Monday, May 13, 2019

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ShipperHQ - General Technology Partner / Magento

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partners.magento.com - ShipperHQ gives merchants full control to customize shipping rates like never before. Whether your shipping is simple or highly complex, ShipperHQ lets you choose the features that best fit your busi…

Build an Active Directory user activity report with PowerShell

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4sysops.com - Monitoring Active Directory users is an essential task for system administrators and IT security. In many organizations, Active Directory is the only way you can authenticate and gain authorization t…

Google has given $150,000 in free ads to deceptive anti-abortion group

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www.theguardian.com - Google has given tens of thousands of dollars in free advertising to an anti-abortion group that runs ads suggesting it provides abortion services at its medical clinics, but actually seeks to deter …

Apple releases iOS 12.3, macOS 10.14.5, watchOS 5.2.1, and tvOS 12.3

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arstechnica.com - Today, Apple began rolling out new versions of its iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS operating systems for iPhones and iPads, Macs, Apple Watches, and Apple TVs, respectively. The updates are largely foc…

TPS Consulting Daily

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tpsconsulting.blogspot.com - ART & ENTERTAINMENT Ricky Gervais: 'Freedom of speech is so important for human rights’ Shared by Joel Comm www.gq-magazine.co.uk - Even Ricky Gervais is overwhelmed by the success of his recent Netf…

HTC Exodus 1s phone will join Blockchain fever next

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androidcommunity.com - The next-gen HTC Exodus blockchain phone may be out later this year. A follow up to last year’s successful HTC Exodus is expected to be revealed in a few months. If you may remember, the HTC Exodus 1…

Google Translate soon to have overlay translation, language auto-detection

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androidcommunity.com - At the recently concluded Google I/O developer’s conference, a lot of eyes and ears were on improvements that the company was giving Google Lens. While Google Translate did make an appearance in both…

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 will not use the new 64MP CMOS yet

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androidcommunity.com - Last week, Samsung proudly announced the new 64Mp ISOCELL Image Sensor. The new sensor would allow higher-res cameras. Samsung has described it as the highest resolution sensor so far in the mobile i…

Lenovo shows off a folding-screen laptop, coming some time in 2020

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arstechnica.com - The screen can somehow support itself when opened flat. It doesn't have a name (but it'll be in the ThinkPad X1 family), it doesn't have a spec (but it's using an Intel processor), it doesn't have an…

YouTube’s Bumper Machine offers an automated way to create six-second ads – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - After introducing a six-second “Bumper” ad format back in 2016, YouTube is unveiling a new tool that uses machine learning to automatically pull out a six-second version from a longer ad. It might se…

ServiceNow acquihires mobile analytics startup Appsee – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - In a carefully framed deal, ServiceNow announced this morning that it has acquired the intellectual property and key personnel of mobile analytics company, Appsee for an undisclosed price. Under the …

Spotify brings its slimmed-down ‘Lite’ app to India – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Spotify has launched a more slimmed-down version of its streaming music app in India, only months after its public debut in the country. The app, Spotify Lite is only 11 MB in size compared with 30 M…

Uber offers shareable video of drivers’ ‘journey’ – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - A new feature rolling out to Uber drivers offers a semi-customized look at their “journey” with the company. On the face of its, the video is similar to sort offered up by Facebook on the occasion of…

Adobe brings new Amazon and Google integrations to Magento – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It’s only been a few months since Adobe launched its Commerce Cloud, based on its $1.6 billion acquisition of Magento. Today, at its Imagine 2019 conference, the company announced a number of updates…

Spotify is testing its own version of Stories called ‘Storyline’ – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Spotify is testing its own version of Stories — the sharing format popularized by social apps like Snapchat and Instagram and has since made its way to other apps like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, an…

Daily Crunch: Amazon doubles down on its partner program – TechCrunch

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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. Amazo…

Boost Mobile says hackers broke into customer accounts – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Boost Mobile, a virtual mobile network owned by Sprint, has confirmed hackers have broken into an unknown number of customer accounts. The company quietly posted a notification of its data breach alm…

Announcing TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise this September in San Francisco – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Of the many categories in the tech world, none is more ferociously competitive than enterprise. For decades, SAP, Oracle, Adobe, Microsoft, IBM and Salesforce, to name a few of the giants, have battl…

One month ago, Foxconn said its innovation centers weren’t empty — they still are

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www.theverge.com - Last summer, Foxconn announced that it would buy buildings across Wisconsin and turn them into “innovation centers” as part of its record-breaking $4.5 billion tax subsidy agreement with the state. T…

A Little Less Conversation

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om.co - One of the highlights of my day is having lunch with my True Ventures colleagues. We sit around the table, enjoy food, and talk about a lot of topics. I don’t talk as much as I listen. That’s where I…

Facebook sues app maker, says it made millions misusing Facebook user data

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arstechnica.com - Facebook has sued a data analytics company that operated apps on the Facebook platform for nearly a decade, saying the company misused Facebook data to sell advertising and marketing services. Facebo…

Dealmaster: There’s a bunch of deals on Anker charging gear today

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arstechnica.com - Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back a bit earlier than usual this week to highlight a one-day sale that may be of interest for those in need of new charging gear. Amazon is currently discounti…

Bluetooth harvester signals hacking group’s growing interest in mobile

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arstechnica.com - A Korean-speaking hacking group in operation since at least 2016 is expanding its arsenal of hacking tools to include a Bluetooth-device harvester in a move that signals the group’s growing interest …

Epic’s store continues to absorb PC gaming exclusives large and small

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arstechnica.com - Gamers hoping to stick with Steam and avoid Epic's major effort to compete in PC game distribution will have to ignore two more major upcoming PC titles, at least for a little while. For those two ti…

Supreme Court ruling could threaten Apple’s 30 percent app commission

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arstechnica.com - A narrowly divided Supreme Court is allowing a group of consumers to move forward with a lawsuit charging that Apple overcharges customers for app store purchases. Apple had asked courts to throw out…

Lenovo bumps X1 Extreme to i9, GTX 1650, introduces new mainstream ThinkBooks

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arstechnica.com - Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme generation 2 birdseye view. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme generation 2 front view. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Extreme generation 2 front view. Lenovo is having its annual conference f…

How to Translate WordPress Using Weglot (Beginner's Guide)

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www.wpkube.com - Building an international audience is going to take more than hoping people from around the world visit your site and subscribe or buy. In fact, many global consumers (55% to be exact) prefer to buy …

Introducing GitHub Package Registry

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github.blog - Today, we’re excited to introduce GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code. GitHub Package Registry is f…

A guide to setting up Vim for JavaScript development

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freshman.tech - I’ve been using Vim for close to two years now, and do all my JavaScript development work in it. In the process, I’ve tweaked my configuration several times until I finally achieved a setup that I ca…

What's New For Designers, May 2019 | Webdesigner Depot

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www.webdesignerdepot.com - There are plenty of cool new tools and resources available for designers this month, and you’ll be especially happy if you are looking to find photos with ease, increase productivity or even create b…

Announcing the next evolution of our red fedora mark

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www.redhat.com - Here's the scene: It was early 2017, I'd just stepped into the chief marketing officer role at Red Hat, and I was reviewing some survey data about our brand—specifically, our logo. We faced a simple …

Trick Out Your Terminal in 10 Minutes or Less

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towardsdatascience.com - The time you spend staring at your terminal doesn’t have to be painful. Practically without time or effort, you can transform your terminal from a frustrating white block of pain into a beautiful, fa…

Report: Apple's A13 Chips for Next Generation of iPhones Are Now in Production

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gizmodo.com - Gather round, consumers, for yet another Apple rumor. According to a recent report in Bloomberg, sources say that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Apple’s manufacturing partner for its custom-…

Apple Exclusive Reveals Exciting New iPhone 11 Features

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www.forbes.com - Recent iPhone battery allegations may have scared off some upgraders, but now an exclusive new report from Bloomberg shows the smart money waits for the new iPhone 11 anyway. iPhone 11 concept render…

State-Sponsored Breaches of US Government Networks Rose 168% Last Year: Report

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www.nextgov.com - International spies are hammering government networks harder than ever, according to the latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report released Wednesday. The 2019 report shows a 168 percent incre…

Is Slack ruining our jobs — and lives?

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www.vox.com - If you’ve spent any time with Slack, you’ve likely seen this message float below the text field of your company’s communications software. It can mean a few things: A vibrant discussion is taking pla…

India reportedly investigating Google for alleged antitrust issues

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androidcommunity.com - Google continually faces a lot of legal issues in various territories but it wasn’t until the case in Europe that they received a hefty fine for antitrust violations. It looks like a watchdog in Indi…

Motorola One Vision image renders surface before official launch

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androidcommunity.com - The Motorola One series is getting another addition. The new line from Motorola will be joined by the Motorola One Vision set in blue and brown. The next Android One phone is being prepped for releas…

HiSense announces 2019 4K UHD Android TV lineup

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re in the market for a new smart Android TV that won’t cost you an arm and a leg, there are a lot of Chinese brands out there that offer a relatively less expensive alternative than the usual …

ADB backup, restore may be out from future Android

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androidcommunity.com - Support for ADB backup is available and has been provided by a number of devs. Such a feature has been helpful the past couple of years from FlashFire getting backup over ADB and WiFi and TWRP being …

OnePlus 7 Pro details listed here, specs and colors with prices

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androidcommunity.com - Just a day before the official, here we are again listing down all the things we know about the OnePlus 7 and the OnePlus 7 Pro. The 5G connectivity and a special display can be looked forward to. Th…

HTC flagships getting a slice of Android Pie starting this month

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androidcommunity.com - As early as August last year, HTC announced that several U phones are getting a slice of Android 9 Pie. The HTC U12+, HTC U11, U11+, and the HTC U11 Life (Android One) were listed and now, Android 9.…

Google Play Store sending notifications to uninstall unused apps

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androidcommunity.com - If you keep complaining that your smartphone is running out of storage, you might just have some unused apps in the background taking up some much-needed space. If you’ve been too busy (or lazy) to c…

Android Q desktop mode highlight revealed

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androidcommunity.com - Google is on a roll right now. Actually, the tech giant doesn’t take a rest being one of the biggest tech brands in the world. It is the biggest move in the mobile industry today, having launched the…

Samsung Galaxy Note series will boast 19:9 aspect ratio

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androidcommunity.com - For the first time, the Samsung Galaxy Note series is coming out in two variants. Some people are saying multiple models but there really will be just two. It’s the reason why the idea of a bigger an…

Android Q Pixel may feature car crash detection

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androidcommunity.com - We never really imagined this would be possible but the Android team has been testing on a feature that brings car crash detection. It’s an automatic detection for the current and future Pixel phones…

HTC “temporarily” shuts down smartphone online stores in China

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androidcommunity.com - It looks like those living in China may have to say goodbye soon to HTC. Well, at least their smartphone business. Reports are saying that the Taiwanese OEM has removed the smartphones listed on seve…

Treat Your Dog or Cat to the Latest Innovations in Pet Tech - Indiegogo Blog

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go.indiegogo.com - Technology isn’t just advancing in areas like smartphones and transportation. There’s also a lot of innovation happening in the world of pet tech. It turns out, humans aren’t the only ones who get ex…

You Can Create Flutter Apps on Chrome OS - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Thanks to its Linux compatibility, you can now write software on Chrome OS. Including, apparently, using Flutter and Android Studio. “The latest Flutter release adds support for building beautiful, t…

Lenovo Targets SMBs with New ThinkBook Line - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Lenovo today announced a new lineup of ThinkBook ultra-thin laptops aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. The ThinkBook brand is new and will sit alongside ThinkPad and Lenovo’s other PC brand…

Is Digital Wellbeing Slowing Down Pixel Handsets? - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - A few Reddit posts claiming that Google’s Digital Wellbeing is slowing down the firm’s smartphones have gained some traction, for some reason. But I disabled the feature a week ago and haven’t experi…

SEO & Progressive Web Apps: Looking to the Future

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moz.com - Practitioners of SEO have always been mistrustful of JavaScript. This is partly based on experience; the ability of search engines to discover, crawl, and accurately index content which is heavily re…

The Assange case just hit another snag

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hotair.com - The last we heard from Julian Assange involved a year in jail in London on failure to appear charges and a pair of extradition hearings to determine if he could be shipped to the United States. That …

Adobe Changes Availability of Creative Cloud Applications, Concerning? | cinema5D

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www.cinema5d.com - Adobe has announced changes to their Creative Cloud applications. From now on, Creative Cloud customers will only have direct download access to the two most recent major versions of Creative Cloud d…

Chris Hughes Is Right: We Should Dismantle Facebook

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www.wired.com - The opening to Chris Hughes’ much-publicized New York Times essay yesterday—attacking the company that made him vastly wealthy—was almost Shakespearean in its drama. After describing his last persona…

Perspective | Alexa has been eavesdropping on you this whole time

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www.washingtonpost.com - By Geoffrey A. Fowler Geoffrey A. Fowler Technology columnist based in San Francisco Email Bio Follow Technology columnist May 6 Would you let a stranger eavesdrop in your home and keep the recording…

Google Just Handed Amazon A Massive Advantage In Smart Home Tech

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www.forbes.com - We won't see any message like that in the near future, but Amazon executives should be very happy right now. And the massive 'Works with Alexa' program should build on its dominant marketing position…

Defining What Ad Relevance Means & the 6 Best Ways to Improve It

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instapage.com - What does ad relevance mean? How relevance is measured Why is it important? How to increase ad relevance on Google Ads Create specific ad groups Select keywords carefully Include keywords in your ad …

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