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Implementing a Mockup: CSS Layout Step by Step
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daveceddia.com - Creating layouts is one of the hardest parts of front end development for a lot of people. You can spend hours trying random CSS properties, copying and pasting from Stack Overflow, and hoping to stu…
The Year of GDPR - Security Boulevard
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securityboulevard.com - It goes without saying that the GDPR fines and penalties are the driving factor behind organizations taking measures to comply with it. However the DPAs, are staying true to GDPR’s aims of improving …
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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY Microsoft touts AI, circular microphone advances in overlapped speech recognition work | ZDNet Shared by Paul Thurrott www.zdnet.com - At the Interspeech 2018 conference in Hyderabad, Indi…
Minecraft augmented reality game teased by Microsoft
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androidcommunity.com - The most popular AR game is perhaps Pokemon GO. It’s been three years since Niantic Labs and Nintendo launched the mobile game that introduced millions of people to augmented reality. AR isn’t exactl…
What Chrome’s browser changes mean for your privacy and security – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At the risk of sounding too optimistic, 2019 might be the year of the private web browser. In the beginning, browsers were a cobbled together mess that put a premium on making the contents within loo…
Google’s big VR news is that there is no VR news – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google seems to be waking up from its VR daydream. The company’s ambitious plans to leverage the smartphones that people already own to power VR experiences went unmentioned at its I/O developer conf…
Google’s Flutter framework spreads its wings and goes multi-platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google’s Flutter UI toolkit for cross-platform development may only be two years old, but it has quickly become the framework of choice for many developers. Until now, though, ‘cross-platform’ only r…
Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in tod…
Shape Security’s latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Shape Security has been helping big companies stay safe from fraudulent activities like password reuse and bot traffic on their publicly facing websites and apps. The company now wants to help smalle…
Facebook is being sued by a Polish drug prevention group over free speech violation – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook’s efforts to shut down harmful and malicious content on its platform have landed it in a European courtroom, after an anti-drug abuse organization in Poland claimed that a freeze on its Face…
FBI has seized Deep Dot Web and arrested its administrators – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in Tel Aviv and…
Red Hat and Microsoft are cozying up some more with Azure Red Hat OpenShift – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It won’t be long before Red Hat becomes part of IBM, the result of the $34 billion acquisition last year that is still making its way to completion. For now, Red Hat continues as a stand-alone compan…
Freedom Mobile server leak exposed customer data – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A security lapse at Canada’s fourth largest cell network, Freedom Mobile, exposed customer data. Security researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar found an Elasticsearch server leaking five million logs …
Keyword research in 2019: Modern tactics for growing targeted search traffic – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - In 2019, it’s estimated that every minute there are 150 new websites coming online. While many of these won’t be long-term ventures, a large percentage will eventually find themselves looking to orga…
Verified Expert Brand Designer: Kristine Arth – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - After spending a decade working at international design and branding agencies, Kristine Arth launched her own independent branding agency called Lobster Phone last April. Since then, she’s launched 2…
Google Search will offer better news coverage, and soon, support for podcast search – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company’s developer conference Google I/O this morning CEO Sundar Pichai kicks things off with an annou…
Google Assistant gets driving mode – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google’s Assistant app for your phone is getting a voice-enabled driving mode, the company announced today at its annual developer conference. The idea is to bring relevant activities front and cente…
Hubtype raises $1.1M to help developers build richer chat support – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Barcelona-based Hubtype has raised a €1 million (~$1.1M) seed round led by Madrid-based early stage VC firm, K Fund. The team last raised when the business was founded, back in February 2016, when th…
Daily Crunch: Twitter tweaks Retweets – 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. Twitt…
Google tests faster image loading in Chrome Canary – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google today announced a change coming to Chrome that will help image-heavy websites load more quickly — but the addition for now is only available in the experimental version of the web browser, Chr…
Google launches Jetpack Compose, an open-source, Kotlin-based UI development toolkit – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google today announced the first preview of Jetpack Compose, a new open-source UI toolkit for Kotlin developers who want to use a reactive programming model similar to what React Native and Vue.js. J…
Google launches new Assistant developer tools – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At its I/O conference, Google today announced a slew of new tools for developers who want to build experiences for the company’s Assistant platform. These range from the ability to build games for sm…
Tencent promises its technology will ‘do good’ – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Tencent, one of Asia’s most valuable companies with a current market cap of around $460 billion, has introduced a new motto after co-founder and CEO Pony Ma said this week he wanted ‘tech for good’ t…
Google’s Pixel 3 and 3a are coming to more carriers, including Sprint and T-Mobile – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - If you’re going to go carrier exclusive, Verizon (disclosure: our parent company’s parent company) is probably about as good as any. Ultimately, however, exclusives invariably do more harm than good …
Google latest Android Studio release focuses on speed and stability – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At last year’s I/O developer conference, Google announced Project Marble, an effort to bring more speed and stability to the company’s Android Studio IDE. That was in marked contrast to previous upda…
Chrome makes fundamental changes to how it handles cookies – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Google today announced a major new initiative around its Chrome browser that will, in the long run, introduce significant changes to how Chrome handles cookies and enhance its users’ privacy across t…
Google now lets developers build games for its smart displays – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced that it is opening up its Smart Display platform to developers. Until now, there was no real way for developers to target devices like the newl…
Live transcription and captioning in Android are a boon to the hearing-impaired – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A set of new features for Android could alleviate some of the difficulties of living with hearing impairment and other conditions. Live transcription, captioning, and relay use speech recognition and…
Google expands digital wellbeing tools to include a new ‘Focus mode,’ adds improved parental controls to Android – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Last year at Google I/O, Google introduced a host of new digital wellbeing tools aimed at helping people better manage their screen time, track app usage, and configure their device’s ‘do not disturb…
Facebook talked privacy, Google actually built it – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Mark Zuckerberg: “The future is private”. Sundar Pichai: ~The present is private~. While both CEO’s made protecting user data a central theme of their conference keynotes this month, Facebook’s produ…
Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist of Canva
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kk.org - Subscribe to the Cool Tools Show on iTunes | RSS | Transcript | Download MP3 | See all the Cool Tools Show posts on a single page MEATER ($99) Meater is just a slick little tool if you’re into barbec…
Which is it: Big Tobacco or Big Oil?
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om.co - I don’t mean to harp on Facebook. I know I’ve written about them for the last two weeks, and I swear I wouldn’t keep at it if I didn’t sincerely believe them to be a clear and present danger to our w…
Virtual Unreality
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om.co - Virtual Reality sometimes feels like the boy who cried wolf. Doesn’t it feel like we have been talking about VR and its amazing potential forever? The $2 billion acquisition of Oculus by Facebook mad…
A new study suggests that Google collects more consumer data than users think (way more)
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adage.com - Google sucks up consumer data in ways users might find surprising—such as when browsers are in "incognito" mode—according to an analysis of the company's data collection by a researcher from Vanderbi…
Two senators say a $5 billion fine isn’t enough to punish Facebook
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arstechnica.com - Two senators—one Republican and one Democrat—are urging the Federal Trade Commission to take a hard line against Facebook in its ongoing negotiations over a privacy settlement. "The FTC must set a re…
Porsche, Fiat face multimillion-dollar payouts in separate diesel scandals
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arstechnica.com - On Tuesday, Germany's Stuttgart Public Prosecutors's Office issued a fine notice of €535 million ($598.99 million) to Porsche for its part in the Volkswagen Group diesel emissions scandal that broke …
Charter squeezes more money out of Internet users with new cancellation policy
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arstechnica.com - Charter is making it more expensive to cancel its Spectrum Internet service, as it will begin charging customers for the full month after they cancel instead of providing a prorated final bill. Chart…
Cray, AMD to build 1.5 exaflops supercomputer for US government
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arstechnica.com - AMD and Cray have announced that they're building "Frontier," a new supercomputer for the Department of Energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The goal is to deliver a system that can perform 1.5 e…
Coming soon: Windows Terminal—finally a tabbed, emoji-capable Windows command-line
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arstechnica.com - Details are currently scarce, but Microsoft has announced some big changes coming to its command-line interface. In Windows 10, Microsoft has been working to make the Windows command-line experience …
Inside Electrify America’s plan to simplify electric car charging
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arstechnica.com - Electrify America, a new national electric vehicle charging network, is launching a new mobile app and EV charging membership plans later this month. [Originally I wrote the app and plans launched on…
Claptrap voice actor accuses Gearbox CEO of assault, underpayment
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arstechnica.com - The voice of Borderlands' Claptrap, David Eddings, is going public with allegations of abuse and underpayment against Gearbox and its CEO, Randy Pitchford. The allegations, which have drawn partial d…
Waymo continues slow rollout with 10-car Lyft partnership
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arstechnica.com - Alphabet's Waymo announced on Tuesday that it was expanding its commercial self-driving car service by adding 10 vehicles to Lyft's network in the Phoenix area "over the next few months." The small s…
Google debuts “next-generation” Assistant, coming to next Pixel phones
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arstechnica.com - Google on Tuesday debuted an updated version of its Google Assistant platform during the keynote of its Google I/O developers conference. Google is touting significant performance improvements with t…
Guidemaster: High-tech gift ideas for Mother’s Day
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arstechnica.com - No physical item can repay your mother for all the love she's sent your way, but Mother's Day is still a good time to give Mom some token of your affection. So, as we've done in the past, we've round…
Refunds for 300 million phone users sought in lawsuits over location-data sales
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arstechnica.com - The four major US wireless carriers are facing proposed class-action lawsuits accusing them of violating federal law by selling their customers' real-time location data to third parties. The complain…
Stolen NSA hacking tools were used in the wild 14 months before Shadow Brokers leak
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arstechnica.com - On of the most significant events in computer security came in April 2017, when a still-unidentified group calling itself the Shadow Brokers published a trove of the National Security Agency’s most c…
Coinbase Wallet Adds Support for Dogecoin to Wallet App
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cointelegraph.com - American major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has added support for Dogecoin (DOGE) to its crypto wallet service Coinbase Wallet, according to an announcement published on May 1. The announcement s…
An ultimate guide to form design: How to design converting online forms
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www.jotform.com - Chances are that the answer is yes. According to recent research, 84% of people fill out at least one web form per week. But you may not have realized, because filling out web forms has become an alm…
5 books every designer should read to effectively communicate with their team
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uxdesign.cc - Design is not only about creating solutions but bringing your team together and aligning them towards a user-centered approach. However, whenever you work with others, there’s bound to be conflict, d…
How to excel at designing a great user onboarding experience | Humble Bits
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blogs.quovantis.com - As a child who grew up in Delhi, I was always fascinated by the rich heritage that Delhi offers to its residents. The Mughal monuments, their grandeur past, the spectacular architecture- everything a…
How to run a design business with just an iPad
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www.creativebloq.com - The design industry has changed a lot since computers came along to make life easier for everyone. Back in the day a studio was a necessity; you needed a physical space in which to draw, create and b…
GMessage: how to fix Google’s messaging madness — a UX exploration
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uxdesign.cc - The fourth is cross-platform support. Hangouts actually did this quite well, but Google’s implementation of Allo along with their current implementation of Android Messages does this less so. They ar…
iOS 13: The 5 Biggest iPhone Changes, According to WWDC 2019 Rumors
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www.inverse.com - IOS 13 is set to make some huge quality-of-life changes to the iPhone and iPad, eliminating many of the most widespread quibbles about Apple’s built-in tools. Several of the most noteworthy changes w…
How to Spot Fake Reviews on Amazon
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lifehacker.com - For all its convenience, online shopping’s biggest shortcoming is still the inability to see or test products first-hand before buying. So to feel like we know what we’re getting, we turn to user rev…
Pixel 3a specs sheet, promo text appear online before public launch
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androidcommunity.com - This week, we’re all set to get our hands on the new Pixel phones. Google has been working on the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL as follow-up offers to the controversial Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL. We can’t …
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 may hit 50W super fast charging
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androidcommunity.com - It may still be a few months before the Galaxy Note 10 is announced but Samsung is busy working on the next premium flagship offer. The Galaxy Fold is still being reviewed and on the side, the Note 1…
MW65 Noise-Canceling Wireless Headphones introduced
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androidcommunity.com - The name Master & Dynamic may not ring a bell to most mobile consumers but audiophiles know the brand. Several M&W products have been featured already including the MW50+ 2-In-1 Wireless On Over-Ear …
Gmail for Android may soon get Google Tasks integration
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androidcommunity.com - Having Google Tasks integrated into Gmail is probably one of the best things to happen to Google’s email app over the past few months. The only thing missing was that it wasn’t available for the Andr…
ZTE Axon 10 Pro rolls out in China, 5G variant also ready
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androidcommunity.com - ZTE may no longer be flourishing in the United States due to several restrictions but the Chinese OEM is still active. The brand is still very much active in its native country and anywhere it is sol…
Samsung Galaxy Fold: Would you like to keep or cancel
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androidcommunity.com - Samsung wants to make sure if you still want the Galaxy Fold. An email was sent to those who pre-ordered for the foldable phone, asking if they still want to keep or cancel the order. The letter make…
9 apps win in 4th annual Google Play Awards
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androidcommunity.com - Before the whole Google I/O developer conference shebang starts, Google has chosen to honor the 9 apps that have won their Google Play Awards. The winners span nine categories, including three new aw…
Samsung reportedly working on Galaxy Home companion app
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androidcommunity.com - If you were wondering whether Samsung has decided to not put out their previously announced Galaxy Home smart speaker, we don’t have an official word when it will actually hit the market but we have …
5 Soft Skills You Need to Succeed at Crowdfunding - Indiegogo Education Center
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entrepreneur.indiegogo.com - The life of an entrepreneur is full of technical challenges. Depending on the type of product you’re trying to develop, you may spend your days solving engineering problems, troubleshooting electrica…
Google Brings Flutter to the Web in Technical Preview - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Google had previously announced plans to bring Flutter, its cross-platform mobile development framework, to the web. This week at I/O, however, the firm demonstrated this capability and released a te…
Google Launches Android Q Beta 3 - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Coincidental with the first day of its I/O conference today, Google launched Android Q Beta 3, adding a new system-wide dark theme, a fully-gestural navigation scheme, and numerous other new features.
'They treat us like crap': Uber drivers feel poor and powerless on eve of IPO
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www.theguardian.com - A lot of very rich people will get even richer when Uber goes public on 9 May in one of the most anticipated initial public offerings (IPO) to hit the stock market in 2019. Travis Kalanick, Uber’s fo…
You might start seeing Google Ads' automated recommendations in more places - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - Google is surfacing its recommendations beyond the Recommendations page in the Google Ads web interface. Recommendations in the new Google Ads UI is a more robust, machine learning-powered replacemen…
Why set it and forget it doesn't work with feeds or campaigns - Search Engine Land
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searchengineland.com - “Why are my products not showing up on Google?” is one of the most continually recurring questions asked by online retailers. While most successful advertisers intuitively know that a set it and forg…
Harmeet Dhillon: If Big Tech Has Its Way 'We Will Lose Every Election Going Forward' | Breitbart
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www.breitbart.com - In an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight, host Tucker Carlson discussed how conservatives have been repeatedly targeted by big tech firms noting that even the Claremont Institute was recently denie…
Pamela Anderson Visits Assange in Jail, Calls Him 'Good Man'
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www.newsmax.com - Actress Pamela Anderson paid a visit to longtime friend Julian Assange in prison this week, later defending the WikiLeaks founder and lamenting that he is "really cut off from everybody" in London's …
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