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15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook
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www.wired.com - The streets of Davos, Switzerland, were iced over on the night of January 25, 2018, which added a slight element of danger to the prospect of trekking to the Hotel Seehof for George Soros’ annual ban…
Following Apple’s deal with Qualcomm, Intel says it is exiting the 5G smartphone modem business
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9to5mac.com - Just hours after Apple’s settlement with Qualcomm, Intel has announced that it is exiting the 5G smartphone modem business. In a press release, the company says that it will instead focus on 5G netwo…
How To 10x Your YouTube Channel Growth In 9 Simple Steps
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www.jeffbullas.com - Video is a marketing strategy must-have. This year it has been predicted that video content will take 79% of consumer’s internet traffic. This statistic alone should be enough to convince you to incl…
A hacker has dumped nearly one billion user records over the past two months | ZDNet
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www.zdnet.com - A hacker who spoke with ZDNet in February about wanting to put up for sale the data of over one billion users is getting dangerously close to his goal after releasing another 65.5 million records las…
Manual Actions & How to Write Reconsideration Requests That Work
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www.searchenginejournal.com - You wake up one day with a message in Google Search Console that says Google has given you a manual action (what we often call in the industry a penalty). After you manage to calm down, you ask yours…
The Case for Optimizing Image Performance | Practical Ecommerce
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www.practicalecommerce.com - For ecommerce, pictures can showcase products, inspire customers, and boost conversion rates. For web performance, however, pictures can hurt page load times and, thereby, the user experience. In Mar…
Chinese Telecommunications Device Manufacturer and its U.S. Affiliate Indicted for Theft of Trade Secrets, Wire Fraud, and Obstruction Of Justice
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www.justice.gov - A 10-count indictment unsealed today in the Western District of Washington State charges Huawei Device Co., Ltd. and Huawei Device Co. USA with theft of trade secrets conspiracy, attempted theft of t…
What These SEO Experts Want You to Know About Being Seen As the 'Top Choice' For Your Service
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www.entrepreneur.com - Not long ago, your customers probably didn’t feel as though they were drowning in a sea of options. They relied on a handful of local companies to serve their everyday needs, and they easily remained…
Assange used to coordinate hackers from embassy, says Moreno
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www.smh.com.au - The father of detained Swedish programmer Ola Bini.Credit:AP "Ola is a friend of Julian Assange, nothing more," said his father, Dag Gustafsson. Meanwhile, demonstrators clashed with police in Ecuado…
TPS Consulting Daily
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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Latest Google Update Slams Traditional Publishers Shared by Leeanne Nuttall-Lowe www.pubexec.com - Google’s long love affair with traditional, respected publishers may have come to an abru…
Apple said to be spending more than $500M on Arcade gaming subscription effort
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techcrunch.com - Apple’s new gaming subscription service Apple Arcade may have been a bit of a footnote at its Services event earlier this month compared to the stage time given to more prime time-ready efforts like …
Honor 20 smartphone set to launch very soon, here’s when exactly
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androidcommunity.com - Honor 20 specs and images surfaced on Weibo last month. Just last week, we learned the Honor 20i would be launching this week in three colors. Nothing has been formally announced yet but the Huawei s…
TikTok downloads ordered to be blocked on iOS and Android in India over porn and other illegal content
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techcrunch.com - TikTok, the user-generated video-sharing app from Chinese publisher ByteDance that has been a global runaway success, has stumbled hard in one of the world’s biggest mobile markets, India, over illic…
Google starts rolling out better AMP URLs
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techcrunch.com - Publishers don’t always love Google’s AMP pages, but readers surely appreciate their speed, and while publishers are loath to give Google more power, virtually every major site now supports this form…
Disc-free Xbox One S could land on May 7th
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techcrunch.com - Microsoft is about to launch an even cheaper Xbox One S. In order to cut costs, the company is removing the Blu-ray disc drive altogether. According to leaked marketing images spotted by WinFuture (v…
Nearly two dozen of SiriusXM’s talk shows come to Pandora as podcasts
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techcrunch.com - SiriusXM hasn’t wasted any time in capitalizing on its acquisition of streaming service Pandora. Following an exec shakeup and the launch of a Pandora-powered music station across both services, Siri…
ZenGo wants to become the crypto wallet for the masses
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techcrunch.com - KZen is about to release ZenGo, a mobile app to manage your cryptocurrencies securely and more easily. There are already countless of crypto wallets out there, but the startup thinks they’re all eith…
Sila Nano’s battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler partnership and $150 million investment
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techcrunch.com - Sila Nanotechnologies and its battery materials manufacturing technology are now worth over $1 billion. The company, which announced a $170 million funding led by Daimler and a partnership with the f…
Alibaba will let you find restaurants and order food with voice in a car
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techcrunch.com - Competition in the Chinese internet has for years been about who controls your mobile apps. These days, giants are increasingly turning to offline scenarios, including what’s going on behind the dash…
Electric car startup Byton loses co-founder and former CEO, reported $500M Series C to close this summer
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techcrunch.com - The race is on for building and shipping more cost-effective electric cars, but today one of more ambitious startups in the field announced some significant changes that underscore some of the challe…
Journalist Carole Cadwalladr says ‘the gods of Silicon Valley’ have broken democracy
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techcrunch.com - On the same day that she became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for her work bringing the Cambridge Analytica scandal to light, journalist Carole Cadwalladr took the stage at TED to “address you directly, …
Adobe launches an Adobe XD accelerator to woo developers
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techcrunch.com - The design world is in a state of full-fledged competition. Never in history have designers and their respective teams had so many options to choose from. As both demand and supply grow, design playe…
Waymo launches robotaxi app on Google Play
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techcrunch.com - Waymo is making its ride-hailing app more widely available by putting it on the Google Play store as the self-driving car company prepares to open up its service to more Phoenix residents. The compan…
Dropbox challenger pCloud just became profitable
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techcrunch.com - Between Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive and iCloud Drive, consumer cloud storage is a crowded space. And yet, a small Swiss company called pCloud has managed to attract over 9 million users…
Sony shares some details about the PlayStation 5
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techcrunch.com - Lead architect for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita Mark Cerny gave a lengthy interview to Wired’s Peter Rubin and shared some details about Sony’s next-gen console — the console that is likely…
Security flaw in EA’s Origin client exposed gamers to hackers
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techcrunch.com - Electronic Arts has fixed a vulnerability in its online gaming platform Origin after security researchers found they could trick an unsuspecting gamer into remotely running malicious code on their co…
Twitter to launch a ‘hide replies’ feature, plus other changes to its reporting process
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techcrunch.com - In February, Twitter confirmed its plans to launch a feature that would allow users to hide replies that they felt didn’t contribute to a conversation. Today, alongside news of other changes to the r…
Intel acquires UK’s Omnitek to double down on FPGA solutions for video and AI applications
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techcrunch.com - Intel’s strategy to build out its FPGA processor business continues apace. Today the company announced that it was acquiring Omnitek, a company based out of England that has developed FPGA solutions …
Apple could build macOS feature to use your iPad as extra Mac display
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techcrunch.com - According to a report from 9to5mac’s Guilherme Rambo, Apple is working on a feature that would let you pair your iPad with your Mac to turn your iPad into a secondary Mac display. That feature codena…
Scranos, a new rootkit malware, steals passwords and pushes YouTube clicks
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techcrunch.com - Security researchers have discovered an unusual new malware that steals user passwords and account payment methods stored in a victim’s browser — and also silently pushes up YouTube subscribers and r…
How to build a style guide for your startup – Learn
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www.canva.com - Creating a startup style guide for your business is integral to the branding process. Your style expresses so much about you—your value to customers, what you care about, the emotions you wish to con…
Jeff Bezos and Steve Jobs agreed this counterintuitive advice is key to legendary success
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finance.yahoo.com - Amazon AMZN founder Jeff Bezos and Apple AAPL co-founder Steve Jobs are two of the most legendary technology leaders in history. And both subscribed to the same principle about innovation — one that'…
Amazon UnPrimed
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om.co - Bloomberg noticed that Amazon’s retail growth is slowing, especially as brick-and-mortar merchants have stepped up their digital game. Even Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos acknowledged that in his latest share…
Sony’s PS4 successor sports 3D audio tech, faster SSD storage
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arstechnica.com - Sony hardware architect Mark Cerny has revealed the first official details on "the as-yet-unnamed console that will replace the PS4" in an exclusive story offered to Wired reporter Brian Rubin. While…
Google teases a cheaper Pixel 3 unveiling on May 7th
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arstechnica.com - These slots on the bottom edge are new. With the missing bottom-front speaker grille, at least one of these is probably a speaker. A few years have gone by since we've seen hardware at Google I/O, bu…
Two reports describe major new iOS 13 and macOS 10.15 features
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arstechnica.com - Two reports by Guilherme Rambo at 9to5Mac citing "people familiar with the development" of both macOS 10.15 and iOS 13 may have revealed some notable new features in Apple's operating systems for Mac…
Google Fiber exits Louisville, pays city $3.8M to clean up the mess it left
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arstechnica.com - Google Fiber yesterday shut off service in Louisville, Kentucky and has agreed to pay the local government $3.84 million to remove exposed fiber cables left behind by the ISP's failed nano-trenching …
Everything we know about the first discless Xbox One, coming May 7 for $249
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arstechnica.com - This is the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition. Sure looks like an existing Xbox One S, doesn't it? The existing Xbox One S, and its new, no-disc sibling. Other than that solid panel where the disc drive…
I played 11 Assassin’s Creed games in 11 years, and Odyssey made them all worth it
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arstechnica.com - Climbing on rooftops for the 11th time—but I had more fun than ever this time around. The scale of this game is ludicrous, but in this case, it works. I've been a dedicated fan of the Assassin's Cree…
Electric vehicles are center stage at the 2019 Shanghai auto show
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arstechnica.com - This compact little thing is Audi's AI:ME. Does it point the way to an eventual MEB-based electric Audi? Volkswagen's ID Roomzz goes on sale in 2021. Whether VW will have recovered from its Z obsessi…
Google won’t build that flagship retail store in Chicago after all
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arstechnica.com - Last year, a report from the Chicago Tribune claimed that Google was "close to finalizing a lease" for a flagship retail store in Chicago. The 14,000-square-foot space would have been Google's first …
Mini-review: Fitbit’s Versa Lite favors affordability over unnecessary features
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arstechnica.com - The Versa Lite confused me at first. When Fitbit announced the new Inspire and Inspire HR fitness trackers, the company also debuted the new Versa Lite. This smartwatch looks identical to the origina…
The 2017 New York International Auto Show: Best of the rest
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arstechnica.com - NEW YORK—There has been much to see at this year's New York International Auto Show. Ford had a new hybrid police car. Cadillac brought its new race car—unbeaten in 2017—and a new semi-autonomous sys…
iPad Air and iPad mini 2019 review: Apple’s tablets strike an ideal balance
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arstechnica.com - Comparing the 2019 iPad Air to the very first iPad Air from years ago. From left to right: the 2019 iPad mini, the first iPad Air, the 2019 iPad Air, and the 2018 12.9-inch iPad Pro. You were either …
Report: Microsoft is jumping onto the wireless earbud bandwagon
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arstechnica.com - It appears that Microsoft is going to expand its range of audio hardware. Last year the company released the Surface Headphones, a pair of premium-priced wireless noise-cancelling headphones with int…
Facebook, Twitter and Telegram: A New Crypto Paradigm or a Glorified Voucher Program?
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cointelegraph.com - Facebook is controversial, if nothing else. The world's fifth-biggest company by market cap, it's also the biggest social network by a comfortable margin. Yet, despite the fact that most of us use it…
Long-form websites and typography
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lawler.io - The Fioretti article references a serious problem with the most-used search engine on the planet: It literally will not answer search results for sites that are “too old.” This could be a post writte…
The fight to regulate dangerous design is heating up
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www.fastcompany.com - Yesterday, the U.K.’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which oversees data and privacy, announced a radical proposal to regulate children’s privacy online. The proposal includes 16 points aim…
The current state of progressive web apps (PWA) | Browser London
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www.browserlondon.com - Web apps have long played second-fiddle to native ones. While mobile apps benefit from full access to device APIs, snappy performance and support for features such as offline content and push notific…
7 Steps to Successfully Onboarding Design Clients | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - You’ve done the hard work: you’ve taken a lead and turned them into a paying customer. Congrats! Now, you have to build their website. But is it that simple? The client signs the contract and you imm…
Leadpages, OptimizePress, or ClickFunnels - Which is the Best Landing Page Builder?
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winningwp.com - Whether you want to create a landing page for your project, or a mini website that takes your visitors through a sales journey, Leadpages, OptimizePress and ClickFunnels are three of the best tools o…
Carole Cadwalladr blasts tech titans at TED: Your technology is “a crime scene”
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www.fastcompany.com - Carole Cadwalladr, the journalist who exposed how Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 87 million Facebook users and subsequently influenced both the Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump, …
Google faces surge in police requests for mobile location data
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www.engadget.com - Many of these requests come from relatively new "geofence" warrants that asks Google to hand over location info for every device that passed through a given area over a certain period of time. Google…
Apple and Qualcomm drop all lawsuits in surprise settlement
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www.theverge.com - Apple and Qualcomm have agreed to settle all ongoing lawsuits, putting an end to the blockbuster legal battle that’s seen the two tech giants sue one another across the globe. As part of the settleme…
Do This Instead of Saying 'Sorry' All The Time
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lifehacker.com - In an average day, I probably say “I’m sorry” to at least twenty people. I’m sorry I decided to go down these stairs at the same time you did, I’m sorry you forgot to email me and now this report is …
Pixel 3, 3XL, and Pixel 3a series will be sold by T-Mobile soon
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androidcommunity.com - Google may soon be launching the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL but the tech giant still sells the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL. Pixel 3 series sales have been discontinued already on the Google Store but you can…
Samsung Galaxy A9 hits DxOMark, see how it scored
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy A9 has been around since October last year. Even before the Galaxy S10 and S10+ were announced, the South Korean tech giant already has the Galaxy A9 with the quad camera setup. Th…
Facebook may introduce a new News Feed to push Stories
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androidcommunity.com - Facebook likes to experiment with a lot of new features to see how the public will react to it, which is more often than not, negatively. The latest rumored experiment may cause even more of an uproa…
Google is improving the update process for developers
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androidcommunity.com - Because Android is basically an open source operating system, it’s almost a level playing field for various developers, which can be both good and bad for Google and for users. There have been a lot …
Google promises help is on the way, Pixel getting an update
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androidcommunity.com - After Google announced the newest Avengers Playmoji stickers, the tech giant is here once again teasing the public about what’s going to happen in May. As more AR stickers are being added to the Marv…
Samsung Galaxy A2 Core debuts in India with a super low price
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androidcommunity.com - Almost a month ago, we told you about the Samsung Galaxy A2 Core as the next Android Go phone. Its user manual was leaked before and today we’re learning the smartphone is now available in India. The…
Good Lock update brings S10 Eclipse notification, screen recording, notification search
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Good Lock app, which gives you customization options and plugins, made a comeback of sorts last year and just last month released its 2019 update. That doesn’t mean it’s already done for …
Punchh Marketing Enables Retailers to Provide Better In-Store Offers
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loyalty360.org - Punchh Marketing, a vendor of digital marketing products for physical retailers, has announced its latest loyalty solution, Punchh Wi-Fi Marketing. The new platform accelerates retailers’ ability to …
CrowdTwist Leads in Loyalty Technology Platform Category
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loyalty360.org - CrowdTwist, a provider of omnichannel loyalty and engagement solutions, recently announced that it has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave awards. In a report on the awards, Forrester stated th…
Questions over coverage plague rural broadband expansion
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www.pbs.org - There is a way around the notoriously sluggish internet in West Virginia. You just need a car and some time. Kelly Povroznik can tell you, when she happens to get a good signal. She teaches an online…
Microsoft Announces Its Plans for E3 This Year - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft said today that it will launch its biggest-ever E3 presence on Sunday, June 9 with its annual Xbox E3 2019 Briefing. “We’ve been hard at work and are excited to share more of our plans for …
Microsoft Kills Mid-Level Surface Go Configuration - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Call it a mercy killing, but Microsoft has silently removed one of the more under-powered Surface Go configuration from its online store. Granted, it should never have offered that version in the fir…
HP Announces New Midmarket Business PCs and Workstations - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - HP today announced new mid-range EliteBook laptops, Z Book portable workstations, and a 32-inch business-class display. “To achieve a culture of innovation, companies everywhere are focused on drivin…
Amazon Will Reportedly Launch an Ad-Supported Music Service - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Billboard reports that Amazon plans to launch a free, ad-supported music streaming service similar to Spotify’s base offering. “The world’s biggest e-retailer [hey, that’s my word] would market the f…
Google Teaser Hints at Pixel 3a Launch - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - A new teaser on the Made By Google website suggests that the Pixel 3a midmarket handset will launch on May 7. “On May 7, something big is coming to the Pixel universe,” the website teases. The teaser…
Microsoft Delivers April 2019 Xbox Update - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft announced today that it has started rolling out the April 2019 Update for Xbox One, a relatively minor system update. “Even with so much gaming to do, we have some new features to share com…
Sony PlayStation 5 Will Feature 8k Graphics, Ray Tracing, and PS4 Compatibility - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Even though Sony won’t be attending E3 this year, the company is not holding back on announcements this spring. The company has revealed today the specs for the next generation PlayStation and they a…
Microsoft's Disc-Less Xbox One Arrives May 7th for $249.99 - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - We knew it was coming and now it’s official, Microsoft has announced the Xbox One S All-Digital Edition console and it arrives on May 7th. But when it comes to pricing, the story isn’t quite as clean…
Google announces 'Signed Exchange' solution to deliver AMP speed to publisher URLs - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - The loudest criticism of AMP has been that it doesn’t display publisher domain URLs. Instead, users have historically seen the “google.com/amp/” URL structure, which is required by AMP pre-rendering.…
Getting unstuck: How to deal with an indecisive teammate or boss
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blog.rescuetime.com - “I don’t know… let’s think about it and circle back next week…” If you haven’t been in a meeting that ended like this then count yourself lucky. For the other 99.9% of people working in collaborative…
SMX Overtime: Starting fresh with new match types and account structures - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Senior Paid Media Manager Adam Seybold of DEG Digital was one of the SMX West speakers for the “Starting Fresh with Match Types and Account Structures” session. Attendees asked questions about SKAG v…
NAB 2019: The New Gear Releases to Keep an Eye On
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www.shutterstock.com - Another year, another round of NAB gear announcements. Although we’ve seen an uptick in companies announcing or releasing their gear via special press releases, there are still plenty of companies th…
Charge Your Vape on the Go! - Soupwire
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soupwire.com - Imagine you’re on an outdoor adventure, or camping with friends. You’ve brought your vape, but the batteries are slowly dying. How will you charge your mod safely? We have the perfect solution! Okay,…
De-indexing bug hits Google Search Console reports, tools - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Just when we thought we were out of the woods with Google’s de-indexing bug — we are now seeing issues related to that bug within Google Search Console. Google confirmed Monday morning that the index…
Amazon tech product listings flooded with 'fake' reviews, says Which?
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news.sky.com - Potentially fake reviews are flooding listings of tech products from "unknown" brands on Amazon, according to a Which? investigation. Tens of thousands of overwhelmingly positive reviews were discove…
More details on what Assange was up to with Chelsea Manning
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hotair.com - The President of Ecuador may have accused Julian Assange of “spying” on rather dubious evidence, but a grand jury in the United States may be on firmer footing. A federal judge has unsealed the origi…
CNN Ratings Fall to All-Year Low – Overtaken by Hallmark Channel!
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www.infowars.com - CNN has hit an all-year ratings low, according to Nielsen Media Research, and the network is especially hurting during prime time hours when it seems more Americans would rather watch Hallmark movies.
NBC: Zuckerberg papers show Soylent Facebook is made of people, or something
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hotair.com - The most important lesson to remember about the Internet is this: If you’re not paying for it, you’re not the customer — you’re the product. With that in mind, NBC News’ peek into Mark Zuckerberg’s p…
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