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Distraction or innovation? This is how ACT schools use smartphones
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www.canberratimes.com.au - Research has linked smartphones to anxiety, poor sleep and addiction in teenagers. Last month, France banned the devices in schools as a matter of "public health" and the NSW government is weighing u…
Moving Faster with a Product Mindset – APIs and Digital Transformation – Medium
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medium.com - In 2007, the movie I Am Legend featured a memorable scene in which Will Smith’s character, the only human in a post-apocalyptic Manhattan populated by vampires, pretends to rent a movie from an aband…
NAIC Summer National Meeting Spotlights Innovation and Insurtech | JD Supra
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www.jdsupra.com - JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations. This Privacy Policy describes how JD Supra, LLC (…
Amazon Logistics: Innovation or Exploitation?
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www.webretailer.com - Is Amazon Logistics good for consumers, bringing the delivery industry into the 21st century? Or is it taking workers’ rights back to the 19th? In September 2018, Amazon announced that it was buying …
Uber efforts to hide breach, delayed notification leads to $148M fine, settlement | SC Media
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www.scmagazine.com - A yearlong delay in notifying its drivers that their personal information was stolen by hackers will cost Uber $148 million, according to a settlement reached by the ride-sharing service and all 50 s…
TPS Consulting Daily
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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Is Facebook Finally Worrying About Users Quitting? -- The Motley Fool Shared by Dean Jones 😳👌 www.fool.com - This year has seen a relentless tsunami of scandals and controversies for the…
Elon’s sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors and VC hiring trends
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techcrunch.com - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a treat. We had Danny Crichton in the studio. We had Co…
Amazon Echo Dot 3 review
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techcrunch.com - Amazon has sold a lot of Echo Dots. Like a crazy, silly, unfathomable number of the things. Over the past two generations, it has arguably become the single-largest driver of the smart speaker craze.…
Facebook Messenger internally tests voice commands for chat, calls
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techcrunch.com - Facebook Messenger could soon let you user your voice to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls, and create reminders. Messenger for Android’s code reveals a new M assistant button atop the …
How the 22-year-old founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business in less than 2 years
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techcrunch.com - When Brazilian-born Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi met at 16 years old, they bonded over a love of coding and mutual frustrations with their strict mothers, who didn’t understand their Mark Z…
Siilo injects $5.1M to try to transplant WhatsApp use in hospitals
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techcrunch.com - Consumer messaging apps like WhatsApp are not only insanely popular for chatting with friends but have pushed deep into the workplace too, thanks to the speed and convenience they offer. They have ev…
Tesla cars are getting a big update today, but one feature got held back
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techcrunch.com - After a few months of hype, version 9.0 of the software that runs on Teslas is rolling out starting today. There’s a bit of a catch, though: one of the bigger expected features — one that would let T…
Deliverr raises $7M to help e-commerce businesses compete with Amazon Prime
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techcrunch.com - When Amazon rolled out its membership-based two-day shipping service in 2005, e-commerce and customer expectations around fulfillment speed changed forever. Today, more than 100 million people use Am…
Scaleway adds object storage
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techcrunch.com - Cloud hosting company Scaleway is launching object storage in public beta. The company uses an Amazon S3-compatible API, which means that you could easily replace your Amazon S3 bucket with a Scalewa…
Amazon’s revamped Alexa app makes it easier to manage your smart home
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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s Alexa app has just been given a major visual overhaul, largely focused on helping users set up and control their smart home. From the app’s new devices tab, users can view all their differen…
Reelgood’s app for cord cutters adds 50+ services, personalized recommendations
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techcrunch.com - Reelgood, a startup aimed at helping cord cutters find their next binge, is out today with its biggest update yet. The company has been developing its streaming guide over the past year to solve the …
Salesforce acquires Rebel, maker of ‘interactive’ email services, to expand its Marketing Cloud
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techcrunch.com - Salesforce’s Marketing and Commerce Cloud is the company’s smallest division today, so to help beef it up, the company is making an acquisition to add in more features. Salesforce has acquired Rebel,…
YouTube TV’s DVR now lets you fast-forward through ads on more major channels
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techcrunch.com - Since its launch, one of the top complaints about YouTube’s live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, was that its DVR feature would often default users to the video-on-demand version of the show – whic…
We’re talking AR with Snap’s camera platform head at TC Sessions: AR/VR
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techcrunch.com - For a lot of consumers, Pokemon Go wasn’t their first exposure to augmented reality, it was the dog selfie lens inside Snapchat. In the past few years, consumer use hasn’t evolved too heavily when it…
Bloomberg stands by Chinese chip story as Apple, Amazon ratchet up denials
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arstechnica.com - On Thursday morning, Bloomberg published a bombshell story claiming that the Chinese government had used tiny microchips to infiltrate the data centers of Apple and Amazon. Apple and Amazon, for thei…
Review: Civilization VI on the iPhone is the full experience
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Starting today, October 4, Civilization VI will be available for iPhones on the Apple App Store. It was previously available on iPads but not iPhones. And of course, it has long been a staple of PC a…
Nintendo reveals it invented “Bowsette” before the Internet did
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arstechnica.com - This month's major Nintendo Direct video presentation included a reveal of another New Super Mario Bros. game—a Switch port of its last Wii U installment—with one curious twist. It includes a few new…
Samsung’s obscenely expensive 85-inch 8K TV ships later this month
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arstechnica.com - $15,000. That's what it will cost you to buy Samsung's first 8K TV in the US later this month. If only there were something in 8K you could watch on it. The TV can push up to 4,000 nits of brightness…
Alienware m15 laptop sports thinnest Dell gaming design, Nvidia Max-Q GPUs
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arstechnica.com - It has a full-sized keyboard with number pad that features zone RGB lighting. New honeycomb speaker grilles sit at the top of the keyboard. Despite its thinner design, the m15 has a slew of ports inc…
Consumer Reports agrees with Ars: GM Super Cruise beats Tesla Autopilot
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arstechnica.com - The proliferation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) across the auto industry has been quite a thing to watch. Some features are there for driver convenience, like adaptive cruise control a…
Fully driverless Waymo taxis are due out this year, alarming critics
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Ars Technica
arstechnica.com - Waymo, Google's self-driving car project, is planning to launch a driverless taxi service in the Phoenix area in the next three months. It won't be a pilot project or a publicity stunt, either. Waymo…
Why I feel UX design should really be called User Engagement Design
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uxdesign.cc - Wow. I had a sort of epiphany this week. You know, that kind of thing that hits you on the head like someone throwing a raw salmon at your face? Or when you get mesmerized by discovering that someone…
10 Best Coding Apps for Children to Learn Programming - Onextrapixel
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onextrapixel.com - As we live in the digital age, programming skills become increasingly important on the job market. Although not everyone will be a programmer in the future, basic coding skills will be necessary in m…
Fuchsia’s Xi code editor is no longer a Google-owned project
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9to5google.com - Back in January, we took a precursory look at the in-development, cross-platform Xi code editor that then-Googler Raph Levien was building and how it related to Google’s Fuchsia OS. Levien has since …
New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they're being repaired by an independent technician
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Reg Saddler
boingboing.net - Last year, Apple outraged independent technicians when they updated the Iphone design to prevent third party repair, adding a "feature" that allowed handsets to detect when their screens had been swa…
What to expect from the ‘Made by Google’ event
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androidcommunity.com - We told you October will be one busy month. A number of OEMs are rolling out their newest phone offerings. LG already rolled out the LG V40 ThinQ while Nokia surprised us with the new Nokia 7.1 Andro…
Lenovo may discontinue Moto C, M, and X series, Moto G7 still safe
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo now owns Motorola. The brand actually sells more Moto phones than Lenovo phones although we have no idea about the numbers. We just know Motorola has been busy the past months working on new M…
Pixel 2 is no longer available on Verizon’s online store
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androidcommunity.com - The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are really almost upon us. We are days away from being finally, officially introduced to the new flagship devices from the tech giant, after all the various leaks an…
Android 9 Pie update for Nokia phones rolling out soon
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androidcommunity.com - Pure, secure, and up-to-date. That’s the promise of Nokia with every smartphone it introduces. The event yesterday in London presented the Nokia 7 together with the True Wireless Earbuds and Pro Wire…
Watch: China tourist's safety rope breaks off while jumping across 150m-high bridge
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www.asiaone.com - His life was hanging by a thread, and he didn't even know it. One man in China is lucky to be alive, after his safety harness came loose while he was crossing an aerial obstacle course in a theme par…
9 highlights from Snapchat CEO’s 6000-word leaked memo on survival
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techcrunch.com - Adults, not teens. Messaging, not Stories. Developing markets, not the US. These are how Snapchat will make a comeback, according to CEO Evan Spiegel . In a 6,000-word internal memo from late Septemb…
The Changing Nature of Customers: An Online Industry Perspective
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loyalty360.org - In an environment driven by technological disruption, the biggest winners are those brands who have taken advantage of the online space. Online opportunities for reducing costs, expanding services, a…
Drive Consistent Personalization Across the Journey
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loyalty360.org - If your marketing technology landscape looks more like a spaghetti dinner plate, well, you are not alone. For many years, marketing leaders had carte blanche authority to invest in whatever customer …
Instagram Could Soon Share Your Location History With Facebook - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Instagram is reportedly testing a new feature that will enable the app to share your location history with its parent company, Facebook. The feature, which is opt-in by default, will essentially use …
Windows 10 Will Soon Sync Your PC's Clipboard With Your Android Phone - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - With the release of the Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Microsoft introduced a much-requested feature: the ability to sync your clipboard across devices. The update brings a feature called Cloud Clip…
4 Simple Ways To Get Cheaper Internet Service | Bit Rebels
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www.bitrebels.com - Internet access is essential for the modern man, but that does not mean that you have to spend a lot of money on it. Since many persons decide to give up on cable TV, most cable companies are raising…
Top Features To Look For In A Gaming Monitor | Bit Rebels
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www.bitrebels.com - These days, you can find an array of gaming monitors in the market offered in various sizes, specifications and different price range. So, choosing the right gaming monitor can be a complex task, as …
Tesla Shares Drop After Elon Musk Rips SEC
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www.breitbart.com - Hours after a request from a federal judge asking Musk and the SEC to justify their September 30 settlement, Musk tweeted, “Just want to that the Shortseller Enrichment Commission is doing incredible…
Payment Processor Stripe Blacklists Free Speech Platform Gab | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - The international payment processor Stripe has reportedly shut Gab.com’s access to its payment processing feature, meaning the site is unable to accept payment via credit cards. Stripe contacted Gab …
Taking The Mystery Out Of Website Creation: A Basic Guide
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Rolf Joho
agentmonhost.com - Web page design is truly beautiful work of art when the designer of a site has an idea of what he or she is doing. A good website creation can make the difference between a successful website and an …
Wi-Fi is rebranding itself: Here's how to understand the new naming
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Tamara Dull
www.techrepublic.com - Tech is full of confusing acronyms and abbreviations, and Wi-Fi standards are some of the most difficult to understand. To simplify the specifications and standards, the Wi-Fi Alliance trade group ha…
Notting Hill retailers launch personalised virtual 'High Street Takeover' | 365 RETAIL
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365retail.co.uk - Technology and design company Iconeme has collaborated with participating retailers in Westbourne Grove and Ledbury Road in London’s Notting Hill to launch a personalised virtual ‘High Street Takeove…
Sharp makes long-awaited venture into OLED, wary of spending, rapid growth
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www.bworldonline.com - TOKYO — Japan’s Sharp Corp. unveiled its long-awaited move into the Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) market on Wednesday as the Apple Inc. supplier looks to catch rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
Improving Supply Chain Visibility
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www.embedded-computing.com - Today, the complexities of most supply chains involve a large number of supplier networks and stakeholders. At the heart of creating an effective supply chain is the understanding that data from thes…
Apple is using proprietary software to lock MacBook Pros and iMac Pros from third-party repairs
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www.theverge.com - Apple is reportedly using new proprietary software diagnostic tools to repair MacBook Pros and iMac Pros that, if not used on key part repairs, will result in an “inoperative system and an incomplete…
10 things you can user test on your B2B website | Smart Insights
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www.smartinsights.com - User testing is the process of testing elements of a website to improve conversion, sales and revenues, as well as overall improving the user experience which brings for mentioned benefits. Being fam…
Fake Elon Musks clutter Twitter with crypto scams
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futurism.com - Sure, Elon Musk tweets a lot. Probably more than he should (at least without a lawyer present). But have you noticed just how many Elon Musks there are on Twitter? A lot. The controversial billionair…
Believe it or not, Twitter is one of the best places to make friends
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qz.com - When I signed up for Twitter five years ago, I only did it to follow 50 Cent’s totally unfiltered stream of consciousness. Eventually, I realized none of my friends used it and didn’t touch it for a …
Top 25 Artificial Intelligence AI Apps for iPhone & iOS
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www.iphoneness.com - With AI and machine learning, our iPhones and Android smartphones are becoming smarter all the time. More developers are now serious about building artificial intelligence apps to better serve their …
The Feds and the States Are Embracing Privacy Law -- What That Means to Your Business
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www.entrepreneur.com - A modern-day battle is under way as lawmakers try to block companies' efforts to get closer with the consumers of their products and services. And the focus of that battle is online personalization. …
This Week in FCPA-Episode 123, the Playoffs are here edition | JD Supra
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www.jdsupra.com - JD Supra is a legal publishing service that connects experts and their content with broader audiences of professionals, journalists and associations. This Privacy Policy describes how JD Supra, LLC (…
Walmart demands smart home vendors support Google Home - Stacey on IoT | Internet of Things news and analysis
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staceyoniot.com - Walmart is asking companies that want to sell smart home products to make sure those products work with Google Home. The retailer has instructed potential suppliers to ensure that their products supp…
The Best Way for Your Business to Thrive Is for It to Not Need You
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www.entrepreneur.com - What is your real goal as a business owner? Is it to grow revenue? Increase your bottom line? Serve your customers in ever better ways? Be a place where your staff and stakeholders are richly rewarde…
12 Technology Trends You Need to Know from Comm-Works’ 2018 Symposium - Comm-Works
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www.comm-works.com - Technology leaders from across the country joined Comm-Works at the 2018 Technology Symposium this year in Minneapolis, MN for a day packed full of networking, entertainment, and informative speakers…
Hate your Comcast broadband? Verizon might sell you 5G home Internet – Ars Technica
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arstechnica.com - Verizon's launch of 5G home Internet targeted four cities dominated by either Comcast or Charter, and Verizon says it will continue to bring the service to densely populated areas dominated by cable …
These Apps Can Help You Grow Your Wealth From Your Smartphone
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www.entrepreneur.com - In this video, Entrepreneur Network partner Phil Town shares some of the best applications he likes to use for smart investing. Town enjoys Acorn, an app that rounds up every purchase made with a cre…
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