase your productivity. Although we often interrupt ourselves without any sort of extern…
Massive Cryptomining Campaign Targeting WordPress Sites
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Alister Cameron
www.wordfence.com - This entry was posted in Research, WordPress Security on December 19, 2017 by Brad Haas 17 Replies On Monday we wrote about the massive spike in brute force attacks on WordPress sites that we obser…
Samsung Galaxy S9+ specs sighted on Geekbench
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - We may be focusing more on the Galaxy S9 but this week, more information about the bigger variant, the Galaxy S9+, were sighted on Geekbench. Much has been said about the standard Galaxy S9 but allow…
Blink Video Doorbell launches as an affordable smart doorbell
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - Blink is a familiar name in security cameras. We remember that outdoor security camera launched this time last year with a compatible app. At the CES earlier this year, more home security products an…
The Grocer's Customer Experience: Fresh Ingredients Make All the Difference
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Loyalty360
www.loyalty360.org - If you live in a world of penny profit the way grocers do, you can't afford to discount to people willing to pay full price. You also need to drive in footsteps to buy product that is literally peris…
Hayneedle Focuses On Mobile Design And Customer Experience
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Loyalty360
www.loyalty360.org - As an online retailer of indoor and outdoor furniture, home furnishings, and décor, Hayneedle looks to move the needle with the customer in mind. Seizing the massive opportunity with mobile engagemen…
Microsoft Now Has Another Custom Lock Screen App for Android - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Microsoft’s Garage lab just released yet another lock screen app for Android devices today. The company’s latest, Favorites Lock Screen, takes your interests in order to offer a “personalized” locksc…
Malware Trio Has Been Targeting MSSQL and MySQL Servers All Year
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Raymond Philippe
www.bleepingcomputer.com - A Chinese threat actor has been targeting MSSQL and MySQL databases on Windows and Linux systems all year, deploying one of three malware strains, each with its own design and purpose. The group has …
Oath Announces 4 New Ad Formats on Mobile, Including AR and Savable Coupons
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - As Oath continues to consolidate its many offerings and bring new products to market for its ad clients, brands like The Home Depot and Pottery Barn are testing some of its new ad formats. Today’s co…
22 Tips On How To Create A Good Website
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Raymond Philippe
solopreneurism.com - Building a website is not difficult. But to create a good website that attracts many visitors, you have to pay attention. Because a good website is more than a collection of web pages linked to each …
Twitter Is Tweaking Its Direct Message Features for Businesses
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Twitter announced several updates to its direct message features for businesses, which will better enable brands and developers to provide customer service via the social network. The main benefit to…
Backdoor coin-mining hacks are spreading as prices rise
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Raymond Philippe
www.theverge.com - The cryptocurrency boom has given rise to a new kind of malware attack, with attacks growing ever more frequent as coin prices rise. A report today from Symantec details a surge in coin-mining script…
The Challenge of Reaching Consumers the Right Way
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - If knowing your customer is the first step in running a successful enterprise, then know this: Whatever business you are in, your customer is mobile and chatting with friends and colleagues all day u…
There Are Over 2 Billion Conversations Between Messenger Users and Businesses Every Month
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Facebook turned its year-in-review eyes toward Messenger Platform and suggestions from M, its messaging application’s virtual digital assistant. The social network said its 1.3 billion-plus users gen…
Microsoft should ban private arbitration in racial discrimination cases, too: lawmakers
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Earl Castro
www.usatoday.com - Led by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-I.L., lawmakers from across the political spectrum spoke Wednesday against sexual harassment in the workplace. They took aim at forced…
Speer Nets Big Government Contract - Bearing Arms
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Chris From Wisconsin
bearingarms.com - Speer makes some damn good ammo. Gold Dots fill a lot of magazines and have a lot of lives trusted to it. That makes sense because it’s quality ammo with a track record of reliability. Now, they’re g…
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