Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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TECHNOLOGY

Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch Season 3 Episode 5: 'I Accept Your Offer of My Offer'

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www.entrepreneur.com - Sometimes, an elevator pitch is so persuasive, it leaves the listener feeling like they have no choice but to learn more -- or throw their money at an idea before someone else does. On Entrepreneur’s…

Google Pixel 3 Review: Picture greatness

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www.slashgear.com - It’s a testament to just how high expectations are for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL that, even after months of the Google phones leaking, interest in them remains high. Now, the pair of Android 9 Pie h…

YouTube is down and the Internet goes crazy

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www.slashgear.com - It wasn’t just the PlayStation Network that abruptly went offline for a short while. Now an even bigger network outage is affecting users all over the world, not just a few thousand who own specific …

How to Decide if Tech Is for You (And What to Do Next) (S5E1)

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learntocodewith.me - What career is right for me? It’s a question everyone asks at some point in their lives (usually more than once!). And while some people are lucky enough to get the “right answer” the first time and …

GitHub launches Actions, its workflow automation tool

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techcrunch.com - For the longest time, GitHub was all about storing source code and sharing it either with the rest of the world or your colleagues. Today, the company, which is in the process of being acquired by Mi…

Macaw will curate Twitter for you, help expand your network

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techcrunch.com - Twitter today inserts activity-based tweets into your timeline, alerting you to things like the popular tweets liked by people you follow, or those Twitter accounts that a lot of people in your netwo…

Winamp will be revamped into an all-in-one mobile music player

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androidcommunity.com - For those who lived in an era when your mp3s weren’t in a cloud and were actually stored in your computer’s hard drive, Winamp was a staple program to have as it was a robust and highly customizable …

Google Maps amplifies its app for electric vehicle owners

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techcrunch.com - Google Maps is beefing up its app to help electric vehicle owners find the most suitable and closest place to charge up. Google Maps said Tuesday it’s adding an EV charging feature to the app that wi…

Coinbase now lets you buy and sell ZRX

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techcrunch.com - Coinbase’s newest asset is live. On Tuesday the popular U.S.-based cryptocurrency platform added support for ZRX, the token representing the 0x Project. On Coinbase, ZRX joins the rarified ranks of B…

Disney-backed Jaunt lays off ‘significant’ number of employees as it moves away from VR

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techcrunch.com - One of the top-funded VR content startups, with backers including Disney and GV (Google Ventures), is laying off a “significant portion” of its employees as it pivots away from virtual reality. In a …

Weird Twitter bug was related to notifications code, not a security incident

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techcrunch.com - Twitter users on iOS were hit with a strange bug today. Instead of receiving notifications that included the tweet itself, they received a string of alphanumeric characters. The issue only affected i…

Periscope broadcasters can now assign their own chat moderators

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techcrunch.com - It’s going to be harder for trolls to disrupt Periscope broadcasts. The Twitter-owned live streaming app has offered chat moderation capabilities for years, but it has so far relied on group moderati…

Walmart’s Vudu may add subscription video channels to its streaming service

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techcrunch.com - Walmart appears to have big plans for its video streaming service, Vudu . On the heels of a partnership with MGM for original content, new reports claim the retailer is now in discussions with variou…

Google tweaks Android licensing terms in Europe to allow Google app unbundling — for a fee

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techcrunch.com - Google has announced changes to the licensing model for its Android mobile operating system in Europe, including introducing a fee for licensing some of its own brand apps, saying it’s doing so to c…

Hinge is first dating app to actually measure real world success

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techcrunch.com - Dating app Hinge is today launching a new feature aimed at improving its recommendations, based on whether or not matches had successful real-world dates. The feature may also help to address one of …

Huawei’s new phone can wirelessly charge the competition

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techcrunch.com - Make no mistake, Huawei’s going after the big dogs here. The company’s taken a Samsung-esque approach to the world of flagship smartphones with a beast of a handset that delivers everything and the k…

Google-incubated AdLingo uses chatbot integration to create conversational ads

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techcrunch.com - “Conversational marketing” is a phrase that I hear a lot, but when the team at AdLingo uses it, they mean something specific — namely, bringing chatbots and other conversational assistants into onlin…

Paperspace scores $13M investment for AI-fueled application development platform

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techcrunch.com - Paperspace wants to help developers build artificial intelligence and machine learning applications with a software/hardware development platform powered by GPus and other powerful chips. Today, the …

Age And Entrepreneurship: Research Shows Average Age Of Successful Founders Is Older Than You Think

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www.forbes.com - If your perception of a successful entrepreneur is shaped by what’s portrayed in the media, you probably think it’s a young person’s game. New research shows this may be more myth than reality. Accor…

Starlink: Battle for Atlas review: Cool toys, solid spacefaring

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arstechnica.com - Those who are familiar with 2016’s No Man’s Sky will undoubtedly notice more than a few similarities between it and Starlink: Battle for Atlas, which created the above scene. The visuals in both are …

Roborace wants the future of racing to be AI plus humans, working together

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arstechnica.com - Acronym designer Errolson Hugh was one of the two human competitors in the first human+machine Roborace. Both teams would race DevBots, which are being used to develop the Robocar AI. They have all t…

Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla come together to end TLS 1.0

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arstechnica.com - Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced a unified plan to deprecate the use of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 early in 2020. TLS (Transport Layer Security) is used to secure connections on the Web. TLS…

Sega’s Genesis (and more) get an HDMI upgrade with the Mega Sg

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arstechnica.com - The Mega Sg comes in four cases. Here's the one modeled after the American Genesis. The set of adapters that makes the Mega Sg compatible with other Sega cartridges. Out of the box, the Mega Sg will …

Bug in libssh could make it amazingly easy for hackers to gain root access

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arstechnica.com - There’s a four-year-old bug in the Secure Shell implementation known as libssh that makes it trivial for just about anyone to gain unfettered administrative control of a vulnerable server. While the …

Verizon slammed for poor hurricane response as Floridians lack cell service

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arstechnica.com - Wireless carriers' failure to fully restore cellular service in Florida after Hurricane Michael "is completely unacceptable," Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai said today in a rare …

Build a Simple API Service with Express and GraphQL

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developer.okta.com - GraphQL has become an immensely popular alternative to REST APIs. The flexibility you get from using GraphQL makes it easier for developers to get any information they need for an app, and just the i…

Can You Solve Elon Musk's Favorite Brain Teaser?

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mentalfloss.com - "You're standing on the surface of the Earth. You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north. You end up exactly where you started. Where are you?" This is the question that entrepreneur …

How Punk Rock Can Revitalize Human Resources

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www.forbes.com - Dressed in multicolored pants, combat boots and spiked leather bracelets, SAP’s Chief Human Resources Officer, Stefan Ries proudly strut onto the stage of the MGM Park Theater in Las Vegas to the str…

T-Mobile testing out a 36-month installment plan for Galaxy Note 9

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androidcommunity.com - With a lot of flagship devices becoming a little more expensive than usual nowadays, it wouldn’t hurt to actually offer more installment payment option plans to users. That’s what “un-carrier” T-Mobi…

Galaxy S9 software update has camera improvements, security patch

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androidcommunity.com - Even though most of Samsung’s attention is on their Galaxy Note 9 as it’s the most recently released flagship, that doesn’t mean the Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ aren’t getting updates and improvements. …

Google Complies With EU, Will Charge More for Android in Europe - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - In July, Google was slapped with a huge $5 billion antitrust fine by the EU for Android. The company is now in the process of appealing to the European Commission while making significant changes to …

Google Chrome Now Lets You Install PWAs As Regular Apps on Windows 10 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Google today started shipping Chrome 70 on Windows. The latest upgrade to Chrome brings a major new feature: support for desktop progressive web apps or PWAs. With desktop PWA support, Chrome now let…

Steph Curry and the new Palm want you to forget your phone

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www.fastcompany.com - Stephen Curry slides the gadget onto his arm. Encased in a spandex sleeve, it goes up past the New Testament quote tattooed on his right wrist–“Love never fails,” in Hebrew–and lands on his forearm b…

Opinion: Google can't resist China's 800 million internet users - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - At a conference in San Francisco on Monday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai for the first time discussed the existence of censored search engine for the Chinese market. The news of the project was originall…

Why Google Cache lies to you and what to do about it (if anything) - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - I regularly browse the SEO communities on Google Webmaster Forum, Reddit and Twitter, and I see headings like “Google Cache is empty!!!” and “404 error page in Google Cache” over and over again. With…

Adobe's new experiment turns tone deaf humming into real music

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mashable.com - What if your tone deaf humming could actually sound... pretty good? That's the premise of a new experiment from Adobe that aims to turn your voice into music. It's called Project Kazoo, and it could …

Netflix predicts the future of live TV is Rupert Murdoch's new Fox

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www.cnbc.com - Netflix has a prediction: The future of live television is Rupert Murdoch's "New Fox." "New Fox" is the company that will exist after Fox sells $71.3 billion of its assets to Disney. It's basically F…

The New Google Popup Penalty - Don't Get Penalized for Mobile Popups! • My Lead System PRO (MLSP) Blog

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Late last year, Google made an announcement that they were going to start penalizing websites (in terms of ranking) that use ‘intrusive interstitials’ on their mobile pages. We'll call this the Googl…

Gartner picks digital ethics and privacy as a strategic trend for 2019

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techcrunch.com - Analyst Gartner, best known for crunching device marketshare data; charting technology hype cycles; and churning out predictive listicles of emergent capabilities at software’s cutting edge has now p…

U.S. to allow cars without steering wheels

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www.impactlab.net - Cars without steering wheels will be allowed under certain conditions, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said today in an 80-page report. The report gives guidelines, wh…

No, your Twitter was not hacked

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techcrunch.com - Twitter users on iOS were hit with a strange bug today. Instead of receiving notifications that included the tweet itself, they received a string of alphanumeric characters. The issue only affected i…

Chatbot 101: Why Conversational Bots Are The Future of Ecommerce

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www.bigcommerce.com - Everyone is talking about them and every business wants to figure out how to use one. But as with all trends, there are a lot of questions left unanswered: As much as we want to believe we live in a …

Introducing Twenty Nineteen

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make.wordpress.org - Gutenberg grants users an unprecedented level of freedom to customize their site’s layout and design. In order to fully achieve their vision, users will need a new generation of flexible themes, buil…

In Japan, Aibo robots get their own funeral | The Japan Times

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www.japantimes.co.jp - ISUMI, CHIBA PREF. – The robot dogs lined up in their dozens last Thursday in Chiba Prefecture were no tech fair display. They were the dearly departed being honored with their own traditional “funer…

Julian Assange needs to take care of his cat, or it’ll be given away, Ecuador says

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www.theverge.com - Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder who has been hiding out in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the past six years, has been given a new set of house rules if he wants to continue his stay. In …

Nvidia updates its moon landing conspiracy debunk with its new GPU

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www.cnet.com - Can you tell which photo is from the real moon landing and which is an Nvidia render? Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon almost 50 years ago, but some conspiracy theorists don't believ…

How Small Incremental Steps Can Help You Achieve Your Largest Goals

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www.entrepreneur.com - The mantra "one step is the beginning to 1,000 miles" offers foolproof wisdom to live by. In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Jack Canfield speaks to the power of small tasks to accomplish yo…

On My First Vacation in 6 Years, a Flip Phone Was My Only Connection to Work. Here's What I Learned.

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www.entrepreneur.com - There's a reason the word "breakneck" is used to describe the pace of the tech industry, especially when it comes to launching a company. Between the speed of innovation, and how quickly the competit…

7 Ways to Build a Powerful Network

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www.gobankingrates.com - This story originally appeared on GOBankingRates Networking isn’t just about handing out and collecting business cards. It’s about connecting, establishing and building relationships that are mutuall…

Make 6 Figures a Year With a Free Facebook Group

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www.entrepreneur.com - As a business owner, I've learned to harness free Facebook groups and have created a machine that generates six figures annually -- and you can, too. Related: How to Use Facebook Groups to Grow Your …

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