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Here lies Google Inbox, a radical rethink of how email should work
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arstechnica.com - Inbox's new account introduction. I did this April 1—perhaps I was the last person on Earth to see it? These smart info cards still haven't come to Gmail. Basic Google Reminders support on Google Now…
In Digital: Value Creation vs. Competition | Rob Llewellyn
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robllewellyn.com - We hear it all the time – new startups competing with traditional businesses, if not replacing existing industries and categories altogether. Disruptive technologies like cloud computing and enterpri…
Intel’s new assault on the data center: 56-core Xeons, 10nm FPGAs, 100gig Ethernet
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arstechnica.com - Intel today launched a barrage of new products for the data center, tackling almost every enterprise workload out there. The company's diverse range of products highlights how today's data center is …
TPS Consulting Daily
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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Technology Didn’t Disrupt Your Industry: Q&A with Thales S. Teixeira, Part III Shared by Loyalty360 loyalty360.org - This is the third of four installments of our conversation with Thales …
Google Pixel 4 AOSP reference proves next-gen flagship is ready
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androidcommunity.com - Not many people may bother to check AOSP but the Android team sometimes hides clues about the next-gen products. Some of them may have been posted albeit not deliberately so we’re always curious what…
Borderlands 3 is the next big Epic Game Store exclusive
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arstechnica.com - Borderlands 3 is the latest high-profile game to announce that it is ignoring Steam and other PC platforms in favor of an exclusive launch on the Epic Games Store. Developer Gearbox Software and publ…
WhatsApp’s Brian Acton to talk Signal Foundation and leaving Facebook at Disrupt SF
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techcrunch.com - “We give them the power. That’s the bad part. We buy their products. We sign up for these websites. Delete Facebook, right?” That’s WhatsApp founder Brian Acton’s most recent quote about his former e…
Daily Crunch: The lonely death of Google+
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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. This is …
WhatsApp adds a new privacy setting for groups in another effort to clamp down on fake news
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techcrunch.com - WhatsApp today announced another protection for users in an effort to clamp down on the spread of fake news and misinformation. Through a new feature, users can control who has permission to add them…
Rippling raises $45M at $270M to be the biz app identity layer
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techcrunch.com - Parker Conrad’s last startup, Zenefits, drowned in busy work. Now with Rippling, he wants to boil that ocean. Instead of trying to nail one thing then expand, “very counter to conventional wisdom, we…
How France’s new digital minister plans to regulate tech
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techcrunch.com - What happens when you’re working behind the scene with French President Emmanuel Macron and you suddenly become a minister? This is what’s happening to Cédric O this week who was appointed Minister f…
Beats’ Powerbeats Pro could beat AirPods at their own game
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techcrunch.com - AirPods are far and away the leader in the world of fully wireless earbuds. New numbers out this week give Apple’s headphones a commanding 60 percent of the market, and a second-gen release is likely…
Toyota is giving automakers free access to nearly 24,000 hybrid car-related patents
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techcrunch.com - Toyota said Wednesday it will give royalty-free access to its nearly 24,000 patents related to electrification technology and systems through 2030 in a move that aims encourage rival automakers to ad…
Fleksy’s AI keyboard is getting a store to put mini apps at chatters’ fingertips
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techcrunch.com - Remember Fleksy? The customizable Android keyboard app has a new trick up its sleeve: It’s adding a store where users can find and add lightweight third party apps to enhance their typing experience.…
Google’s anti-trans controversy is the latest case of big tech overcorrecting to the right
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techcrunch.com - Google just smoothed over one spat with the LGBT community, but it’s already well into the next one. Last week, in an effort to monitor the ethical development of artificial intelligence and presumab…
T-Mobile’s mobile TV service to include Viacom channels like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central & more
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techcrunch.com - T-Mobile and Viacom this morning announced a deal that will bring Viacom’s TV channels – like MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, BET, Paramount and others – to T-Mobile’s new mobile video service plan…
Adobe brings content-aware fill for videos to After Effects
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techcrunch.com - Adobe today announced that it is bringing content-aware fill to After Effects, the special effects software that is part of its Creative Cloud offering. The company has long offered this feature in P…
Verizon flips on 5G for phones in parts of Chicago and Minneapolis
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techcrunch.com - Verizon (which owns the company that owns TechCrunch) announced today that it’s activated its 5G Ultra Wideband Network in parts of Minneapolis and Chicago. The news is the first step for the carrier…
Google Drive adds workflow integrations with DocuSign, K2 and Nintex
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techcrunch.com - Google today announced a few new workflow integrations for its Drive file storage service that’ll bring support for some features from DocuSign and process automation platforms K2 and Nintex to the s…
RIP Google+
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techcrunch.com - That’s it for Google+, Google’s failed social network that once tried to take on Facebook and Twitter. As scheduled, the company has now started deleting user accounts and their data. Chances are you…
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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, …
9 free marketing tools that can help your business – Learn
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www.canva.com - It doesn’t matter how smart or driven of a marketer you are, without the right tools, it’s impossible to effectively market your business and get the word out about your products and services to your…
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…
Facebook asked some users for their email passwords, because why not
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arstechnica.com - As company executives try to rebrand Facebook as a privacy company, the company is still apparently struggling to instill a privacy culture internally and with third-party developers. As Kevin Poulso…
Video: Taming the player-murdering machine that was MechWarrior 5’s level generator
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arstechnica.com - First things first: No, you haven't been caught in a time warp and zapped six months into the future (at least, not that we know of). The subject of this "War Stories" episode is the unreleased MechW…
Borderlands 3 trailer shows some of its “over one billion guns”
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arstechnica.com - The trailer and stage presentation highlighted the sheer number of Borderlands fan-favorite characters coming back for this sequel. Moxxi, Claptrap, and an older, redesigned Tiny Tina join Vaughn fro…
Watch a Verizon 5G phone hit speeds faster than your home Internet
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arstechnica.com - It was a bit earlier than scheduled, but Verizon switched on parts of its 5G network today, debuting in "select areas" of Minneapolis and Chicago. Every carrier out there likes to slice and dice defi…
Ford, GM, and Toyota team up to develop self-driving safety standards
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arstechnica.com - Three of the world's leading automakers are joining forces to develop safety standards for self-driving cars. The new consortium will be called the Automated Vehicle Safety Consortium (AVSC), and it …
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…
Microsoft kills off the book store you probably didn’t know it had
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arstechnica.com - For reasons that were never entirely clear, Microsoft released a book store for Windows 10 back in 2017. The Edge browser was given support for EPUB books, and the Microsoft Store had a book category…
Spielberg proposal to ban streaming from Oscars may be illegal, DOJ warns
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arstechnica.com - US antitrust regulators have warned the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences that banning Netflix and other streaming platforms from the Oscars may violate federal competition law. Legendary f…
Serious Apache server bug gives root to baddies in shared host environments
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arstechnica.com - The Apache HTTP Server, the Internet’s most widely used Web server, just fixed a serious vulnerability that makes it possible for untrusted users or software to gain unfettered control of the machine…
YouTube reportedly ignored extremism in order to boost engagement
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arstechnica.com - A new report from Bloomberg's Mark Bergen details in damning specificity how YouTube has allowed extremist content to run rampant on its site. According to the report, YouTube executives, including C…
Don’t buy a Mercedes-AMG GT R unless you plan on taking it to the track
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arstechnica.com - The Mercedes-AMG GT R is street legal, but it's not at its best on public roads. At 3,500lbs it's no lightweight, but the car shrinks around you. The twin-turbo V8 sends 577hp and 516lb-ft to the rea…
5 Ways to Repurpose Your Facebook Live Videos for More Content
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blog.belive.tv - Creating content is time-consuming. How do you make sure you leverage the content you created and not let it go to waste? Most marketers think of Facebook Live as a one-time live event. However, if y…
Web Design & SEO: Everything Designers Should Know | Webdesigner Depot
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www.webdesignerdepot.com - UX design and a solid SEO strategy go hand in hand. Design is here to boost user experiences, inspire users to spend more time on your pages, and ensure they don’t leave your site frustrated. This wa…
Designing for accessibility by using Apple VoiceOver
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uxdesign.cc - I’ve been working on accessibility quite a lot recently. I’ve been following the usual advices given by the community, having a good contrast ratio, making sure we use semantic HTML, picking color bl…
What's Wrong With Landing Pages | Shakuro
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shakuro.com - Landing pages exist because they tell a story. Whether that story is useful is determined by a bunch of factors we’re about to look into. It’s not a checklist that will turn a bad page into a good on…
Former Mozilla CTO files complaint against border patrol over warrantless phone search
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www.theverge.com - Andreas Gal, the former CTO of Mozilla and a current employee of Apple, is filing a complaint against US customs agents who allegedly tried to intimidate him into handing over his phone and laptop pa…
Apple’s latest Clips update inches it closer to being a real video app
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www.theverge.com - The latest update for Apple’s Clips app adds a few new features that brings it closer to becoming a full-fledged mobile video-editing app. The most notable addition is the ability to add custom sound…
The Morning After: Google+ says goodbye
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www.engadget.com - Why wait for Endgame?'Iron Man VR' is as close to being Tony Stark as you're likely to get This game puts players behind the mask in a wild first-person adventure facing off against marquee Marvel vi…
Japanese Twitter Account Made Everyone Believe An Amazon Drone Invasion - Nerdist
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nerdist.com - A video on social media pretty much has everyone looking to the skies above them. Is there really an Amazon blimp sending drones out to deliver packages? Certainly, the company has invested a ton of …
iPhone 2020: Apple's Future Phones Might See Drastic Changes in These Areas
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www.inverse.com - The iPhone XS, XS Max, and XR introduced only marginal changes, and a similar roadmap is expected for the upcoming 2019 roster. It’s in 2020, then, when Apple is expected to truly reimagine its signa…
ACLU: Apple employee was illegally harassed by U.S. Customs over company devices
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www.fastcompany.com - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Northern California filed a complaint Tuesday on behalf of top Apple employee Andreas Gal, who says he was illegally harassed by U.S. Customs and Border P…
New Reports Suggest Pilots Followed Proper Procedure to Override Boeing's Automation but Crashed Anyway
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gizmodo.com - Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have suggested that the pilots of two flights in Ethiopia and Indonesia didn’t follow proper procedures before their 737 Max 8 planes crashed in r…
Galaxy S7 and S7 edge to receive quarterly updates, not monthly
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androidcommunity.com - It’s about time software updates become more regular. It’s been a problem for most Android devices but major brands like Samsung knows how to keep customers happy. We know the Android development tea…
PUBG Mobile Prime, Prime Plus subscription announced
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androidcommunity.com - Just a couple of weeks ago, we learned PUBG Mobile may enforce a 6-hour playing limit in India to avoid a ban. That’s the first time we heard of such. We’re expecting more significant and good change…
Spark by Readdle email app finally available on Android
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re mourning the loss of the Inbox email app from Google (who really wants you to switch to the Gmail app anyway), we have sort of good news for you. The rumors about a popular and similar iOS …
Nokia X71 debuts as the brand’s first phone with camera hole
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androidcommunity.com - The entrance of the Nokia X71 is a great reminder that the notch design is really just for transition, at least, for major OEMs. Nokia has recently introduced a new phone without a notch. There is no…
Walmart now lets you buy stuff through Google Assistant
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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a regular shopper at Walmart and you want your weekly grocery tasks to be more convenient, they’ve thought of the perfect solution for you. You will now be able to use voice commands on you…
Verizon now offering a Just Kids plan for your offspring begging for a phone
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androidcommunity.com - Those of us who were born before this already-normal smartphone boom probably never had the problem of begging our parents to give us cellphones. But during these times, kids as young as four are alr…
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 may be out in two sizes
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is one of our newest favorite topics until the product’s official launch sometime in the second half of the year. The device is expected to be out in two variants. One will…
Lenovo’s vertical foldable phone patented design rendered
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androidcommunity.com - Lenovo isn’t exactly on top of the mobile game but it comes up with some interesting pieces. If not its own Lenovo smartphone, there are several Motorola Moto phones to choose from. The company doesn…
North Focals smart glasses add real-time transit updates
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androidcommunity.com - The Focals by North was only mentioned once here but the Android community is curious about the pair. The maker of the smart glasses just launched a new pop-up showroom and lowered prices for the pai…
Android security and privacy report shares top ways to keep safe
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androidcommunity.com - Android beats all other mobile platforms available. No doubt that it is the most widely used OS around the globe. It’s been a decade since Google decided to go all out with Android. It has seen a lon…
The New Reward Experience for Modern Loyalty
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loyalty360.org - If there is one thing all businesses have in common, it’s the need to attract, engage, and keep customers coming back. Loyalty programs were born out of a need to do this when shop owners gave custom…
Intel Poaches Qualcomm CFO - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Intel announced last night that it has hired George Davis as its new Chief Financial Officer. David had been Qualcomm’s CFO since 2013. Davis fills the role that was previously held by Bob Swan, now …
Tip: Use Your Own Music in Spotify - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - With Microsoft scaling back its Groove efforts over time, many in the Microsoft community are looking to Spotify as a replacement. And the leading music subscription service, Spotify has a lot to off…
Beats Unveils New Powerbeats Pro Wireless Earbuds - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Apple-owned Beats is announcing its own new wireless earbuds just weeks after Apple launched its new AirPods earbuds. The company’s new Powerbeats Pro are essentially wireless versions of the regular…
4 Reasons Why Every Marketing Team Should be Considering Chatbots
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www.socialmediatoday.com - Chatbots are becoming an increasingly popular way for companies to interact with potential and current customers. A recent survey showed that 80% of consumers reported a positive experience with chat…
Sony’s RX0 II Premium Ultra-Compact Camera Could Be Vlogging Powerhouse
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www.lightstalking.com - The world’s “smallest premium ultra-compact camera” is now available for pre-order. And if you’re a vlogger, it might be something you want to check out. That’s because the RX0 II records at 4K 30p w…
The Canvas Art Gallery Integrates Shutterstock API to Diversify Quality Prints
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www.shutterstock.com - With a company lineage firmly rooted in the pursuit of excellence, in the craft of photography and art reproduction, The Canvas Art Gallery offers print reproduction and canvas printing services that…
YouTube Execs Under Fire for 'Toxic Videos'
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www.lightstalking.com - Social media platforms are under a lot of pressure to police their own content – or else have the government do it for them. Whether it is the EU’s “meme ban” law or the various accusations of fake n…
The anatomy of an SEO robocall scheme - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - On Oct. 11, 2018, I received a phone call and discovered that Classy Brain (my company) was in existential crisis. The end was near – Google was after me. The future looked grim. My clients would lea…
ViewSonic's ELITE XG350R-C Is a Spectacular Ultrawide Curved Gaming Monitor
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