Monday, October 08, 2018

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TECHNOLOGY

Pro-Kavanaugh Councilman: 'Better Get Your Coat Hangers Ready Liberals'

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deepsouthvoice.com - A West Virginia city councilman seemed to insinuate that women should prepare to have dangerous back alley abortions in light of the confirmation of U.S. Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. …

Tom Edsall Data Center Innovation Chalk Talk Series

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blogs.cisco.com - No matter what sport you play – basketball, football, or surfing – your coach will say you need a strong foundation to master it. Just as in any practice, you need to understand the fundamentals to m…

Google to shutter Google+ following undisclosed privacy breach - Marketing Land

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marketingland.com - According to a report out this morning, “hundreds of thousands” of users of Google+ had their data exposed to third-party developers back in March. The company decided not to disclose the breach “bec…

Retail Innovation from the Future Back - Peter Fisk

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www.thegeniusworks.com - We live in an incredible time. More change in the next 10 years than in the last 250 years. New technologies transforming the ways in which we live and work. Digital platforms and blockchains, AI an…

What is carrier cloud's role in 5G and IoT transformation?

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searchtelecom.techtarget.com - Most network operators and enterprises believe transformation means much more than small changes in traditional network services' features or prices. Changes need to be thorough or dramatic. The inte…

Enter the Co-Economy: A New Era for Innovation - InformationWeek

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www.informationweek.com - Years ago, the idea of a technology conglomerate like Google and an automaker like Honda working in the same space would have seemed farfetched. Nevertheless, this is happening today in the race to b…

With Chrome 70, hundreds of popular websites are about to break

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techcrunch.com - A lot of secure sites are set to grind to a halt with security error messages in the next version of Google Chrome, after the browser will drop trust for a major HTTPS certificate provider following …

Google exec slams GOP over Kavanaugh nomination: ‘F--k. You. All. To. Hell'

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www.foxnews.com - Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley explains and makes the case for more justices on the court. A design lead at Google has slammed Republicans in an angry Twitter rant over the nomination o…

After throttling firefighters, Verizon praises itself for “sav[ing] lives”

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arstechnica.com - Verizon is touting its commitment to firefighters and public safety in a new ad, released weeks after Verizon throttled the Santa Clara County fire department while it was fighting California's large…

LG’s Watch W7 looks like the dumbest smartwatch of the year

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arstechnica.com - Physical watch hands on top of an LCD. You can make out a solid 80 percent of that text message. LG wants you to think the watch looks like this. The hands are fine on the home screen... and a nuisan…

Atomico leads $31M Series B in Varjo, the Finnish startup developing ‘human-eye resolution’ VR and XR

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techcrunch.com - Varjo Technologies, the Finnish startup that made a splash earlier this year with news it had developed a virtual reality headset capable of “human-eye resolution,” has raised $31 million in Series B…

Microsoft invests in Grab to bring AI and big data to on-demand services

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techcrunch.com - Microsoft has made a strategic investment in ride-hailing and on-demand services company Grab as part of a deal that includes collaborating on big data and AI projects. Under the agreement, Singapore…

UK High Court blocks compensation suit against Google’s ‘Safari workaround’

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techcrunch.com - An attempt to bring a class-action style litigation in the UK to claim up to £3BN in compensation from Google for ignoring iPhone user privacy settings has been blocked after the High Court judge rul…

Here’s how Google is revamping Gmail and Android security

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techcrunch.com - Eager to change the conversation from their years-long exposure of user data via Google+ to the bright, shining future the company is providing, Google has announced some changes to the way permissio…

Facebook, are you kidding?

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is making a video camera. The company wants you to take it home, gaze into its single roving-yet-unblinking eye and speak private thoughts to your loved ones into its many-eared panel. The t…

U.S. government sides with Apple and Amazon, effectively denying Bloomberg ‘spy chip’ report

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techcrunch.com - Homeland Security has said it has “no reason to doubt” statements by Apple, Amazon and Supermicro denying allegations made in a Bloomberg report published earlier this week. It’s the first statement …

Facebook tries its hand at hardware with Portal

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techcrunch.com - Portal is not Facebook’s Echo Show. Call it a case of convergent evolution, wherein two companies arrived at similar looking products after approaching hardware from different angles. The problem Fac…

People are using Apple's AirDrop feature to send gross, explicit pictures to strangers — but there's a simple fix to protect yourself

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www.businessinsider.com - People have found a new way to send gross, unwelcome photos to strangers — Apple's AirDrop feature. The AirDrop feature is incredibly useful in letting Apple users quickly transfer photos and files b…

Hate your Comcast broadband? Verizon might sell you 5G home Internet

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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 …

The Internet’s keepers? “Some call us hoarders—I like to say we’re archivists”

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arstechnica.com - ... as Wayback Machine Director Mark Graham talks about the expanse of his archiving group. AUSTIN, Texas—As much as subscription services want you to believe it, not everything can be found on Amazo…

Intel’s new performance desktop lineup: An overclockable Xeon, 9th-gen Core

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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—Intel unveiled a range of new processors aimed at the performance-desktop segment today. For the mainstream market, there are three new K-series overclockable chips branded as ninth-generati…

Apple releases iOS 12.0.1 to fix charging and WiFi bugs

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arstechnica.com - iOS 12.0.1 fixes a handful of early bugs users faced with September 17's major release, most notably problems with WiFi connectivity and charging on new iPhones. There was also an issue with Lightnin…

Google’s Project Stream: That’s really a full Assassin’s Creed in my browser

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arstechnica.com - Test invites have begun trickling out for Project Stream, Google's first official take on a dedicated, current-gen gaming platform. As has long been rumored, Google has opted for an online-streaming …

CSS Debugging and Optimization: Browser-based Developer Tools — SitePoint

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www.sitepoint.com - The following introduction to CSS code-quality tools is an extract from Tiffany’s upcoming book, CSS Master, 2nd Edition, which will be available shortly. On your road to becoming a CSS master, you’l…

Designing in a second language – Ueno.

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loremipsum.ueno.co - You made it! You moved to a new country, you are working for one of your favorite agencies, the office has the nicest desks you’ve ever used … and everything is about to get super difficult. It will …

JLA's debut release is both a hi-fi sound system and minimal side table

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www.designboom.com - doubling up as a beautiful side table and high-fidelity wireless sound system, the M.1 is a hybrid speaker and the debut release from new brand, JLA sound systems. the sound specialists believe in th…

Working with Babel 7 and Webpack

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www.thebasement.be - In this post we’ll set up a project with Webpack and Babel 7. You’ll learn the basics of Babel and some cool features of what it can do with your code. This is what the website says: Babel is a toolc…

iPhone Xs charging and connectivity woes can be cured with a software update

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boingboing.net - Last week, we warned you about a couple of ugly, low-rent bugs baked into Apple's decidedly high-falooting iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max. A number of users, including Lewis Hilsenteger of Unbox Therapy…

Apple's iPhone XS Has Two Great Secret Features

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www.forbes.com - There’s no escaping it, the iPhone XS (details) and iPhone XS Max (details) ship with several problems - one of which Apple has confirmed. But these new iPhones also hide a major real-world upgrade …

Tech 911: Why Does My IP Address Come from a Different State?

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lifehacker.com - Networking can be a little confusing, especially when something you’ve done (or not done) doesn’t make any logical sense whatsoever. You set up a new cable modem and wireless router, and have worse s…

The Best LinkedIn Backgrounds And How To Create Yours

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www.forbes.com - At first glance, most LinkedIn profiles look similar because they follow the same format and organization. That was until late 2014. That’s when LinkedIn added a feature that can make your profile st…

Why Google Is About To Have A Very Bad Week

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www.forbes.com - A cursor moves over Google's search engine page on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018, in Portland, Ore. Political leanings don’t factor into Google’s search algorithm. But the authoritativeness of page links th…

A Google engineer took a 50% pay cut to leave his job and join a startup, and 3 years later, he isn't sorry

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finance.yahoo.com - For Daren Makuck, leaving a high-paying job at Google to work at a fledgling startup was an easy choice. The hard part was deciding whether to stay. But an interaction he had with his new CEO not onl…

Google Contacts 3.13 gets a redesign, lets you clear data

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androidcommunity.com - Regardless of how you feel about the second phase of the Material Design that Google has rolled out in its apps and hardware, you have to accept that it’s here and it’s probably here to stay. While y…

Google brings new Safety Center to six European countries

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androidcommunity.com - Google has often been accused of invading people’s online privacy but the tech giant wants you to know that both privacy and security is “integral to everything we do”. That’s why they introduced a r…

OnePlus 6T official launch event confimed

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androidcommunity.com - We were told earlier the OnePlus 6T Launch Event will be happening on October 17 in India. We weren’t sure if it was true then but now we’re getting confirmation it’s not happening–the 17th of Octobe…

Samsung Galaxy Home may come to the US, but Korea, China first

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androidcommunity.com - While we still don’t have all the details for the release date and pricing information about the Samsung Galaxy Home, their first venture into the smart speaker market, it looks like we’re getting so…

Attorney Generals to Meet to Discuss Tech Companies’ Potential Obstruction

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loyalty360.org - According to the Department of Justice, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions will meet with several state attorneys general to discuss whether social-media companies are "intentionally stifling" free sp…

Adobe Looks to AI Innovations to Life Customer Experience

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loyalty360.org - Adobe has announced new artificial intelligence innovations to help brands scale their delivery of personalized experiences across channels. The new capabilities are available through the incorpora…

FDA Embraces Anti-Teen Vaping Tech - Soupwire

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soupwire.com - The ongoing efforts of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) into tracking teenagers’ vaping use has shifted into overdrive. The federal agency announced it’s eager to further investigate fledg…

Bing Ads Editor now supports in-market audiences - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Bing Ads advertisers can now manage in-market audiences in Bing Ads Editor. In-market audiences, currently available only in the US, are comprised of people deemed to be in the process of making a pu…

Dragonfly: Google̢۪s possible plans to re-enter China search market

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searchenginewatch.com - Last month I wrote about China’s search market, how it is dominated by Baidu, and how that dominance is threatened by mobile-only disruptors such as Shenma. While Shenma continues to build on its gro…

Rewriting the Beginner's Guide to SEO, Chapter 5: Technical Optimization

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moz.com - After a short break, we're back to share our working draft of Chapter 5 of the Beginner's Guide to SEO with you! This one was a whopper, and we're really looking forward to your input. Giving beginne…

HELP WANTED: Electric car company seeks supervisor for CEO

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mashable.com - Tesla's search for a new chairman of the board is on, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Tesla is replacing Elon Musk as chairman as part of its settlement with the SEC for a Musk tweet that t…

ViewSonic VP3881

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www.pcmag.com - The ViewSonic VP3881 ($1,261.99 list) is a professional monitor geared toward photographers, video editors, and other creative professionals who require very accurate colors. To this end, it has a la…

Report: Google Hid User Data Breach from Public out of Fear Congress Would Take Action | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - “Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of users of the Google+ social network and then opted not to disclose the issue this past spring, in part because of fears that doing so woul…

Facebook Unveils Smart Device to Compete with Amazon and Google in Watching Your Every Move | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - CNBC reports that shortly after Facebook’s latest user data leak, the company wants consumers to install a Facebook-manufactured camera into their homes. The new Facebook product comes in two version…

Facebook hoax hitting inboxes telling users their accounts been cloned

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www.dailymail.co.uk - Facebook officials have warned of a new viral hoax message that is fooling users into thinking there is a problem with their account. The fake message claims your account has been cloned - meaning so…

Google annonce la fermeture de Google+ - Blog du Modérateur

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www.blogdumoderateur.com - Google vient d’annoncer la fermeture de Google+. Certains le regretteront, d’autres seront surpris d’apprendre que Google+ existait encore en 2018. Pendant 7 ans, Google aura tenté, tant bien que mal…

3 Ways To Get More Subscribers On Your YouTube Channel

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Being the #2 search engine online means that it is highly trafficked and an incredible place to build your audience. One of the questions I get asked quite often by my students is how to get more sub…

Content Marketing Strategy: The Definitive Guide to Content Marketing • My Lead System PRO (MLSP)

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blog.myleadsystempro.com - In other words, content marketing basically means any marketing you do that involves creating and sharing value.This can include your blog, your social media posts, your videos, landing pages, your e…

Get The Most From Your New IPad With These Top Tips!

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laptopsandnotebook.com - The iPad is known far and wide as an amazingly innovative piece of amazing benefits. Keep reading for advice on how to use your iPad efficiently. You can bring up a list of every app currently runnin…

More people are getting sent mysterious Amazon packages they didn't order — and no one knows exactly what's going on

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www.businessinsider.com - Amazon packages showing up in the mail usually brings a smile to one's face, but for some unlucky people, it's just another mess to clean up. One person — identified only as Nikki — told the Daily Be…

Amazon warning: Beware of deliveries you didn’t order

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clark.com - Have you heard of a new Amazon package scam called “brushing?” This crime involves having packages you didn’t order from Amazon show up on your doorstep. Now, you might be reading this thinking, “Wow…

Global Smartphone OLED Display Market Research Report 2018-2025: LG Display, Samsung Display, AU Optronics - TheTokenTown

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thetokentown.com - The market research report on Smartphone OLED Display market by Marketresearchpro includes all information on the market size, market strategies and forecasted market trends that is required by top l…

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