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Breaking CSS Custom Properties out of :root Might Be a Good Idea | CSS-Tricks
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css-tricks.com - CSS Custom Properties have been a hot topic for a while now, with tons of great articles about them, from great primers on how they work to creative tutorials to do some real magic with them. If you’…
3 Potential Benefits of Facebook's Coming Messaging App Merger
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mobilemonkey.com - Exciting news - a new report has outlined how Facebook is planning to integrate the messaging services of WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger. While all three apps will continue to work as sta…
5 Proven Ways For Driving Traffic to Your Website
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www.jeffbullas.com - Driving traffic to your website has become a major marketing priority. But with so much competing advice, contributing factors and variable opportunities it’s often hard to figure out exactly how to …
From Ray Kurzweil to Kanye West, everyone’s a futurist now
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qz.com - In 1963, in the depths of the Cold War, all of the futurists in the world could probably assemble in a largish conference room and still have space for an overhead projector. Half a century later, it…
Spotify buys true crime podcast company Parcast - Music Business Worldwide
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www.musicbusinessworldwide.com - Spotify’s Chief Content Officer Dawn Ostroff has reiterated the company’s ambition “of becoming the world’s leading audio platform” as it announces the acquisition of its third podcasting company thi…
FB Advertising PRO
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www.socialadprofit.com - An overview of what we are going to cover in this course and how best to use it. Follow these simple steps to activate the Facebook Ads Manager for the first time, or to navigate back to the ads mana…
Adobe launches its Commerce Cloud, based on its Magento acquisition
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techcrunch.com - Adobe today announced the launch of its Commerce Cloud, the newest part of the company’s Experience Cloud. Unsurprisingly, the Commerce Cloud builds on the company’s $1.68 billion acquisition of Mage…
The danger of ‘I already pay for Apple News+’
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Scott C. Lemon
techcrunch.com - Apple doesn’t care about news, it cares about recurring revenue. That’s why publishers are crazy to jump into bed with Apple News+. They’re rendering their own subscription options unnecessary in exc…
The Best FreeSync Monitors for Nvidia GPUs - IGN
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www.ign.com - If you buy something through this post, IGN may get a share of the sale. For more, read our Terms of Use. If you’re willing to buy a new monitor, variable refresh rate—also known as G-Sync on the NVI…
TPS Consulting Daily
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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY No more confusion: Google gives core update a name, and a structure - Search Engine Land Shared by Leeanne Nuttall-Lowe searchengineland.com - It appears Google heard about the confusion w…
Xiaomi’s “100W” quick charging goes from 0 to 100 in 17 minutes
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arstechnica.com - We all know battery density hasn't kept pace with the power demands of smartphones, but would you settle for a smartphone that just charged really, really quickly? Xiaomi is teasing a new high mark f…
FTC investigates whether ISPs sell your browsing history and location data
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arstechnica.com - The Federal Trade Commission is investigating the privacy practices of major Internet service providers, and it has ordered top ISPs to disclose whether they share user Web browsing histories, device…
It’s a draw in latest Qualcomm v Apple patent scores
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techcrunch.com - It’s Qualcomm 1, Apple 1 in the latest instalment of the pair’s bitter patent bust-up — the litigious IP infringement claim saga that also combines a billion dollar royalties suit filed by Cupertino …
How to make sure that your product is accessible to all users
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techcrunch.com - Every founder wants an eye-catching website or app, but it’s easy to overlook a basic fact: not all your potential visitors will experience your content with their eyes. If you haven’t considered whe…
Proxy raises $13.6M to unlock anything with Bluetooth identity
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techcrunch.com - You know how kings used to have trumpeters heralding their arrival wherever they went? Proxy wants to do that with Bluetooth. The startup lets you instantly unlock office doors and reserve meeting ro…
Google has scaled back, moved forward with robotics
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techcrunch.com - In 2013, Google went big on robotics. Under the leadership of Android father Andy Rubin, the company went on a shopping spree that included marquee companies like Boston Dynamics. The division was na…
Apple News+ is a great deal, but what does ‘full access’ really mean?
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techcrunch.com - Curious whether you should cancel your existing magazine subscription and just subscribe to Apple News+? Apple certainly seems to believe News+ is an outsized bargain for you. The company’s claim tha…
Contacts app Cardhop comes to iOS
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techcrunch.com - Productivity nerds, rejoice! Flexibits, the company behind Fantastical, is releasing Cardhop on the iPhone and iPad today. Cardhop was originally released on macOS, and it lets you text or call your …
EA lays off 350 people
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techcrunch.com - Though Apex Legends continues to be a bright spot for EA, the game publisher and the industry as a whole still have hurdles ahead. Today, EA confirmed that it laid off 350 people in marketing, publis…
Europe agrees raft of safety features to be baked into new vehicles
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techcrunch.com - All new vehicles sold in the European Union must have a wide range of safety features baked in as standard in the coming years, after EU institutions reached provisional agreement on a safety regulat…
Digging into Apple’s media transformation
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techcrunch.com - Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch Editor-in-Chief, Matthew Panzarino, off…
For Basecamp, brand identity and product development are all about the customer
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techcrunch.com - [Editor’s note: This is part of a series we’re writing about branding for startups. Join our latest initiative to find the best brand designers and agencies in the world who work with early-stage com…
Microsoft, Adobe and SAP prepare to expand their Open Data Initiative
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techcrunch.com - At last year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, the CEOs of Microsoft, Adobe and SAP took the stage to announce the launch of the Open Data Initiative. The idea behind this effort was to make it easier f…
FTC smacks down robocallers, but the penalties don’t match their heinous crimes
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techcrunch.com - The fight against robocallers is just getting started, and the wheel of justice turns slowly, but the FTC just took down a handful of major operations responsible for billions of unwanted calls, some…
Magic Leap’s $2,295 headset is going on sale at a few AT&T stores next week
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techcrunch.com - While Magic Leap’s first augmented reality headset launch wasn’t the earth-shattering drop they had sort of pitched the world on, the company is about to see a major corporate partnership push their …
Daily Crunch: Chinese giants fund ride-hailing challenger
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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. Aliba…
Apply to Startup Battlefield and TC Top Picks at Disrupt SF 2019
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techcrunch.com - Listen up, founders. We’re scanning the globe for the absolute best early-stage startups that want to make the absolute most of their Disrupt San Francisco 2019 experience. How can you do that? Apply…
Twitter took over a user’s account and joked about reading their DMs
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techcrunch.com - At a time when tech giants have come under fire for failing to protect the private data of their users, Twitter took over one of its user’s accounts for fun and then tweeted jokes about reading the a…
Rela, a Chinese lesbian dating app, exposed 5 million user profiles
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techcrunch.com - Rela (热拉), a popular dating app for gay and queer women, has exposed millions of user profiles and private data because a server wasn’t protected with a password. Rela disappeared from app stores in …
Le Québécois Yoshua Bengio parmi les «Nobel de l'informatique» | PHILIPPE MERCURE | Sciences
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www.lapresse.ca - Les gagnants, dont les noms sont dévoilés aujourd'hui, se partageront une bourse de 1 million de dollars US le 15 juin lors d'une cérémonie à San Francisco. Une douce revanche pour ces collaborateurs…
The difference between marketing and advertising – Learn
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www.canva.com - Marketing and advertising are often lumped together and used interchangeably. But marketing and advertising are not the same thing, and if you want to be successful with either, you need to understan…
We put our hands all over the weirdest game controllers of the year
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arstechnica.com - SAN FRANCISCO—For years, we've put one particular item on our annual Game Developers Conference itinerary: the most elaborate and inconvenient game controllers this side of a Japanese arcade. Every y…
Elon Musk uses Twitter “wisely,” new Tesla chair says
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arstechnica.com - Last fall, the Securities and Exchange Commission forced Elon Musk to give up his role as the chairman of Tesla's board. The agency hoped the move would give Tesla's board a measure of independence, …
A rogue’s gallery of bad actors are exploiting that critical WinRAR flaw
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arstechnica.com - A critical vulnerability in the WinRAR file-compression utility is under active attack by a wide range of bad actors who are exploiting the code-execution flaw to install password stealers and other …
Microsoft exec bans company from pulling any dumb April Fools’ pranks
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arstechnica.com - April 1 has long been a spectacularly annoying day to be alive, with brands falling over themselves to be "funny" and usually revealing themselves to be anything but. This was almost tolerable in the…
Los problemas que la NASA enfrenta ante el llamado “meteorito de la muerte”
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laopinion.com - Desde hace algún tiempo, la NASA está muy interesada en estudiar a fondo al asteroide “Bennu”, al cual popularmente se le conoce como “el meteorito de la muerte”; sin embargo, recientemente la agenci…
Tor Digital Privacy Project Accepts Donations in Cryptocurrency
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cointelegraph.com - Tor digital privacy software is now accepting donations in various cryptocurrencies, as a new crypto donational portal appeared on the project’s website on March 18. The site now accepts nine major c…
Here's our first look at WhatsApp's dark mode
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www.androidpolice.com - There are few things in life more certain than Android users getting excited about an app adding a dark mode. Personally, white text on black/dark backgrounds tires my eyes, especially during daytime…
Aren’t AMP Caches committing copyright infringement?
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www.ctrl.blog - Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are specially formatted web pages that companies like Cloudflare, Google, and Microsoft copy off publishers’ websites and make available through their own AMP Cache web…
All you need to know about hyphenation in CSS
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clagnut.com - Earlier this month I was invited to give an evening lecture at the Typography Society of Austria (tga) in Vienna. I was honoured to do so, as it meant following in the footsteps of such luminaries as…
Working as a UX designer - Anton Sten - UX-Lead
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www.antonsten.com - 25 March 2019 One of the things I love about sharing my experiences through writing this blog is the feedback I receive from readers. I find it surprisingly exciting knowing that my content is being …
Australia 'Absolutely Considering' Jail Time for Tech Execs Who Can't Scrub Hate Off Their Platforms
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gizmodo.com - In the immediate aftermath of a horrific act of violence, it’s disturbingly easy to watch the gruesomeness unfold on social media—even if you don’t want to. We witnessed this inevitability during the…
FTC asks broadband providers to disclose how they collect user data | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - The Federal Trade Commission sent letters today to seven of the biggest US broadband providers seeking information on how the companies collect, retain, use, and disclose information about consumers …
One + Gestures app updated with new name, new features
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androidcommunity.com - Many of you may have forgotten about it but there is a One + Gestures app from OnePlus. It’s getting another round of update to deliver a number of important changes like app blacklist, visual effect…
Huawei Freelace wireless earphones launches alongside new P30 series
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androidcommunity.com - It wasn’t just new smartphones that Huawei introduced to the public. Alongside the new P30 smartphone series, they also unveiled the new Huawei Freelace, a pair of wireless earphones that boasts of a…
Firefox Lockbox now available for Android devices
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androidcommunity.com - If you don’t use any password manager like 1Password or LastPass, you probably just rely on a note on your phone to store your passwords for your various accounts and apps. But of course that’s not t…
Jabra Evolve 65e wireless earbuds still comes with UC, Skype for Business certification
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androidcommunity.com - Jabra isn’t exactly a favorite here but we know it is a good brand. The last product we featured was the Elite 85h bringing SmartSound and 100% hands-free Voice Assistant access back in January. Befo…
Huawei Gentle Monster Smart Glasses previewed, launching this summer
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androidcommunity.com - Aside from the Huawei P30 Pro that is currently making an impression because of its high-end camera system, the top Chinese OEM also announced a new pair of smart glasses. Not that Huawei has venture…
Huawei Watch GT Active, Elegant editions announced
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androidcommunity.com - The HUAWEI WATCH GT collection is getting two new editions in the form of the Huawei Watch GT Active and the Huawei Watch GT Elegant. These new smartwatch models offer long battery life and a host of…
E-Pad e-ink Android tablet with 4G debuts on Kickstarter
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androidcommunity.com - E-ink is not a new concept but not many companies take advantage of it. The technology has been around for some time now but it’s been overshadowed by colored screens. The sharper or the higher-res a…
The Best Way to Grow Customer Loyalty – Without a Program
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loyalty360.org - If a loyalty program isn’t right for your business, how do you invest in customer retention and loyalty? The solution lies in creating emotional connections through personalized engagement. Google “h…
SPI 364: SEO Simplified with Tim from Ahrefs
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www.smartpassiveincome.com - Pat Flynn: S-E-O, search engine optimization, simplified. That’s what we’re going to be talking about in this episode today. You know, SEO is a big topic. There are people who make their living by he…
Thoughts on the AirPods 2 - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - If you follow me on Twitter, you are probably aware I have been waiting for a long time for Apple to release the new versions of its AirPods. The company finally launched those this month, and I was …
Apple extends Search Ads support to 46 more countries - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - On Tuesday, Apple extended its Search Ads platform to 46 more countries, enabling marketers to boost their app’s visibility in a total of 59 countries as well as manage campaigns spanning multiple re…
Huawei’s Quad-Camera Wonder is Here!
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Raymond Philippe
www.lightstalking.com - We’ve followed the development of Huawei’s new P30 line for some time now. Well, it seems like today is the day. Huawei’s new flagship P30 Pro smartphone is finally here. So far, it’s shaping up to b…
UK set to adopt vehicle speed limiters
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www.bbc.com - Speed limiting technology looks set to become mandatory for all vehicles sold in Europe from 2022, after new rules were provisionally agreed by the EU. The Department for Transport said the system wo…
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