Wednesday, July 18, 2018

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13 tendances de l’IA

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itsocial.fr - Voici 13 tendances de l’IA (Intelligence Artificielle) à suivre dès aujourd’hui et qui auront un fort impact dans les années à venir. Au fur et à mesure que les projets et les usages se multiplient, …

Industry 2020: What the New Industrial World Will Look Like

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www.manufacturing.net - As consumers, we’ve grown to expect everything as a service, everything on demand, and to only pay for usage as opposed to making up-front investments. This is enabled by multiple advancements in tec…

Sony Xperia XZ3 at IFA 2018: Everything you need to know

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androidcommunity.com - While Samsung is busy prepping the Galaxy Note 9 for the August 9 Unpacked event, other OEMs like Sony are working on products to be revealed during the IFA 2018 in Berlin, Germany. It’s another big …

Ajit Pai deals major setback to Sinclair/Tribune merger

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arstechnica.com - Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of Tribune Media Company has run into a major roadblock at the Federal Communications Commission. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said he won't approve the Sinclair/Tribu…

Senate wants emergency alerts to go out through Netflix, Spotify, etc.

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techcrunch.com - An emergency alert goes out, trying to let you know about incoming bad news — a missile, a tsunami, or something else terrifying. Your phone starts shouting.. but it’s downstairs. A warning ticker po…

Google’s Cloud Launcher is now the GCP Marketplace, adds container-based applications

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techcrunch.com - Cloud Launcher has long been Google’s marketplace for cloud-based application from third-party vendors that lets you deploy them in Google’s cloud with just a few clicks. That name never quite highli…

Gorilla Glass 6 is here to withstand your clumsy hands

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techcrunch.com - A bit of good news for the perpetually clumsy. Corning unveiled the latest version of its ubiquitous smartphone-encasing material today at an event in California. Gorilla Glass 6 is, naturally, desig…

The Great British Hack-Off hackathon against Brexit is on this weekend

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techcrunch.com - Prizes of up to £1,000 are up for grabs at Great British Hack-Off summer festival hackathon, an event designed to supercharge the campaign to lobby for a ‘people’s vote’ on Brexit with the option to …

Apple releases third iOS 12 beta to everyone

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techcrunch.com - Apple just released the third version of the iOS 12 beta as part of the public beta program. It means that everyone can now install a development build of iOS 12, the next major version of the operat…

Custom framing startup Framebridge picks up $30 million Series C

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techcrunch.com - D.C.-based Framebridge today announced the close of a $30 million Series C financing round led by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. with participation from existing investors SWaN & Legend Venture Partn…

Light raises $121M led by SoftBank as it prepares to bring its camera tech to smartphones

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techcrunch.com - Camera technology company Light is the latest to do the money dance with SoftBank’s massive Vision Fund after it raised a $121 million Series D round. The funding round was led by Vision Fund, the ne…

Instagram is building non-SMS 2-factor auth to thwart SIM hackers

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techcrunch.com - Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords, steal your Instagram and other accounts and sell them for bitcoin. As detailed in a harr…

Reddit expands chat rooms to more subreddits

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techcrunch.com - If you’d rather spend time chatting with strangers who share a hyper-specific interest rather than keeping up with your coworkers’ stale memes on Slack, Reddit is ready for you. The platform has quie…

Facebook can now sync your Instagram contacts to Messenger

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techcrunch.com - Facebook wants to expand your Messenger contact list with a little help from Instagram. The company has launched a feature in Messenger that pulls in your contacts from Instagram, if you opt to conne…

InkHunter heads to YC to build a try-and-buy tattoo marketplace

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techcrunch.com - InkHunter, an augmented reality tattoo try-on app that was born out of a 48-hour hackathon back in the altogether gentler days of 2014 has bagged a place in YC’s summer 2018 batch, scoring itself the…

Roblox responds to the hack that allowed a child’s avatar to be raped in its game

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techcrunch.com - There’s a special place in hell for people who think it’s funny to rape a 7-year old girl’s avatar in an online virtual world designed for children. Yes, that happened. Roblox, a hugely popular onlin…

Fortnite maker Epic Games beefs up its Unreal game engine in new update

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techcrunch.com - After a wildly successful last few months thanks to Fortnite, Epic Games is delivering some substantial new updates to its Unreal game engine which supports a variety of cross-platform titles and exp…

Essential discounts its 360 Camera to $19, a day after its phone was half-off

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techcrunch.com - At $250, the Essential Phone was arguably the best deal of Amazon Prime Day. Which is saying a lot. But no matter how you slice it, 50 percent off an Android flagship is a pretty tough deal to beat. …

‘Serious concerns’ at FCC threaten to halt Sinclair-Tribune merger

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techcrunch.com - Update: The FCC voted unanimously to adopt the Hearing Designation Order, meaning the merger is officially on hold until further notice; the order itself, which should contain details around what may…

Hyundai teams up with Amazon to offer virtual showroom

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techcrunch.com - Next time you’re grabbing a new charging cord on Amazon, you might be tempted to grab a new Hyundai as well. Hyundai announced today a partnership with Amazon to create a digital showroom to allow cu…

The Galaxy Note 9 is leaking out all over the place

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techcrunch.com - The Galaxy Note 9 won’t be announced until August. You wouldn’t know it by reading the internet, however. Every nook and cranny of the upcoming phablet has been bared for the world, in a series of le…

Elon Musk Should Tweet More

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gizmodo.com - On Sunday, Elon Musk’s long-simmering internet meltdown reached a full boil when he called a man who was mean to his submarine a pedophile. This gave the Tesla founder’s harshest critics and fiercest…

Companies, like people, don’t change

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om.co - Not a month goes by when we hear about another snafu or scandal about Facebook and Uber. And each time I wonder if they will change. It seems both these companies are genetically pre-programmed to ob…

Google resurrects Google Now’s predictive cards, sticks them in the Assistant

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arstechnica.com - Here's the Android interface. Just tap on the second icon in the top right to get the card feed. Stocks and a few Assistant discoverability things. There's a big update coming to the Google Assistant…

Zuckerberg: Facebook will host fake news as long as it doesn’t cause “real harm”

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arstechnica.com - But many journalists, including CNN's Oliver Darcy, were left dissatisfied with Facebook's response. Facebook invited me to an event today where the company aimed to tout its commitment to fighting f…

Microsoft is making the Windows command line a lot better

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arstechnica.com - The Windows 7 console didn't support VT codes, so it completely garbles the output of applications that depend on VT codes. The Windows 10 console, however, does support VT codes, making it much more…

The importance of Design QA in digital product design

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uxdesign.cc - Great customer experiences don’t happen by accident. In digital product design, the customer experience encompasses everything that the product team does; development, design, DevOps, and QA — everyo…

How to design empty states in 5 simple steps

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www.justinmind.com - Use empty states in your design to delight users and leave a lasting impression. Here's how to design your own in 5 simple steps Hunting for opportunities to boost the user experience of a website or…

7 Ways to Increase Website Security, Without Sacrificing UX | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Did you know that the longest word in the English dictionary is 189,891 letters long? It is (and you can see a full spelling here). This word is the name for a protein dubbed “Tintin” and would take …

Shadow Politics: Meet the Digital Sleuth Exposing Fake News

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www.wired.com - When we met in early March, Jonathan Albright was still shrugging off a sleepless weekend. It was a few weeks after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School had killed 17 people, most of …

Why tech nonprofits are increasingly stepping in for the government

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www.theverge.com - The Trump administration’s massive cuts to social services have left lots of people in need, and that has created fresh work for tech nonprofits that are hoping to address it. “The nonprofit sector i…

MacBook Pro 2018 Throttling Complaints Go Viral on Reddit

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www.inverse.com - It’s only been a week since Apple released its new line of MacBook Pro laptops, and the company has already run into some heat — literally. Two videos posted on the Apple subreddit Wednesday went vir…

Instagram is testing feature that allows public accounts to remove followers

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www.theverge.com - If your Instagram account is public, there’s no real way to stop people from looking at your feed. Even if you block someone, your photos are just a private browser window away. That said, Instagram …

Here's what it takes to get kicked off Facebook (hint: it's a lot)

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futurism.com - Alex Jones does it. So do Holocaust deniers. Yes, they all have committed the cardinal sin of what Mark Zuckerberg so generously calls “getting things wrong.” And, yet, they still haven’t gotten kick…

Google should just buy Essential

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www.slashgear.com - I feel like it’s inevitable that Google will acquire Essential, and all of its assets. They’ve got the cash, Essential is in a position where being acquired wouldn’t be the end of the world, and they…

Google brings back the blobs for World Emoji Day

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androidcommunity.com - Yes guys, World Emoji Day is a real thing and every year, we get more and more people and brands celebrating it with cutesy posts and sometimes even promos. As a gift to emoji-loving Android users ev…

FAST.com speed test app can now measure upload speed, latency

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androidcommunity.com - Netflix has been changing how we think about media and entertainment. Admit it, you’re this close to ditching your cable subscription (if you haven’t yet). The streaming service is also bringing some…

MediaTek unveils Helio A22 chipset, bannering the new midrange Helio A series

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androidcommunity.com - MediaTek is adding a new feather to its hat, and probably more feathers after that, with the launching of the Helio A22 SoC (system-on-a-chip). This new chipset will be the first for the new midrange…

Xiaomi Mi Max 3: All the details are here

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi is busy, busy, busy. A global launch is happening next week featuring the Xiaomi Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite, as well as, the new Mi Max 3. We’ve been telling you several details about the phones esp…

Windows 10 Getting Support for Leap Seconds - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is bringing support for leap seconds — yes, that one extra second — to Windows, starting with Windows 10 Redstone 5 and Windows Server 2019. With the upcoming updates for Windows 10, Micros…

Buy Xbox Live Gold - Microsoft Store

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www.microsoft.com - As an Xbox Live Gold Member, you get the most advanced multiplayer, bonus games, and exclusive member discounts in Microsoft Store. With Xbox Live Gold, you can stay connected with friends, family, a…

The Future of Android (Premium) - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - As I’m sure you’ve heard, antitrust regulators in the European Union today fined Google $5 billion for abusing its power in the smartphone market. And they are requiring the search giant to make beha…

The Untold Design Story Of The Original Emoji

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5 Benefits Of Live Sports Streaming That Can Help You Stay Ahead | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Cord cutting is gaining popularity. This year, the analysts at MoffettNathanson Research reported a 3.4% drop in the total number of pay TV subscribers — the steepest decline since the trend emerged …

Top 5 Strategies To Improve Your Online Presence

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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…

Statement of Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy on Sinclair's New Proposal

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www.newsmax.com - Sinclair is proposing a new divestiture plan just two days after the Federal Communications Commission moved to effectively reject the broadcaster’s merger with Tribune by sending the matter for hear…

Far-Left Sleeping Giants Demands Twitter Censorship After Founder Matt Rivitz Revealed | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Sleeping Giants, along with other far-left groups like Media Matters for America, aims to drive conservative media off the web through social media campaigns directed at their advertisers. By scaring…

Google warns Android might not remain free because of EU decision

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www.theverge.com - The EU’s decision to force Google to unbundle its Chrome and search apps from Android may have some implications for the future of Android’s free business model. In a blog post defending Google’s dec…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says company will appeal record fine from EU ruling

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mashable.com - The search giant just received a record $5 billion fine from the European Union over monopolizing the search engine on Android phones, which the commission said illegally "cemente[ed] its dominant po…

Intelligence artificielle : 5 experts à suivre sur Twitter | ABILWAYS DIGITAL

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www.abilways-digital.com - Si elle promet autant d’évolutions qu’elle ne suscite de craintes, l’IA est désormais une réalité quotidienne pour chacun d’entre nous. Il est donc nécessaire de se tenir informé pour comprendre de q…

Great Advice For Your Price Haggling Needs For Automobiles

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carshopping.biz - Are you prepared to purchase a new car? Does the process scare you a nervous tic? Read this article for the best tips to help you will find out that purchasing a vehicle. You do yourself a great diss…

Website Development Made Easy: Advice You Can Use

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agentmonhost.com - Are you someone who wants to become a great website creation skills?Do you want to build your own website that are being hamstrung by a lack of the practical skills necessary to realize them? Ensure …

Simple Tricks On How To Maximize Your Iphone

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iphonefindmyphone.com - You don’t have heard about all of the great things that iPhones can do for their owners with very little effort. If you already have an iphone or are contemplating purchasing one, read on for some gr…

Use Social Media To Boost Your Marketing With These Ideas

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durac.info - If you are still using traditional marketing methods in this new century and decade, you will be left behind! Social media marketing can really help your marketing efforts, but you’ve got to know wha…

Tech Data Announces Partnership with Keonn to Deliver Cloud-Based RFID Solutions for Retailers | Markets Insider

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markets.businessinsider.com - CLEARWATER, Fla., July 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD) today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Keonn Technologies, a leading manufacturer of radio frequency ident…

EDITORIAL The technology to save the High Street is right here, right now

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internetretailing.net - The UK government has, in between trying to tear itself apart over Brexit, appointed a panel of ‘experts’ to diagnose the problems with High Street retail and, eventually, recommend what needs to be …

How to Attract Clicks on a Search Engine Results Page | Practical Ecommerce

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www.practicalecommerce.com - You’ve done the technical search engine optimization steps. You’ve worked hard to create useful, even authoritative content that answers common questions — keyword queries — for your industry. You’ve…

Will MVNO Worries Complicate T-Mobile, Sprint Merger?

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www.ecommercetimes.com - T-Mobile and Sprint have embarked on the road to a merger, creating some consternation among competitors. One concern that the combined company would have too much power as a mobile virtual network o…

A 'Mobile mindset' leads consumers to entertainment-led and individualistic shopping choices, psychologists conclude

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internetretailing.net - Consumers are drawn to seek out entertainment-led and individualistic shopping choices in what they feel is a ’safe zone’ on mobile, psychologists have concluded. Or, for the layman, shoppers like fu…

Shopify and Nest Offer Retailers Better Security and Connectivity With New Hardware

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www.shopify.com - Finding the right tools to power your store can be an intimidating prospect. But thanks to Shopify’s latest partnership with Google and Nest, merchants in the U.S. and Canada can get a range of new h…

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