Tuesday, April 09, 2019

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DDoS Targeting WordPress Search

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blog.sucuri.net - Have you ever stopped to think about how many resources a search engine has or if your website could handle the same amount of search traffic that Google does? Search engines play an important role o…

These incredible iPhone 11 rumors can only mean one thing, and it’s terrible for Android

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bgr.com - Year after year, for nearly 12 years now, Apple has released new iPhone models jam-packed with features and hardware that routinely set new standards for performance across any number of categories. …

LG G7 fit 32GB smartphone now available on Best Buy

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androidcommunity.com - The LG G7 FIT was introduced to us last year. It was said to arrive in global key markets with a competitive price. It is one of the several LG G7 variants released by the other South Korean tech gia…

Hands-on: What’s new in Android Q

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arstechnica.com - The Android Q beta is now live, and after playing "spot the differences," we're here to report our findings. For this first preview release, Android Q is mostly a lot of small tweaks for users and ne…

Titanium RED Hydrogen One phone available now

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androidcommunity.com - Finally and officially, after several delays, the Titanium version of the Hydrogen One is now ready. RED has been working really hard to reveal the titanium phone as many people have been waiting for…

Verified Expert Brand Designer: Red Antler

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techcrunch.com - In 2007, Emily Heyward, JB Osborne, and Simon Endres began their own entrepreneurial journey began and they left their corporate jobs to start a brand design agency called Red Antler. They not only b…

Voyage CEO Oliver Cameron at TC Sessions: Mobility on July 10

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techcrunch.com - Some of the first users of autonomous taxis are senior citizens living in a massive retirement community in Florida. It’s there, in a 40-square-mile area known as The Villages, that autonomous drivin…

Apple could release a 31.6-inch 6K external display this year

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techcrunch.com - Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has released a new report about future Apple products — 9to5mac obtained the report. The company could be working on a new 31.6-inch external display with a 6K resolution that co…

Apigee jumps on hybrid bandwagon with new API for hybrid environments

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techcrunch.com - This year at Google Cloud Next, the theme is all about supporting hybrid environments, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Apigee, the API company it bought in 2016 for $265 million, is also gett…

New privacy assistant Jumbo fixes your Facebook & Twitter settings

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techcrunch.com - Jumbo could be a nightmare for the tech giants, but a savior for the victims of their shady privacy practices. Jumbo saves you hours as well as embarassment by automatically adjusting 30 Facebook pri…

Google Cloud’s new CEO on gaining customers, startups, supporting open source and more

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techcrunch.com - After Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud’s recently minted CEO, joined the company, he took hundreds of meetings to learn what the company’s prospective and current customers were looking for. The overarchi…

Flying taxis could be more efficient than gas and electric cars on long-distance trips

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techcrunch.com - Flying cars definitely sound cool, but whether they’re actually a good idea is up for debate. Fortunately they do seem to have some surefire benefits, among which you can now count improved efficienc…

Brand is more than meets the eye

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techcrunch.com - Editor’s note: This guest post is a part of our latest initiative to demystify design and find the best brand designers and agencies in the world who work with early-stage companies — nominate a tale…

Google Cloud challenges AWS with new open-source integrations

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced that it has partnered with a number of top open-source data management and analytics companies to integrate their products into its Google Cloud Platform and offer them as mana…

Roku is no longer a neutral platform after today’s Roku OS 9.1 update

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techcrunch.com - In the past, Roku seemed to be more of neutral platform compared with streaming media player rivals like Amazon Fire TV or Apple TV. The company gave everyone else’s content equal footing through its…

Only 2 startup demo tables left for TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019

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techcrunch.com - Are you geared up to experience the current state of robotics and AI? We’re just 9 days away from TC Sessions: Robotics + AI, TechCrunch’s day-long intensive event featuring interviews, workshops, de…

Mozilla adds fingerprinting and cryptocurrency mining protection to Firefox

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techcrunch.com - Mozilla is adding a new feature to protect you against web annoyances in future releases of Firefox. The new feature is currently available in the beta version of Firefox 67, and the nightly version …

Google Cloud Run brings serverless and containers together

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techcrunch.com - Two of the biggest trends in applications development in recent years have been the rise of serverless and containerization. Today at Google Cloud Next, the company announced a new product called Clo…

Google’s hybrid cloud platform is coming to AWS and Azure

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techcrunch.com - Google’s Cloud Services Platform for managing hybrid clouds that span on-premise data centers and the Google cloud is coming out of beta today. The company is also changing the product’s name to Anth…

Walmart to expand in-store tech, including Pickup Towers for online orders and robots

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techcrunch.com - Walmart is doubling down on its technology innovations in its brick-and-mortar stores in an effort to better compete with Amazon. The retailer today announced the expanded rollout of several technolo…

Proposed bill would forbid big tech platforms from using dark pattern design

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techcrunch.com - A new piece of bipartisan legislation aims to protect people from one of the sketchiest practices that tech companies employ to subtly influence user behavior. Known as “dark patterns,” this dodgy de…

PubNub nabs $23M as its IaaS network hits 1.3T messages sent each month

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techcrunch.com - There’s been a huge boom in the last decade of applications and services that rely on on real-time notifications and other alerts as a core part of how they operate, and today one of the companies th…

My internship experience at Canva

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product.canva.com - After graduating from State University of Management and getting a Specialist’s degree in Advertising in 2011, I worked as an account manager in international advertising agencies. I worked as a kind…

The fastest SUV? Our first drive in Lamborghini’s 641-horsepower Urus

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arstechnica.com - OK, the looks might not be for everyone, but you could say that about any Lamborghini, and none of the other ones can seat five people and carry their luggage, too. Lamborghini's design studio has a …

VR modes coming to Super Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch

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arstechnica.com - This mode converts the entire game into a VR experience. Thus, the game appears to look exactly the same as in non-VR modes (though we'll have to wait for our own eyes-on with the mode to see how muc…

Elon Musk’s erratic decision-making leaves loyal Tesla fans frustrated

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arstechnica.com - Nothing better exemplifies Elon Musk's haphazard approach to corporate decision-making than Tesla's treatment of customers who paid thousands of dollars to pre-order the "full self-driving" option. T…

Netflix ends AirPlay support on iOS in an ongoing souring of its Apple relationship

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arstechnica.com - Netflix has confirmed that it no longer supports AirPlay, citing "technical limitations" with Apple's video-slinging feature. The reasoning isn't exactly about technical limitations that prevent Netf…

Windows 10 May 2019 Update now available on the Release Preview ring

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arstechnica.com - For a day or two, members of the Windows Insider Program are in that special limbo period that lets them opt out of the preview program without having to reinstall their operating system from scratch…

Thumb drive carried by Mar-a-Lago intruder immediately installed files on a PC

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arstechnica.com - The already suspicious account of a Chinese national who allegedly carried four cellphones, a thumb drive containing malware, and other electronics as she breached security at President Trump's priva…

Docs and UX: It’s a collaboration, not a competition

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medium.com - A look at how technical documentation and UX are stronger together I recently read UX in Flux: Where We’re Going, We Don’t Need Docs, a great piece by Karen Kesler. In it, she argues that if we conti…

The five areas of UX

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uxdesign.cc - If you can understand and keep these five areas in mind when you are designing and developing products, you will deliver good products. Some products are really strong in one area but weak on others.…

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers

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arstechnica.com - Almost every aspect of our daily lives is now shaped in some way by computer code. Yet the average person on the street has no idea how this all works or just how much influence developers now quietl…

How to Find Old Websites That Google Won’t Show

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lifehacker.com - The internet, as a “place,” is constantly growing. We build more and more webpages every day—so many, in fact, that it can feel as if certain corners of it are lost to time. As it turns out, they may…

Microsoft says FCC data on improved broadband coverage is misleading

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www.engadget.com - According to the FCC, some 25 million people don't have access to broadband. In leveraging data from its various online services, however, Microsoft says that some 163 million people "do not use the …

USB Drive Found on Jailed Mar-a-Lago Party-Crasher Contained Self-Executing Code

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gizmodo.com - New details are starting to trickle in about the Chinese woman arrested while carrying a suspicious number of electronic devices and trying to get inside President Donald Trump’s private Mar-a-Lago c…

Amazon shareholders to vote on proposal to stop selling racially biased facial surveillance software to governments

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boingboing.net - “BIG DEAL,” says the ACLU's Matt Cagle about this story. “Amazon shareholders will vote on whether the Board must reconsider company sales of face surveillance to governments. The SEC rejected Amazon…

Twitter is automatically removing about 10 accounts every second

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www.fastcompany.com - Twitter is working to fight “platform manipulation” by automatically removing 6 million to 7.5 million accounts per week in efforts to combat the practice. That works out to about 10 to 12 accounts a…

How college students can find jobs - without much work experience - Reuters

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www.reuters.com - NEW YORK (Reuters) - When college student Danny Franklin started thinking about jobs after graduation, his expectations were not very high. The 21-year-old accounting major at Delaware State had the …

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 could be out in multiple models

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androidcommunity.com - The next-gen Galaxy Note is believed to roll out several variants. We’re only looking at at least two–one big and the other one smaller meant for the European market. We’ve featured the Note 10 sever…

Snapchat for Android gets rebuilt from the ground up

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androidcommunity.com - You would think that since there are more Android device out there, app developers would be focusing more on making their apps better for the bigger set of users. But because of the complications of …

Pokémon Go to bring new event, treats this April

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androidcommunity.com - If you think that people aren’t that serious anymore about Pokémon Go, you probably have the wrong (or right?) set of friends. We expect the game to get popular again with the imminent release of the…

Qualcomm Snapdragon outs three new mobile processors

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androidcommunity.com - Qualcomm has got a new set of mobile processors meant for the latest smartphones and other mobile devices. The top chipset maker definitely knows innovation as it introduces mobile platforms for diff…

ASUS ZenFone 5G phone may come with a dual slider design

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androidcommunity.com - More slider phones will be presented to us. Oh, we’re certain of that since several OEMs have become more aggressive in experimenting with different designs. The slider design is only one variant bec…

Nubia Alpha phone watch available very soon, here’s when exactly

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androidcommunity.com - The Nubia Alpha, ZTE’s latest smartwatch will be available beginning April 10. That’s tomorrow already so we suggest you watch out for the Nubia shop online. The device which was first introduced in …

LINE now lets you screencap chats more conveniently

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androidcommunity.com - While you can always use your smartphone’s native screencap feature to “immortalize” your chats with friends, it’s probably more helpful and convenient to have a feature built within the app itself. …

Notch Notifications for MIUI app lets you keep icons on notched devices

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androidcommunity.com - One of the problems of the newer Xiaomi devices, aside from the fact that they have a not-so-attractive waterdrop notch display, is that the notification icons seem to disappear even if you don’t dis…

The Vitamin Shop Launches New Revamped Loyalty Program

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loyalty360.org - Following a successful pilot, The Vitamin Shoppe is now offering an expanded version of its Healthy Awards loyalty program to all customers. The program has three tiers, enabling customers to earn aw…

Slack Just Upgraded Its Microsoft Office Integration - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Slack is introducing some major improvements for Office users today. The company is introducing a couple of upgrades to some of the Office integration that significantly improves the experience and m…

Opera Web Browser is Reborn - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Opera today announced the latest version of its web browser for Mac, Windows and Linux, codenamed Reborn 3. “The web has transformed our lives,” Opera executive vice president Krystian Kolondra says.…

Apple's Rumored 16-inch MacBook Pro Gets Delayed to 2021 - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Earlier this year, a major report from popular Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo revealed some of Apple’s upcoming product plans. The report included a lot of flashy new products, tho Kuo is now reporting t…

Digital Minimalism 101: How to become a digital minimalist

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blog.rescuetime.com - It’s easy to feel overwhelmed at work these days. Between schedules packed with emails, meetings, and catchups and the constant pull of social media and the 24-hour news cycle, it feels like we never…

Facebook Bends to Pressure from EU on Treatment of User Data | Breitbart

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www.breitbart.com - Social media giant Facebook has reportedly bowed to pressure from the European Commission, Reuters reports. The website has agreed to revise its terms to make it clear what the website does with user…

Lagging behind in AI? Here's one of the EU's fightback plans

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news.cgtn.com - An industry report published by McKinsey Global Institute last month revealed Europe Union's gradually emerged weakness in the digital era, which signals the urgency to the top European officials of …

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