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Improbable urges Unity to unsuspend their license, rectify ‘farcical’ situation for developers
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techcrunch.com - Improbable may be pissed at Unity, but they still want them back. In a blog post titled “A final statement on SpatialOS and Unity,” the team at the cloud gaming startup aimed to tell their side of th…
Driverless car potential meets reality
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thelens.news - After a few years of strong optimism regarding driverless cars and their potential to radically transform the way people live and travel, recent incidents and statements by key industry leaders may p…
How Your Fuzzy Liberal Arts Education May Sharpen Your Skills in a Techie-Dominated World
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lawdroid.com - There is a steady drum beat in the legal industry about legal technology and how it’s going to change everything. There is a notion that “fuzzy” disciplines, like the humanities, philosophy and law a…
Redefining the consumer experience via digital identity
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www.retailcustomerexperience.com - By Linda Touch,global senior director, Equifax Savvy retailers are relying on consumer data more than ever to make strategic decisions on everything from store location to customer communications. An…
The power of predictions: Fine art of creating viral predictions
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www.innovationews.com - Friday January 11, 2019 0 comments Tags: Thomas Frey When is the last time you made a prediction that people paid attention to? Like many things in life, there are a number of methods and techniques …
An AR glasses pioneer collapses
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techcrunch.com - In the first days of 2017, Osterhout Design Group arrived at CES with a two-story booth and huge promises. The startup’s founder, Ralph Osterhout, wanted to take the small San Francisco-based company…
SearchCap: Google algorithm updates, right-to-be-forgotten & knowledge graph hack - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. There may have been an update or two in the past week. The top legal advisor for the Eu…
Why email is the best social network
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www.computerworld.com - Everybody uses Facebook because everybody uses Facebook. But lately Facebook — and all the other social networks, for that matter — seems to be turning into a distracting, time-wasting and manipulati…
Huawei employee arrested, accused of “high-level espionage” for China
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arstechnica.com - A Huawei employee was arrested in Poland on Tuesday and charged with spying for China, according to numerous media reports. "Polish authorities detained and charged a local sales director of Huawei T…
GM is transforming Cadillac into an electric brand
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techcrunch.com - General Motors is turning Cadillac into its lead electric vehicle brand in a bid to compete against Tesla as well as a host of other automakers bringing EVs onto the market. Plans are already underwa…
Tor pulls in record donations as it lessens reliance on US government grants
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techcrunch.com - Tor, the open source initiative which provides a more secure way to access the internet, is continuing to diversify its funding away from its long-standing reliance on U.S. government grants. The Tor…
The next phase of WeChat
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techcrunch.com - Thousands of people gathered Wednesday night in a southern Chinese city to hear Zhang Xiaolong, Tencent’s low-key executive who built WeChat eight years ago. It’s no longer adequate to call the app a…
Gartner finds PC sales doldrums continued in 2018
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techcrunch.com - Gartner released its quarterly PC sales survey for the fourth quarter of 2018 this week, and it was the same old story. PC sales plunged in the fourth quarter and were down 1.3 percent for the year. …
Anker’s PowerPort Atom is my permanent new travel companion
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techcrunch.com - I had fight a couple of coworkers for this thing. It’s a strange thing to fight over, I realize, but we are strange people with a strange job. And more importantly, I won. I’m plugged into the PowerP…
Daily Crunch: Bing has a child porn problem
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techcrunch.com - The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Micro…
World’s most valuable AI startup SenseTime unveils self-driving center in Japan
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techcrunch.com - The world’s highest-valued artificial intelligence startup SenseTime has set foot in Japan. The Beijing-based firm announced on Friday that it just opened a self-driving facility in Joso, a historic …
Holoride’s in-car VR solution is the best thing at CES 2019
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techcrunch.com - After days of demos and announcements and miles of walking, I’m confident in declaring Holoride the best thing at this year’s CES. The designation of “The best thing at CES 2019” is my badging. This …
Epic Games receives an ‘F’ from the Better Business Bureau
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techcrunch.com - The Fortnite community may be polite, but that doesn’t mean they’re getting the customer service they deserve. The Better Business Bureau gave Fortnite maker Epic Games an “F,” the lowest possible gr…
Tales of an aging gamer: Why don’t I pick up a controller as often as I used to?
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arstechnica.com - Despite a wider variety than ever before, video games don’t have the same effect on me as they used to. That might not sound like a problem to some of you, but it is to me. I have played video games …
Tesla sued after fatal crash, accused of making “unreasonably dangerous” car
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arstechnica.com - According to the lawsuit, Edgar Monserratt v. Tesla—which was filed Tuesday in Broward County court—Monserratt's 18-year-old son was a front-seat passenger in a 2014 Tesla S being driven by another p…
After lawsuit filed, Gearbox CEO confirms he left USB stick of porn at Medieval Times
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arstechnica.com - A pair of lawsuits filed in Dallas County District Court late last year came to light on Friday, each revolving around an apparently nasty dispute between the former general counsel of Gearbox Studio…
After broken promise, AT&T says it’ll stop selling phone location data
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arstechnica.com - Mobile carriers are again promising to stop selling your phone location data to other companies—this time, for real. The four major carriers pledged to stop selling customer location data to third-pa…
Fortnite Merchandise Store Starts ’Exclusively’ Accepting Monero as Payment Method
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cointelegraph.com - Retail Row, the merchandise store for the online video game Fortnite, has started “exclusively” accepting Monero (XMR) as a cryptocurrency payment option, Monero tweeted Jan. 1. Fortnite is an online…
9 best practices for better user onboarding - GoSquared Blog
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www.gosquared.com - When people think about growth, they often immediately jump to focusing on acquiring more users. But if you’re building any kind of software product, the likelihood is your funnel is leaky as soon as…
9 Tricks for Kickass JavaScript Developers in 2019 – gitconnected.com blog | Level Up Your Coding
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levelup.gitconnected.com - Binding functions in JavaScript is a common task. With the introduction of arrow functions in the ES6 spec, we now have a way to automatically bind functions to the declaration context — very useful …
GitHub Now Offering Unlimited Private Repos to Free Users | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - GitHub has made its first really big change since Microsoft acquired it a while back, and it’s a good one for small-to-medium sized design studios, freelancers, and anyone who writes front-end code f…
Microsoft is helping America’s largest grocery chain fight off Amazon
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www.theverge.com - Kroger, America’s largest grocery store chain, has partnered with Microsoft to create a pair of hi-tech grocery stores. The stores, which are located in Washington and Ohio, are filled with digital s…
Microsoft Office is more dangerous than you think: Docs deliver 45% of all malware
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www.techrepublic.com - Microsoft Office documents packed with malicious macros are the most common malware loader of the past month, accounting for 45% of all delivery mechanisms analyzed, according to a Thursday report fr…
The quiet threat inside 'internet of things' devices
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theconversation.com - As Americans increasingly buy and install smart devices in their homes, all those cheap interconnected devices create new security problems for individuals and society as a whole. The problem is comp…
Galaxy Note 9 users on T-Mobile now have caller verification
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androidcommunity.com - T-Mobile has now officially launched its Caller Verified technology and those who have a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 are the first that will benefit from this. All calls that will be made on the T-Mobile n…
Pre-installed weather app on Alcatel phones include malware
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androidcommunity.com - Is this the price of buying cheap phones? You see, Alcatel smartphones have aways been known as being budget-friendly with very low prices but unfortunately, they’ve been the target of malware. One p…
Google Play Books starts receiving Material Theme update
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androidcommunity.com - We expect Google to update and/or redesign most of its own apps now to match the Material Theme that they have been rolling out to their various apps and also encouraging third-party apps to adapt as…
INFOGRAPHIC: Nokia Android 9 Pie OS Update Process detailed
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androidcommunity.com - Of all the few OEMs working on their own versions of the Android 9 Pie, there’s Nokia able to launch timely OS and software updates. Well, that’s expected because the brand only has several phones in…
Selling of location data must be investigated by the FCC, senators urge
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androidcommunity.com - T-Mobile, AT&T, and other telcos may need to be more careful this time in protecting the privacy of the consumers. Some US senators and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will go after compa…
Upcoming Samsung premium devices will have big capacity batteries
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androidcommunity.com - If your constant complaint about your Samsung flagships is that you always run out of juice when you constantly use it, then this latest rumor about the upcoming high-end devices might be good news f…
BLU VIVO XI+ Android 9 Pie beta update being served
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androidcommunity.com - The BLU VIVO Go Android 9 Pie Go edition was the last mobile device we featured from the Chinese OEM. The smartphone hit Amazon ready with a more affordable price. We also remember the BLU Vivo XL4, …
Jai Rawat of Zinrelo Shares Loyalty Rewards Wisdom: Part II
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loyalty360.org - Zinrelo’s leadership in loyalty rewards is contingent upon its expertise and adaptability. Founder Jai Rawat recently spoke with Loyalty360 about the strategies needed to stay relevant in the present…
Maybe it’s time to accept that Huawei is a Chinese intelligence front | Spectator USA
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spectator.us - Established in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen in 1987, it didn’t take long for Huawei Technologies to become a top player in global telecommunications. Since 2012, it’s been the world’s bigges…
Tesla Has The Highest Customer Loyalty Of All Car Brands | CleanTechnica
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cleantechnica.com - January 9th, 2019 by Matt Pressman Originally published on EVANNEX. Studies demonstrate that Tesla has forged a unique bond with its customers. Last year, Consumer Reports found that Tesla has the hi…
Are Ring video doorbells safe? Report reveals company's secret privacy shame | Trusted Reviews
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www.trustedreviews.com - The Amazon-owned smart home company Ring is the subject of a troubling new report, claiming it handed over access to every video ever recorded on its devices, to employees that didn’t need access. Ac…
Samsung officially confirms Galaxy S10 launch for 20 February
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www.t3.com - This just in: following reports around the web that the Samsung Galaxy S10 range of smartphones will be officially unveiled on 20 February, Samsung UK has sent out invites to an event taking place in…
How to Get Into Google News - Whiteboard Friday
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moz.com - Today we're tackling a question that many of us have asked over the years: how do you increase your chances of getting your content into Google News? We're delighted to welcome renowned SEO specialis…
Sitelinks tip: Set your sitelink descriptions or Google, Bing Ads can do it dynamically - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - If you have manual sitelinks without descriptions set up in your accounts, you’re not alone. But now is a good time to start adding those manual descriptions. Here’s why. Dynamic sitelinks have been …
How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
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www.infowars.com - Soon after the social media “purge” of independent media sites and pages this past October, a top neoconservative insider — Jamie Fly — was caught stating that the mass deletion of anti-establishment…
Most Exciting Music Tech From CES 2019
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www.rollingstone.com - Music has been center stage this week at CES 2019, the latest edition of Las Vegas’s international annual consumer electronics bacchanal. As smart speakers and smart home devices become ubiquitous in…
74. Megashifts, AI and Why the Future is More Unknowable than Ever | Gerd Leonhard - The Disruptors
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disruptors.fm - Gerd Leonhard (@gleonhard) is a futurist, keynote speaker and author and listed by Wired Magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in Europe (2015). Gerd’s work focuses on the future of …
Google Demanded That T-Mobile, Sprint Not Sell Google Fi Customers' Location Data
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motherboard.vice.com - On Thursday, AT&T announced it was stopping the sale of its customers’ real-time location data to all third parties, in response to a Motherboard investigation showing how data from AT&T, T-Mobile, a…
National Museum of Women in the Arts unveils major collection reinstallation
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artdaily.com - WASHINGTON, DC.- The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents a major reinstallation of its collection galleries with an expansive array of paintings, photographs and sculptures, including recen…
Your Pinterest Promoted Pins Overview: Best Practices, Ad Specs & More
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instapage.com - What are Promoted Pins? Where are they shown? 5 Best practices 3 Other types of Promoted Pins Ad specs & recommendations Suppose you were able to combine the best of both search and social media adve…
How To Find A Web Host Easily And Quickly
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agentmonhost.com - Are you looking for a web page hosting company that will meet all of your needs with reliability, flexibility, and effective? The following tips can help reveal whether it’s time for you to start sho…
Growing Your Business While Growing as an Entrepreneur – Local Internet Marketing
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andyrkelly.com - Marketing Podcast with Jill Nelson Podcast Transcript My guest on today’s podcast is Jill Nelson, founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists. Started in 2009, the company provides virtual receptionist ser…
Panasonic GZ2000 OLED TV First Impressions: Best Of CES?
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www.forbes.com - While there may be flashier, crazier, more headline-grabbing products on show at the 2019 CES, for me the quiet hero of the show was the Panasonic GZ2000 4K OLED TV. Perhaps because Panasonic only se…
Encryption by Boxcryptor – Strong Security for the Cloud
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www.egnyte.com - The cloud enables teams to collaborate on shared files from anywhere in the world. Whether hosted internally or through a third-party provider, the cloud may very well be one of the biggest collabora…
Reports Suggest Ring Allowed Employees Unfettered Access to Customer Camera Feeds
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www.macrumors.com - ('https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/10/ring-employees-customer-camera-access/') Over the course of the last month, some troubling information has surfaced ('https://www.theinformation.com/articles/at…
48 Things We Want This Week: 2019's Best New Golf Clubs, Workout Gear, And More
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brobible.com - What’s up, BroBible? You might notice that my weekly ‘Things We Want‘ gear guide for men got a makeover this week. The new look design is meant to fit more with the style of my daily Everyday Carry E…
Retail as we know it has moved into a new paradigm | | TechNative
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www.technative.io - It offered ‘queue-less shopping’ – a self-service concept that allowed consumers to shop the store by pushing a metal trolley around the aisles rather than waiting in line at a counter to be served. …
Billionaires Like Warren Buffett, Jeff Bezos and Mark Cuban Live by Ancient Stoic Philosophy
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www.entrepreneur.com - It all started around 304 BC when Zeno, a wealthy merchant and founder of Stoicism, sailed from the Mediterranean port of Piraeus, known for its notoriously stormy weather. Zeno was shipwrecked and…
5 Incredible Startups We Found at CES
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www.entrepreneur.com - CES may be the world’s largest showcase for technology's giants, but it’s also one of the primary hubs for the scene's innovative upstarts. One of its convention areas, known as “Eureka Park,” often …
6 Inspiring Women Changing Tech and Business This New Year
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www.entrepreneur.com - The tech industry has proven time and time again that there’s nowhere to go but up, and proof of this lies with the fact that some of the deserving heroes behind this growth are actually heroines. Wo…
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