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Tech Tent: The promise and perils of data
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www.bbc.com - Big data. It's one of the tech cliches of the age. The idea that the torrent of data now being created can be processed in all sorts of clever ways with life-changing implications. On my Tech Tent po…
GM is going to allow Ford vehicles and other competitors on its Maven car-sharing platform
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techcrunch.com - GM’s car-sharing subsidiary Maven is undergoing another expansion. This time, it’s not just to a new city. Maven plans to open up its new peer-to-peer car rental service to allow owners to rent out n…
How to Land a ‘Completely Uncontrollable’ Passenger Jet
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www.wired.com - The trouble started almost immediately. A few minutes after taking off from Lisbon on Sunday, the pilots of an Air Astana Embraer 190 jet called Mayday. “We have flight control problems,” he told air…
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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Special counsel witness says he expects to be charged in Mueller probe Shared by 🇺🇸86/45🇺🇸 abcnews.go.com - The former Infowars Washington bureau chief, who recently testified before a…
Kaspersky starts processing threat data in Europe as part of trust reboot
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techcrunch.com - Security firm Kaspersky Labs has opened its first self-styled ‘Transparency Center’ and begun processing threat-related data from European users in data centers located in Switzerland — flipping the …
Five reasons why you should be at Disrupt Berlin this November
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techcrunch.com - Are you ready to experience Disrupt Berlin 2018? Our premier tech startup conference takes place on 29-30 November and draws international participants from more than 50 countries across Europe, Asia…
Juul Labs reveals its plan to combat underage vape use
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techcrunch.com - Juul will be removing non-tobacco flavored pods from all stores, including convenience stores and vape shops, according to a new plan the company released today. This comes exactly 60 days after the …
Zendesk shifts to platform play with Zendesk Sunshine launch
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techcrunch.com - Zendesk has always been strongly focused on customer service in the cloud. They began to look at this more broadly in September when they purchased Base to move into sales automation and CRM. Today, …
Open sourcing analysis, plus US, China and HQ2
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techcrunch.com - The big news today is that — finally — we have Amazon’s selection of cities for its dual second headquarters (Northern Virginia and NYC). Then some notes on China. But first, semiconductors and open …
Senators urge FTC to look into shady ad practices in apps for kids
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techcrunch.com - For us jaded adults, the long-running trend towards making apps and games free to download but stuffing them with paid options is just an annoyance or perhaps a logical progression of the business mo…
1-877-KARS4KIDS had a data breach
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techcrunch.com - Bad news: 1-877-KARS4KIDS had a data breach. Worse news: now you’ll have that awful jingle stuck in your head all day. The New Jersey-based charity has plagued the American airwaves for years with th…
DeepMind hands off role as health app provider to parent Google
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techcrunch.com - DeepMind’s recent foray into providing software as a service to UK hospitals has reached the end of its run. The Google -owned AI division has just announced it will be stepping back from providing a…
Canonical’s Mark Shuttleworth says he has no plans to sell anytime soon
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techcrunch.com - After IBM announced its plans to acquire Red Hat for $34 billion, pundits quickly started speculating about when Red Hat competitors like Suse and Canonical would sell as well. Canonical founder Mark…
Calm heads to the airport, invests $3 million in XpresSpa
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techcrunch.com - Wellness app Calm has today announced a $3 million equity investment in XpresSpa Group, a fast-spa service you may have noticed in your local airport. Calm sees the investment as a way to expand its …
Metacert’ Cryptonite can catch phishing links in your email
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techcrunch.com - Metacert, founded by Paul Walsh, originally began as a way to watch chat rooms for fake Ethereum scams. Walsh, who was an early experimenter in cryptocurrencies, grew frustrated when he saw hackers d…
Facebook takes on LinkedIn as a career portal with e-learning, expanded mentorship and jobs features
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techcrunch.com - Over the last year or so, Facebook has slowly been encroaching on LinkedIn’s territory as the go-to platform for people who want to leverage their networks of contacts to expand their career prospect…
What’s next? The top media executives on the job market
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techcrunch.com - Keep an eye out for the next moves by these entrepreneurs and executives. A number of the biggest names in media left their jobs over the last year (or announced they will be leaving soon), including…
Spotify officially launches its Apple Watch app
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techcrunch.com - Following reports of its testing, Spotify today has launched its long-awaited Apple Watch app. The app allows users to control the playback of Spotify’s streaming service from their Watch’s screen, a…
Report: NYC and Arlington, VA win the contest for Amazon’s split East Coast headquarters
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techcrunch.com - New York City and Arlington, Virginia have reportedly won Amazon’s lengthy and highly-publicized pageant for the locations of its new headquarters, beating out 238 other contestants. According to the…
Wattpad launches a new program offering paid access to exclusive stories
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techcrunch.com - Steve Jobs famously once said that people don’t read anymore, but it turns out younger people are, in fact, reading quite a lot – just in different ways than expected. Case in point: 70 million reade…
Facebook Lasso app lead Brady Voss leaves for Netflix right after launch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook Lasso has a steep uphill climb ahead as it hopes to chase the musical video app it cloned, China’s TikTok (which merged with Musically). Lasso lets you overlay popular songs on 15-second cli…
YouTube VR finally lands on the Oculus Go
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techcrunch.com - Today, Google’s YouTube VR app arrives on the $199 Oculus Go, bringing the largest library of VR content on the web to Facebook’s entry-level VR device. YouTube brings plenty of content in convention…
Netskope raises $168.7M at a $1B+ valuation for its cloud security platform
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techcrunch.com - As organizations continue to grapple with security risks posed by employees using a range of apps and devices in the workplace, a startup that has built a platform to help them to this has raised a s…
These antique phones are precious, private Alexa vessels
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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s Alexa may be in ten thousand different devices now, but they all have one other thing in common: they’re new. So for those of us that prefer old things but still want to be able to set timer…
This $199 PS4 and ‘Spider-Man’ Black Friday bundle has my bargain-sense tingling
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techcrunch.com - I’m calling it — this is the best deal of this year’s Black Friday season, for gamers anyway. It’s amazing. It’s spectacular. Sony is selling a PlayStation 4 Slim with the new Spider-Man game for $19…
Meet the Magecart hackers, a persistent credit card skimmer group of groups you’ve never heard of
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techcrunch.com - There have been few hacker groups that have been responsible for as many headlines this year as Magecart. You might not know the name, but you probably haven’t missed their work — highly targeted cre…
Tesla, GM and Nissan are all part of a new coalition aiming to extend the EV tax credit
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techcrunch.com - Tesla, GM and Nissan are among a group of 15 companies that launched a new coalition aimed at reforming the electric vehicle tax credit. The group called EV Drive Coalition brings together a mix of a…
Amazon confirms NYC and Arlington, VA as the site of its new dual HQ
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techcrunch.com - After months of deliberations, data dumps, short lists and wish-lists, Amazon has finally announced the location of its second headquarters, HQ2, and as it has been widely reported, “2” is the import…
Airbnb ends forced arbitration days after Google, Facebook did the same
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techcrunch.com - The Google employee walkout on Nov. 1 is leaving a lasting impact on the tech industry. In the immediate aftermath of the walkout, which saw thousands of Googlers across the globe protest the company…
Are startups right for you?
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product.canva.com - In almost every business magazine, you’ll come across terms like startup, innovation and entrepreneurship. When the stories of Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, Jeff Bezos, Ariana Huffington, Jack Ma…
The Ars Holiday Gift Guide 2018—tech and gear for travel that we’d buy
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arstechnica.com - The holiday season is fast approaching, which means it's once again time for the world to come together in a spirited embrace of consumerism. Or, perhaps in a more cheerful alternative, it's time to …
Amazon is getting more than $2 billion for NYC and Virginia expansions
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arstechnica.com - Amazon's Seattle offices will continue to be the company's largest and will continue to be Amazon's headquarters by any reasonable definition. But pretending to have three "headquarters" undoubtedly …
We unbox the $200 “power armor” Fallout ’76 version so you don’t have to
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arstechnica.com - Though this is the "power armor" edition, it does not include matching body armor. That version might cost another $1,200, if we're gauging relative retail prices here. Instructions. Getting the batt…
Apple to replace unresponsive iPhone X touchscreens for free
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arstechnica.com - If you've had problems with the touch responsiveness of your iPhone X's display, you may be in luck. According to a support document, Apple identified a problem with some iPhone X devices that may ca…
Dealmaster: Take $40 off a Nvidia Shield TV 4K media streamer
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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today's list is headlined by a deal on Nvidia's Shield TV, which is currently down to $140. That'…
Major BGP mishap takes down Google as traffic improperly travels to China
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arstechnica.com - Google lost control of several million of its IP addresses for more than an hour on Monday in an event that intermittently made its search and other services unavailable to many users and also caused…
Take Your Business Online with Ease: Create Your Website with Mozello | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - Few of the current crop of page builders are as simple as Mozello. You don’t need any previous experience, Mozello takes care of everything for you. Just run through the quick set-up and you’ll have …
How to Make a WordPress Website with SiteGround (Step-by-Step Video)
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winningwp.com - SiteGround (one of the three officially WordPress.org-recommended web hosts for WordPress) offer almost unparalleled value for money. If you’re looking to get a new website up and running as quickly …
Is Your Company Not Fond of Your LinkedIn Activity? Here's How to Still Make It Work for You
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www.inc.com - I've made my case for LinkedIn and given tons of pointers for how to write your profile, choose cover art, stand out from the masses and more. But what if your company doesn't allow you to use the so…
OnePlus 7 won’t implement 5G tech yet but a 5G phone will be ready next year
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androidcommunity.com - It’s never too early for rumors especially for OnePlus. The Chinese OEM is advanced when it comes to planning and to be honest, this isn’t the first time we’re hearing about the OnePlus 7. We were on…
Amazon Black Friday 2018: Some great deals and discounts here
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androidcommunity.com - The next couple of weeks will be busy for many people. There’s Thanksgiving and well, your most favorite time of the year for shopping–Black Friday. There’s still Cyber Monday but for now, let’s focu…
Android Q may be ready for mobile users, developers ahead of AOSP
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androidcommunity.com - Android Pie is out. For months, we’ve been anticipating what next dessert the Android team would be serving. From Android P, we learned it’s Android Pie (Android 9 Pie) only last August and then OEMs…
How to Incentivize Loyalty with Social & Behavioral Actions
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loyalty360.org - Using points to reward customers after a purchase has been a practice in retail for ages. But over time, businesses have been forced to get creative with different ways to build loyalty. They needed …
The Next Big Trend: Living in Parallel Universes
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loyalty360.org - Whenever marketers get together, there will always be conversation about The Next Big Trend – it’s right up there with, “Where’s the open bar?” It’s in the job title – MARKETers need to anticipate wh…
Dell’s Gamification Strategies Boost Engagement
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loyalty360.org - On the first day of Customer Expo 2018, Mitch Kennedy, Senior Program Manager of Loyalty & CRM for Dell, gave a presentation that offered insight into how brands can leverage gamification to build cu…
Essential Now Makes a $149 Headphone Dongle for Premium Audio - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - One of the unique features of the Essential PH-1 Phone was the ability to attach to external dongles, like a 360-degree camera. The company has just launched another new dongle for the Essential Phon…
Microsoft Whiteboard Picks up First Major Update Since Launch on iOS - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft’s real-time whiteboard collaboration app launched on the iPhone and iPad in September. Since then, the app didn’t really get much attention from Microsoft apart from the regular bug fixes. …
Google to Bring More Native Features to Web Apps - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Google this week said that it would work to close the functional gap between native apps and web apps. The goal is to let web apps do everything that native apps can across mobile and desktop platfor…
Idaho Professor Says Male Gamers Promote 'Technomasculinity' | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - What is “technomasculinity?” Johnson explains that “technomasculinity” refers to the brand of masculinity that conjures up perceptions of men as being proficient with computers and technology. “The t…
Amazon Chooses New York City, Arlington for Additional HQs | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - According to CNN Business, Amazon “picked New York’s Long Island City and Arlington County’s Crystal City neighborhoods,” out of the 238 cities, counties, and states which attempted to court Amazon w…
Corsi Says Mueller to Indict Him
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www.newsmax.com - Roger Stone associate and author Jerome Corsi revealed in a new interview he expects to be charged with a crime stemming from the Russia investigation. Corsi told ABC News, after several sessions of …
Tyson Quick's answer to What should I do to increase the conversion rate on my landing page? - Quora
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www.quora.com - To increase the conversion rate of your landing page, you need to consider the entire post-click experience. Why did the visitor come to the page? Match the messaging of the ad that sent them to your…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Nurturing Leads Every Digital Marketer Should Know
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instapage.com - Do: Define a quality lead Do: Use analytics to turn leads into customers Do: Create content for every stage Do: Nurture with landing pages Don’t: Inundate sales team with leads Don’t: Make lead quali…
How to Make an Ebook in Minutes to Create Instant Authority
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www.attractionmarketingprofits.com - One of the most powerful ways to enhance your brand, generate leads and guide prospects into investing with you and your business is to learn how to make an ebook and publish it on your own ebook. Wh…
Tricks That You Could Do To Maximize Your Iphone
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iphonefindmyphone.com - Most people own a smartphone, or it seems so; however, many aren’t aware of the great things they can do with such a phone. You aren’t alone if you don’t feel like you’re getting everything you shoul…
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