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Retailers are marketing directly to kids shopping on their smartphones
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www.washingtonpost.com - by Abha Bhattarai August 10 Email the author Nine-year-old Isabella Colello shops for just about everything online. She scrolls through the Amazon app on her phone at least once a day. She gets ideas…
Ex-Trump Aide Seb Gorka is Giving Out Fake Fox News Business Cards
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www.mediaite.com - President Donald Trump’s former aide Sebastian Gorka is giving out phony Fox News business cards, Mediaite has learned. Gorka, who was fired from his nebulous role at the White House late last year, …
dev.to is now open source
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dev.to - Even though this release has been the culmination of a lot of hard work and hard thinking, this is not a finish line. It's a starting line. Welcome to the dev.to codebase. We are so excited to have y…
Connected Cars Piggyback on Smart City Spending | PYMNTS.com
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www.pymnts.com - They are siblings, the concepts of connected vehicles and smart cities. Tied together by data, sensors, algorithms, software and other technology, the two ecosystems are becoming increasingly difficu…
Facebook Engagement Sharply Drops 50% Over Last 18 Months
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www.forbes.com - A phone with a Facebook logo is seen in this photo illustration on July 9, 2018. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Is your Facebook Page suffering from a steep drop in engagement rate…
SAP Next-Gen at the Ghana Tech Summit: Innovation 3.0 with Purpose
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news.sap.com - To inspire new audiences in Africa with new experiences and a new perception of SAP, more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors, digital marketers, and creatives from across Africa and the world heard …
We need to stop glorifying innovation. Here's why.
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Michael Tchong
thenextweb.com - In the United States, and to a lesser extent around the world, we’ve been glorifying innovation for the past century or more. But if we want to create a balanced society, which can sustain itself whi…
Protecting Intellectual Property in the Cloud
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www.wipo.int - By Asaf Cidon, Founder and CEO of Sookasa, California, United States As intellectual property (IP) becomes the heart of the global economy, collaboration is becoming increasingly important. For most …
New Galaxy S10 leak details one of Samsung’s best new features
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esist.tech - Your daily selection of the hottest trending tech news! According to BGR (This article and its images were originally posted on BGR August 13, 2018 at 09:34AM.) It has only been a few days since Sams…
#SuccessTRAIN
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netventuresmarketing.jigsy.com - #SuccessTRAIN is a Brand, Business and Community Building Global Leadership Social Networking Group on Twitter and Instagram created by @RockChristopher and NetVenturesMarketing.com . #SuccessTRAIN i…
Paid Program: Yamaha Revs Up IT Bike
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Michael Tchong
partners.wsj.com - Glenn Coles joined Yamaha Motor Co. in 2006 and functions as its North American general manager and CIO. As a former pro-level motocross racer, it was always his dream to enter the corporate motor sp…
Facebook’s message to media: “We are not interested in talking to you about your traffic…That is the old world and there is no going back”
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www.niemanlab.org - The Australian — the Murdoch-owned national paper — has an interesting (and aggressively paywalled) scoop about Facebook today, based on comments Campbell Brown, the company’s global head of news par…
Twitter Lite expands to 21 more countries, adds push notifications
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techcrunch.com - Twitter announced today its Twitter Lite app is expanding to 21 more countries, which makes the data-saving app available to now over 45 countries in total. The app was first introduced last year wit…
Taiwan startup FunNow gets $5M Series A to help locals in Asian cities find last-minute things to do
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techcrunch.com - “Instant booking” apps that let tourists sign up for activities on very short notice have been in the news a lot lately, partly because of Klook’s new unicorn status, but also because of the prolifer…
Firefox now supports the newest internet security protocol
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techcrunch.com - Last Friday, the Internet Engineering Task Force released the final version of TLS 1.3. This is a major update to TLS 1.2, the security protocol that secures much of the web by, among other things, p…
Vimeo removed Alex Jones’ account over the weekend
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techcrunch.com - YouTube, Facebook, Spotify, Apple, Pinterest and now Vimeo have removed Infowars content from their services. The video streaming platform is the latest in a growing wave of tech companies pull video…
Zendesk introduces support bot for Discord gaming community
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techcrunch.com - The Discord gaming community boasts 150 million members and 46 million active monthly users, who spend their days chatting about games, finding people to play with and looking for advice on how to re…
Rapper Azealia Banks’ claims to have the inside track on Elon Musk’s Tesla take-private drama
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techcrunch.com - If Azealia Banks’ Instagram account is to believed, Elon Musk’s tweets about Tesla’s take-private deal can be chalked up to some good ole acid and a whole lot of post-tweet frantic scrambling. Over a…
Nvidia’s new Turing architecture is all about real-time ray tracing and AI
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techcrunch.com - In recent days, word about Nvidia’s new Turing architecture started leaking out of the Santa Clara-based company’s headquarters. So it didn’t come as a major surprise that the company today announced…
Airbnb shows off new collaboration features that let co-travelers plan trips together
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techcrunch.com - In recent years, Airbnb has been working to expand its business beyond accommodations, by becoming a more robust travel companion with features like guidebooks, suggested experiences, and full-servic…
Russian Military Spy Software is on Hundreds of Thousands of Home Routers
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www.defenseone.com - LAS VEGAS — The Russian military is inside hundreds of thousands of routers owned by Americans and others around the world, a top U.S. cybersecurity official said on Friday. The presence of Russian m…
This Bugatti EB110 video is a great reminder of the 1990s supercar boom
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arstechnica.com - The Bugatti EB110 hit the streets right around the time I started getting interested in cars. I've loved it ever since. This incarnation of Bugatti died in 1995, but just before the end, the company …
Galaxy Tab S4 review: Even Samsung’s Dex desktop can’t save Android tablets
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arstechnica.com - OEMs are trying to make tablets that can replace your laptop, but most of us know that tablets can't really do such a thing for power users. However, these new devices try to balance portability and …
Group FaceTime won’t launch with iOS 12 and Mojave after all
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arstechnica.com - Demonstrated prominently in Apple's WWDC keynote event earlier this year, Group FaceTime would allow more than two people to participate in a FaceTime video call at once, with a presentation similar …
Lenovo’s new P1 workstation packs Xeon, 64GB ECC RAM, 4TB SSD into 0.7 inches
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arstechnica.com - If you need more power than the typical 13-inch Ultrabook can handle, Lenovo's new mobile workstations might be the answer. The ThinkPad P1 looks like a 15-inch Ultrabook, 0.7 inches thick and under …
Bethesda tries to force Sony to stop blocking cross-console gameplay
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arstechnica.com - In an interview with Game Informer, Bethesda VP Pete Hines says that any and all versions of The Elder Scrolls: Legends need to allow for full, unrestricted cross-platform play and cross-platform pro…
One man designed and built the ultimate bush plane
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arstechnica.com - The DRACO, a bush plane designed and built by Mike Patey in five months. It uses a turbine instead of a piston engine, and can take off in just 110 feet at sea level. The DRACO can climb at 4,000 fee…
Court blocks FCC plan that could cause “mass disconnection” in Tribal lands
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arstechnica.com - A US appeals court has blocked the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to take a broadband subsidy away from Tribal areas. The FCC decision, originally slated to take effect later this year, …
The Ars Technica Back to School buying guide
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arstechnica.com - College is a time for meeting new people, opening up your worldview, taking in new experiences, reading (please, for the love of God, read), and generally experiencing the last years of a life untain…
Stop Validating & Start Co-Creating - Product Talk
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www.producttalk.org - Meet Sally and Pam. Sally is a product manager, Pam a user experience designer, and they are working on a new mobile app. They’ve conducted customer interviews, defined their MVP, and are now working…
Hackers Found a Way to Make the Amazon Echo a Spy Bug
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www.wired.com - Since smart speakers like the Amazon Echo first began to appear in homes across the world, the security community has come to see them as a prime target. But that threat has remained largely hypothet…
25 Best WordPress Themes for Startups (2018)
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www.wpbeginner.com - Are you looking for WordPress startup themes for your site? Startups need a reliable platform for their websites, something that can scale with their growth. It this article, we have hand-picked the …
Tips for balancing web fonts & page load
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frontendnews.io - WebPageTest is the best free tool for profiling page load. It allows you to throttle connections and use real mobile devices. For this study, we'll use the "Easy" profile, which is a slow 3G connecti…
You Don't Have to React to Every Post and Text You See—Promise
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www.wired.com - It's not that things don't affect me, or that I'm needlessly stoic—born-and-bred Midwesterners like me tend to be level-headed. (Or at least as even-keeled as one can be in 2018.) This is a purely pe…
Big Data: What It Means & How To Grow Your Business With It
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www.forbes.com - Looking for a way to affirm if your marketing efforts are outdated or not? I’ve developed a very simple litmus test you can administer immediately. Answer the following question: Are you leveraging ‘…
The Techies Turning Kenya Into a Silicon Savannah
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www.wired.com - People hunched over greasy computer screens, crunching data, writing code: The scenes in Janek Stroisch’s photographic series Co.Ke are familiar to anyone who's ever been to a coffee shop in Silicon …
Ajit Pai loses in court—FCC can’t kill broadband subsidy in Tribal areas
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Reg Saddler
arstechnica.com - A US appeals court has blocked the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to take a broadband subsidy away from Tribal areas. The FCC decision, originally slated to take effect later this year, …
Huawei Mate 20 Lite images and speaks leaked
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androidcommunity.com - Huawei has already overtaken Apple in the global mobile market but it has yet to beat Samsung. It may be long before that happens but we know the Chinese OEM won’t stop working to get on top of the g…
Michael Kors’ iconic Runway watch now a smartwatch with GPS, heart-rate tracking
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androidcommunity.com - The Runway watch by Michael Kors is one of the most iconic products from the brand. But now, it’s getting an upgrade for this generation by turning into a smartwatch. This latest wearable will become…
Latest Google Pixel 3 XL video shows a large, notched display
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androidcommunity.com - After that Google Pixel 3 XL unboxing video made public last week, here’s a new one that shows off the smartphone in action. It’s more like a quick run through of the phone running on Android 9 PieTh…
Foxconn earnings miss market forecast despite Apple's strength
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Charles Yeo
asia.nikkei.com - TAIPEI -- Key iPhone assembler Foxconn Technology Group reported a surprise earnings decline for the April-June quarter as rising costs took a toll, a performance that contrasted with Apple's strong …
Windows 10 Could Be Coming to Chromebooks - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Chromebooks could be getting a huge feature in the coming months. In an ironic turn of events, Google is reportedly working on adding support for Windows 10 to its flagship Pixelbook device, allowing…
Android 9 Pie Feature Focus: Adaptive Brightness - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Android 9 Pie has a feature called Adaptive Brightness that’s a bit like auto-brightness on steroids. AI steroids. “Most modern smartphones will automatically adjust the brightness [of the device] gi…
Install VPN On Kodi For A Great Streaming Experience | Bit Rebels
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www.bitrebels.com - The Kodi has become one of the most popular solutions for digital entertainment – movies, television shows, web series, sports events, live broadcasts, music and even downloading such content. Howeve…
Introducing the (World’s First) Ethical Operating System
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medium.com - It’s no longer enough to simply profess an optimistic desire that the tech we build will have a positive effect on the world. We must create a system of design and development that places real value …
Amazon Echo speakers turned into snooping devices by Chinese hackers
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metro.co.uk - Millions of us have welcomed Alexa into our homes by purchasing one of Amazon’s Echo smart speakers. The handy gadgets can be used for playing music, shopping and – on some models – even watching vid…
Vimeo Removes Infowars Content as CNN Continues Blacklist Crusade | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - A Vimeo spokesperson confirmed in a statement Monday that Jones’s content “violated our Terms of Service prohibitions on discriminatory and hateful content,” adding that they had “notified the accou…
The Truth About Handling Overwhelm in the Information Age • My Lead System PRO - MyLeadSystemPRO
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blog.myleadsystempro.com - If you ask 10 leaders in the world of online business how to handle feelings of overwhelm I bet you would get 10 different answers. Very recently I learned a significantly different idea about overwh…
What is Facebook Jail? 7 Ways to Stay Out of Facebook Jail...
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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Facebook Jail is when users are blocked or banned (by Facebook) from posting or engaging on the site for a determined length of time due to terms-of-service abuses or spammy conduct. For multiple off…
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