Tuesday, December 11, 2018

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TECHNOLOGY

Facebook's fall: From the friendliest face of tech to perceived enemy of democracy

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www.foxnews.com - Without stronger regulation, Facebook could become a threat to democracy, according to the former head of GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA. In 2010, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's story was th…

Future Commerce Episode 88 - First Look: Mobile Optimization Study | Future Commerce - Retail Tech at the Speed of Commerce

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www.futurecommerce.fm - "We are now at the beginning of the experience economy". Retailers are looking for a way to turn mobile browsers into mobile buyers. Millennials seem to be at the forefront of a data revolution. Mobi…

Alibaba's 'new retail' revolution: what is it, and is it genuinely… | nexxworks

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nexxworks.com - I am sitting with a group in Robot.He, Alibaba’s robot-driven restaurant, inside its Hema supermarket (now called Freshippo) in Shanghai, China. A robot waiter glides silently up beside our table, tw…

Ultimate DOOM, The sur GOG.com

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www.gog.com - When you buy this game, The Elder Scrolls: Arena and The Elder Scrolls Chapter II: Daggerfall will be added to your GOG.com account for free! In the future, humans have left Earth and settled through…

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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY John Stossel: Google crossing creepy line Shared by Dean Jones 😳👌 triblive.com - This morning, Google told me that it would not allow my YouTube video “Socialism Leads to Violence” to be…

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18298 - Windows Experience Blog

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blogs.windows.com - Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18298 (19H1) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. REMINDER: As is normal with builds early in the development cycle, b…

Report: FBI opens criminal investigation into net neutrality comment fraud

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the use of stolen identities in public comments on the government's repeal of net neutrality rules, BuzzFeed News reported Saturday. The investiga…

Google employees demand the end of forced arbitration across the tech industry

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techcrunch.com - On the heels of an employee-led protest against Google, a group of 35 Google employees is banding together to take it a step further and end the practice of forced arbitration across the entire tech …

China’s JD.com teams up with Intel to develop ‘smart’ retail experiences

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techcrunch.com - Months after it landed a major $550 million investment from Google, China’s JD.com — the country’s second highest-profile investor behind Alibaba — has teamed up with another U.S. tech giant: Intel. …

US tech giants decry Australia’s ‘deeply flawed’ new anti-encryption law

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techcrunch.com - A group of U.S. tech giants, including Apple, Google and Microsoft, have collectively denounced the new so-called “anti-encryption” law passed by the Australian parliament last week. The bill was pas…

Equifax breach was ‘entirely preventable’ had it used basic security measures, says House report

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techcrunch.com - A House Oversight Committee report out Monday has concluded that Equifax’s security practices and policies were sub-par and its systems were old and out-of-date, and bothering with basic security mea…

Google’s search data shows YouTube’s influence over this season’s hottest toys

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techcrunch.com - If there was any doubt about YouTube’s power to influence children, look no further than this year’s list of the hottest holiday toys, based on Google shopping search data. According to the search gi…

Pew: Social media for the first time tops newspapers as a news source for U.S. adults

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techcrunch.com - It’s not true that everyone gets their news from Facebook and Twitter. But is now true that more U.S. adults get their news from social media than from print newspapers. According to a new report fro…

Krisp reduces noise on calls using machine learning, and it’s coming to Windows soon

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techcrunch.com - If your luck is anything like mine, as soon as you jump on an important call, someone decides it’s a great time to blow some leaves off the sidewalk outside your window. 2Hz’s Krisp is a new desktop …

HypeHop is a product to fix sponsored videos

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techcrunch.com - I’ve been thinking hard about the concept of sponsored content – you can find some of it on TechCrunch if you look hard enough and it appears almost everywhere else. It’s an important consideration b…

Instagram launches walkie-talkie voice messaging

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techcrunch.com - You’d think Facebook would be faster at copying itself. Five years after Facebook Messenger took a cue from WhatsApp and Voxer to launch voice messaging, and four months after TechCrunch reported Ins…

This $30 Pouch Makes Your Phone Untrackable

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www.popularmechanics.com - You know how some apps ask you to turn on Location Services? That’s the software asking to see where you go and when you go there, and use that information in a lucrative way. It’s one of the many re…

How to Purge Social Media 'Friends' So You Can Have Fun Online Again

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gizmodo.com - It now seems to be a truth universally acknowledged that social media is bad—bad for our well-being and privacy, too much of a time-sink, and so on. But does it have to be? Can it be made good? Or, s…

Guy Kawasaki on tech evangelism and faking it til you make it - Startup Daily

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www.startupdaily.net - Guy Kawasaki loves Australia; between the gun control, the fact we don’t have to show identification to take a domestic flight, and compulsory voting, he reckons it’s a pretty good place to be. Of co…

Qualcomm says a Chinese court has banned iPhone sales nationwide

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arstechnica.com - Qualcomm says it has scored an important victory in its long-running global patent battle with Apple over patent rights. According to Qualcomm, a Chinese court ruled that several recent iPhone models…

Even self-driving leader Waymo is struggling to reach full autonomy

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arstechnica.com - The Wednesday rollout of Waymo One, Waymo's commercial self-driving taxi service, falls far short of expectations the company itself set earlier in the year. In late September, a Waymo spokeswoman to…

Latest Windows Insider build makes a major upgrade to, uh... Notepad

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arstechnica.com - There's a new Windows Insider build out today, and the biggest changes appear to be none other than Notepad, Windows' venerable barebones text editor. Notepad already received a significant update in…

Elon Musk promises Autopilot update to allow for “no driver input at all”

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arstechnica.com - Tesla CEO Elon Musk is famous for the use of his Twitter feed, where he often engages with his almost 24 million followers. Sometimes it gets him in trouble—as with the case of the infamous "420" twe…

Cryptography failure leads to easy hacking for PlayStation Classic

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arstechnica.com - In the days since the PlayStation Classic's official release, hackers have already made great progress in loading other PlayStation games (and even non-PlayStation software) onto the plug-and-play de…

Obsidian Entertainment finally announces its Fallout: New Vegas successor

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arstechnica.com - It looks like there's a mix of melee and gun combat, of course. Obsidian Entertainment, developers of games like Pillars of Eternity, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II, and Alpha Protocol ran…

The State of Web Browsers – Ferdy Christant

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ferdychristant.com - Two days ago, I published a bitter sweet article on the state of web browsers, triggered by the news that Microsoft would abandon their EdgeHTML engine, replacing it with Chromium. Which was the fina…

How UI Illustrations Improve UX

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www.secretstache.com - In the context of UI design, illustrations can be drawings, sketches, graphic designs, or printed works of art. They are used to clarify, decorate, or visually represent text or complex ideas. UI des…

Accessible SVG Icons with Inline Sprites - 24 Accessibility

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www.24a11y.com - If we were searching for reasons to use icons on a project, we don’t need to go far in order to find them. As Oliver Reichenstein wonderfully put it in his talk “On Icons” at Smashing Conference Frei…

Dozens of click-fraud apps pulled out from the Google Play store

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androidcommunity.com - We’ve always been serious with security so we watch out for reports and special announcements of updates. It is important for any device, application, program, or platform to receive regular updates …

OnePlus 6T McLaren Edition expected to offer really fast charging

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androidcommunity.com - OnePlus is prepping for the arrival of the McLaren F1 Edition of its latest phone offering–the OnePlus 6T. It’s launching soon and is expected to roll out with 10GB of RAM and 256GB of onboard storag…

Samsung Galaxy A8s announced, up for pre-order in China soon

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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy A8s is finally official. After several rumors and leaks, the South Korean tech giant has unveiled the new mid-range Galaxy phone that boasts of a new technology: a camera hole in t…

Honor intros three new, innovative mobile technologies

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androidcommunity.com - Huawei is always busy. While premium flagship smartphones are being prepped, it’s sub-brand Honor–is also working on new product offerings. The Honor 8X recently rolled out in the European markets fo…

Samsung Galaxy S10 screen sizes previewed, new trademarks filed

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androidcommunity.com - More Samsung Galaxy S10 information is expected to be made public in the coming days, weeks, and months. The next-gen premium flagship is also the 10th Anniversary Galaxy offering. It should be very …

Microsoft Starts Telling Its Open Source Stories - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - A new Microsoft blog is giving employees a way to tell their stories about taking products to open source. It’s called Microsoft Open Source Stories, of course. “We’re enabling teams to tell their ‘o…

Microsoft Targets Better Accessibility in Chromium - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The current version of the Microsoft Edge accessible presentation layer Perhaps not surprisingly, the first feature Microsoft has committed to adding to Chromium is for accessibility. News of this “i…

OnePlus 6T Review - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - The OnePlus 6T is the best value in flagship-class smartphones, and it offers some subtle improvements over its well-regarded but quirky predecessor. But as I noted in my first impressions article, t…

Universal income vs. the robots: Meet the presidential candidate fighting automation

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www.technologyreview.com - Andrew Yang announced he is vying for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination back in February. His mission? Preparing America for automation. Voyager 2 has finally entered interstellar space, mo…

Huawei Executive Requests Bail in Canada, Pending Extradition to U.S…

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theconservativetreehouse.com - The issues appear multifaceted. In a Canadian court lawyers for Chinese company Huawei CFO, Meng Wanzhou, are arguing for bail while she awaits extradition to the United States for violations on Iran…

McLaren 720S Spider Unveiled To Fight Ferrari 488 Spider

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www.motor1.com - After refreshing its Ultimate Series with the track-focused Senna and the three-seater Speedtail earlier this year, McLaren is now updating the “lower-tier” Super Series by introducing the 720S Spide…

Huawei faces catastrophe in the technology cold war

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www.theguardian.com - The arrest in Canada of the chief financial officer of the Chinese mobile network and handset tech firm Huawei marks a new stage in a technological cold war between western spy agencies and Beijing. …

Resist the tech backlash before it’s too late

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www.computerweekly.com - The CEOs of leading digital technology firms have grown used to being admired. For half a century, they have been portrayed as visionary, passionate and committed to building a better, smarter world.…

How to Use Event Tracking in Facebook Analytics: Event Source Groups

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want to better understand how your customers interact with your online channels? Have you considered using Facebook Analytics event source groups to find out? In this article, you’ll learn how to set…

Save Gas And More By Shopping Online!

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popularchristmas.com - Shopping online is now a common part of our lives. You can have anything delivered to your home by shopping online. You don’t have to fight noise and mortar retail stores anymore. The following artic…

4 Experience Phases in Gamification (#3): The Scaffolding Phase

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yukaichou.com - Earlier I have covered the first 2 experience phases of player’s journey: Discovery, and Onboarding. Scaffolding is the 3rd experience phase of a Player’s Journey. Scaffolding starts once a player ha…

Learn Your Way Around An Effective SEO Plan With This Advice – Education, Training and Internet-Products

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iim.internetinfomedia.com - A website is practically pointless if nobody can find is useless to have. You want your site find its way to the first page of the search engine results. You must understand how search engines in ord…

Great Expert Tips About Finding The Right Auto Repair

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carshopping.biz - The purpose of this article is to provide information to help you with that. Keep on reading for important advice that will teach you more about auto repair. Get a good battery charger to keep in you…

How To Make Content King With Mobile Marketing – How To Advertise

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durac.info - Mobile marketing can give businesses the opportunity to grow their audience and expose their brand to a whole new group of people to market your product. Just about everyone owns some sort of mobile …

Boosting Profits for Construction Projects

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www.egnyte.com - The AEC industry has seen profit margins become increasingly squeezed over the past decade. As a result, everyone from architects to project managers have been pressured to find ways to improve proce…

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt listed the ’3 big failures’ he sees in tech startups today

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www.impactlab.net - Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, gave the Centre for Entrepreneurs lecture in London this week. In a draft of the speech, seen by Business Insider, Schmidt outlined what he sees as the three b…

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