Thursday, March 07, 2019

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Stunning portraits of open source revolutionaries | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - A rough and tumble Che Guevara gazing skyward. Gandhi wrapped in a white robe. Successful revolutions need great imagery. That realization guides photographer Peter Adams in a project whose aim is to…

03-06-2019 - Time is NOW for Google My Business, Don't miss this boat. My story inside.

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archive.aweber.com - Time is NOW for Google My Business, Don't miss this boat. My story inside. Sent Wednesday, March 6, 2019 Not sure if you saw my video yesterday, But I'm here to tell you, the Time is NOW. This takes …

4 Myths About Consumer Incentives

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loyalty360.org - For years, marketers have leveraged a wide range of incentives such as coupons, rebates, sweepstakes and loyalty programs to motivate consumer behavior. A recently released research study, “Incentivi…

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY The Future of Video Marketing Is Now: The Case For Interactive Video Shared by Leeanne Nuttall-Lowe www.jeffbullas.com - I read an article recently about the availability heuristic. It’s a…

Elton John’s farewell tour marks the beginning for an audio augmenting wearable

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techcrunch.com - It’s not a great time to be a live venue. Once the only game in town, clubs, arenas and other live event spaces now have to compete with the seemingly endless on-demand entertainment options. Competi…

Instagram prototypes video co-watching

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techcrunch.com - The next phase of social media is about hanging out together while apart. Rather than performing on a live stream or engaging with a video chat, Instagram may allow you to chill and watch videos toge…

Tesla’s new Supercharger slashes charging times

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techcrunch.com - Tesla is rolling out a third-generation Supercharger that is designed to dramatically cut charging times for its electric vehicles as it seeks to keep its edge over new competitors. The V3 Supercharg…

Spill picks up £650K seed round for its message-based workplace therapy app

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techcrunch.com - Spill, the London-based startup that offers a message-based therapy app to help improve workplace well-being, has picked up £650,000 in seed investment. The round is backed by Passion Capital, Seedca…

Leica’s Q2 is a beautiful camera that I want and will never have

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techcrunch.com - Leica is a brand I respect and appreciate but don’t support. Or rather, can’t, because I’m not fabulously rich. But if I did have $5,000 to spend on a fixed-lens camera, I’d probably get the new Q2, …

Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg lays out his privacy vision

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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. Mark …

Google introduces educational app Bolo to improve children’s literacy in India

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techcrunch.com - Google is expanding its suite of apps designed for the Indian market with today’s launch of a new language-learning app aimed at children, called Bolo. The app, which is aimed at elementary school-ag…

FCC ‘looking into’ reported error throwing broadband deployment numbers off by millions

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techcrunch.com - It’s the FCC’s official duty to promote connectivity throughout the U.S., and as part of that it issues a yearly report on improvements to broadband deployment. The latest report, however, seems to c…

YC’s latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380k ‘flying motorcycle’

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techcrunch.com - David Mayman has a vision for personal aviation that he’s spent the past dozen years and millions of his personal fortune chasing. He hasn’t accepted the convention that jetpacks were just a misguide…

Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy

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techcrunch.com - With the swelling confidence of a colonial power happening upon a long-settled distant land, today Mark Zuckerberg discovered the concept of privacy. In a ballooning 3,225 words — a roughly average w…

Sign up before March 11 and save $500 on Disrupt SF 2019 tix

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techcrunch.com - Want to trim a cool $500 off your ticket price to Disrupt San Francisco 2019? It’s easy to do, but you need to act before registration officially opens on Monday, March 11. Simply sign up for our mai…

Scaleway releases cloud GPU instances for €1 per hour

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techcrunch.com - French cloud hosting company Scaleway is rolling out new instances with an Nvidia Tesla P100 GPU. The company is opting for simple pricing with a single configuration that costs €1 per hour ($1.13). …

Three imperatives for educators to get more women in tech

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techcrunch.com - In addition to turning up nearly two billion Google search results, those three words are music to the ears of every informed CEO or human resources manager across the U.S. And while most executives …

Guy Kawasaki on Why Real Entrepreneurs "Fire Then Aim"

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www.thrivetimeshow.com - Guy Kawasaki, the legendary former key Apple employee turned venture capitalist, best selling author, Chief Evangelist for Canva and Mercedes Benz shares: Why he believes that the secret of his succe…

Google Confirms Serious Chrome Security Problem - Here's How To Fix It

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www.forbes.com - Google Chrome's security lead and engineering director, Justin Schuh, has warned that users of the most popular web browser should update "like right this minute." Why the urgency? Simply put, there …

Tesla has a self-driving strategy other companies abandoned years ago

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arstechnica.com - An overhaul to Tesla's Autopilot webpage might represent the clearest acknowledgment yet that the company has failed to deliver on Elon Musk's ambitious vision for a self-driving future. "You will be…

You can now play PlayStation 4 games on your iPhone

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arstechnica.com - As on other remote play devices, you can navigate the entire PS4 interface. The touchscreen controls overlay is about as good as touchscreen controls overlays can possibly be. You can use your iPhone…

Dealmaster: Expand your laptop with our recommended USB-C travel hub, now $24

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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! Courtesy of our friends at TechBargains, we have another round of deals to share. Today's list is headlined by a deal on Vava's USB-C Hub, which is currently down to $24 with a 10…

Video: How one team created a VR documentary in South Sudan

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arstechnica.com - When we first spoke to Marcelle Hopkins about her film, On the Brink of Famine, in July 2015, she and her team were in a furious pre-production scramble of choosing gear, finalizing plans, and tweaki…

Zuckerberg: Facebook will shift focus to private networks instead of open ones

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arstechnica.com - Mark Zuckerberg discussing issues with an audience. (This time he used a blog post, though.) On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg published a more-than-3,000-word blog post that seems to declar…

Cable and satellite TV sinks again as online streaming soars

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arstechnica.com - Cord cutting continued at a steady rate in 2018, as cable and satellite TV providers in the United States lost more than 3 million video subscribers, a new report from Leichtman Research Group said. …

How a Norwegian comment section turned chaos into order—with a simple quiz

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arstechnica.com - AUSTIN, Texas—The five-person team behind a simple WordPress plugin, which took three hours to code, never expected to receive worldwide attention as a result. But NRKbeta, the tech-testing group at …

A “serious” Windows zeroday is being actively exploited in the wild

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arstechnica.com - As a reminder, here's what the default Start menu looked like in Windows 7. Google security officials are advising Windows users to ensure they’re using the latest version 10 of the Microsoft operati…

Blizzard has handed Diablo 1’s keys to GOG, and you can buy it right now

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arstechnica.com - Two years ago, Blizzard announced its intention to release a series of remastered classic games, and so far, the company is making good on that promise. StarCraft Remastered launched as a solid, fait…

Our week at SXSW among barbecue, Bob Ross, engine tech, and Elon Musk

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arstechnica.com - Do you prefer your video hosting platform house in red? Renting properties around the conference's official buildings is the brand option du jour. Here, Twitter has a house to celebrate its 11th anni…

Tesla will unveil the Model Y next week

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arstechnica.com - The Model Y, Tesla's more affordable SUV based on the Model 3 platform, will be unveiled at a March 14 event in Los Angeles, Elon Musk announced on Twitter on Sunday. After introducing the Model S in…

Ajit Pai’s rosy broadband deployment claim may be based on gigantic error

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arstechnica.com - Ajit Pai's latest claim that his deregulatory policies have increased broadband deployment may be based in part on a gigantic error. Pai's claim was questionable from the beginning, as we detailed la…

Crypto 101 with Matthew Aaron - The Bad Crypto Podcast

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badcryptopodcast.com - We present, for your consideration, a tale of two podcasts. Both about blockchain. Both targeted for newbies. Both started within 3 days of one another. Both with at least one devastatingly handsome …

Resources for Front End Developers & Thoughts on Angular, React, Redux, Node and Git

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medium.com - When you’re new to something, its often hard to shift through the plethora of resources available for your chosen learning path. Here’s a comprehensive list of the resources I’ve found useful and I t…

6 Things To Discuss With Your Web Developer Before Kickoff | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - So you’re designing a new website or online store, and you need a web developer. You might need them to develop a site from scratch. Or maybe you just need them to work through some tweaks, changes, …

How to design the end of a studio’s life

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www.fastcompany.com - When the independent design studio Hawraf burst onto the New York scene in 2016, its partners–all alums of Google’s Creative Lab–aimed to transform the design studio model by being more transparent a…

How UX of Different Messengers Affected Our Team Collaboration

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icons8.com - Icons8 is a fully remote company. During my years of work at it, we’ve grown from having just six people in the morning Skype call to more than 45–all trying to wedge into a 2-hour Zoom meeting. Havi…

Check if Your Android VPN Is Collecting Personal Data

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lifehacker.com - Granting permissions to apps takes a certain level of trust—trust that an app is honest about the parts of your phone’s hardware and operating system it has access to, and what it does with the data …

Screenshots of Microsoft's coming Chromium-based Edge browser leak | ZDNet

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www.zdnet.com - Even though Microsoft execs have yet to make available to developers outside the company the first test build of its Chromium-based Edge browser, screen shots of it have leaked to the Web. (The updat…

The Piracy Wars Are Over. Let's Talk about Data Incumbency

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www.wired.com - Sometime in March or April, the European Parliament will vote on a set of major changes to European copyright law, including the creation of taxes on links and mandatory filtering for websites with u…

Meizu Note 9 launches with 48MP main cam, 20MP selfie shooter

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androidcommunity.com - The Meizu Note 8 was only announced last October but the Chinese OEM has already released a follow-up: the Meizu Note 9. The next-gen Note 9 may be confused with the Galaxy Note 9 from Samsung but Me…

Google Assistant’s Duplex AI now expanding to more US states

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androidcommunity.com - Google has been boasting about a new feature that they are adding to Google Assistant using the Duplex technology. Basically, it allows you to book reservations at restaurants without actually having…

Maru 0.6 Okinawa launches, ready to support more Android devices

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androidcommunity.com - Not many people may realize it but there is the Maru OS. It’s not new but we won’t blame you if you don’t know the platform. We’ve completely forgotten about it but Maru has been around for some time…

Fitbit releases 4 new wearables, app to undergo major redesign

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androidcommunity.com - Wearables, whether smartwatches or fitness bands are still very much in right now. Given how many OEMs are still producing them, there must still be a demand. One of the more active brands is Fitbit …

The Koenigsegg Jesko Has 1600 HP and Promises a 300-MPH Top Speed

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www.roadandtrack.com - According to Christian von Koenigsegg, founder of the supercar company that bears his name, the Jesko is probably the last Koenigsegg without some form of electrification. Yet it should still have en…

Are Your Customer Loyalty Rewards Accessible?

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loyalty360.org - The appeal of loyalty rewards isn’t hard to understand. If I’m a consumer who regularly purchases doodads, I will likely find that I have many different brands from which I can purchase the doodads. …

Facebook's Pivot to Privacy Is Missing Something Crucial

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www.wired.com - If there’s one choice that Facebook has made repeatedly over the past 15 years, it’s been to prioritize growth over privacy. Users were consistently encouraged to make more of their information publi…

Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook to shift towards encrypted messaging

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news.sky.com - Facebook's chief executive has promised to transform privacy on the social network with new encryption that even the site's bosses cannot penetrate. The move comes after criticism of Facebook's probl…

Sky Views: Age verification online should not be left to data-hungry tech firms

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news.sky.com - Sometimes, for brief moments, I feel sorry for tech companies. As the political mood turns from "seriously concerned" to "full-blown moral panic", they are being asked to do things they know will cau…

Drive customer retention with Google Dynamic Remarketing

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searchenginewatch.com - With all this gushing about PPC and Google Remarketing campaigns, I strongly feel the need to let you know that I am not to be romanticized or this isn’t a sponsored post. I enjoy following remarketi…

New York Times: Big Tech Is Conservatives' 'Boogeyman' | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - In an article titled “Big Tech, Once a CPAC Sponsor, Is Now Its Boogeyman,” the New York Times outlines how the presence of Silicon Valley tech firms such as Google and Facebook was extremely noticea…

Americans Doubled Cord Cutting in 2018 to Nearly 3 Million

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www.breitbart.com - Breitbart News was the first to cover this phenomenon as a game changer going back more than six years. We are also the outlet that told you the experts were blowing smoke, wishcasting, attempting to…

LEAKED AUDIO: Google Discusses 'Steering' the Conservative Movement | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - The comments came to light in leaked audio files allegedly of a company-wide meeting at Google, part of which is now exclusively reported by Breitbart News. Another part of the transcript was release…

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