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Smartwatch unit sales up 61 percent in 2018 as Apple is ‘the clear market leader,’ NPD says
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9to5mac.com - As Apple’s own Wearables category continues to grow, new data from The NPD Group shows how Apple’s success is affecting the rest of the smartwatch industry. According to the data, unit sales for smar…
Bay Area: Join us 2/13 to discuss a new hope for tech activism
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arstechnica.com - Over the past couple of years, we've seen a huge upsurge in activism within the technology community. From the walkouts at Google to labor organizing at Amazon, tech workers are starting to see a con…
Facebook Ads Tutorial: A Complete Step-by-Step Facebook Ads Guide [REVISED FOR 2018] • My Lead System PRO (MLSP) Blog
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blog.myleadsystempro.com - Want to start getting leads for your business NOW? Facebook ads is the quickest way to do that, and with this step-by-step Facebook ads tutorial on how to start using paid marketing on Facebook, we'r…
Samsung Galaxy S10 camera features detailed
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androidcommunity.com - Samsung will unleash the new Galaxy S10 in a week’s time. The Android community is looking forward to confirming all the rumors and leaks we’ve seen the past few months. We can confirm a few details …
Autonomous truck startup TuSimple hits unicorn status in latest round
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techcrunch.com - Another autonomous vehicle unicorn has joined the herd. TuSimple, a self-driving truck startup running daily routes for customers in Arizona, has raised $95 million in a Series D funding round led by…
Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs
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techcrunch.com - Chris Lorenz, Geoffrey Anderson, and James Borow may have spent their days over the past few years working at Snap, but on nights and weekends Anderson and Lorenz were laboring on a different project…
Elevate Security announces $8M Series A to alter employee security behavior
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techcrunch.com - It’s well understood that many network breaches begin with phishing emails designed to trick users into giving hackers their credentials. They don’t even have to work to find a vulnerability, they ca…
Nintendo makes the old new again with Mario, Zelda, Tetris titles for Switch
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techcrunch.com - The afternoon brought an eventful series of announcements from Nintendo in one of its Direct video promos, and 2019 is looking to be a banner year for the Switch. Here’s everything the company announ…
Facebook mulled multi-billion-dollar acquisition of Unity, book claims
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techcrunch.com - Less than a year after making a $3 billion investment into the future of virtual reality with the purchase of Oculus VR, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was considering another multi-billion-dollar bet …
Reddit says government data requests more than doubled in 2018
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techcrunch.com - Reddit has said the number of government requests for user data more than doubled in 2018 than on the previous year. The news and content sharing site said in its latest transparency report, posted W…
A new Congress means a new opportunity for consumer privacy protections
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techcrunch.com - The 2018 mid-term elections, for the first time in U.S. history, resulted in a Congress that has the look and feel of America… our very diverse America. There are now 102 women serving in Congress an…
Apple’s iOS update makes it easier to get to your subscriptions
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techcrunch.com - Apple has made a small but important change to iOS that will allow users an easier way to manage their app subscriptions. In the latest release of the mobile operating system (iOS 12.1.4 and 12.2 bet…
Google and IBM still trying desperately to move cloud market share needle
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techcrunch.com - When it comes to the cloud market, there are few known knowns. For instance, we know that AWS is the market leader with around 32 percent of market share. We know Microsoft is far back in second plac…
BuzzFeed News employees vote to unionize
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techcrunch.com - Shortly after BuzzFeed News employees revealed that they had voted to unionize, its editor-in-chief said the company wants to meet with them to discuss voluntarily recognition. Employees announced to…
Check out the first interior view of Honda’s Urban EV prototype
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techcrunch.com - Honda has been teasing its all-electric urban vehicle in 2017, when the automaker showed off its vision of the future — that had a distinct 1970s first generation Civic flare. Now, two years later a …
Daily Crunch: Apple’s subscription fix
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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. Apple…
Sling TV closes year with 2.4 million subscribers, but growth slowed significantly
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techcrunch.com - Sling TV’s growth has slowed dramatically as the competitive landscape for live TV streaming services has heated up. Despite this, the Dish -owned streaming service remains ahead of rivals in terms o…
Prime Minister highlights investment to make commuting safer and more efficient in Sudbury
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pm.gc.ca - In 2016, the Government of Canada launched the biggest infrastructure plan in Canadian history. Since then, we have invested in and approved hundreds of infrastructure projects to expand highways, bu…
Here’s why some influencers woke up this morning with a lot less Instagram followers
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www.dailyedge.ie - IF YOU WOKE up this morning to check your Instagram and noticed something a little off, you weren’t the only one. Yes, you might have spotted some of your favourite influencer taking to social media …
Behind the Mac creator celebrates his literary icon
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www.apple.com - Oscar-winning director Barry Jenkins says he “stumbled into filmmaking,” attending Florida State University for some years before discovering its film school. “I went to film school right at the turn…
Selling 911 location data is illegal—US carriers reportedly did it anyway
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arstechnica.com - Three of the four major wireless carriers have been accused of breaking US law by selling 911 location data to third parties. "Telecom giants broke the law by selling detailed location data" that was…
Metro Exodus: A good single-player game to usher in the PC ray tracing era
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arstechnica.com - The best thing I can say about Metro Exodus, to anybody unfamiliar with its place in a trilogy of post-nuclear, first-person monster combat games, is that this is the best Eurojank game I've ever see…
Metro Exodus: A beautiful, brutal single-player game—with insane RTX perks
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arstechnica.com - The best thing I can say about Metro Exodus, to anybody unfamiliar with its place in a trilogy of post-nuclear, first-person monster combat games, is that this is the best Eurojank game I've ever see…
Super Mario Maker 2, Link’s Awakening remaster headline latest Nintendo Direct
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arstechnica.com - Super Mario Maker 2 seeks to earn that sequel designation via a ton of new features. Speedrunners, beware: Nintendo has added an "auto-scroll" option, so that you can guide a level's exact moving pat…
Introducing Classic View, a new way for subscribers to browse Ars
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arstechnica.com - We launched Ars Pro, our ad-free subscription service, at the beginning of the year. At the time, we told you we wanted to hear your ideas on how to make Ars Pro and Ars Pro++ more compelling. And we…
Amid layoffs, Blizzard won’t release a “major” new game in 2019
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arstechnica.com - But Durkin's statement makes it clear we'll have to wait until 2020 for any truly new titles from Blizzard. That includes the recently announced mobile Diablo Immortal and any other PC or console-bas…
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 …
“Catastrophic” hack on email provider destroys almost two decades of data
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arstechnica.com - Email provider VFEmail said it has suffered a catastrophic destruction of all of its servers by an unknown assailant who wiped out almost two decades' worth of data and backups in a matter of hours. …
Microsoft patches zero-day vulnerabilities in IE and Exchange
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arstechnica.com - Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday this month had higher-than-usual stakes with fixes for a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability under active exploit and an Exchange Server flaw that was disclosed last mo…
Augmented Reality Google Maps is coming, starts testing in private
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arstechnica.com - It's a camera feed with 3D navigation arrows positioned in the real world. The camera feed actually helps with your precise location and orientation. Google calls the system "VPS" or "Visual Position…
Hackers keep trying to get malicious Windows file onto MacOS
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arstechnica.com - Malware pushers are experimenting with a novel way to infect Mac users that runs executable files that normally execute only on Windows computers. The files and folders found inside a DMG file that p…
In 2017, the feds said Tesla Autopilot cut crashes 40%—that was bogus
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arstechnica.com - The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has egg on its face after a small research and consulting firm called Quality Control Systems produced a devastating critique of a 2017 agency repor…
Activision-Blizzard lays off 775 people after “record results in 2018”
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arstechnica.com - Game publisher Activision-Blizzard will lay off 8 percent of its work force, or around 775 people, CEO Bobby Kotick announced on the company's earnings call today. The move is being made in an effort…
Advanced driver assists come to the world of big-rig class 8 trucks
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arstechnica.com - Daimler and Freightliner demonstrated their new advanced driver assistance systems for class 8 trucks at CES this year. In repeated demos, this is as close as the truck got to the stationary "car." W…
20 HTML and CSS Projects to Sharpen Your Skills – Noteworthy - The Journal Blog
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blog.usejournal.com - The goal for this project is to pick out concepts found in two different websites. Combine these concepts into one website into your own. Maybe you like a website’s overall design; or maybe you like …
11 Best YouTube Channels For Web Developers
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www.inventwithcode.com - Teaching yourself to code has never been easier. With so many excellent resources available online, like courses and digital books, you can start learning to code right now. There’s another free reso…
Stone Age Sailors Spread the Concept of Megalithic Sites Like Stonehenge
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www.ancient-origins.net - There are many thousands of stone megaliths found in almost every country in Europe, from Scotland to Italy. The best known example of these stone constructions is Stonehenge. The reason that these s…
What Happens If Russia Cuts Itself Off From the Internet
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www.wired.com - The world’s internet infrastructure has no central authority. To keep it working, everyone needs to rely on everyone else. As a result, the global patchwork of undersea cables, satellites, and other …
Xiaomi foldable phone renders show outward folding display
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androidcommunity.com - Samsung and Huawei aren’t the only OEMs working on their foldable phone entries. Samsung has been planning on the device for years now while Huawei only made it known last year that it wants to get a…
Honor 10 Lite Review: Familiar specs, smaller notch, and decent performance
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androidcommunity.com - The Honor brand has been around since 2015 as Huawei’s means to enter the US market. The public has since been introduced to a number of Honor phones starting with a mystery phone on TENAA which turn…
Niantic brings “Go Snapshot” for better Pokemon Go pics
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androidcommunity.com - If you have an album on your smartphone’s gallery full of Pokemon photos using the augmented reality (AR) feature that they introduced a couple of years ago, you’ll have to make space right now on yo…
Sony Xperia XZ3 Ultra shown off in latest image renders
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androidcommunity.com - Sony is still in the mobile business. We’re certain of that but we can’t say exactly if it’s doing good. The company is doing a number of executive changes and shift in business strategies. For this …
Former UK surveillance head criticises call for ban on China 5G tech
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www.scmp.com - Britain’s former surveillance chief has characterised the “chorus of voices” calling for a blanket ban on Chinese companies like Huawei Technologies from telecommunication networks in Western countri…
AT&T, Arrow Electronics and Indiegogo Propel Next Wave of Internet of Things Innovation - Indiegogo Blog
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go.indiegogo.com - Entrepreneurs looking to tap into Indiegogo, the global innovation platform, now have new incentives and new tools to help bring their dreams to life. AT&T is teaming up with Arrow Electronics and In…
Premium Loyalty? Subscription Loyalty? What Do We Call This Paid Loyalty Trend?
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loyalty360.org - In recent years we have seen many brands rethink their retail strategies by using premium loyalty programs. As loyalty program benefits become more experiential-based to attract additional customers …
Associated Supermarket Group Enlists Wonder Rewards to Drive Loyalty
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loyalty360.org - We’re seeing a lot of brick-and-mortar retailers embracing new technologies to expand their abilities and create customer loyalty. In both Kroger and Walgreens stores, cameras are no longer present f…
Apple's Video Streaming Service Expected to Launch in April - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Apple’s much-awaited video streaming service could be going public in a couple of months time. CNBC is today reporting that Cupertino is targeting an April launch for its new video service, though it…
Twitter Testing New Profile Previews on iOS - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Twitter is testing a new feature for its iOS app. The company today announced that it’s introducing a new feature that makes it easier for users to preview profiles on the app. The new feature essent…
Google's 2019 Hardware Includes a New Home, Watch, Security Camera - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Google is reportedly planning to expand its Made by Google line of products with a couple of new devices later this year. The company is expected to launch a wide range of new devices, including new …
Death of the keyword: What it is (and is not) for retail - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - It’s becoming a common refrain within the paid search industry to cry out, whether by blog post or tweet or conference presentation, that the keyword is dead! Buried! Six feet under in a memory box f…
Mobile search and video in 2019: How visible are you? - Search Engine Watch
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searchenginewatch.com - Here at Search Engine Watch we know that video content is a great way to achieve and maintain visibility online, as well as being a successful means for providing engaging content for followers and p…
People Ask Their Most Pressing SEO Questions — Our Experts Answer
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www.duda.co - We teamed up with our friends at Duda, a website design scaling platform service, who asked their agency customers to divulge their most pressing SEO questions, quandaries, and concerns. Our in-house…
Apple Boosted Testing of Self-Driving Cars in 2018: US Data
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www.newsmax.com - Apple Inc. sharply increased its testing of self-driving cars in 2018, logging tens of thousands of miles compared with only hundreds of miles the year before, according to data released Wednesday by…
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