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Federal agency tries to serve Steve Bannon a subpoena
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www.politico.com - “One of his minions, I believe, went back and either called him or spoke to him and said, ‘There’s nothing we can do about it, bro,‘” said the server, who would only give his name as Mike. A man who …
Google takes hard line, refuses to pay French news sites despite new law
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arstechnica.com - Google won't pay anything to French news organizations for the privilege of linking to their articles, the search giant announced on Wednesday. France is the first country to implement a Europe-wide …
Jethro Compact I/O-rich Carrier Board for NVIDIA® Jetson™ TX2/TX2i modules
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embedded-computing.com - The Jethro compact carrier board offers an I/O-rich, low cost solution for implementing AI/ML computing solutions based on NVIDIA Jetson TX2/TX2i computer modules. Providing up to 1.3 TeraOPS perform…
Amazon Launches Alexa Answers to Enhance Q&A Capability
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loyalty360.org - The e-commerce giant has announced the beta version rollout of a crowdsourced Q&A platform in December. The goal is to enhance Alexa’s ability to answer questions, which, to some extent, falls short …
Google Releases Android 10 (Go Edition) for Low-End Handsets - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Google announced today that it is releasing the latest version of Android Go, its solution for low-end handsets. “In many places in the world, entry-level smartphones are often the first and only way…
Don’t Be Creepy: How Marketers Should Think About Data Privacy
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loyalty360.org - Let’s face it. What marketers view as exciting innovations in data collection can actually be spooky for consumers. With targeted ads and personalized emails becoming the norm, it is easy for consume…
GM is bringing Amazon Alexa to 2018 and newer Cadillac, Chevy, Buick and GMC vehicles – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - General Motors is adding Amazon Alexa to the infotainment systems of its Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles in the first half of next year — one of the broadest rollouts of an embedded Alexa…
Ford expands self-driving vehicle fleet to Austin – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Ford is adding another city to the list of places it’s going to be deploying self-driving vehicles: Austin. The automaker revealed that the Texas city would join Miami-Dade County and Washington, D.C…
Facebook is building a ‘new social layer’ for Oculus headsets – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook spent a large amount of time at its Oculus Connect 6 keynote detailing the new links between its VR headset and the company’s core Facebook app. “Starting late this year, we will begin to ro…
Oculus and Respawn announce a Nazi-killing VR shooter – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Two years ago, Oculus announced a radical departure in how they were funding virtual reality developers. Instead of partnering with a ton of upstart teams looking to explore the medium and help fund …
BetterCloud adds Integration Center to help developers build and share integrations – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - BetterCloud started out as a way to add a missing operations layer on top of Google G Suite. Later it added support for other SaaS tools, and last year it built an API, so developers could build inte…
Hands-on with Oculus Link: Rift who? – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Four months after its release, the Rift S is looking pretty irrelevant. My colleague Josh and I went hands-on with an early demo of Oculus Link, a feature launching in beta in November that lets Ques…
Daily Crunch: WeWork CEO steps down – 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. CEO o…
Microsoft launches its AI presentation coach for PowerPoint – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - A few months ago, Microsoft announced that PowerPoint would soon get an AI-powered presentation coach that could help you prepare for that important next presentation by giving you immediate feedback…
Amazon Sidewalk is a new long-range wireless network for your stuff – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At its annual hardware event in Seattle, Amazon today announced Sidewalk, a new low-bandwidth, long-distance wireless protocol the company is developing to connect all of the IoT devices in and aroun…
Facebook announces Horizon, a VR massive-multiplayer world – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Facebook today announced it’s building its own Ready Player One Oasis. Facebook Horizon is a virtual reality sandbox universe where you can build your own environments and games, play and socialize w…
Netdata, a monitoring startup with 50-year-old founder, announces $17M Series A – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Nearly everything about Netdata, makers of an open-source monitoring tool, defies standard thinking about startups. Consider that the founder is a polished, experienced 50-year-old executive who star…
Is Amazon’s Alexa ready to leave home and become a wearable voice assistant? – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Amazon’s device event today played host to a dizzying number of product announcements, of all stripes — but notably, there are three brand new ways to wear Alexa on your body. Amazon clearly wants to…
Segment’s new privacy portal helps companies comply with expanding regulations – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - With the EU’s sweeping GDPR privacy laws and the upcoming California Consumer Privacy ACT (CCPA), companies have to figure out how to deal with keeping private data private or face massive fines. Seg…
Everything Amazon announced at its Alexa event today – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - As is now typical just ahead of the holidays, Amazon just inundated us with a whole new lineup of hardware devices, including new Echo smart speakers and screens, at its Alexa event today, plus other…
Amazon wants to put microphones into your rings and glasses – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At the end of its hardware event today, Amazon announced a new program for testing and selling its own experimental, limited-volume hardware: Day 1 Editions. The first of these new products is Echo F…
Amazon unveils the $199 Echo Studio, its answer to the Apple HomePod and Google Home Max – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Today at a special event, Amazon unveiled a bevy of new Echo devices, including several aimed a bit upmarket. The Echo Studio is Amazon’s answer to the Google Nest Max and Apple HomePod. It’s larger …
Amazon unleashes a bunch of new Echo devices, including glasses and a ring
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arstechnica.com - It has two mics, three internal speakers, a directional tweeter, and 5.25-inch bass driver. The new $129 Amazon Echo Buds with Bose noise reduction. The updated $99 Echo speaker now has even better s…
Apple Watch Series 5 review: A better, more independent timepiece
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arstechnica.com - At this point, we all know what an Apple Watch is and what it does well. Apple knows that, too. So with the $399 Apple Watch Series 5, the company homed in on small features that could make a big dif…
Oculus announces plans to build augmented reality glasses
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arstechnica.com - After showing someone awkwardly hold a smartphone up to have a video chat, the demo video transitioned to this: a chat where a distant friend appears in the same room. Most of the demo video revolved…
After a five-month delay, the $2,000 Galaxy Fold arrives in the US on Friday [Updated]
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arstechnica.com - Let's talk about what's different. As a refresher, here's what the phone looks like on the inside. The hinge area has been redesigned. That "T" shaped object is a new "protection cap." The shape of t…
High-severity vulnerability in vBulletin is being actively exploited
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arstechnica.com - Attackers are mass-exploiting an anonymously disclosed vulnerability that makes it possible to take control of servers running vBulletin, one of the Internet’s most popular applications for website c…
Amazon unveils a couple new Ring cameras that cost less than $100
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arstechnica.com - The Ring Indoor Cam. It looks a lot like the Stick Up Cam, just smaller and meant for inside the home. The Ring Fetch. It'll use Amazon's new Sidewalk network and keep tabs on your dog. Alongside the…
Attackers used “one-click” exploits to target Tibetans’ iOS and Android phones
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arstechnica.com - Attackers from a group dubbed Poison Carp used one-click exploits and convincing social engineering to target iOS and Android phones belonging to Tibetan groups in a six-month campaign, researchers s…
Magecart skimmers seen targeting routers for customer Wi-Fi networks
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arstechnica.com - Threat researchers at IBM X-Force IRIS have spotted activity by a known group of criminal Web malware operators that appears to be targeting commercial layer 7 routers—the type typically associated w…
Fake veteran hiring site downloads spyware instead of jobs
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arstechnica.com - A "threat group" previously identified as being behind a set of attacks on IT providers in Saudi Arabia has now been spotted targeting US military veterans and companies with a malicious webpage that…
Oculus Quest’s secret trick: It can double as a wired PC VR headset
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arstechnica.com - SAN JOSE, Calif—At Wednesday's Oculus Connect conference, the virtual reality company took the wraps off a secret that it had apparently hidden in its recent, high-quality Oculus Quest headset all al…
Eero third-gen Wi-Fi mesh debuts at Amazon’s Fall 2019 Hardware Event
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arstechnica.com - Hero shot of the third-generation Eero router. There doesn't seem to be a Beacon in this generation. Coverage on Eero third-gen doesn't mention Wi-Fi 6—which most likely means it isn't Wi-Fi 6. The t…
Five Technology Upgrades That Can’t Wait
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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - Running a small business means you have a thousand roles split between (often) just a few people. Very few small companies have a formal “IT Department” taking care of their technical needs and, as a…
Chaining styles with a JavaScript Proxy
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tobiasahlin.com - One of the delights of working with Ruby and jQuery is the ability to chain methods, enabling you to conveniently invoke multiple methods on the same target. In jQuery, for example, most methods retu…
37 Exceptional Font Pairings Trends in 2019 | Nice, Very Nice!
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niceverynice.com - Fonts and font pairings are one of the most crucial parts of a design. It allows you to create a wide range of effects and moods by utilizing different styles of typography. Choosing the right font c…
Design is lagging — UX teams have a inclusivity problem
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uxplanet.org - We knew that there was a problem, why has nothing changed? Inclusive design is en vogue in user experience right now. And I truly like that. I enjoy that people are expanding beyond the lowest hangin…
Four Bold Social Media Predictions For 2020
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www.forbes.com - Predicting the future of social media is always fun. Emerging platforms, secured patents, new tactics and demographic shifts are just a few things to consider when making a prediction. So, what’s nex…
Now you can learn American Sign Language through a language-learning app
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www.fastcompany.com - Learning American Sign Language (ASL) just got a little easier thanks to language-learning platform Drops. The company announced today that ASL is now available for eager learners on its app Scripts,…
It’s Time to Upgrade Our Aircraft Carriers. Communist China Is
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www.redstate.com - The United States Navy’s aircraft carriers have used the same steam propulsion technology to launch airplanes into the Wild Blue Yonder – since the 1950s: “Following World War II, the Royal Navy was …
Xiaomi Mi 9 Pro 5G, Mi Full Screen TV Pro announced
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androidcommunity.com - Xiaomi is on a roll this week. After introducing the Mi MIX Alpha, here is a new phone as a follow-up to the Xiaomi Mi 9 announced in China last February. It actually came with two variants: the Mi 9…
Galaxy Note 10+ VS iPhone 11 Max Pro: Which phone survives?
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androidcommunity.com - Oh, how we missed watching Drop Tests. We usually shy away from them because they can be heartbreaking. Well, not so much now. We’re probably numb after watching several videos. The last one we featu…
Opera Mini now lets you share files offline through direct Wi-Fi
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androidcommunity.com - Sharing files between devices can sometimes be a hassle and can also seriously affect your data consumption if you’re not connected to your Wi-Fi. That’s why any app that can offer you offline sharin…
OnePlus 7T will be the first to ship Android 10 out of the box
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androidcommunity.com - Google is no longer serving dessert. The Android team has earlier decided to just use a number instead of following the alphabet. Android Q turned out to be Android 10 and along with it a new logo. A…
Samsung Galaxy Fold coming to the US with these offers
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androidcommunity.com - The Samsung Galaxy Fold has finally been relaunched after several months of redesign and testing. Samsung released the enhanced foldable phone first in South Korea. There are no negative reports yet …
Pixel 3, Pixel 3a smartphones getting a new system update
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androidcommunity.com - Android 10 OS will be available for all the Pixel phones. This information was shared earlier in September, bringing good news to owners of even the older Pixel and Pixel 2 smartphones. It’s easier f…
Google Assistant support rolling out to more Chrome OS devices
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androidcommunity.com - While Google Assistant has been present in selected Chromebooks for a couple of years now, it was mostly available on Pixelbook and Pixel Slate devices. But now it looks like even those non-Made by G…
Xiaomi Mi Mix Alpha introduced with 108MP camera, 5G support
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androidcommunity.com - The 4th-gen Mi Mix is finally here. It’s not called the Mi Mix 4 as earlier mentioned but Xiaomi decided to call it the Mi Mix Alpha. As rumored, this one boasts a 108MP camera. It’s a first in the w…
Gmail officially rolls out dark theme for Android devices
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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve always wanted to read your email in the dark, you will finally get your wish. Google is finally rolling out the long-awaited and much-requested dark theme for its Gmail for Android app. It …
Microsoft Project xCloud game streaming service almost ready
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androidcommunity.com - The Microsoft Project xCloud is about to go public. Only a few tests and tweaks here and there, Microsoft is expected to make an official announcement. In partnership with T-Mobile, we’ll get to enjo…
Pixelbook Go will be a new Chromebook with 4K display
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androidcommunity.com - It’s been almost a year since Google launched the Pixel Slate. What we thought would be a new Pixelbook model turned out to be just the slate. This year, a new Pixelbook model is expected to arrive. …
Sony Launches a PlayStation Online Store - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - And you thought Microsoft moved slowly: Sony today announced an online store where customers can buy PS4 consoles, accessories, games, and more. Assuming you live in the United States, that is. “Inte…
Amazon Announces New Premium Echo Studio Speaker - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Amazon is announcing a lot of new products and features for Alexa today. The company is introducing new hardware under the Echo brand, but the main headliner here is the Echo Studio. It’s a new, prem…
Here are the New Games Coming to Xbox Game Pass for PC - Thurrott.com
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www.thurrott.com - Following last week’s announcement about new games for Xbox Game Pass for console, Microsoft is detailing new titles for Xbox Game Pass for PC. Here’s what you can expect “soon” or what I assume is f…
Read Trump’s Ukraine Call Transcript Here
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Watch Live: Dems Drink Impeachment Kool-Aid
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www.infowars.com - Life is stressful. Get Chill Force. Support your body’s natural systems in the fight against stress & help return to a state of healthy relaxation. The perfect pair with Brain Force or Turbo Force fo…
Whoops! Google Says Mysterious Wave of Unbootable Macs Is Their Bad
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gizmodo.com - A serious flaw in Google Keystone, which controls Chrome updates, is capable of doing major damage to macOS file systems on some computers and has been linked to data corruption that struck Hollywood…
Minnesota police seize nearly $4 million worth of illegal vaping products in record bust
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thehill.com - Authorities in Minnesota seized nearly $4 million worth of illegal vaping cartridges containing THC in what is the largest bust of its kind in the state. NBC News reports police recovered 76,972 e-ci…
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Sleep hacking: How to control your mitochondrial clocks
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bigthink.com - DAVE ASPREY: One of the biggest things you can do that isn't going to cost you anything is improve the quality of your sleep. It's funny, because when you get a good night's sleep regularly at the ri…
UN Report Warns Climate Change Is Accelerating Ice Melt
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www.bloomberg.com - Days after millions of climate protesters called for international action and global leaders convened at the United Nations Climate Action Summit, the world’s top climate-science body warned that col…
Knullige overvaller-Al 30 jaar vermist – Binnenland en Buitenland Nieuws
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055nu.com - Dronten – Tien seconden, langer had de eigenaar van cafetaria De Halve Maan in Dronten niet nodig om een overvaller zijn zaak uit te werken. De dader probeerde op woensdag 8 mei 2019 rond 22.00 uur t…
A rare encounter with the freaky Deepstaria jellyfish
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boingboing.net - Recently a team of marine scientists were piloting a submersible when they had a super-rare encounter with a Deepstaria jellyfish. It starts off looking like a ghost and then turns inside out and spr…
Filtering Data Client-Side: Comparing CSS, jQuery, and React | CSS-Tricks
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css-tricks.com - ...or file names, or phone numbers, or whatever. And you want to filter them client-side, meaning you aren't making a server-side request to search through data and return results. You just want to t…
Using AI to improve dentistry, VideaHealth gets a $5.4 million polish – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Florian Hillen, the chief executive officer of a new startup called VideaHealth, first started researching the problems with dentistry about three years ago. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
With a new $20 million in funding, electronic stethoscope startup Eko wants to research your beating heart – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - It’s hard to compete against the Apple Watch or even an app on your phone when it comes to personal heart rate monitors these days. However, Eko, a startup best known for creating an electronic steth…
Oculus shows off its latest next-generation headset prototypes – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - At its developer conference Wednesday, Oculus showed off a pair of prototype designs for its next high-end headsets. Two years ago, Oculus showed off its Half Dome prototype which utilized a technolo…
QC Ware Forge will give developers access to quantum hardware and simulators across vendors – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Quantum computing is almost ready for prime time, and, according to most experts, now is the time to start learning how to best develop for this new and less than intuitive technology. With multiple …
Climate stakes are high for ice and oceans, IPCC report explains
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arstechnica.com - "Over the 21st century, the ocean is projected to transition to unprecedented conditions with increased temperatures, greater upper-ocean stratification, further acidification, oxygen decline, and al…
Forget the marshmallow test; this could be the real secret to kids’ future success
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arstechnica.com - Kindergarten children whose teachers rate them as being highly inattentive tend to earn less in their 30s than classmates who are rated highly "pro-social," according to a recent paper in JAMA Psychi…
Will you still need me, will you still feed me: Yes, your cat bonds with you
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arstechnica.com - This video shows a seven-year-old male cat exhibiting strong attachment. Courtesy Kristyn Vitale/Oregon State University It's a common stereotype that dogs bond strongly with their owners and are hig…
This Is How Truly Successful People Think About Money
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www.quora.com - How do the most successful people think about their assets? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
The Key to Success on a Team Is Connection
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www.success.com - To crack the code on true potential, data scientists on Google’s world-famous People Analytics team launched an initiative with the not so secret code name Project Aristotle. Here was their initial m…
8 Reasons Why Coffee Is Healthy for You * AmbitionOasis.com
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www.ambitionoasis.com - Who doesn’t love this dark drink? It’s the best antioxidants source in the Western diet. Sipping your cup of coffee ads more yummy to your tummy and relieves stress, keeps your heart healthy and many…
Cisco Partners With SingularityNET on Decentralized Artificial Intelligence
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cointelegraph.com - Decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) firm SingularityNET and tech conglomerate Cisco have partnered to develop applied artificial general intelligence (AGI) technologies. AGI is one aspect of A…
Creating Tables In Figma — Smashing Magazine
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www.smashingmagazine.com - Sasha is a product designer at dvhb. For the last few years he has worked mostly on agritech and logistics b2b solutions. Outside of work he enjoys life with … More about Sasha Belichenko … Upgrade y…
How to Solve Render Props Callback Hell
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dmitripavlutin.com - A good design of React components is the key to a maintainable and easy to change codebase. In this sense, React offers a lot of design techniques like composition, hooks, higher-order components, re…
Brain-Computer Technology Is Accelerating. Will We Soon Be Typing With Our Minds?
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Reg Saddler
www.forbes.com - There is much excitement surrounding the field of brain-computer interfaces (BCI). Take, for example, recent headline-grabbing announcements from Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk, which has the long-t…
Animals, science, behaviour and ethics
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Reg Saddler
cosmosmagazine.com - The moral status of animals has a long and fraught history in the West, much of it reflecting poorly on our ethical understanding. While the scientific account of non-human animals is playing an incr…
Trust in science wavers because of messaging, not method
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Reg Saddler
cosmosmagazine.com - In a period of history marked by mutually exclusive concepts of information authenticity – think fake news, and real news derided as fake – the robust nature of published scientific research is criti…
Clean energy technology is drawing inspiration from nature
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Reg Saddler
cosmosmagazine.com - When we think about renewable energy, we think of rolling fields with windmills or industrial rooftops covered in silicon solar panels designed by human engineers in high-tech labs. As engineers work…
Corals need a lot of help from their friends
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Reg Saddler
cosmosmagazine.com - New research has supplied unique insights at a genetic level into how corals collaborate with their microscopic partners – including algae, bacteria and archaea – to grow and thrive. It’s well establ…
4 Common Diversity And Inclusion Myths In The Workplace
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www.forbes.com - This article is the second in a series focused on Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) in the workplace. D&I and I&D are used interchangeably as both have become common references for diversity and inclusio…
NASA's Mars lander detects mysterious magnetic pulses
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futurism.com - NASA’s InSight Mars Lander detected a series of strange magnetic pulses that occurred exactly at midnight, Mars time. Scientists have yet to figure out the source of the strange natural phenomenon, a…
Let Your Plants Play Music, and Gardens of Sound Will Bloom
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www.wired.com - In 2012, the artists Joe Patitucci and Alex Tyson set up a jungle's worth of tropical plants in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and invited them to perform. People filed in to stand and listen as the …
Polio Vaccinations Still Causing Polio – Report
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www.infowars.com - It is exceedingly rare for the public health community to admit to any problems with vaccination. Every so often, however, circumstances force officials into making just such an acknowledgment. The c…
The happiest introverts may be extraverts: Advice for introverts: Fake it, and you'll be happier
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www.sciencedaily.com - That's the suggestion of the first-ever study asking people to act like extraverts for a prolonged period. For one week, the 123 participants were asked to -- in some cases -- push the boundaries of …
Context may explain why dads are happier and less stressed than moms
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www.sciencedaily.com - In a study led by Penn State, researchers looked at childcare through the lens of a "care context." Going beyond measuring how much time mothers and fathers spend taking care of their children, the r…
8 Ways Post-Click Automation Makes Running Client Campaigns Easier for Agencies (Ebook)
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instapage.com - Scale personalization Map ads to post-click experiences Continuously prove value Heatmaps Optimize for conversions with confidence Make widespread edits to client pages More efficient collaboration P…
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What People Don't Know About Lorre White, 'The Luxury Guru'
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www.forbes.com - To most people, Lorre White is an international personality who regularly appears on television, radio and every conceivable form of digital media as “The Luxury Guru.” In this role, she shares her e…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir | The Umbrellas | NG3268
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www.nationalgallery.org.uk - This painting places us in a busy street in Paris close to six principal figures who fill the foreground. A milling crowd behind them almost completely blocks out the boulevard beyond. The top quarte…
How To Get The Most Out Of A Wine Club
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www.forbes.com - Getty For years when someone joined a wine club, it was a winery’s wine club, an allocation or other method of sending bottles straight from the producer to their customers around the world. This con…
Bodega, once dubbed ‘America’s most hated startup,’ has quietly raised millions – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - More than two years ago, Fast Company published a story with the headline “Two Ex-Googlers Want To Make Bodegas And Mom-And-Pop Corner Stores Obsolete.” The focus of the story was a nascent startup b…
Amazon’s new Alexa Food Network service aims to make Echo the Peloton of cooking – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Amazon is partnering up with Food Network on a new recipe service for its Echo Show line of devices, borne out of the interest it saw in users for recipes and cooking videos on the smart video speake…
In a city filled with murals, Deb stands out, spray can in hand
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www.sfchronicle.com - There are a few features that mark a Deb Diamond Fineberg mural as a Deb Diamond Fineberg mural. The spray paint medium, of course. The women and their cinched waists. The hyper-bright, many-colored …
These are the 5 lies you’ve been told about procrastination
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www.fastcompany.com - If there’s one habit that most people struggle with, it’s procrastination. Whether you’re a perfectionist who’s terrified of failing, or you constantly underestimate how long it will take to complete…
Chicken Enchilada Bake – The Travel Bite
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thetravelbite.com - This chicken enchilada bake is my new go-to for any occasion that needs a casserole. Or simply when I’m in the mood for something hearty and spicy, but don’t want to make chili. It’s a lot like regul…
Autumn Sangria – The Travel Bite
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thetravelbite.com - I can’t think of a better way to kick off the fall season than with a glass of spice infused Autumn Sangria. My good friend, Maranda, gave me this recipe years ago and I always make a batch around La…
09-25-2019 - [X&Y] 10 Real-World Ways To "Ignite Femininity"
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archive.aweber.com - ===== IN THIS EDITION: You have been asking for specific examples of how to "ignite femininity" when you are with a woman. Here are ten--all of which you can start putting into action today. ===== YO…
Wednesday September 25th – Open Thread
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theconservativetreehouse.com - We once had a friend named Richard, a handyman who fixed small motors and engines. He had a faithful dog that kept him company everyday in his shop. This dog excitedly jumped to greet Richard, and th…
Doors Open 2019 in Milwaukee: What you need to know; don't miss spots
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www.jsonline.com - Keep up with the changing face of Milwaukee and satisfy your curiosity about familiar landmarks during the 2019 edition of Doors Open Milwaukee, the citywide open house Sept. 28 and 29. Last year, ne…
Take A Canopy Tour At Lake Geneva In Wisconsin To See The Fall Colors Like Never Before
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www.onlyinyourstate.com - What other places in Wisconsin offer canopy tours or similar adventures? If you’re looking for things to do in fall in Wisconsin, then there are plenty of canopy tours to consider beyond Lake Geneva.…
This makeup artist trick will make it look like you have 5x more lashes—no mascara required
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www.wellandgood.com - There’s a lot most of us are willing to do in pursuit of more luxurious eyelashes. Between lash lifts, lash extensions, lash serums, false lashes, and good old-fashioned mascara, there’s clearly no s…
Thanks To A Petition, Burger King Will No Longer Use Single-Use Plastic Toys
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www.mindbodygreen.com - In July, two little girls made headlines for starting a petition. Their goal? To convince fast-food restaurants to get rid of the plastic toys they often include in kids' meals. Caitlin and Ella, age…
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American Farmers Are Main Winners from U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement
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www.bloomberg.com - Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. U.S. farmers -- reeling from trade wars, low commodity prices and bad weather -- are set to be the m…
CEO ouster, looming layoffs and devaluation turn WeWork into cautionary tale – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Major layoffs are all but inevitable at high-flying real estate startup WeWork after Adam Neumann succumbed to pressure today to step down as CEO and take the role instead of non-executive chairman o…
Market Update: Low Volumes and Uncertainty Shake Crypto Traders - Bitcoin News
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news.bitcoin.com - The majority of digital currency markets have lost a few percentages over the last few days as cryptocurrency trade volume has been waning. Since our last market outlook, more than $20 billion in glo…
Former Danske Estonia boss found dead amid money laundering inquiry - Reuters
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uk.reuters.com - TALLINN (Reuters) - A former head of Danske Bank’s (DANSKE.CO) Estonian branch, which is at the centre of inquiries into the world’s largest money laundering scandal, was found dead on Wednesday. Pol…
Loyalty360 Reads: September 25, 2019
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loyalty360.org - Programs Heinen’s Sees Food Prescriptions as the Future of Customer Loyalty The grocery retailer “plans to roll out an app that develops personalized diet plans to help treat specific conditions. If …
Why Flexport built a slick Slack SAAS for shipping – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - “Make their metrics your metrics” is one of Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen’s mantras. Sometimes that means building free software for your clients. It can be frustrating aligning your fates with a fellow…
MaxAB raises $6M seed round to optimize Egypt’s B2B grocery markets – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Cairo based startup MaxAB looks to optimize the supply-chain network for Egypt’s food and grocery retailers. The B2B e-commerce company raised a $6.2 million seed-investment co-led by Beco Capital an…
Spanish startup Elma gets $3.2M for a digital-first health insurance play – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Insurtech startup Elma has closed a €3 million (~$3.2M) Series A funding round led by Mangrove Capital partners to build out a digital-first health insurance business starting with Spain, its domesti…
Fidel raises $18M to let developers build on top of payment data from Visa, MasterCard and Amex – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Fidel, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an API to let developers build functionality, such as rewards, on top of the major card payment networks, has raised $18 million in Series A funding.…
Kreditech, the AI-based near-prime loans platform, nabs $22M under new CEO to expand globally – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Cash advances (or simply, loans) continue to be a lucrative area for startups to tackle. By leveraging new AI-based tools to evaluate potential customers, the network effect of the internet and the q…
Symantec’s Sheila Jordan named to Slack’s board of directors – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Workplace collaboration software business Slack (NYSE: WORK) has added Sheila Jordan, a senior vice president and chief information officer of Symantec, as an independent member of its board of direc…
Juul names longtime tobacco exec as chief executive as Kevin Burns steps down – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Juul Labs chief executive Kevin Brown is stepping down from the leadership role in the company making way for a longtime tobacco executive from the company’s largest shareholder, Atria, to take the r…
Fractional home ownership startup Divvy raises $43m series B to build a path from rent to purchase – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - There is no more important savings asset for most American families than owning a home, but the dream of ownership has turned into a nightmare. Homeownership, which peaked in 2004 at around 70%, hit …
Vannevar Labs comes out of stealth to bring best-in-class AI tech to national security agencies – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Few organizations have the complex data and analytics problems that challenge the defense and intelligence communities every single day. Whether it is managing petabytes of text, audio, or video data…
Unbabel gets $60M for its blended approach to business translation – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Unbabel, a Lisbon-based startup that’s built a platform for translating customer service messages at scale by combining the speed of machine translation with native (human) speaker nuance and experti…
Social care startup Lifted raises £1.5M for end-to-end elderly care platform – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - The number of elderly adults requiring home care is set to grow at an alarming rate in most western countries as people live progressively longer. But underinvestment in technology and healthcare mea…
Arceo.ai raises $37 million to expand cyber insurance coverage and access – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Critical cyber attacks on both businesses and individuals have been grabbing headlines at an alarming rate. Cybersecurity has moved from a background risk for enterprises to a critical day-to-day thr…
Manila-based payments processing startup PayMongo raises $2.7 million in seed funding – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Manila-based financial tech startup PayMongo has raised $2.7 million in seed funding to give merchants in the Philippines and other Southeast Asian markets simple ways to set up online payments. Inve…
Devin Wenig steps down as eBay CEO – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - eBay this morning announced that Devin Wenig has stepped down from the role of CEO. A former executive at Reuters, Wenig joined the company eight years ago this month as president of its global marke…
Your guide to WeWork’s CEO shuffle – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate and Alex were back at TechCrunch’s San Francisco HQ to…
ZenBusiness raises $10m to help founders launch and grow “worry-free” – TechCrunch
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techcrunch.com - There are two sides to starting a new business. On one side, entrepreneurs need creativity, imagination — a dream, essentially — to find, build, and market a new product to users and consumers. But o…
Bitcoin Network Hash Rate Mysteriously Flash Crashes by 40%
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cointelegraph.com - Bitcoin’s (BTC) network hash rate dipped a record 40% yesterday, Sept. 23, in a sudden shock for the network. Bitcoin network hash rate, Nov. 2018-present. Source: Coin.dance Data from Coin.dance — c…
A straight-forward guide to what investors want to see in a pitch deck - SumoDash
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www.sumodash.com - Raising money for your startup could be difficult. Every investor wants to see a solid pitch deck, but what exactly do they want to see? We’ll cover all of that for you in this article! If you’re rai…
The $100 Trillion Opportunity: The Race To Provide Banking To The World’s Poor
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www.forbes.com - Two years ago, Amylene Dingle lived with her husband and 7-year-old daughter in Payatas, an impoverished Manila neighborhood with the largest open dump site in the Philippines. Her husband worked on …
How to Recruit the Next Generation of Feds: Better Pay, Benefits
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www.govexec.com - Lawmakers and federal workforce advocacy groups on Wednesday all seemed to agree that in order to improve the government’s ability to recruit and retain employees, agencies must do a better job of co…
Moz Local Search Analytics and industry trends: Q&A with Moz’s Sarah Bird and Rob Bucci
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www.searchenginewatch.com - Moz is known and loved by many in the SEO community not only for their tools, but also for the ways they’ve contributed to SEO education via their blog, Whiteboard Fridays, Search Ranking Factors stu…
Juul Labs Replaces CEO, Halts Ads in US
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www.newsmax.com - E-cigarette maker Juul is shutting down broadcast, print and digital advertising and ending lobbying efforts in Washington as safety concerns over vaping intensify. The company on Wednesday said its …
Fed Injecting Cash into Banking System to Hold Rates Down
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www.infowars.com - The Federal Reserve upped the ante in its efforts to hold short-term interest rates down this week, injecting longer-term cash into the financial system. Last week, the New York Fed began running rep…
Woman-Owned Businesses Are Growing 2X Faster On Average Than All Businesses Nationwide
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finance.yahoo.com - THE NUMBER OF WOMEN STARTING PART-TIME BUSINESSES, OFTEN REFERRED TO AS “SIDEPRENEURS,” IS GROWING NEARLY TWICE AS FAST AS THE OVERALL GROWTH OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS THE NINTH…
Texas has almost ONE MILLION Women-Owned Businesses
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www.localnewsonly.com - Texas has an estimated 978,924 women-owned businesses, employing 835,773 and attributing to roughly $142,212,480,000 according to the ninth annual State of Women-Owned Businesses Report, commissioned…
How WeWork’s "fiasco" could threaten Silicon Valley’s rich and powerful
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www.vox.com - The knives are out for Silicon Valley’s most controversial investor. WeWork’s plummeting valuation and the ouster of its CEO Adam Neumann on Tuesday has unleashed new frustration with SoftBank, whose…
The robot that takes your job should pay taxes, says Bill Gates
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qz.com - Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies’ use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of emp…
How to Reduce Facebook Ad Costs With Manual Bidding
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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Want more control over your Facebook campaign costs? Have you considered using manual Facebook ad bidding? In this article, you’ll discover three ways to control your Facebook advertising costs with …
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