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Accused robocall 'kingpin' fined a record $120 million
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money.cnn.com - The FCC said on Thursday that it was fining Adrian Abramovich of Miami $120 million for posing a threat to public safety with the "illegal" calls. The FCC, in a citation from June 22, 2017, said the …
Why Alexa’s Next Big Move Is Into Health Care
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slate.com - Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Thinkstock and Amazon. Health care is a $3 trillion a year industry, and tech companies such as Amazon are vying for a slice of it. In January, the e-commerce g…
WhatsApp revamps Groups to fight Telegram
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techcrunch.com - Facebook just installed its VP of Internet.org as the new head of WhatsApp after its CEO Jan Koum left the company. And now Facebook is expanding its mission to get people into “meaningful” groups to…
Verizon names Los Angeles as the second of four cities to receive 5G rollout before 2019
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techcrunch.com - My boss’ boss’ boss was on CNBC this morning touting Verizon‘s new 5G services and naming Los Angeles as the second city in America to be treated to a commercial rollout of the new networking technol…
Target’s next-day delivery service, Target Restock, launches nationwide with lower fees
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techcrunch.com - Target is lowering the price of its next-day delivery service for household essentials, Target Restock, which will now be free for Target REDcard purchases and $2.99 for all other orders, as the serv…
HPE buys Plexxi to expand its hybrid cloud solutions
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techcrunch.com - Just days after Google announced that it would acquire Velostrata to help customers migrating more of their operations into cloud environments, HPE under its new CEO Antonio Neri is also upping its g…
Minute Media nabs $17M to expand its user-generated sports media platform
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techcrunch.com - Sports is one of the biggest drivers of traffic and engagement on the internet, and today a startup leveraging this, plus the popularity of user-generated content and a back-end infrastructure built …
Zuckerberg again snubs UK parliament over call to testify
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techcrunch.com - Facebook has once again eschewed a direct request from the UK parliament for its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to testify to a committee investigating online disinformation — without rustling up so much as a…
Lynq is a dead-simple gadget for finding your friends outdoors
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techcrunch.com - If you’ve ever been hiking or skiing, gone to a music festival or state fair, you know how easy it is to lose track of your friends, and the usually ridiculous exchange of “I’m by the big thing”-type…
BRD crowdraises $32 million to build financial services into a mobile crypto wallet
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techcrunch.com - Crypto wallets can’t remain crypto wallets for long. There is so much competition and so many scammers that value-added features like financial services are de rigueur. BRD knows this quite well and …
Facebook’s new transparency report now includes data on takedowns of ‘bad’ content, including hate speech
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techcrunch.com - Facebook this morning released its latest Transparency report, where the social network shares information on government requests for user data, noting that these requests had increased globally by a…
FileMaker 17 launches with a renewed focus on the basics
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techcrunch.com - FileMaker, the wholly owned Apple subsidiary, today launched version 17 of its low-code development platform, following the company’s standard annual release cadence. With today’s release, the compan…
Music payments startup Exactuals debuts r.ai, a “Palantir for music royalties”
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techcrunch.com - Exactuals, a software service offering payments management for the music industry, is debuting r.ai, a new tool that it’s dubbed the “Palantir for music”. It’s a service that can track songwriting in…
Skype, Interrupted
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om.co - Skype, was once a beloved product, one that I loved using every day. It was a product I wrote about long before it was trendy. I sent the team feedback. Like all tiny apps that are good at what they …
Android P Preview 2 hands-on—New recent apps, awful gesture nav, and more!
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arstechnica.com - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.—With Google I/O winding down, we finally have a spare second to look at the newest release of Android P. The second developer preview moves the OS into "beta," and it's not just…
Dealmaster: Spend $150 on eBay and get a Google Home Mini thrown in for free
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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. We're leading today's list with a deal that's less straightforward than usual, but useful nonethe…
Microsoft blocks Windows 10 April 2018 update to some Intel SSDs
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arstechnica.com - The April 2018 update for Windows 10 is now being blocked from installing on systems with certain Intel SSDs. With the update installed, systems with the Intel SSD 600p Series and Intel SSD Pro 6000p…
Lenovo hypes up an all-screen (no, really) flagship smartphone
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The smartphone hype train is reaching full speed for a smartphone from—believe it or not—Lenovo, which has been teasing an all-screen, notchless smartphone on Chinese social media. People throw aroun…
WPExplorer Review: A Look at their 'Total' Theme – and More (2018)
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winningwp.com - If you’ve spent any amount of time reading about or using WordPress, WPExplorer is a name you should be familiar with. As well as running one of the biggest blogs about WordPress, they’ve also create…
10 YouTube Channels For Learning Basic Frontend Development
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speckyboy.com - You can find tons of free tutorials covering the basics of frontend development. And really that boils down to just 3 languages: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. And besides written tutorials you can also …
US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - Four of the largest cell giants in the US are selling your real-time location data to a company that you've probably never heard about before. In case you missed it, a senator last week sent a letter…
If You're Tweeting During a Disaster, You're Probably Spreading Fake News
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Reg Saddler
gizmodo.com - The old adage about a lie traveling halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on has been made true thanks to Twitter. According to a new study, the vast majority of people using th…
Keyless cars causing dozens of deaths
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Charles Yeo
www.bbc.com - Dozens of people have been poisoned by carbon monoxide after failing to turn off the ignition on keyless cars, according to the New York Times. Its report found that 28 people had died and 45 others …
The best screen recorders for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS
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Charles Yeo
www.techradar.com - Screen recorders can prove useful in a whole host of situations: for showing off your gaming exploits, or for putting up a tutorial on the web, or for demonstrating the features of your brand new app.
Is WhatsApp a greater challenge to democracy than Facebook?
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www.mercurynews.com - By Annie Gowen and Elizabeth Dwoskin | The Washington Post MANGALORE, India — Forget debates and rallies. Elections in India are now fought and won on WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging app that …
HTC's new Exodus phone does something the Galaxy S9 doesn't
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Charles Yeo
www.cnet.com - HTC's newest phone, the HTC Exodus, is one you'll probably never see vying for shelf space alongside the Galaxy S9, LG G7 or iPhone X. Unveiled on Tuesday, the HTC Exodus is instead the first phone b…
Homeland Security unveils new cyber security strategy amid threats
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Charles Yeo
www.reuters.com - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday unveiled a new national strategy for addressing the growing number of cyber security risks as it works to assess them and re…
Top 5 Factors Google Looks for Evaluation of links for SEO
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Raymond Philippe
www.digitaldoughnut.com - Inbound links are an asset when it comes to online marketing. Your website receives authority when a link is pointed to your website. Here are the five points you need to know about your links and ho…
Twitter Is Expanding the Signals It Uses to Detect Bad Behavior
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - In its quest to further decrease the abusive content that litters the site, Twitter said it has begun using “behavioral signals” like tweets from unconfirmed emails and people signing up for multiple…
Fallon Names Agency Veteran as Chief Marketing Officer
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - A longtime agency veteran has joined the Fallon leadership team as chief marketing officer. In the new role, Niki Dobratz will oversee business development and growth for Fallon’s Minneapolis headqua…
A Breakdown of All the Offensive Content Facebook Removed in the First Quarter of 2018
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - In its latest attempt at transparency, Facebook is disclosing—for the first time—exactly how much offensive content it finds and removes on the platform. Today, the social network revealed how many m…
Amazon Is Slapping SmileCodes on a Third of Its Boxes in the U.S.
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Amazon shipped more than 5 billion items worldwide with Prime in 2017, which means it also shipped a lot of boxes (it would not specify how many). And now it is putting its QR code-like SmileCodes on…
Airbnb Designed Its Own 'Playful' Font to Unify Its Look Across All Platforms
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Stephan Stavrakis
www.adweek.com - Airbnb has a new custom typeface, Cereal. The company needed a font that would not only make its visual identity more cohesive across all of its various platforms and scale easily (read: be legible o…
Top 5 Strategies To Improve Your Online Presence
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James Hickey
sd-entrepreneur.com - Everywhere you look online lately, people are offering their opinions about anything and everything. Why not put this effort to good use to further your career and showcase your expertise in a positi…
Twitter announces more shadow banning for those having a 'negative impact'
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hotair.com - Twitter announced today that it will extend the process of shadow banning people who have a “negative impact” on conversations on the social media site. Users won’t be told their tweets are being ban…
Buying an Electric Vehicle? 3 Things to Know - DGI Wire
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www.dgiwire.com - (DGIwire) – Every driver who decides to “go electric” faces the same anxieties about recharging. As USA Today recently reported, recharging is one of the most complicated parts of owning an electric …
Sex robot ARMIES: Fears hackers could create killer cyborgs and turn technology on punters
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Mike Elgan
www.dailystar.co.uk - “Once hacked they could absolutely be used to perform physical actions” Dr Nick Patterson “Once hacked they could absolutely be used to perform physical actions” The sex robot craze has swept the glo…
20 Common Instagram Terms & The Instagram Language • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO
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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Instagram is one of the hottest social networks on the planet right now. However, if you are new to Instagram, you may have some questions as you start making your way around. Questions like ‘what is…
Email Lead Generation: 9 Tactics for More Successful Campaigns
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Tyson Quick
instapage.com - As as an email marketer, you’re a part of what many businesses consider their most profitable channel. You’re valuable, which means your work is highly scrutinized… High open rates alone won’t cut it…
Rank & Stick SEO
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www.rankandstickseo.com - From the desk of Rob Fore: the SEO Mad Scientist and owner of 5 Different 6-Figure Businesses thanks to what you're about to discover To: The individual who wants more traffic, leads, and sales Are y…
Bill Introduced To Prevent Government Agencies From Demanding Encryption Backdoors
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Steve Hultquist
www.techdirt.com - Bill Introduced To Prevent Government Agencies From Demanding Encryption Backdoors What if CIA/FBI/NSA (etal) had already gained access via baked in exploits that were coded/engineered into software/…
How Digital Learning Is Working In Retail - Looop
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Gerri Elder
www.looop.co - I don’t need to tell you that the retail landscape has changed dramatically in recent years. Whilst online retailers, such as Amazon and ASOS, have been huge winners online, many traditional retailer…
Kubernetes stands at an important inflection point
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Michael Tchong
techcrunch.com - Last week at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, we saw an open source community coming together, full of vim and vigor and radiating positive energy as it recognized its growing clout in the e…
How to Use OpenDedup with Cloud Storage
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Backblaze
www.backblaze.com - In this, the third post in our series on connecting Veeam with Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, we discuss how to back up your VMs to B2 using Veeam and OpenDedup. In our previous posts, we covered how to…
Google Redesigns Gmail – Here's a List of Amazing New Features
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Tamara Dull
thehackernews.com - Google has finally been rolling out its new massively redesigned Gmail for desktop and mobile to 1.4 billion of users worldwide, which might be the most significant single upgrade in Gmail's history.…
LG SK85 (SK8500, SK8000) Super UHD review
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Future Lighting
www.techradar.com - Released alongside LG's truly impressive 2018 OLED TV lineup, it'd be easy to overlook the company's new 'Super UHD' sister range. But while these LED models may lack their bigger siblings' more-expe…
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