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Julian Assange faces US extradition after arrest at Ecuadorian embassy
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www.theguardian.com - Julian Assange is facing extradition to the United States and up to five years in prison after he was forcibly dragged from the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Thursday, bringing an extraordinary sev…
Black hole Google Doodle was conceived during artist's morning commute
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www.cnet.com - The animated Google Doodle highlighting the first image of a black hole was created in just a few hours. Google usually has weeks or months to plan its Doodles, but sometimes scientific discoveries d…
Acer family grows with ConceptD portfolio for creators, Spin 3 series, gaming notebooks and more | Windows Experience Blog
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Paul Thurrott
blogs.windows.com - At its annual global press conference Thursday in New York City, Acer launched ConceptD, a new brand of high-end desktops, notebooks, gadgets and monitors optimized for creators such as graphic desig…
Microsoft Patches Are Freezing Older PCs Running Sophos, Avast
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Lee Munson
www.darkreading.com - Recent Microsoft security patches are causing older machines running Sophos or Avast software to freeze or fail to boot entirely after they're applied, both companies report. The problem affects Wind…
DHS, FBI say election systems in all 50 states were targeted in 2016
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arstechnica.com - A joint intelligence bulletin (JIB) has been issued by the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation to state and local authorities regarding Russian hacking activities duri…
Much to Oracle’s chagrin, Pentagon names Microsoft and Amazon as $10B JEDI cloud contract finalists
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techcrunch.com - Yesterday, the Pentagon announced two finalists in the $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process — and Oracle was not one of them. In spite of lawsuits, official protests and even back-cha…
Trint, the AI-powered translation service, closes $4.5M Series A
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techcrunch.com - Trint, the London-based translation startup co-founded by Emmy-winning journalist Jeff Kofman, has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding. The round includes follow-on investment from Horizons Lab, …
Julian Assange arrested in London after Ecuador withdraws asylum
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techcrunch.com - London Metropolitan police has arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in London. He has been holed up in the Embassy of Ecuador in London since 2012 in order to avoid a warrant against him. Ecuado…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos challenges rival retailers to raise their minimum wages, too
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techcrunch.com - Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos challenged rival retailers to increase their minimum wages to $16 per hour, in his annual letter to shareholders released on Thursday. Amazon in November had raised its own mini…
Daily Crunch: WikiLeaks founder arrested
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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. WikiL…
Uber spent $457 million on self-driving and flying car R&D last year
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techcrunch.com - Uber spent $457 million last year on research and development of autonomous vehicles, flying cars (known as eVTOLs) and other “technology programs” and will continue to invest heavily in the futurist…
Google loses its chief diversity officer
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techcrunch.com - Google’s chief diversity officer, Danielle Brown, has left the company. Brown, who became Google’s CDO in June 2017 after serving in a similar role at Intel, announced today that she’s joined payroll…
Twitter updates twttr prototype app with engagement swipes, conversation tweaks, better Dark mode and more
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techcrunch.com - Twitter’s new prototyping app twttr, which it created to test and get feedback on new features — and new approaches to old features — has been out in the wild for a month. Now, with Twitter taking in…
Student tickets on sale now for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
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techcrunch.com - The future of mobility can’t happen without cultivating the next generation of creative thinkers and makers. That’s why we’re inviting students with a passion for mobility-related tech to join us at …
ReachFive manages logins and accounts for e-commerce platforms
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techcrunch.com - French startup ReachFive wants to become Stripe for account management. The company just raised a $10 million Series A funding round led by CapHorn Invest, with Dawn Capital and Ventech also particip…
Instagram bug showed Stories to the wrong people
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techcrunch.com - Today in “Facebook apps are too big to manage,” a glitch caused some users’ Instagram Stories trays to show Stories from people they don’t follow. TechCrunch first received word of the problem from T…
Google Cloud makes some strong moves to differentiate itself from AWS and Microsoft
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techcrunch.com - Google Cloud held its annual customer conference, Google Cloud Next, this week in San Francisco. It had a couple of purposes. For starters, it could introduce customers to new CEO Thomas Kurian for t…
Extra Crunch Membership
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techcrunch.com - Sign up today to help us support builders like you. Original Research and Reporting Extra Crunch membership offers exclusive access to analysis of successful startups, resources on company building, …
Instagram now demotes vaguely ‘inappropriate’ content
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techcrunch.com - Instagram is home to plenty of scantily clad models and edgy memes that may start to get fewer views starting today. Now Instagram says, “We have begun reducing the spread of posts that are inappropr…
Rasa raises $13M led by Accel for its developer-friendly open source approach to chatbots
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techcrunch.com - Conversational AI and the use of chatbots have been through multiple cycles of hype and disillusionment in the tech world. You know the story: first you get a launch from the likes of Apple, Facebook…
LinkedIn adds a range of reactions to spur more engagement in conversations
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techcrunch.com - Sometimes a “like” in social media doesn’t give the full picture, or you’re just not inspired enough to write a fuller response. Today LinkedIn addressed that issue on its own platform, with the intr…
Will you make the cut? Apply to Startup Battlefield & TC Top Picks @ Disrupt SF 2019
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techcrunch.com - Exposure. That’s a key ingredient for early-stage startup success. If you’re hungry for massive exposure — to a global audience, to the media and to tech investors — then be sure to apply to Startup …
The real bias on social networks isn’t against conservatives
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www.theverge.com - Today Senate Republicans held a hearing titled “Stifling Free Speech: Technological Censorship and the Public Discourse.” It was the second such hearing to be held in Congress in the past six months …
The Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Turismo—to hybrid or not to hybrid?
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arstechnica.com - The range-topping Porsche Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid Sport Turismo. It starts at an eye-watering $190,200, but you get 680hp and 626lb-ft in return. Excuse the rather dirty condition of the car, but t…
John Oliver fights robocalls... by robocalling Ajit Pai and the FCC
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arstechnica.com - Comedian John Oliver is taking aim at the Federal Communications Commission again, this time demanding action on robocalls while unleashing his own wave of robocalls against FCC commissioners. In a 1…
Amazon admits that employees review “small sample” of Alexa audio
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arstechnica.com - Most of the time, when you talk to an Amazon Echo device, only Amazon's voice-recognition software is listening. But sometimes, Bloomberg reports, a copy of the audio is sent to a human reviewer at o…
Google’s Waymo risks repeating Silicon Valley’s most famous blunder
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arstechnica.com - Everyone in Silicon Valley knows the story of Xerox inventing the modern personal computer in the 1970s and then failing to commercialize it effectively. Yet one of Silicon Valley's most successful c…
Strong corporate desktop sales limit the decline of the PC market
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arstechnica.com - Gartner and IDC have both published their quarterly reports on the size of the PC market in the first quarter of 2019, and they've both agreed: about 58.5 million systems were shipped. The two compan…
Google+ is back! Meet the enterprise-focused “Google Currents”
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arstechnica.com - Google+ may have shut down its consumer side earlier this month, but the code base still lives on at Google. After diving into the social media wars and getting routed, Google+ will live out its reti…
Illinois bill banning eavesdropping by IoT devices defanged by tech lobby
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arstechnica.com - On April 10, the Illinois State Senate passed the "Keep Internet Devices Safe Act," a bill that would ban Internet device manufacturers from collecting audio from Internet-connected devices without d…
Fully compromised comms? How industry influence at the FCC risks our digital security
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arstechnica.com - This article was reported in partnership with the Project On Government Oversight. It was written by POGO investigator Andrea Peterson, and it incorporates research from former POGO intern Vanessa Pe…
YouTube TV adds channels and raises price—you can’t opt out of either change
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arstechnica.com - YouTube launched its competitor to cable TV two years ago, charging $35 a month, but it's now over 40 percent more expensive. Google raised the price of YouTube TV to $40 in March 2018, and yesterday…
Acer goes after creatives with ConceptD family of high-powered PCs
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arstechnica.com - The ConceptD 9 has a 17.3-inch 4K display with a DeltaE of less than 1. Similar to the Acer Aspire R13, you can tilt and move the ConceptD 9's display. The top wood panel has wireless charging capabi…
British police arrest Julian Assange on behalf of the US government
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arstechnica.com - British police arrested Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday. He had been hiding in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012 and was arrested after the Ecuadorian government invited the Me…
Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords
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arstechnica.com - The next-generation Wi-Fi Protected Access protocol released 15 months ago was once hailed by key architects as resistant to most types of password-theft attacks that threatened its predecessors. On …
Intel’s priceless i9-9990XE now has a price: €2,999
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arstechnica.com - We learned in January that Intel was planning a new top-end Core i9 Extreme Edition processor: the i9-9990XE. Though it would have fewer cores than the previous top—14 cores and 28 threads compared t…
Which Deep Learning Framework is Growing Fastest?
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towardsdatascience.com - In September 2018, I compared all the major deep learning frameworks in terms of demand, usage, and popularity in this article. TensorFlow was the undisputed heavyweight champion of deep learning fra…
21 Pricing Page Design Secrets for More Conversions - Proof Blog
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blog.useproof.com - It’s also the last thing a potential user sees before signing up, so it’s the perfect time to make a great impression. Zendesk’s pricing page embodies the design concept that less is more. They embra…
Going from Framer to Framer X
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uxdesign.cc - This is for anyone interested in learning how to do the “code” stuff within Framer X. If you’re just learning how to code, or previously could do anything in Framer Classic, then chances are you are …
10 new web design tools for April 2019
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www.creativebloq.com - As usual, there are plenty of hot new web design tools this month. April 2019 has seen the release of tools that help you find the best learning resources on the web and show you how to build ethical…
How to Sell Web Design Services | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - It’s becoming easier to design websites, what with Wix, Squarespace, and even now WordPress providing DIY site builder tools. On the flipside of that, it’s becoming increasingly more difficult to con…
How to get developers to do things your way
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www.hpe.com - I'm not ragging on software developers. It's hard enough to design an application that fulfills its basic functionality goals, is reasonably bug-free, and is delivered on time and on budget. However,…
Avoid These Major Mistakes When Building a New PC
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lifehacker.com - If you’ve ever built a desktop PC—and if you haven’t, you should give it a try—then you’ve probably had at least one (or possibly a number) of mishaps. It happens. Computers are still a little comple…
Honor 20i launching next week in three color variants
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androidcommunity.com - More phones are coming from Huawei. The top Chinese OEM , through its sub-brand Honor, is getting another addition in the form of the Honor 20i. There is no big announcement yet but the company is sc…
Samsung Galaxy A80 launches with slider design, rotating cameras
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androidcommunity.com - Samsung has officially unveiled the new addition to the Galaxy A series. The Galaxy event finally happened after several weeks of teasers and rumors. The phone reached Geekbench before the official l…
Samsung Galaxy A20e debuts with dual rear cam, smaller screen
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androidcommunity.com - Samsung seems to be getting more serious in the mid-range game. The several Galaxy A phones recently introduced are proof that it wants to challenge those Chinese OEMs. It’s closely fighting with Hua…
Sharp flexible OLED screens may be ready for smartphones soon
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androidcommunity.com - Sharp may not be the most popular phone maker right now but it’s killing it with its display technologies. We all know the Japanese OEM makes some of the best displays in the world for TVs, tablets, …
Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1, Galaxy Tab S5e available soon
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androidcommunity.com - After the Galaxy A80’s launch, Samsung also has two new Android tablets to unveil: the Galaxy Tab S5e and the Galaxy Tab A 10.1. The two devices will be available beginning April 26 in the United Sta…
Massive G Suite update finally brings Google Assistant integration
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androidcommunity.com - At the Google Next ’19 conference, one of the most welcome news, at least for this particular set of users, is the massive G Suite update that is bringing a lot of new things to Google’s supposedly m…
Retail Recap Q1 2019: Subscription Trend Heats Up the Loyalty World
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loyalty360.org - In our first edition of Retail Recap for 2019, we saw the launch of the Apple Card, the upward trajectory tied to Major League Baseball’s innovative approach to customer loyalty, Burger King’s entry …
Survey from Visual Objects Sees Increased Use of Apps
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loyalty360.org - US consumers who use mobile shopping apps turn to them frequently, a new survey finds. More than one-third of people (35 percent) use shopping apps between two and five times a week, while 28 percent…
Acer Announces New PCs, Chromebooks - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Acer today announced new PCs and Chromebooks aimed at consumers, education, business, gaming, and creative professionals at its [email protected] event in New York. I hope to look at some of these de…
How to Upload Your Videos to Instagram from PC and Mobile
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www.shutterstock.com - By now you have probably seen a lot of cinematic videos on your Instagram feed. The majority of these, of course, weren’t shot and edited on a mobile phone. (What gave it away? The drone shots?) In t…
Ford Taps the Brakes on the Arrival of Self-Driving Cars
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Jay Oatway
www.wired.com - Ford CEO Jim Hackett Tuesday joined the growing ranks of vehicle and tech execs willing to say publicly that self-driving cars won’t arrive as soon as some had hoped. The industry “overestimated the …
Julian Assange Arrested in London, Charged with Conspiracy to Hack U.S. Gov't Computer
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Glen Woodfin
pjmedia.com - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested and dragged out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London by British police in a dramatic scene Thursday, ending his nearly seven-year stay at the embassy. Vid…
Amazon and Microsoft will go head-to-head for Pentagon's $10 billion cloud-computing contract
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Themelis Cuiper
mashable.com - For more than a year, some of the biggest tech companies in the U.S. have been competing for a $10 billion dollar cloud-computing contract with the U.S. Defense Department. On Wednesday, the Pentagon…
How to diagnose and remove any virus from your iPhone
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Dan Parks
www.businessinsider.com - It's always a good idea to be cautious about the risk of viruses and other malware, but when it comes to your iPhone, you don't have much to worry about. Dionisio Zumerle, senior director at research…
Enjoy Photography By Using The Following Advice
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Rolf Joho
slr-digitalcamera.com - Poor photography will negatively affect your overall photographic reputation. This article provides advice that can help you to improve your photography skills. If you’re trying to take the best poss…
Dev Kit Weekly Raffle: Enter to Win
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www.embedded-computing.com - The Dev Kit Weekly with Embedded Computing Design Editor-in-Chief Brandon Lewis updates you on the latest electronics development kits – and gives you a chance to start engineering on them for free. …
Motorcycle Lighting Market Report Explored in Latest Research Over 2017 – 2027
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www.factsweek.co.uk - Motorcycle lighting involves the usage of illuminating devices for the purpose of providing visibility to the riders travelling in dark environment. The lighting solution also helps in alerting other…
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