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Court in Finland finds pro-Kremlin trolls guilty of harassing journalist | DW | 18.10.2018
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www.dw.com - A Finnish man was sentenced to over a year in prison on Thursday for defaming and harassing investigative journalist Jessikka Aro, who works for Finnish public broadcaster YLE. Ilja Janitskin, the fo…
Crashplan Alternative: Backblaze vs. Carbonite Cloud Backup
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www.backblaze.com - When CrashPlan announced the decision a little over a year ago to terminate their consumer backup, we published the post below. We are republishing it today for any, now former, CrashPlan customers w…
Announcing the TC Top Picks of Disrupt Berlin 2018
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techcrunch.com - We called on early-stage startup founders to apply for TC Top Pick status at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018, which takes place on 29-30 November. We knew that many founders would heed the call but — …
Atlassian launches the new Jira Software Cloud
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techcrunch.com - Atlassian previewed the next generation of its hosted Jira Software project tracking tool earlier this year. Today, it’s available to all Jira users. To build the new Jira, Atlassian redesigned both …
A ton of people don’t know that Facebook owns WhatsApp
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techcrunch.com - Americans looking to reduce their reliance on products from tech’s most alarmingly megalithic companies might be surprised to learn just how far their reach extends. Privacy-minded browser company Du…
Square unveils the Square Terminal, designed to replace old keypad credit card machines
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techcrunch.com - Square is launching a new piece of hardware today — the Square Terminal. As explained to me by the company’s Head of Hardware Jesse Dorogusker, the Terminal fills a gap the company’s product lineup —…
Google improves Android App Bundles and makes building Instant Apps easier
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techcrunch.com - Google is launching a number of new features for Android app developers today that will make it easier for them to build smaller apps that download faster and to release instant apps that allow poten…
E-moto startup Alta Motors reportedly powers down
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techcrunch.com - Brisbane, California based e-motorcycle startup Alta Motors has ceased operations, TechCrunch has confirmed. Earlier today Asphalt and Rubber — and several subsequent outlets — reported the company s…
What Spotify can learn from Tencent Music
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techcrunch.com - On Tuesday, Tencent Music Entertainment filed for an IPO in the US that is expected to value it in the $25-30 billion range, on par with Spotify’s IPO in April. The filing highlights just how differe…
Crypto Quantique unveils its ‘quantum driven secure chip’ for IoT devices
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techcrunch.com - With Gartner estimating that there will be 150 billion connected devices by 2030 — many of them mission critical, such as powering major national infrastructure — the risk and realisation that these …
Google Maps’ ETA sharing feature hits iOS
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techcrunch.com - If you’re heading out to meet someone, there are plenty of ways to inform them of your location and estimated arrival. Chat apps like WhatsApp, Messenger, LINE, and iMessage, for example, offer locat…
How the California wildfire firefighters may have rescued net neutrality
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www.fastcompany.com - In late July, firefighters in Santa Clara County, California were stretched to the breaking point as they took on raging wildfires in the Mendocino hills, which were spreading fast, nearly 30,000 acr…
Palm rises from the dead as a zombie brand, launches tiny smartphone
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arstechnica.com - The home screen is definitely giving off some Apple Watch vibes. This is sort of like Palm graffiti, but rather than typing, you are doing an app search. The Palm is so tiny you can store it anywhere…
The Petit Le Mans: More proof we’re in a golden age for sportscar racing
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arstechnica.com - Pipo Derani qualified his Nissan DPi in pole position. It would be an exciting race for Derani and his teammates. The pre-race grid walk was as packed as I've ever seen one. This would be our vantage…
Review: The BMW X4 can’t decide what it wants to be
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arstechnica.com - BMW's display at the 2018 Chicago Auto Show was bewildering. Among the massive lineup of vehicles, the company had at least four obviously different models that were all connected by a common thread.…
iFixit rips open the Pixel 3 XL, finds a Samsung display panel
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arstechnica.com - The Pixel 3 XL's vibration motor, which is super tiny compared to Apple's taptic engine. The Pixel 3 XL is out, but even after the usual slate of announcements and reviews, there are still a few thin…
“There’s more in the making”—Apple announces October 30 event
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arstechnica.com - One of several styled Apple logos associated with the October 30 event. Another one of several styled Apple logos associated with the October 30 event. One of several styled Apple logos associated wi…
Samsung launches Snapdragon 850-powered Windows 2-in-1
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arstechnica.com - Samsung Galaxy Book2 from the side, without the keyboard. Samsung today announced the Galaxy Book2 (sic; the company has not put a space between the word and the number), a 2-in-1 tablet running Wind…
Review: Tesla Motors’ all-electric Model S is fast—but is it a good car?
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arstechnica.com - My videographer Steve uttered a single strained curse as inertia's invisible hand pushed us back into the leather with enough force to knock the camera mount out of alignment. The Tesla's acceleratio…
Microsoft making more of the Windows 10 built-in apps removable
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arstechnica.com - It will soon be possible to discard more of the in-box apps that ship with Windows 10. Currently, a handful of pre-installed apps can be removed, including OneNote, Skype, and Weather, but most of th…
Ajit Pai killed rules that could have helped Florida recover from hurricane
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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission chairman slammed wireless carriers on Tuesday for failing to quickly restore phone service in Florida after Hurricane Michael, calling the delay "completely unac…
Apple might launch Macs with proprietary chips by 2020
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thenextweb.com - Apple is already a powerhouse when it comes to designing processors for its phones. Now, it’s also reportedly working on chips for its computers, which will feature in Macs by 2020. Analyst Ming-Chi …
Writing for Designers
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alistapart.com - Shit. The writing. We forgot about the writing. The thing, the design thing…it needs words! Oh man, so many words. I thought somebody…wasn’t the client going to…shit. We’ve got to get the writing don…
Use WordPress as a headless CMS
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www.creativebloq.com - I first heard about the headless CMS approach in a talk I watched from Twin Cities Drupal. I liked the idea of a separation of concerns between authoring content and viewing it. I had already experie…
Advertisers Suing Facebook Allege It May Have Committed Fraud on Video Ad Metrics
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gizmodo.com - A group of advertisers suing social-media giant Facebook in California over bungled video metrics now alleges in court filings that the platform failed to disclose data errors in a manner that could …
YouTube opens up beta program to test out upcoming new features
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androidcommunity.com - Are you one of the YouTube users that’s getting fed up with all the seemingly random testing that Google does to your account before they roll out an update? Or are you the kind of person that likes …
Essential team lays off about a third of its workforce
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androidcommunity.com - It’s not the end for Essential. No, not yet but the company has recently slashed off some 30 percent of the employees. It’s been a tough year for the Essential team as it fails to sell its flagship p…
Behind the Scenes of Paw Points Loyalty – a Q&A with HelloWorld and Fresh Step
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loyalty360.org - HelloWorld is a digital marketing solutions company that specializes in the strategy and development of loyalty programs. It uses technology and marketing campaigns to create brand-customer interacti…
Latest Surface Devices Aren't Any Easier to Repair Than Their Predecessors - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 6 and Surface Laptop 2 look really hot in black. They also come with some sweet, sweet improvements in performance and other parts of the device. But are they easier to up…
Android Apps Are Getting Even Smaller - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Google is making some serious behind the scenes improvements to the Play Store. The company today announced some developer-focused improvements to the Play Store which will eventually improve your An…
Habits of Sales Professionals
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stevekeating.me - The best salespeople go well beyond creating satisfied customers to build loyal customers. They don’t merely hunt for transactions they look for ways to help their customers achieve their goals. They…
Political Meme | Bruce Turkel
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bruceturkel.com - The other morning I paged through my Instagram feed and stumbled across a political meme I disagreed with. It was a from a guy I’ll call “Ferrari Frank 345” (FF345). Besides advocating a position cle…
5 ways ignoring SEO could affect your bottom line - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Anyone who has tried to make the case for investing in Search Engine Optimization to a client, boss, or colleague, will be all too familiar with the common objections: it’s too unpredictable, PPC is …
'Yes, You' Need a Bitcoin Hardware Wallet: Ledger Reveals 1.3 Million Units Sold - Bitcoinist.com
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bitcoinist.com - Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger has sold over 1.3 million units as of this month, the company revealed in a blog post October 10. Discussing whether or not cryptocurrency investors…
Lean into your menial workhorse job with Panasonic's human blinders
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mashable.com - Despite the painstakingly curated LinkedIn profile, Twitter bio worded just so, and daily effort to convince yourself otherwise, deep down you know the truth: Your job is a meaningless grind — it's o…
3 Social Media Monitoring Tools for Marketers : Social Media Examiner
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Looking for reliable tools to monitor your brand on social media? Wonder which social media monitoring tools are best suited to specific tasks? In this article, you’ll discover three social listening…
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…
The Truth About Handling Overwhelm in the Information Age • My Lead System PRO (MLSP) Blog
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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…
Biolite Headlamp Hands-On Review | Digital Trends
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www.digitaltrends.com - Biolite is best known for its backpacking cookstoves and camping fire pits, but that is only a small portion of what the company produces. Not too many people are aware that Biolite also sells a line…
Billboards — yes, billboards — are having a heyday in a digital world
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www.impactlab.net - It’s the era of internet advertising. The era of targeting that tracks you across browsers, platforms and across the city. The era of apps that know what you want before you do. But surprisingly, a s…
Premier Farnell Adds Adesto's Complete Lineup of Application-Specific Non-Volatile Memories to its Global Product Portfolio
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www.embedded-computing.com - New franchise gives Newark element14 customers access to Adesto’s range Chicago, October 18, 2018 – Adesto Technologies (NASDAQ: IOTS), a leading provider of innovative application-specific semicondu…
Today’s top deals: Echo Dot for cars, big Philips Hue sale, SanDisk microSD, $17 Bluetooth buds, more
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sg.news.yahoo.com - We’ve got a fantastic roundup of daily deals for you to look through on Thursday. Highlights include a crazy low $33.99 price on the gadget that brings hands-free Alexa to cars when you use the coupo…
Twitter suspends accounts for ‘coordinated’ far-right trolling campaign
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nypost.com - A meme campaign designed to troll liberals as “nonplayable characters” — a term borrowed from video game lingo — prompted Twitter to suspend roughly 1,500 accounts for engaging in “coordinated platfo…
How Instagram is Shaping Ecommerce Marketing for 2019
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www.cmswire.com - The Instagram business scene is booming with over 25 million business profiles, 2 million advertisers and 200 million users visiting an Instagram business page at least once per day. The fast-growing…
Targeted attacks on crypto exchanges resulted in a loss of $882 million - Help Net Security
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Lee Munson
www.helpnetsecurity.com - Group-IB has estimated that cryptocurrency exchanges suffered a total loss of $882 million due to targeted attacks in 2017 and in the first three quarters of 2018. According to Group-IB experts, at l…
Twilio’s Autopilot lets developers deploy bots across text, message, and AI assistants
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venturebeat.com - Twilio wants to bring artificial intelligence (AI) to contact call centers. During its annual Signal developer conference in San Francisco, the company took the wraps off of Autopilot, a natural lang…
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