Saturday, March 16, 2019

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The real reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything

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www.technologyreview.com - There was a time when the world’s two great superpowers were obsessed with nuclear weapons technology. Today the flashpoint is between the US and China, and it involves the wireless technology that p…

Police urge people to stop sharing that Christchurch shooter video online

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mashable.com - In a clear act of terror, multiple people have died after gunmen opened fire at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on Friday. New Zealand Police said four suspects are in custody, and that the situ…

Twitter confirms a new ‘Subscribe to Conversation’ feature for following tweets of interest

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techcrunch.com - In addition to testing out a new format for conversations within a prototype app called twttr and other features like a “Hide Tweet” button, Twitter today confirmed it’s also developing a feature tha…

The World Wide Web turns 30: our favorite memories from A to Z

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www.theverge.com - On this day 30 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a proposal with the dreary title “Information Management” to his superior at the European physics laboratory CERN. It began by asking how future sc…

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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY A Google employee just shattered the record for Pi calculations. Her name is Emma Haruka Iwao Shared by Susan Cooper www.washingtonpost.com - (Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg News) By Hamza Shab…

Pixel 3a, Pixel 3a XL could be the next mid-rangers from Google

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androidcommunity.com - Some of you may already be anticipating for the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL but Google is believed to be launching the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL. The two may be replacing the Pixel 3 Lite and Pixel 3 XL Li…

Software Roles and Titles

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medium.com - I’ve noticed a lot of confusion in the industry about various software roles and titles, even among founders, hiring managers, and team builders. What are the various roles and responsibilities on a …

5 Techniques to Make Mobile Call to Action Buttons Intuitive

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uxmovement.com - To tap or not to tap—that is the question on the user’s mind when they see a call to action button. The more buttons there are, the longer it takes them to make a decision. They have to examine each …

After Christchurch, Reddit bans communities infamous for sharing graphic videos of death

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techcrunch.com - In the aftermath of the tragic mosque massacre that claimed 49 lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, tech companies scrambled to purge their platforms of promotional materials that the shooter left beh…

Apple addresses Spotify’s claims, but not its demands

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techcrunch.com - Two days after Spotify announced that it had filed a suit against Apple with the European Commission over anticompetitive practices, Apple today issued its own response of sorts. In a lengthy stateme…

Beto O’Rourke could be the first hacker president

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techcrunch.com - Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has revealed he was a member of a notorious decades-old hacking group. The former congressman was a member of the Texas-based hacker group, the Cult of…

No Man’s Sky has a big new update due out this summer

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techcrunch.com - After a conspicuous stretch of silence ending with a mysterious teaser tweet on Thursday, No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray revealed that another major free update is on the way. The new content, whic…

coParenter helps divorced parents settle disputes using A.I. and human mediation

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techcrunch.com - A former judge and family law educator has teamed up with tech entrepreneurs to launch an app they hope will help divorced parents better manage their co-parenting disputes, communications, shared ca…

Instagram founders say losing autonomy at Facebook meant ‘winning’

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techcrunch.com - Rather than be sore about losing independence within Facebook, Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom told me it was an inevitable sign of his app’s triumph. Today at South By South West, Systrom and fel…

Suse is once again an independent company

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techcrunch.com - Open-source infrastructure and application delivery vendor Suse — the company behind one of the oldest Linux distributions — today announced that it is once again an independent company. The company …

Google filed a folding phone patent application, too

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techcrunch.com - Does a patent application mean a company is particularly serious about a technology? No. Is every company that makes a phones at least toying around with a folding model? Yes, probably. It’s tough to…

Passbase is building a full stack identity engine with privacy baked in

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techcrunch.com - Digital identity startup Passbase has bagged $600k in pre-seed funding led by a group of business angel investors from Alphabet, Stanford, Kleiner Perkins, EY; as well as seed fund investment from Ch…

Apple ad focuses on iPhone’s most marketable feature — privacy

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techcrunch.com - Apple is airing a new ad spot in primetime today. Focused on privacy, the spot is visually cued, with no dialog and a simple tagline: Privacy. That’s iPhone. In a series of humorous vignettes, the me…

Portal automatically opens doors for wheelchair users, no button pressing required

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techcrunch.com - Buttons or plates (like the one above) that automatically open doors can do a lot to make a building more accessible, but they aren’t always a perfect solution. For wheelchair users with limited uppe…

Mini-review: 24 hours with Dell’s fanciest Chromebook yet

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arstechnica.com - Dell is no stranger to Chromebooks. In fact, the Dell Chromebook 11 is our current favorite Chromebook for students with its simple, durable black frame and attractive price tag. Most of Dell's Chrom…

McLaren knocks it out of the park again with the 720S Spider convertible

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arstechnica.com - Although we make every effort to cover our own travel costs, in this case McLaren flew us to Phoenix to drive the 720S Spider (and the 600LT Spider; we published that one last week) and provided two …

Epic says its Game Store is not spying on you

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arstechnica.com - The Reddit post "Epic Game Store, Spyware, Tracking, and You!" points to a wide-ranging set of implications based on some broad file and network access traffic observations when the Epic Game Store i…

Hands-on with the new Gmail for Android (and iOS)

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arstechnica.com - One big new change is the location of the account switcher. On new Gmail it lives in the search bar, while on Old Gmail it lived in the navigation panel. The search bar will sometimes play this fun G…

ISPs strike deal with Vermont to suspend state net neutrality law

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arstechnica.com - The state of Vermont has agreed to suspend enforcement of its net neutrality law pending the outcome of a lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission. In October, the nation's largest broad…

TV, magazines, and maybe iPads: What to expect from Apple’s March 25 event

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arstechnica.com - On March 25, Apple executives and partners will take to the stage in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's Cupertino campus to talk about subscriptions, software, services, entertainment, and media. Thes…

Any Steam game can now use Valve’s low-latency, DoS-proofed networking

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arstechnica.com - Valve is opening up its latency-reducing, DoS-protecting network relay infrastructure to every developer using its Steamworks platform. A few years ago, large-scale denial-of-service attacks against …

Talking to Google Duplex: Google’s human-like phone AI feels revolutionary

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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—Evidently, I didn't walk into a run-of-the-mill press event. Roughly two months after its annual I/O conference, Google this week invited Ars and several other journalists to the THEP Thai R…

You Probably Missed This Major Battery Recall Because of the Government Shutdown

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gizmodo.com - Even though the government shutdown ended more than a month and a half ago, we’re still feeling its effects. That’s because, despite HP issuing an expansion for a battery recall back in January, the …

Garmin announces Marq series of premium smartwatches

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androidcommunity.com - Just when you think we have enough smartwatches out there, brands that make those devices will, of course, continue to make more. Garmin has been an established watch and smartwatch brand and to cele…

How China’s TikTok app became known all over the world

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www.scmp.com - TikTok has exploded in popularity. Source: SimilarWeb Rising stars like Bangia are among the many beneficiaries – she is one of about 50 Indians, mainly comedians and actors, who have amassed more th…

Loyalty360 Reads: March 15th, 2019

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loyalty360.org - Employee Engagement Walmart Flies Employees for Top Healthcare Employers are increasingly encountering problems with the American healthcare system. In a particularly extreme case, Walmart sent an em…

Paul Thurrott's Short Takes: March 15 - Petri

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www.petri.com - Because it’s the ides of March, this edition of Short Takes looks at Huawei’s Plan B, a Windows 7 courtesy reminder, Windows 10 automatic driver rollback, Microsoft v. Foxconn, and much, much more. H…

Software Testing Basics: 7 Tips to Become a Professional Software Tester - Toggl Blog

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blog.toggl.com - Beware! We’re about to enter the dark and mysterious world of software testing, where secretive tech professionals labor day and night to produce the life-changing apps that we, the general public, r…

No more confusion: Google gives core update a name, and a structure - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - It appears Google heard about the confusion with the namings of the broad core algorithm update from March 12 and decided to clear things up. Google said on Twitter, “Our name for this update is Marc…

A WordPress safety plan for SEOs and developers - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - WordPress powers an astonishing one-third of all websites these days. It has been the CMS platform of choice for our community since the mid-aughts when many of WordPress’s SEO features were implemen…

Study: Brands are failing voice search optimization in 3 key areas - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - Optimizing for voice search is synonymous with optimizing for local SEO since both are “about ranking as high as possible” in search results, says a new report by Chatmeter, which scored 12 major ret…

Two children dead after their car is hit during Audi and Bentley 'street race'

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metro.co.uk - Two children have been killed after their car was hit by a car that was allegedly involved in a street race along a main road. A 23-month-old toddler and a boy, 10, were pronounced dead at the scene …

Analysts and Media Unimpressed with Tesla's Model Y 'SUV' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Tesla unveiled its new Model Y SUV at a recent event at Tesla’s design studio outside Los Angeles in California. For many, the event was underwhelming for one primary reason — many felt they had seen…

Beto O’Rourke’s secret membership in America’s oldest hacking group

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www.reuters.com - But the political balance allows him to appeal to both main strands of political thought in Silicon Valley – a key source of campaign money and cultural influence. O’Rourke credits the Cult of the De…

A Grand Bargain to Make Tech Companies Trustworthy

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www.theatlantic.com - The information age has created new kinds of entities that have many of the trappings of fiduciaries—huge online businesses, like Facebook, Google, and Uber, that collect, analyze, and use our person…

» Cats and guacamole: a reflection on platform loyalty and information fiduciaries. Interesting Jonathan Zittrain keynote [Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker]

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www.futuristgerd.com - Jonathan Zittrain, Founder of the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, talks about a platform’s core purpose at EnlightED2018 (where Gerd also contributed a talk on the future of education – …

13 Interactive Ad Examples That Show Marketers How to Maximize Engagement with Prospects

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instapage.com - What are interactive ads? Why should marketers use interactive advertising? Heightened brand awareness & recall Improved performance rates More data A push for interactive ads from ad platforms The b…

Your Concise, Straightforward Guide To Finally Starting A Bullet Journal

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www.mindbodygreen.com - Logs the most crucial components of a bullet journal, where you organize your thoughts, to-do's, events, projects, and future goals. The future log is where you write down any events that will occur …

Use These Helpful Tips For Negotiation Tactics

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carshopping.biz - Most people need to shop for a car at some point in their life. While it is generally fun, the prices can make it intimidating unless proper research is done beforehand. This article has tips to help…

Photography Secrets The Pros Don't Like You To Know

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slr-digitalcamera.com - There is lots of different views about how to get the best picture possible. The best thing to do is apply tips like the ones presented in this article can help you create quality photographs and sho…

A Successful Strategy To Internet Promotion Is Within Your Grasp!

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marketingpromotion.biz - Internet promotion is about promoting your business on the largest and smallest businesses. It can be difficult for novices to start with Website marketing, but there is a lot of solid advice availab…

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