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Innovation Report: 1 in 3 AR/VR/MR devs are making a platform exclusive - XRDC
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Michael Tchong
xrdconf.com - This week organizers of XRDC released the third annual AR/VR Innovation Report, which is jam-packed with interesting insights from professionals involved in developing virtual, augmented and mixed re…
Road safety experts’ message is based on old research
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Michael Tchong
www.news.com.au - Earlier this week Victoria Police spokeswoman Sergeant Julie-Anne Newman told the Herald Sun that “when travelling in a 60km/h zone, for every 5km/h over the limit your risk of being involved in a co…
Driving Innovation and Transformation with Cloud-based Security
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Michael Tchong
www.cioreview.com - Cloud technology today drives enterprises to accomplish business goals and shift their models from cost management to cost optimization, regardless of the sector the enterprise operates in. The cloud…
Inside Apple’s 20-Year March to $1 Trillion From the Brink of Bankruptcy
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Michael Tchong
www.nytimes.com - “The iPod was a step — a really important one,” said Ken Kocienda, a longtime Apple software engineer who will soon release a book about Apple called “Creative Selection.” “But the iPhone was really …
The leaked New York Times innovation report is one of the key documents of this media age
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Michael Tchong
www.niemanlab.org - Michael Wertheim, former head of promotion at Upworthy, turned down a business-side job leading audience development. “He explained that for anyone in that role to succeed, the newsroom needed to be …
Taibbi: Beware the Slippery Slope of Facebook Censorship
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Eric Garland
www.rollingstone.com - You may have seen a story this week detailing how Facebook shut down a series of accounts. As noted by Politico, Facebook claimed these accounts “sought to inflame social and political tensions in th…
New open source effort: Legal code to make reporting security bugs safer
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Not a week goes by without another major business or Internet service announcing a data breach. And while many companies have begun to adopt bug bounty programs to encourage the reporting of vulnerab…
FCC gives Google Fiber and new ISPs faster access to utility poles
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission today approved new rules that could let Google Fiber and other new Internet service providers gain faster access to utility poles. The FCC's One Touch Make Ready…
Samsung’s Tab S4 is both an Android tablet and a desktop computer
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - The Galaxy Tab S4 using Samsung Dex while connected to a monitor. Samsung Dex can be used with or without an external monitor. It turns the Tab S4 into a tiny PC, but running Android with a modified,…
Instagram’s CEO on vindication after 2 years of reinventing Stories
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - “I think the mistake everyone made was to think that Stories was a photography product,” says Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. “If you look at all these interactivity features we’ve added, we’ve really m…
Cisco is buying Duo Security for $2.35B in cash
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Cisco today announced its intention to buy Ann Arbor, MI-based security firm, Duo Security. Under the terms of the agreement, Cisco is paying $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards for Duo. …
Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction for kids, is now free
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction that encourages kids to read by presenting stories in the form of text message conversations, is now going free. Previously, Amazon had been charging $2.99 per month f…
Short video service Musical.ly is merging into sister app TikTok
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Musical.ly, the short video app that’s popular among teens and young people, is going away. Kinda. The app and all user data and accounts is being merged with Tiktok, a sister app that’s owned by Byt…
PSA: Automatic cross-posting of tweets to Facebook no longer works as of today
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - You can no longer automatically cross-post your tweets to Facebook . Twitter announced today that functionality is now coming to an end, and users will instead have to copy a tweet’s URL if they want…
Google slowly lifting ban on addiction center ads after adding vetting process
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TechCrunch
techcrunch.com - Google will soon allow ads to run on addiction-related keywords and phrases after a nearly year-long ban instituted to crack down on shady providers cashing in on vulnerable patients. A small group o…
How to Protect Yourself From SIM Swapping Hacks
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Guy Kawasaki
motherboard.vice.com - Criminal hackers have been targeting Instagram users with short or unique usernames, as well as people who own Bitcoin. To steal the victim’s accounts or cryptocurrencies, the hackers first seize the…
Heads-up: 2FA provider Duo Security to be acquired by Cisco (ugh)
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - US-based two-factor authentication provider Duo Security announced this morning that it is in talks to be acquired by networking giant Cisco. According to Duo’s press release, Duo will become a “busi…
$50 a month for 1Mbps: How AT&T and Verizon rip off DSL customers
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Tens of millions of people in the AT&T and Verizon service territories can only buy slow DSL Internet from the companies, yet they often have to pay the same price as fiber customers who get some of …
How I Built my Side Project and Got 31,000 Users the First Week
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Webdesigner Depot
medium.freecodecamp.org - I love building side-projects. Seeing your own ideas come to life is amazing. Side-projects provide a creative outlet and are a great way to learn and experiment with new things. If your side-project…
FCC sides with Google Fiber over Comcast with new pro-competition rule
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Reg Saddler
arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission today approved new rules that could let Google Fiber and other new Internet service providers gain faster access to utility poles. The FCC's One Touch Make Ready…
How to Use Facebook or Instagram's Activity Dashboard in a Few Simple Steps
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Reg Saddler
www.inverse.com - If you’ve ever found yourself mindlessly scrolling through your Facebook Instagram feeds only to catch yourself and fret over just how much of your life you’ve wasted on the social media platforms, y…
Elon Musk Just Detailed A.I. Chip That Will Power Tesla Full Self-Driving
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Reg Saddler
www.inverse.com - Tesla’s full self-driving project is taking shape, and it’s developed a super-powerful chip to bring it to life. On Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk unexpectedly revealed the company has been developing a ch…
Reddit Hacked – Emails, Passwords, Private Messages Stolen
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Reg Saddler
thehackernews.com - Another day, another significant data breach. This time the victim is Reddit... seems someone is really pissed off with Reddit's account ban policy or bias moderators. Reddit social media network tod…
Tweeting on Facebook just got harder–here are 2 ways you can still do it
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Reg Saddler
www.fastcompany.com - Once again the hackers and data miners of the world are ruining everyone’s fun. advertisement Personally, I’ve never been a huge fan of linking your Facebook and Twitter accounts so that tweets appea…
CCleaner provokes fury over Active Monitoring, user data collection | ZDNet
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Reg Saddler
www.zdnet.com - CCleaner has promised a slew of changes to its software in response to user criticism of active monitoring processes which are almost impossible to disable. CCleaner, available in both free and premi…
RED Hydrogen smartphone hits the FCC, new issues abound
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - The RED Hydrogen One was introduced last year as the world’s first holographic media machine. Others taught it was just a concept but it turned out to be real. A prototype was first shown off in a vi…
Strava renames and repackages its Premium service to Summit
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Android Community
androidcommunity.com - If you’ve been using Strava to help track your fitness activities, you’re probably familiar with its paid service which is understandably called Strava Premium. You paid $60 a year to be able to acce…
Acer's New Business Chromebooks Arrive in September - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Today, Acer announced two new business-class Chromebooks, one of which is a convertible form factor. The best news? Both feature 13.5-inch 3:2 displays. “These new Chromebooks are ideally suited for …
Motorola's Moto Z3 Launches Exclsuviely at Verizon, to Get 5G Via Moto Mod Next Year - Thurrott.com
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Paul Thurrott
www.thurrott.com - Motorola today unveiled the new Moto Z3, the company’s latest flagship, exclusively for Verizon. The company is partnering with Verizon to even bring 5G support to the device next year. Motorola and …
JUUL: Unreleased Flavors, Pending Tech Updates Signify Commitment To Prevent Underage Use
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vapenews.com - Bloomberg reports that Juul Labs is taking some actions — and not taking others — as part of its strategy to ensure that only adult users are attracted to and able to use its products in an effort to…
How to safely change themes on your WordPress site
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DotOnline (.ONLINE)
searchenginewatch.com - WordPress is one of the most used content management systems out there. The one thing that makes WordPress so accessible is its ecosystem, including the themes and plugins available. As a user, you’l…
Action needed if you're using adsenseformobileapps.com to exclude apps from Google Display campaigns - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - When Google Ads (formerly AdWords) uses the word “simplify,” waves of concern ripple through the paid search community that the opposite will be true, controls will be lost and campaign performance w…
Elon Musk Apologizes to Analysts on Tesla Earnings Call | Breitbart
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.breitbart.com - During Tesla’s second-quarter earning’s call yesterday, in which Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed the company’s $739 million loss, Musk addressed issues relating to production schedules and apologized t…
Keeping Facebook's Zuckerberg Safe Now Costs Extra $10 Million a Year
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.newsmax.com - Facebook Inc. spent $7.33 million last year protecting its chief executive officer at his homes and during his tour across the U.S. Last week, the social-media giant said it would provide an addition…
Report: Tesla Whistleblower Was Falsely Accused of Making Violent Threats | Breitbart
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.breitbart.com - A new report from Ars Technica revealed that Tesla whistleblower Martin Tripp was falsely accused of making violent threats against the car manufacturer. On June 20, an anonymous caller told police t…
Masters of the Universe: Apple First Company Worth $1 Trillion | Breitbart
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Chris From Wisconsin
www.breitbart.com - Apple has successfully reached a market capitalization of $1 trillion following this week’s earnings release. The computing and phone giant’s shares traded at $207.05, valuing the company just over $…
Facebook’s new “Playable Ads” let you try mobile game demos right in your newsfeed
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James Hickey
mashable.com - You can now try that mobile game before you buy — and without even leaving Facebook. Thursday, Facebook introduced a new ad solution with mobile game developers in mind. Dubbed “playable ads,” the fe…
Wasting Time in Meetings? Content Sharing Solutions Boost Meeting Productivity
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ViewSonic Corp
www.viewsonic.com - Productive meetings are a great thing. Sadly, many things can derail meeting productivity. The result? We end up wasting time in meetings. There are many culprits: Lack of preparation. Poorly defined…
Outdated ways of listening to music, ranked
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mashable.com - Not to be too "old man yells at cloud," but I realized the other day that the average freshman entering college this fall probably has no idea what it's like to not have any song they want to hear av…
Apple reaches $1,000,000,000,000 value
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Themelis Cuiper
money.cnn.com - Tim Cook: I don't think about Apple's $1 trillion valuation Apple just became the first American public company to cross $1 trillion in value. The iPhone maker achieved that big number on Thursday wh…
How to Turn Fans Into Brand Champions : Social Media Examiner
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Themelis Cuiper
www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Wondering how your biggest fans can help? In this article, you’ll discover how to turn engaged fans and followers into brand champions. How to Turn Fans Into Brand Champions by Anne Ackroyd on Social…
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…
10 More Women in Security You May Not Know But Should
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Tamara Dull
www.darkreading.com - Kelly Jackson Higgins contributed to this article. The gender disparity plaguing cybersecurity – and the tech industry as a whole – isn't new, but it is particularly discouraging when the few women i…
Apple Shares Details on Planned Tower Theatre Flagship Store in Los Angeles
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Michael Tchong
www.macrumors.com - ('//www.macrumors.com/2018/08/02/apple-store-tower-theatre-los-angeles/') Apple has long been rumored to be working on plans for an Apple Store at the iconic Tower Theatre in Los Angeles, and today, …
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