Tuesday, April 23, 2019

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TECHNOLOGY

Voiceflow, which allows anyone to make voice apps without coding, raises $3.5 million – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The market for voice apps has opened up — Amazon Alexa’s platform alone has over 80,000 skills as of earlier this year — and there’s little sign of that growth slowing now that smart speakers have hi…

Announcing .NET Core 3 Preview 4 | .NET Blog

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devblogs.microsoft.com - Today, we are announcing .NET Core 3.0 Preview 4. It includes a chart control for Windows Forms, HTTP/2 support, GC updates to use less memory, support for CPU limits with Docker, the addition of Pow…

You Do Not Have To Be A Pro To Take Great Pictures

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slr-digitalcamera.com - Photography can provide a great hobby as well. The following tips below can help you make the improvements necessary to get to this level. Choose carefully what will show in your photograph. An excel…

New automation features are coming to macOS in Shortcuts—but not for every app

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arstechnica.com - According to a report at 9to5mac citing people familiar with Apple’s plans, several iOS features will come to the Mac in macOS 10.15. First and foremost among these is Shortcuts, the automation appli…

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY How to Get a Progressive Web App into the Google Play Store | CSS-Tricks Shared by Webdesigner Depot css-tricks.com - PWA (Progressive Web Apps) have been with us for some time now. Yet, e…

Le Wagon launches part-time coding bootcamps – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Le Wagon has been steadily growing for the past few years. The bootstrapped French company now has 34 campuses across 22 countries. And now, Le Wagon is about to welcome a whole lot more students tha…

A new Tesla Model S or X can now drive from Los Angeles to San Francisco on a single charge – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Tesla has announced that it has extended the range of its Model S vehicle to 370 miles and Model X to 325 miles on a single charge — extending the range of its cars to make the trip from Los Angeles …

Verizon and Google ink deal to offer YouTube TV to Verizon wireless and Fios subscribers – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Just days after Google and Amazon buried the hatchet over their longstanding streaming feud, Google has made another interesting inroad in its bid to bring yet more ubiquity to its YouTube-based prem…

Meet the first judges for The Europas Awards (27 June) and enter your startup now! – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - I’m excited to announce that The Europas Awards for European Tech Startups is really shaping up! The awards will be held on 27 June 2019, in London, U.K. on the front lawn of the Geffrye Museum in Ho…

Waymo picks Detroit factory to build self-driving cars – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Waymo, the self-driving vehicle technology startup under Alphabet, is setting up shop in a Detroit factory on American Axle & Manufacturing’s campus. Waymo said Tuesday it will partner with American …

Tim Cook wants you to put down your iPhone – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Tim Cook thinks people should get off their iPhones and decrease their engagement with apps. The Apple CEO, speaking at the TIME 100 Summit today, was discussing the addictive nature of our mobile de…

How to pitch to a (tech) journalist – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Startup growth comes from many places, but one option is through “earned media” — stories and mentions in the press. Earned media is great, because the channel is nominally free, and it often can get…

$44M-funded Omni pivots from storage to rentals via retailers – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Omni simply couldn’t scale storing stuff in giant warehouses while dropping it and off picking it up from people on demand. Storage was designed to bootstrap Omni into peer-to-peer rentals of the goo…

Digging into key takeaways from our 2019 Robotics + AI Sessions event – TechCrunch

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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’s Brian Heater and Lucas Matney shared …

New Sesame Street-themed PSA encourages kids to reduce mobile device use – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Device addiction plagues us all — even Apple CEO Tim Cook. But children with phones and tablets are even more susceptible to the lures of apps and games, which often use psychological tricks keep use…

Blueshift announces $15M Series B to expand AI-fueled cross-channel marketing tool – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Blueshift is startup founded by tech industry veterans, who saw first-hand how difficult cross-channel marketing was. They decided to launch a company and build a cross-channel marketing platform fro…

Oracle turns to innovation hubs to drive cultural and business shift to cloud – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Oracle was founded in 1977. While it’s not exactly IBM or GE, both of which date back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries respectively, it is old enough to be experiencing a fair bit of disrupt…

Canoo, the electric vehicle startup formed from Faraday Future’s ashes, seeks $200 million – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Less than a month after rebranding as Canoo, the startup electric vehicle company formerly known as Evelozcity is on the hunt for $200 million in new capital. The startup, which is backed by a clutch…

You can now take your Amazon returns to all Kohl’s stores – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It’s one thing to be able to get everything delivered to your doorstep, it’s another to then have to actually have to leave your home, brace the elements and return those things that just didn’t work…

Chalking tires to enforce parking rules is unconstitutional, court finds

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www.nbcnews.com - U.S. Circuit Judge Bernice Bouie Donald wrote that when drivers pull into parking spaces, "the city commences its search on vehicles that are parked legally, without probable cause or even so much as…

Bug in French government’s WhatsApp replacement let anyone join Élysée chats

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arstechnica.com - On April 17, the French government introduced an Android application meant to be used by government employees as an internal secure channel for communications. Called Tchap, it was touted as a replac…

Microsoft engineer complains that company is biased against white men

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arstechnica.com - Some Microsoft employees are criticizing the company's efforts to increase hiring from under-represented demographics to make its staff more diverse, according to messages leaked to Quartz. Threads s…

A Model S burst in flames in a parking lot, Tesla will investigate

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arstechnica.com - Tesla is sending an investigative team to a Shanghai parking garage to see if it can determine what caused a Model S electric vehicle to explode into flames over the weekend. News of the car's sponta…

Nintendo issues DMCA takedown for Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 port

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arstechnica.com - Late last week, a retro computer developer going by the handle ZeroPaige culminated what he said was seven years of development on Super Mario Bros. 64, a complete and highly authentic port of the or…

Millimeter-wave 5G isn’t for widespread coverage, Verizon admits

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arstechnica.com - Verizon's early rollout of millimeter-wave 5G is producing high speeds and throughput, but the high-frequency spectrum isn't suitable for widespread coverage, Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg said today. On…

Windows 10’s “Sets” tabbed windows will never see the light of day

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arstechnica.com - For two periods last year, those using preview builds of Windows 10 could access a feature called Sets: a tabbed interface that was eventually to allow tabs to be put in the titlebar of just about an…

Intel puts 8 cores, 16 threads, and a 5GHz turbo option in a laptop processor

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arstechnica.com - The first processors to include Intel's ninth-generation Core branding came out last year with a limited line-up: just a handful of high-end desktop processors in the Coffee Lake family. Today, the c…

AT&T’s fake 5G icons aren’t going away despite settlement with Sprint

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arstechnica.com - AT&T will reportedly get to keep using its misleading "5G E" marketing for its 4G network after settling a false advertising lawsuit filed by Sprint. AT&T and Sprint met with US District Judge Vernon…

This semi-autonomous truck tech could seriously boost fuel efficiency

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arstechnica.com - Hype necessarily recedes as the blunt realities of actually developing autonomous vehicles sets in. For the companies developing robotaxis, that means a scaling back of ambition (like Waymo) or the p…

Tesla has three of the 11 most popular cars shared on Turo

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arstechnica.com - In honor of Earth Day, the folks at Turo got in touch to tell me about the rising popularity of electric vehicles on the car sharing platform. For the uninitiated, Turo is a site that lets people ren…

A Friendly Introduction to Font Licenses

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playgroundoftype.wordpress.com - Typefaces are like clothes. Clothing for your text. They set the appearance of words and influence their effect on the reader. But shopping for typefaces is very different from shopping for actual cl…

Google walkout organizers say they're being retaliated against for demanding ethical standards

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boingboing.net - Meredith Whittaker (previously) and Claire Stapleton were two of the principal organizers of the mass googler walkouts over the company's coverup and rewarding of sexual assault and harassment, as we…

The HDR Format War Just Got Even More Messy

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www.forbes.com - If you thought things were already complicated in the world of high dynamic range TVs, I’ve got bad news: Universal Pictures is about to take the confusion to a whole new level. The latest brain bend…

Linux on DeX update ready for more Galaxy S devices

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androidcommunity.com - Before the year 2018 ended, the Linux on DeX beta program was released for Samsung Galaxy Note 9 and the Galaxy Tab S4. The Samsung Linux on DeX beta APK was made ready to download. It came around a …

Huawei P30 Pro Teardown reveals periscope camera design

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androidcommunity.com - The present King of Mobile according to DxOMark, Huawei P30 Pro, is once again in the spotlight as Zack Nelson (JerryRigEverything) tears down the device. He did the teardown treatment as soon after …

Samsung Galaxy View 2 may be arriving soon, images renders here

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androidcommunity.com - Remember the Samsung Galaxy View? It’s the very large tablet-display released in 2015. It’s the massive 18-inch tablet that was designed for the whole family’s entertainment needs. It made an impress…

Nokia 9 receives new update, fingerprint sensor unlocked too easily

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androidcommunity.com - The Nokia 9 had a long journey from the first time we learned about it in 2017. It’s been almost two years since we anticipated for the smartphone that was first said to feature an iris scanner and O…

Samsung Display working on newer foldable screens

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androidcommunity.com - Samsung has been working on flexible display technology since 2016–or maybe even before that. The long research and development process has led us to the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The foldable phone boast…

Android Q may include a new swipe back gesture

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androidcommunity.com - Android Q is already being tested before global release. There is still no word on what Android dessert will be served but we have our guesses. Quiche? Quik? Quaker Oats? It doesn’t matter at this po…

Huawei Mate X 5G release month set, here’s when

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androidcommunity.com - Huawei seems to be all set with the release of its very first foldable Android smartphone. The Huawei Mate X is the closest rival of the Samsung Galaxy Fold. The foldable phone from the South Korean …

Meizu 16s debuts in China with 20MP selfie shooter, high specs

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androidcommunity.com - The next Meizu smartphone is finally revealed. No, there is still no Meizu ZERO button-less and port-less phone. That one is only a concept even if it was already listed for pre-order on Indiegogo. F…

Oracle Innovates to Improve Employee Engagement

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loyalty360.org - To help organizations keep up with the evolving expectations of the global talent economy, Oracle has announced new innovations to Oracle Human Capital Management (HCM) Cloud. These innovations help …

Loyalty360 Reads: April 23, 2019

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loyalty360.org - Customer Experience REI Doubles Down on Rentals and Used Gear Sales In a play to attract millennial consumers, the outdoor retailer REI is expanding its rentals and used gear sales. “While REI, known…

AT&T, Sprint Settle 5GE Lawsuit - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - AT&T and Sprint have settled a false-advertising lawsuit over AT&T’s usage of “5GE” branding that incorrectly labels 4G networks as 5G. Sadly, the branding stands. “The parties have amicably resolved…

Tor vs VPN - What is Your Preference?

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www.dumblittleman.com - No one can expect to be 100% secure online where internet freedom is becoming scarce, and cyber attacks are lurking in every direction. It is important to seek the right tools to protect your online …

New European Google local SERPs prompt users to 'find results on' other sites - Search Engine Land

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searchengineland.com - New SERPs are appearing in Germany that prompt users to try alternative directories or search engines for the same local query. This is part of Google’s ongoing effort to comply with the European Com…

What’s trending in Licensing with portraits, fashion, travel, and more

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iso.500px.com - Keep up with key trends in Licensing as 500px’s Art Director & Creative Research Lead, Karen Biilmann, analyzes common threads and current themes throughout our Contributors’ photography submissions.…

Productivity Champ Spotlight — Implementing Habits by Mike Pärssinen - Asian Efficiency

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www.asianefficiency.com - Everyday we continue to share productivity strategies on our blog posts, newsletters, podcast, and our online community, The Dojo. These strategies have helped our readers get more work done in the t…

The 8 Best Mobile Music-Making Apps You’ll Actually Use

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pitchfork.com - Mobile music-making apps have long been seen as gimmicks—something cool to futz around with during your commute, but not necessarily serious platforms made for professional musicians. That is startin…

People Shocked To Learn Guns Sold On Dark Web

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bearingarms.com - The so-called Dark Web can be an awful place. It really can. Literally, anything you can imagine is bought and sold on there, up to and including humans. While it’s not all awful–you can buy things a…

How Nest, designed to keep intruders out of people’s homes, effectively allowed hackers to get in

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www.washingtonpost.com - Tara Thomas had a Nest camera in her daughter Avery's bedroom. It was hacked back in August. (Deanne Fitzmaurice for The Washington Post) By Reed Albergotti Reed Albergotti Reporter covering consumer…

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