Tuesday, October 09, 2018

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10 tips for better mobile UX design

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www.creativebloq.com - Layouts, menus, forms, web fonts and gestures are all things you need to consider when designing your website. However, you also need to think about how these elements are going to be viewed by visit…

Google’s China Ambitions Threaten U.S. National Security - Quillette

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quillette.com - A month before the 2024 elections the Chinese dictator issues an ultimatum to the U.S. president: Abandon defense of Taiwan or Google will politically destroy you. If your navy does not immediately l…

Tesseract founder focuses on intersection of tech and innovation to grow AR-VR startup

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yourstory.com - Four-year-old Tesseract, which taps AR-VR tech for headsets, smart glasses, and cameras for enterprises, is now going after the consumer market. Marvel fans will remember the Tesseract, a crystalline…

Google’s latest hardware innovation: Price

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techcrunch.com - With its latest consumer hardware products, Google’s prices are undercutting Apple, Samsung, and Amazon. The search giant just unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, tablet, and smart home device a…

Use These 14 Strategies to Encourage Employee Innovation - Small Business Trends

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smallbiztrends.com - Innovation is essential for any company’s success, but it the responsibility of generating new ideas can’t fall to one person. It truly takes a team effort to keep coming up with fresh and creative a…

Understanding the Apple Watch - Innovation Copilots

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www.icopilots.com - In September 2014 Jean-Claude BIVER, President of LVMH Watchmaking Division (Tag Heuer, Zenith, Hublot) famously said: This [Apple] watch has no sex appeal. It’s too feminine and looks too much like …

3 Types of Affiliate Marketing Explained—and The One I Profit From

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www.smartpassiveincome.com - In 2009, I originally published this post, the 3 Types of Affiliate Marketing Explained—and The One I Profit From. A lot has changed since then, and I’ve learned a ton along the way about affiliate m…

Xiaomi Mi Box S Android TV 8.1 comes to the US

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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi is already in the US market, but not in the way most would like it. While many still await the fulfillment of the promise of Xiaomi smartphone, fans can at least enjoy other Mi products that a…

Microsoft Project xCloud made for everyone in mind

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androidcommunity.com - Cloud gaming isn’t exactly new but not many tech companies have embraced it. The idea has been around even before we noted it’s still in its early stages back in 2014. We remember Sony acquiring OnLi…

Project Management Templates: The Key to Improving Your Workflow | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Last year, Rachel McPherson shared 9 ways to organize successful creative projects. It’s a very useful article that highlights the main things to do if you want to bring greater control and organizat…

Magic Leap is real and it’s a janky marvel

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techcrunch.com - After years of speculation, some mockery, and more than a little befuddlement, the Magic Leap augmented headset is arriving in the hands of developers and users — and its first product is a somewhat …

SoundCloud finally lets more musicians monetize four years later

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techcrunch.com - SoundCloud moves painfully slow for a tech company, and no one feels that pain more than musicians who are popular on the site but don’t get paid. 10 years since SoundCloud first launched, and four y…

Devialet unveils an ambitious new speaker

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techcrunch.com - French speaker maker Devialet is arguably manufacturing some of the best sounding all-in-one speakers on the market, but they’ve always been too expensive for the average customer. With the Phantom R…

Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens

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techcrunch.com - Upskill has been working on a platform to support augmented and mixed reality for almost as long as most people have been aware of the concept. It began developing an agnostic AR/MR platform way back…

Government watchdog says U.S. weapons systems are vulnerable to hacks, but the Pentagon is slow to act

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techcrunch.com - A government watchdog has said the Department of Defense has not done enough to protect critical weapons systems from cyberattacks. The new report out of the Government Accountability Office on Tuesd…

Review: The Marshall Worburn II packs modern sound, retro look

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techcrunch.com - Marshall speakers stand out. That’s why I dig them. From the company’s headphones to its speakers, the audio is warm and full just like the classic design suggests. The company today is announcing re…

After its acquisition, Magento starts integrating Adobe’s personalization and analytics tools

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techcrunch.com - It’s been less than six months since Adobe acquired commerce platform Magento for $1.68 billion and today, at Magento’s annual conference, the company announced the first set of integrations that bri…

Pitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on Powerpoint in presentations

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft’s Powerpoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world. But that doesn’t make …

Pixel 2 vs Pixel 3: Should you upgrade?

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techcrunch.com - If you’re considering making the jump to Google’s newly announced Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, you’re in the right place. Whether you’re a Pixel 2 owner eyeing greener pastures or a bargain type hunting f…

Google Duplex tests begin with restaurants in 4 US cities this month

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced it’ll start rolling out Duplex, its controversial Google Assistant feature that can make phone calls on your behalf, to Pixel phones next month. The rollout will be city by cit…

Here’s Google’s Echo Show competitor, the $149 Home Hub

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techcrunch.com - This is Google’s Echo Show competitor, the Home Hub. We knew it was coming, via an avalanche of leaks and now, moments before the event has officially kicked off, here it is in all of its glory by wa…

Netlify just got $30 million to change the way developers build websites

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techcrunch.com - Netlify wants to revolutionize the way developers build websites, abstracting away the web server and breaking web sites into microservices, making the process more like building a mobile application…

What to expect from Google’s Pixel 3 event

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techcrunch.com - Apple, Amazon and Microsoft have already held their big fall events — and now it’s Google’s turn. Over the past couple of years, the October event has become an increasingly important platform, as th…

The Pixel Slate is Google’s premium Chrome OS tablet

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techcrunch.com - This is the Pixel Slate. Announced today among a flurry of hardware at the Made By Google event in New York, the product joins the Pixel Book as Google’s flagship Chrome OS products. The device looks…

Emmanuel Macron meets with the French tech community

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techcrunch.com - Emmanuel Macron came to France’s ginormous startup campus Station F to talk to the French tech community. The event is organized by La French Tech, the government initiative to promote and foster the…

Google Photos adds ‘Live Albums’ an automated way of sharing people, pet photos with anyone

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techcrunch.com - Just ahead of today’s Google’s hardware event, the company has quietly rolled out an update to its Google Photos application which introduces a new, automated way of organizing and sharing photos: Li…

Matt Lerner reduces role at 500 Startups to launch ‘growth coaching’ company Heretix

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techcrunch.com - Matt Lerner, who has for the last few years effectively been 500 Startups’ main person in London, is reducing his role at the Silicon Valley-based VC fund and accelerator to pursue a new business of …

Indie farm-em-up Stardew Valley is coming to iOS and Android

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techcrunch.com - Stardew Valley, the hit indie farming game made by one guy in his spare time, is coming to mobile. I’ve dropped dozens of hours into this charming little spiritual successor to Harvest Moon, and now …

Google ups the Pixel 3’s camera game with Top Shot, group selfies and more

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techcrunch.com - Google’s Pixel 2 introduced one of the best smartphone cameras ever made and the Pixel 3 brings even more more bells and whistles sure to please mobile photographers. On paper, the Pixel 3’s camera d…

The Pixel 3’s best new features

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techcrunch.com - Google unveiled a number of new products Tuesday at its big hardware event, including the Google Home Hub and Google Pixel Slate. But the Pixel 3, the company’s new smartphone was the real star. The …

Why People Are Putting Fitness Trackers on Toilet Paper in China

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gizmodo.com - It all started with a mystery: Why would a fitness tracker detect a beating heart on a roll of toilet paper? As Chinese tech site Abacus reports, toilet paper is having a bit of a viral moment in Chi…

Borderlands 2 getting full-scale PlayStation VR port December 14

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arstechnica.com - In VR, there's literally no way to escape the annoyance of Claptrap. Your shield is no match for my virtual reality viewpoints! Steer vehicles with the joysticks while aiming with your headset. Barf …

HP’s x360 14 Chromebook is a radical change from last year’s model

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arstechnica.com - This week, HP announced a new 14-inch machine running Google's Chrome OS: the HP Chromebook x360 14. That's not to be confused with the 14-inch HP Pavilion x360 that runs Windows or last year's HP Ch…

Unannounced 3rd-gen Chromecast gets sold at Best Buy, packs Bluetooth

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arstechnica.com - Left: The new Chromecast. Right: The old "second-gen" Chromecast. 9to5Google scored some pictures of the new Chromecast, too. This FCC-ID shows it's not the same old Chromecast. More pictures from re…

Major US telecom was infiltrated by backdoored Supermicro hardware, Bloomberg says

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arstechnica.com - Five days after Bloomberg stunned the world with still-unconfirmed allegations that Chinese spies embedded data-sniffing chips in hardware used by Apple, Amazon, and dozens of other companies, the ne…

The 3 Elements of Great UX Writing – Hungry for Insight

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blog.nomnominsights.com - So you’ve finally released the very first version of your product. Your designs are beautiful, your core functionality is rock-solid, and your user journeys are smooth, logical, and engaging. Your fi…

A practical ES6 guide on how to perform HTTP requests using the Fetch API

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medium.freecodecamp.org - In this guide, I’ll show you how to use the Fetch API (ES6+) to perform HTTP requests to an REST API with some practical examples you’ll most likely encounter. Want to quickly see the HTTP examples? …

How listening to our 4.1 million users inspired a new product idea

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www.jotform.com - Years ago, I was waiting in line at a paddle sports shop. People were renting kayaks and canoes and getting fitted for life jackets. It was a brilliant, sunny day and the air buzzed with excitement. …

Google’s new Pixel Stand charger is quietly brilliant

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www.fastcompany.com - Tech companies are trying to convince us that we need more gadgets and more screens at home. But today at Google’s yearly hardware event, the company took a slightly different tack. Along with announ…

Huawei Mate 20X official video teaser surfaces online

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androidcommunity.com - The top Chinese OEM will be unveiling the new Huawei Mate 20 series phone. We’ve seen the Mate 20 Lite already and we can’t wait for the Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro. There is no shortage of inform…

Google to sunset consumer Google+, improves third-party API access

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androidcommunity.com - Google has bad news for those who are still using Google+: you only have ten months to “enjoy” the app as they are sunsetting the consumer version of the network. This is one of the four findings and…

Huawei Watch GT image render ready before official launch

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androidcommunity.com - Huawei isn’t as prolific when it comes to wearables but when it releases something new, you can bet it will capture your attention. Next week, we’ll get to see that new Huawei Mate 20 and Mate 20 Pro…

T-Mobile brings Alcatel 3T 8 budget tablet for families with kids

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androidcommunity.com - The idea of having tablets for your kids doesn’t seem so absurd now as a lot of that generation will grow up knowing how to use a gadget first before being able to read. The important thing is for pa…

Loyalty360 Reads: September 19, 2018

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loyalty360.org - New Santa Fe Features Loads of Tech The 2019 Hyundai Santa Fe has been awarded a spot on Wards’ 10 Best UX list. The SUV offers driver-assist technologies, connectivity, navigation, voice-activated…

A Month With Chrome OS and Pixelbook - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - There’s a huge dilemma surrounding Google’s Chromebooks. When they first launched, they were only capable of running websites on Google’s Chrome browsers. Google made a huge bet on its browser-based …

Google Duplex, Screen Call Coming to Pixel Devices - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google is bringing some crazy new AI-powered experiences to its Pixel devices. The company is launching two new features for the Pixel devices this year: Screen Call, and Google Duplex. Google Duplex…

5 Interesting Ways Of Using Digital Signage In School | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - Digital signage is not just for advertising purposes. Educational institutions across the world can benefit tremendously from digital signage boards. From public schooling, colleges and even universi…

3 Best Streaming Platforms To Find Quality Anime | Bit Rebels

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www.bitrebels.com - The influence of Japanese animation on Western audiences over the past several decades is undeniable. From the beautiful picturesque children’s movies created by Hayao Miyazaki, known as the Walt Dis…

Google takes on the iPad Pro and Surface Pro with the Pixel Slate

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mashable.com - Google really nailed it with the Pixelbook. The laptop-tablet hybrid was a bit steep at $1,000, but boy was it one helluva fun work and play machine. Google’s just-announced Pixel Slate is a departur…

Google Reveals New Pixel Phone, Speaker to Chase Apple, Amazon

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www.newsmax.com - Google showed off a pair of new Pixel phones, a tablet computer and a speaker with a screen in a deluge of new products aimed at competing with the latest gadgets from big technology rivals. The Pixe…

Tech Workers Now Want to Know: What Are We Building This For?

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www.nytimes.com - “What people are looking for — not just employees — they are looking for some clarity,” said Frank Shaw, a Microsoft spokesman. “Are there principles that get applied? Even if you don’t agree with th…

Google Plus Will Be Shut Down After User Information Was Exposed

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www.nytimes.com - In May, Europe adopted new General Data Protection Regulation laws that require companies to notify regulators of a potential leak of personal information within 72 hours. Google’s security issue occ…

SocialChat by Buffer: Start Social Media Conversations on Your Website

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blog.bufferapp.com - Today, we’re excited to launch, SocialChat by Buffer, a simple, free tool that enables visitors to start social media conversations on your website. Each and every day, people visit your website to l…

Google is the new Yahoo

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elgan.com - Remember Yahoo? Twenty years ago, Yahoo.com got more traffic than any site on the internet. But it failed to evolve. In place of evolution or innovation, Yahoo simply started buying everything with t…

Video Marketing Tips • Attraction Marketing Profits

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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - Marketing is key to any and every business. You can not expect your product or service to sell itself, so you need to spread the word. That said, you should use video marketing to stick out from the …

Auto Repair Tips That Keep You Driving

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carshopping.biz - You don’t want to just go with the flow when car repairs. Read on to learn what to do the next time your car needs a repair. Get a good battery charger to keep in your car.Learn to locate the points …

Tips About Effective Website Creation For Your Site

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agentmonhost.com - A website is a valuable tool for many things. This article will show you some great web page design tips to help you to understand the process. Make sure that a tagline is prominently displayed on yo…

How to Use LinkedIn to Generate Sales Conversations – Local Internet Marketing

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andyrkelly.com - The video above is a replay of a recent live webinar I hosted with guest Viveka von Rosen. Combined with the text below you should have a pretty good feel for how to use LinkedIn to generate sales co…

Commercial Telecom Fiber Optic Connectors Sales Market Report 2017

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www.embedded-computing.com - This report studies sales (consumption) of Commercial Telecom Fiber Optic Connectors market in Global market, especially in United States, China, Europe and Japan, focuses on top players in these reg…

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