Thursday, October 03, 2019

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TECHNOLOGY AND MORE!

GUY KAWASAKI - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

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dad.ceo - Being a loyal Mac user since the very early days of Apple and now the Founder of DAD.CEO, getting the chance to interview the legendary Guy Kawasaki was a chance I could not pass up! While many would…

Facebook Adds 'Click to Messenger' CTA for Stories Ads

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www.socialmediatoday.com - With Stories gaining momentum across Facebook's family of apps, The Social Network is this week rolling out an expansion of its 'Click to Message' CTA to include Stories ads across Facebook, Instagra…

Pentek Adds 3U VPX Software Radio Board to Jade FPGA Family with Backplane Optical and RF I/O

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www.embedded-computing.com - Pentek introduced the Jade Model 54821 high-performance 3U VPX board, based on the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA. Features include three 200 MHz 16-bit A/Ds with three programmable multiband digital …

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followme4.blogspot.com - TECHNOLOGY AND MORE! Intel IG Admits It Secretly Erased ‘First-Hand Information’ Requirement Shared by Glen Woodfin thefederalist.com - The Intelligence Community Inspector General released a stateme…

Tiny acquires Meteor – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Canadian technology holding company Tiny, home to companies like Dribble, Flow and Unicorn Hunt, today announced that it has acquired Meteor, the JavaScript-centric open-source app platform. Meteor l…

WhatsApp testing out disappearing messages feature

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androidcommunity.com - If you’ve ever wanted to send a message that you want to be readable only for a certain period of time, the disappearing or ephemeral message features of messaging apps is truly useful. Several apps …

SideActions app is a button, S Pen remapper for the Note 10

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androidcommunity.com - The Galay Note 10 series arrived with a Bixby button. It can be remapped but it can’t be said of the S Pen, Volume, and the Power Button. Those three important parts of the phone can now be easily re…

Here’s everything Microsoft announced at today’s Surface event – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - This morning’s Surface event was all about “flow.” It was hard to miss, honestly. The company must have collectively uttered the word dozens of times on stage in New York. The word of the day was lar…

UK privacy ‘class action’ complaint against Google gets unblocked – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The UK Court of Appeal has unanimously overturned a block on a class-action style lawsuit brought on behalf of four million iPhone users against Google — meaning the case can now proceed to be heard.…

Mutiny creates personalized plans for B2B marketing – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Mutiny, a personalized marketing startup for businesses that sell to other businesses, is taking the stage today at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where it’s announcing new funding and new feature…

Update: Twitter and TweetDeck hit with partial outages for hours – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Update: Twitter has said it’s “just about fixed” the partial outages that hit its apps for around seven hours today, limiting the content users could post or access. Users should be able to Twitter a…

Google announces Action Blocks, a new accessibility tool for creating mobile shortcuts – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced Action Blocks, a new accessibility tool that allows you to create shortcuts for common multi-step tasks with the help of the Google Assistant. In that respect, Action Blocks is…

Introducing the Startup Battlefield companies at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch is excited to announce the 20 startups competing in Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019. Over the next three days, these elite companies will compete on tech’s big…

YouTube’s Neal Mohan describes the company’s efforts on safety and trust – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan gave an update on all things YouTube at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. He touched on many different subjects, from YouTube Music updates to advertiser-friendly guidel…

Facetune maker Lightricks expands with a trio of apps for small businesses – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Fresh of its recent raise of $135 million, Lightricks, the maker of popular selfie editor Facetune and several other top consumer-focused photo editing applications, is branching out. The company thi…

Bad news: Facebook leads in news consumption among social feeds, but most don’t trust it, says Pew – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - As Facebook prepares to launch a “news tab” this month featuring news stories curated by humans to complement the headlines that appear in your social feed generated by your friends’ shares, paid pro…

Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 7 finally has USB-C, ships on October 22 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Today at its special hardware event, Microsoft unveiled the new Surface Pro 7. The new Surface Pro finally brings USB-C to the convertible laptop category of Microsoft hardware, which will be a welco…

The first details about Volvo’s upcoming electric XC40 SUV – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Volvo is teasing its upcoming, and first all-electric car, with some initial sketches and a few details of the XC40 SUV. The upshot: Volvo is emphasizing a simpler design that discards some of the fe…

Google rolls out new privacy tools for Maps, YouTube and Assistant – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced a handful of new consumer privacy tools for some of its most-used products, including Google Maps, YouTube and Google Assistant. The tools are meant to better allow users to co…

Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg is wrong about TikTok – 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. Zucke…

Render announces object storage service at TechCrunch Disrupt – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It was a big day for startup Render, which participated in the TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield today. While it was at it, it also announced some upgrades to its managed cloud platform. First o…

Demand for Porsche Taycan prompts automaker to add 500 more jobs – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Demand for the all-electric Porsche Taycan sports car has prompted the German automaker to add 500 more jobs at its headquarters in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. The move, which will boost jobs dedicated t…

Render challenges the cloud’s biggest vendors with cheaper, managed infrastructure – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Render, a participant in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield, has a big idea. It wants to take on the world’s biggest cloud vendors by offering developers a cheaper alternative that also re…

Duet adds Android tablet support for its second screen app – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Sidecar is great. It’s my favorite software thing Apple has introduced in years. I’m using it right now, as I type this, in fact. For a handle of app developers, however, the feature’s arrival with m…

Foursquare’s location-aware Pilgrim SDK gets a free tier – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Ten years later, Foursquare is far past its scrappy consumer days as it builds out its B2B services, but its latest announcement is thrusting it back into the scrappy consumer business. Onstage at Te…

YouTube Music is launching three new personalized playlists – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - YouTube Music is preparing to better challenge Spotify and others with the launch of three new personalized playlists — Discover Mix, New Release Mix and Your Mix — said YouTube Chief Product Officer…

GoPro's Hero8 Black Is Boring—and That's What Makes It Great

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gizmodo.com - No single upgrade in GoPro’s new flagship camera will surprise you. There is no “new killer feature” that sets it apart from either the competition or last year’s Hero7 Black. It doesn’t even have a …

Why big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS

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arstechnica.com - When you visit a new website, your computer probably submits a request to the domain name system (DNS) to translate the domain name (like arstechnica.com) to an IP address. Currently, most DNS querie…

Google adds password “checkup” into Web account password manager

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arstechnica.com - Back in February, Google introduced a Chrome extension called Password Checkup—a plug-in that tapped into Google's collection of account breach data and warned users of exposed passwords. Now, Google…

The 2020 Audi RS7—our all-time favorite fastback just got even better

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arstechnica.com - I was petrified that Audi would somehow make the second-generation RS7 not as good to look at or drive as its predecessor. I was wrong to be worried, because the new car hits both of those bases at o…

Why Ajit Pai’s “unhinged” net neutrality repeal was upheld by judges

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission has mostly defeated net neutrality supporters in court even though judges expressed skepticism about Chairman Ajit Pai's justification for repealing net neutrali…

AMD scores a big marketing win with Ryzen-powered Microsoft Surface

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arstechnica.com - Today, Microsoft and AMD announced a new line of 15" ultraslim Surface laptops based on AMD Ryzen CPUs. These devices are still Zen 1 mobile parts, not the much-anticipated 7nm Zen 2—but their inclus…

Facebook, Reddit, and others need a deepfakes plan now, senators say

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arstechnica.com - With only 13 months left to go in the seemingly interminable 2020 US election season, senators are calling on Facebook, Snapchat, Reddit, and other social networks to do something sooner, rather than…

Hands-on with Microsoft’s barrage of new Surface devices

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arstechnica.com - Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled a slew of laptops and tablets for its Surface line of Windows computers and related accessories. The announcements include the Surface Pro 7, the latest iteration of t…

Super Mario Maker 2 catches up with 1998, lets you play online with friends

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arstechnica.com - A Nintendo game that lets you connect specifically to your friends? We'd love to be in a universe where that was just a given, but, hey, this is Nintendo we're talking about. Some rules you can defin…

The Last of Us Pt. II headlines PlayStation event with trailer, Feb. 2020 launch

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arstechnica.com - The trailer's closing moment sees someone grab Ellie. Her face immediately melts upon realizing who's there. The trailer opens with Ellie and her apparent new partner sharing a joint and talking abou…

AMD Ryzen Pro 3000 series desktop CPUs will offer full RAM encryption

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arstechnica.com - Monday, AMD announced Ryzen Pro 3000 desktop CPUs would be available in Q4 2019. This of course raises the question, "What's a Ryzen Pro?" The business answer: Ryzen Pro 3000 is a line of CPUs specif…

Expertos preocupados por asteroide que pasará cerca de la Tierra

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www.telemundo.com - Amantes de la astronomía y expertos se encuntran muy preocupados por el asteroide que pasará cerca de la Tierra. Las abejas nombradas el ser vivo más importante del planeta Revelan los alimentos que …

5 Reasons People Don’t Reach the Level of Success they Desire |...

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www.briantracy.com - It’s easy to have high aspirations… It’s much less easy to make those dreams and goals a reality. The truth is, many of us struggle the most with the daunting day-in and day-out repetition that yield…

Top 14 Best Email Newsletter Plugins for WordPress (2019)

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winningwp.com - Building an email list is one of the most important things you can do for your online business. Why? Because it gives you direct access to an audience that’s genuinely interested in what you do; an a…

Desktop vs. Mobile: Amazon's Account Creation | GoodUI

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goodui.org - I'm opening up to the possibility that some of our UI patterns might be contextual to desktop or mobile. To feel out how some of these patterns might be reinforced, break or bend, it might be great t…

The Top Six Best Drag-&-Drop WordPress Page Builder Plugins Compared

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winningwp.com - Drag-and-drop WordPress page builder plugins are all the rage now! I’d even risk saying they’re the new themes — as in, why would you go looking for a theme to match your site’s purpose when you coul…

Pros and Cons of Software Outsourcing | QArea Blog

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qarea.com - Whether you are the owner of a business, a responsible top manager or a dedicated employee — you want the business to thrive. Resorting to the services of software outsourcing can seem like a great i…

Wordmark logos 101: Why and when to use them

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dribbble.com - You’ve probably seen tons of wordmark logos in your lifetime. Many of the biggest brands out there have chosen this type of logo to represent their visual identity. But why did they go with a wordmar…

Apple iOS 13.1.2 Release: Should You Upgrade?

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www.forbes.com - Apple iOS 13.1.2 has landed. It is the third fast-tracked iOS 13 upgrade in under two weeks as Apple desperately plays Whac-a-mole with its botched iOS 13 launch. If you’re unfortunate enough to be r…

Twitter rolls out Direct Message filter for all users

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androidcommunity.com - A couple of months ago, Twitter started testing out a feature that would filter out Direct Messages that are deemed offensive as well as unsolicited and unwanted. The social media network is rife wit…

OneDrive brings Personal Vault, expandable storage, to all users

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androidcommunity.com - Microsoft has a winner in its OneDrive cloud storage app as it has proven to be a popular option for users who are looking for alternatives to Dropbox or Google Drive. A few months ago they launched …

Recorder app updated with audio search, automatic transcriptions

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androidcommunity.com - Some Pixel 4 apps were made available for some Android 10 phones. It was unofficial but we were given a glimpse of what the upcoming Pixel 4 phone can offer including the new Pixel Launcher, live wal…

Garmin MARQ Commander debuts as a new luxury tool smartwatch

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androidcommunity.com - Garmin is almost synonymous with GPS but the brand has since evolved into making other wearables. They are mainly health and fitness trackers. There are more expensive versions but there are also aff…

Start streaming Xbox games from the cloud to your Android device

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androidcommunity.com - Microsoft’s very own Project xCloud is slowly becoming a reality. It’s been almost a year ago when we first mentioned the Microsoft Project xCloud made for everyone in mind. The idea was to allow gam…

OnePlus’ Zen Mode feature gets update with digital detox challenge

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androidcommunity.com - Tech brands are learning that if you encourage people to stop using their phones for a small window of time every day, they get brownie points for helping people get healthier. When OnePlus launched …

Huawei Mate 30 Pro loses ability to install Google apps

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androidcommunity.com - This is happening. Your worst fear, that is, especially if you are a hardcore Huawei fan. The newly released Huawei Mate 30 Pro reportedly, can not install Google apps anymore. One researcher has loo…

Next-gen Google Pixel 4 image leaked yet again

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androidcommunity.com - Yes. You read that headline right. Another image of the Pixel 4 has been leaked. This time, the photo was shared by Master Leakster Evan Blass (@evleaks) so there is a high possibility it is close to…

New Pandora Mobile Experience brings personalized features to all users

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androidcommunity.com - If you’re a big fan of Pandora, you just might become even more of a fan as it brings a new Pandora Mobile Experience, improving on some of its features and bringing a whole new lot of personalized f…

Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News

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www.journalism.org - As heated debate continues over how social media sites can improve the quality of news on their platforms while enforcing rules fairly, most Americans are pessimistic about these efforts and are high…

Feds Will Pay 5.6% More Toward Health Care Premiums Next Year

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www.govexec.com - Federal employees will pay an average of 5.6% more for their health insurance premiums in 2020, a dramatic uptick from the historically low increase workers saw this year. The government’s share of F…

Surface Pro 7 Launches With Upgraded Internals, Promises Laptop-class Performance - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - There’s a new Surface Pro in town. And it looks exactly like the Surface Pro 6 from the outside. Don’t worry, though: Microsoft is actually launching two new Surface Pro devices this year. The compan…

Surface Laptop 3 Launches With New 15-inch Variant, AMD Processors, Metal Finish - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - Microsoft is introducing the third-generation of the Surface Laptop today. At its New York event, the company just took the wraps off the Surface Laptop 3, the company’s newest clamshell laptop. And …

Apple iPhone 11 Pro Max First Impressions - Thurrott.com

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www.thurrott.com - My iPhone 11 Pro Max arrived exactly one week earlier than promised, complicating my trip to New York. Plus, I still need to finish reviewing the OnePlus 7T before I can really dive into Apple’s late…

Locast Accuses the Major Broadcasters of Antitrust Violations

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www.hollywoodreporter.com - As alleged in court papers filed on Friday morning, the major broadcasters including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox are purposely broadcasting weak over-the-air signals to the public as part of a conspiracy t…

Warren Out Front in New Hampshire, Up on Sanders by Double Digits

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www.breitbart.com - The poll – which surveyed 423 registered New Hampshire voters likely to vote in the Democrat primary from September 25-29, 2019 – showed Warren leading the primary field with 25 percent support and B…

What are the eight Myths that may hinder your success? - Thrive Global

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thriveglobal.com - What is a myth? It s a narrative or tale that plays an essential role in society — originally used to explain fables and history of times past and carried on to the present as “fundamental ideas” in …

What the heck is happening with this net neutrality court decision? We'll be joined by public interest lawyers, activists, experts, and Senator Ed Markey to answer your questions about the federal court decision regarding Ajit Pai's repeal of open Internet protections.

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www.reddit.com - You know that before the repeal, ISPs could throttle all the same? "What if I told you there was nothing in the existing net neutrality rules that stopped providers from throttling speeds, blocking c…

12 Techniques to Reduce Your Facebook Ad Spend

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www.socialmediaexaminer.com - Do you want to reduce unnecessary spending on your Facebook ads? Looking for a way to audit your work? In this article, you’ll discover how to assess and improve your Facebook ad campaign performance…

The most popular social media networks each year, gloriously animated

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thenextweb.com - Considering social media’s global impact (hello Trump and Brexit), it’s strange to think just how young the medium is. Hell, before the early 2000s, if you wanted to reconnect with a long-lost friend…

Bitcoin And Crypto Wallets Are Now Being Targeted By Malware

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www.forbes.com - Bitcoin and the wider cryptocurrency market's huge price rise over the last few years meant that criminals quickly began taking a closer interest in crypto. A rapid increase in crypto scams and theft…

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LEISURE

Did You Know the World-Famous Easter Island Heads Have Bodies Buried Underground?

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mymodernmet.com - If you’re familiar with Easter Island, you’ve undoubtedly heard of the famous Easter Island heads. While these massive monoliths are among the world’s most famous sculptures, their household name is …

Leading Langhorne Creek wineries join forces to raise profile - Harpers Wine & Spirit Trade News

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harpers.co.uk - Home News A number of Langhorne Creek’s leading wineries and industry bodies have joined forces in a bid to grow the region’s profile among industry players and drinkers. The project, named 5255 in a…

Can We Age Our Rosés? « Wine « Please The Palate « Marketing and event planning for the wine and spirits industry

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pleasethepalate.com - Each year, wineries release their rosés and we, the consumer, can’t get enough. We drink our rosé wine year round now but typically we buy the wine and consume it rather quickly. But what if we find …

Info For Attendees – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - TechCrunch Events app is now available. With the app, you will be able to create your calendar and agenda, discover Startup Alley exhibitors and sponsors, connect with opted-in attendees, wayfinding,…

Opinion | The Long, Strange Tale of California’s Surf Nazis

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www.nytimes.com - In “The History of Surfing” by Matt Warshaw, Noll, the legendary big-wave rider and filmmaker behind the “Search for Surf” films, shrugged off accusations of latent Nazi sympathy by saying, “We’d pai…

How to Learn Fast and Remember More: 5 Effective Techniques

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www.lifehack.org - With every advancement in technology, there has been a decline in something else. It’s a tough pill to swallow, but it’s the price we pay for convenience. To really show that, let’s take a walk down …

‘I’d Rather Have Bananas’: Tech Billionaire Mark Cuban on Bitcoin

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cointelegraph.com - Billionaire technology investor Mark Cuban said that he would be happier owning bananas than Bitcoin (BTC). Cuban made his remarks in a video Q&A published on YouTube by technology news outlet Wired …

10+ Places To Look For Landing Page Design Inspiration | UIdeck

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uideck.com - Before the commencement of any kind of project, the very first thing that people usually do is analyze and research what others in the same boat have done before them. It is also normal to check the …

So you’ve lost your design mojo? Well here’s how to get it back!

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medium.com - And I mean seriously lost it, to a stage where you’re questioning if the last 10 years have been worth it and maybe it’s time you really should take your childhood dream of becoming an astronaut seri…

Visit the Blue Pearl of Morocco - Chefchaouen City - Unusual Places

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unusualplaces.org - Nestled across the slopes of the beautiful Reef mountains, Chefchaouen City is rich with the amazing sight of ancient buildings, painted in vibrant shades of blue. The blue city is a relatively relax…

Coffin Pieced Together Reveals Egyptian Princess Face

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www.ancient-origins.net - In Egypt archaeologists have been able to reconstruct the face of the daughter of an Egyptian pharaoh . They painstakingly pieced together what seems to be the sarcophagus of an Egyptian princess nam…

Enlightened Data Collection: Thinking out of the form field box

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loyalty360.org - As a copywriter, I was conditioned to consider the consumer’s attention span, or lack thereof, and try to make every interaction with a brand worthwhile. Ensuring that value exchange is the responsib…

Talking about money is hard but it can boost financial literacy - ABC Life

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www.abc.net.au - There are few topics where honesty among even very close friends is hard to achieve. Money matters have to rank at the top of that list. At the start of my career, almost all of my social research wa…

My London: Shruti Haasan - Actress and Musician

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www.ldnfashion.com - Shruti Haasan is a pop/rock musician and one of India’s most celebrated actresses. The songstress, who is based between Mumbai and London, released her first single when she was just 6 and emerged on…

10-02-2019 - [U-Ofc] How Small Successes Become Larger Successes

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archive.aweber.com - ===== HOW SMALL SUCCESSES BECOME LARGER SUCCESSES There's no doubt about it. When you're starting from square one, to say it's "intimidating" to consider the many steps ahead to success is an underst…

The 2019 Holiday Checklist for Local SEO Heroes

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moz.com - Right now, the shoppers nearest you are making some pretty long gift lists. US holiday sales are predicted to surpass $1.1 trillion, with 4.5–5% growth between November–January. That’s a lot of gadge…

Wednesday October 2nd – Open Thread

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theconservativetreehouse.com - I am so sideways’ tonight….I’m just going to go eat worms, too! There needs to be some “shots” across the bow of the SS Dem’s etal….. The “investigations” have to have yielded fruit by now….I don’t c…

How To Give Your Home An Energetic Makeover This Fall, According To Feng Shui

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www.mindbodygreen.com - Since autumn is a time to let go, it can quickly deplete our energy. In the five elements, metal depletes earth. (Earth being self-care, boundaries, and health.) Therefore, fall is a time when we may…

Colorful Visualizations To Help You Work Through Anxious Moments

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www.mindbodygreen.com - As an acupuncturist and clairvoyant, I've worked with tens of thousands of beautiful souls over the years. One thing that connects many of them, regardless of background, income, fortune, fame, famil…

Tate Britain opens the large survey of work by William Blake

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artdaily.com - LONDON.- Tate Britain presents the largest survey of work by William Blake (1757-1827) in the UK for a generation. A visionary painter, printmaker and poet, Blake created some of the most iconic imag…

Legion of Honor presents Alexandre Singh's A Gothic Tale

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artdaily.com - SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- A Gothic Tale, a newly commissioned film and installation for the Legion of Honor by Alexandre Singh, draws inspiration from the Gothic literary tradition of 19th century Europe, …

Waterless Is The Next Frontier of Green Beauty — These New Launches Are Proof

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www.mindbodygreen.com - By 2025, 5 billion people will be affected by water shortage. Today, some 1.1 billion people lack access to water, and 2.7 billion people have at least one water scare a month. There are many factors…

Shoe Information You Will Not Find Elsewhere

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popularchristmas.com - Are you aware of the vast selection of shoes are out there? Are you well-versed on where the best prices? Are you aware of the great fashion tips concerning shoes? Keep reading for some helpful tips.…

Visiting Rome? How to Save Time and Money with the Roma Pass in 2019

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europeupclose.com - The Roma Pass was once a little-known trick of sophisticated travelers, but it has now become a must-have for anyone visiting Rome for the first time, especially during peak season. It saves you time…

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SCIENCE

Elon Musk, Man of Steel, reveals his stainless Starship

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arstechnica.com - The crowds assembled near Boca Chica Beach on Saturday evening. He was ready to show off his Starship Mk 1 prototype. Musk spoke about the company's past, including the Falcon 1 rocket, at right. Thi…

Doctor Bot: How artificial intelligence is already changing healthcare, and what’s coming next

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www.geekwire.com - Artificial intelligence is at the center of many emerging technologies today, and perhaps nowhere are the implications more meaningful than in healthcare. So where is AI making an impact in healthcar…

Italy signs an agreement to fly on VSS Unity for research missions

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arstechnica.com - On Wednesday, Virgin Galactic signed an agreement with the Italian Air Force to have humans fly on board its suborbital spacecraft and conduct scientific research. The deal marks the first time a gov…

Study claimed a GMO trial went horrifically wrong. The study’s authors disagree

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arstechnica.com - Six researchers are reportedly calling for the retraction of a study they co-authored, which claimed that a trial of genetically-modified (GM) mosquitoes went horrifically wrong and resulted in extra…

MyMilk Labs launches Mylee, a small sensor that analyzes breast milk at home – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Many expectant mothers are told that breastfeeding will come naturally, but it is often a fraught and confusing experience, especially during the first few weeks after birth. Parents often worry abou…

Kong acquires Insomnia, launches Kong Studio for API development – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - API and microservices platform Kong today announced that it has acquired Insomnia, a popular open-source tool for debugging APIs. The company, which also recently announced that it had raised a $43 m…

Delos uses satellite imagery and AI to help homeowners in wildfire areas get insurance – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - If your home is in a wildfire area, insurance companies tend to not want to go anywhere near it. But “wildfire areas” tend to be pretty broad. What if companies could evaluate the risk on a more gran…

Traptic uses 3D vision and robotic arms to harvest ripe strawberries – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - At some unspecified time, somewhere down the road, Traptic would love to expand its robots to pick a wide variety of crops. For now, however, the South Bay-based team is focused solely on strawberrie…

Molecule.one uses machine learning to make synthesizing new drugs a snap – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Say you’re a pharmaceutical company. You’ve figured out that a novel molecule could be effective in treating an illness — but that molecule only exists in a simulation. How do you actually make it, a…

Flir purchases IP and assets from defunct drone company, Aria – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Back in March, Aria Insights suddenly went dark. The news was a bit of a surprise from a startup that had just announced a name change and pivot in tech focus. Today, thermal imaging company Flir ann…

Leo Aerospace provides bespoke rocket launches — from a hot air balloon – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The demand for orbital launches is increasing steadily, and the industry is nowhere near keeping up. Leo Aerospace thinks it can help with a launch technique that’s more efficient and requires far le…

Portugal’s navy reveals “tech guerrilla” unit creating tech toys that kill

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arstechnica.com - You don't have to have a huge budget like the US Department of Defense to harness emerging technology for mayhem. During NATO's Recognized Environmental Picture Maritime Unmanned Systems (REPMUS) eve…

We put Oculus Quest’s two craziest new VR features through their paces

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arstechnica.com - SAN JOSE, Calif.—Oculus is clearly bullish on its wireless VR system, the Oculus Quest, which means this week's Oculus Connect conference is chock full of the $400 headsets. The biggest queues at the…

Tesla just bought an AI startup to improve Autopilot—here’s what it does

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arstechnica.com - Tesla has acquired the machine learning startup DeepScale, CNBC, Techcrunch, and other news outlets have reported. The company's CEO, Forrest Iandola, announced Monday that he had joined Tesla's Auto…

Ancient sippy cup may hold clues about agriculture’s spread in Europe

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arstechnica.com - A recent study found that prehistoric babies drank milk from ceramic sippy cups, including some with cute animal motifs. Lest you be overwhelmed by the cuteness, there's a heartbreaking side to that …

What's in your CBD? Buyer beware

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www.cbsnews.com - CBD (or cannabidiol) products, containing a compound found in marijuana, have skyrocketed in popularity and seem to be for sale everywhere, from grocery stores, to coffee shops and gas stations. CBD …

From $10M to Zero in 10 Days: ETH Smart Contract FairWin Is Empty

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cointelegraph.com - Ethereum (ETH) smart contract FairWin, recently accused of being the fastest-growing Ponzi scheme on Ethereum, was emptied. According to Etherscan’s data, at press time FairWin’s balance is exactly z…

Practicing Growth Design — Lex Roman

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lexroman.com - Designers approach data from a different lens than other disciplines. They have the ability to see human behavior in data. For example, in a tool like Amplitude, you can go through and see what peopl…

Five Charts That Will Change The Way You Think About Racial Inequality

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www.forbes.com - Here’s a straightforward question. For the sake of argument, let’s assume that the average white family in the United States has $100. In those terms, how much money do you think a comparable black f…

A long time ago in 12 galaxies far, far away…

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cosmosmagazine.com - Astronomers peering at the most distant parts of the Universe have found the earliest known cluster of galaxies, formed only 800 million years after the Universe first exploded from the Big Bang, 13.…

Wing Bone Indicates Swan Shamanism Could Be 420,000 Years Old!

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www.ancient-origins.net - The idea that the human soul might take the form of a swan to journey from this world to the next could be one of the oldest fundamental beliefs of human kind, or so suggests a new discovery from the…

Great apes may be smarter than we've given them credit for

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cosmosmagazine.com - Great apes can use self-experience to anticipate others’ actions, providing yet more evidence of a theory of mind in non-human animals. Theory of mind is the ability to understand and anticipate the …

An uninhabited island in the Atlantic is surprisingly covered in plastic bottles

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www.inverse.com - Plastic is everywhere. It’s in the Arctic, in the oceans, and even in our poops. It’s not yet clear whether plastic waste causes health problems for humans and other animals, but one thing is clear: …

Rural hospital closings reach crisis stage, leaving millions without nearby health care

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theconversation.com - Presidential candidates and other politicians have talked about the rural health crisis in the U.S., but they are not telling rural Americans anything new. Rural Americans know all too well what it f…

For Vulnerable Populations, the Thorny Ethics of Genetic Data Collection

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undark.org - In 2009, researchers collected DNA from four elderly men in Namibia, each from one of the many San indigenous communities scattered across southern Africa. A year later, analyses of the men’s DNA wer…

Ecosystems took millions of years to recover from the last mass extinction

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cosmosmagazine.com - Marine fossils reveal that it took millions of years for ecosystems to recover from the asteroid impact widely believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs. In addition to killing the dinosaurs, the impa…

Meteorite Swords Forged from the Fire of the Heavens

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www.ancient-origins.net - From the earliest conscious moments of the human race, we looked up into the distant night sky in wonder and amazement. Our early ancestors glanced at the same skies we see today and pondered the mys…

Tsunami dumped tropical disease on North American coastline

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cosmosmagazine.com - When a deadly tropical infection appeared on the chilly west coast of North America in 1999, its origin was a mystery. Now, researchers believe a giant earthquake 35 years earlier was to blame. More …

Modern Humans' Advanced Weapons Outclassed the Neanderthals

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www.ancient-origins.net - A team of Japanese and Italian researchers, sponsored by Tohoku University, have proven evidence of mechanically delivered projectile weapons in Europe dating to 45,000 - 40,000 years ago -- more tha…

Quantum computing milestone excites scientists

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cosmosmagazine.com - A quantum computer may have solved a problem in minutes that would take the fastest conventional supercomputer more than 10,000 years. A draft of a paper by Google researchers laying out the achievem…

Workers Are Falling Ill, Even Dying, After Making Kitchen Countertops

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www.npr.org - A worker cuts black granite to make a countertop. Though granite, marble and "engineered stone" all can produce harmful silica dust when cut, ground or polished, the artificial stone typically contai…

Identification of patients and plaques vulnerable to future coronary events with near-infrared spectroscopy intravascular ultrasound imaging: a pro... - PubMed - NCBI

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) intravascular ultrasound imaging can detect lipid-rich plaques (LRPs). LRPs are associated with acute coronary syndromes or myocardial infarction, which can result i…

What are the respiratory effects of e-cigarettes? - PubMed - NCBI

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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov - Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are alternative, non-combustible tobacco products that generate an inhalable aerosol containing nicotine, flavors, propylene glycol, and vegetable glycerin. Vapin…

How AI and Voice Assistants Will Change Healthcare - Voicebot.ai

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voicebot.ai - Healthcare is an ever-evolving field, from new policies and research to advances in medical technology and drug trials. It’s also a global industry totaling more than $8 billion annually. Finding way…

The 8 Healthiest Fermented Foods To Reduce Inflammation & Boost Your Mood

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www.mindbodygreen.com - Kombucha, which is made from a SCOBY (symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast) mixed with sweetened black or green tea, has been around for more than 2,000 years—and for good reason. During kombucha's…

Is Pumpkin Seed Oil The New Coconut Oil? We Asked RDs to Weigh In

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www.mindbodygreen.com - Pumpkin seed oil is considered an “Austrian secret," and has been used in the country for traditional medicinal purposes for hundreds of years. Starting with the basics, pumpkin seeds contain antioxi…

Don’t have an ingestible beauty routine? Here’s why you might want to start one

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www.wellandgood.com - No matter how personally accomplished you feel after completing all the steps of your skin-care routine, you might want to hold on your mental high five until you’ve added one last step. According to…

Research Shows Emotionally Intelligent Couples Are Happier

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www.mindbodygreen.com - There are some obvious reasons why having a lot of EI might make you a more pleasant person to date: EI usually corresponds with good communication skills because having this kind of heightened emoti…

'What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger' Is True, New Study Finds

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www.mindbodygreen.com - German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche is famous for the saying, "What does not kill me makes me stronger." But is that actually true? Do our struggles and failures help us in the long run? According…

Is Blue Space The New Green Space? Living Near The Sea Boosts Mental Health

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www.mindbodygreen.com - We already know that green space has immense effects on our mental health—interacting with nature can relieve anxiety and depression, and studies have shown that simply coming in contact with the ear…

MeÅŸher: A new exhibition space opens in Istanbul

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artdaily.com - ISTANBUL.- MeÅŸher, a new exhibition space initiated by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, opened with its inaugural exhibition “Beyond the Vessel: Myths, Legends, and Fables in Contemporary Ceramics around Eu…

Tired All The Time? These Are The Best Ways To Naturally Boost Energy

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www.mindbodygreen.com - To feel good and attack your day with vigor, you want steady, sustained energy. And that all starts with managing the little power plants within your cells, called your mitochondria. These organelles…

The Glyptotek presents The Road to Palmyra, the largest collection of ancient Palmyrene tomb sculptures outside of Syria

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artdaily.com - COPENHAGEN.- Presenting the largest collection of ancient Palmyrene tomb sculptures outside of Syria, The Road to Palmyra at The Glyptotek is the first exhibition in Denmark devoted to the culture of…

Earth's Atmosphere: A Multi-layered Cake

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whatcausesglobalwarming.net - Earth’s atmosphere has five major and several secondary layers. From lowest to highest, the major layers are the troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. Troposphere. Earth’…

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Impala builds a single API for the entire hotel industry – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Meet Impala, a London-based startup that wants to make it easier to interact with hotel data. The startup is building a layer on top of legacy hotel systems to standardize everything with a modern RE…

Tesla produced a record-breaking 96,155 cars last quarter

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arstechnica.com - Zhang Hengwei/China News Service/Visual China Group via Getty Images Tesla set new records for both production and delivery of vehicles in the third quarter of 2019, the company announced on Wednesda…

These are the top Y Combinator companies of all time, based on valuation – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - In October of 2018, Y Combinator published a mega list of the top 101 companies to have gone through the accelerator, as sorted by each company’s valuation. This morning they updated the list. Valuat…

Will Smith just dropped $10K on a startup that pitched him on Disrupt’s stage – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Actor and Hollywood media mogul Will Smith surprised the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2019 audience this afternoon by announcing he would invest $10K in a startup that pitched to him on stage as part of “el…

Sendmi lets you allocate part of your paycheck for remittance – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Meet Sendmi, a fintech startup that is launching today in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Sendmi works pretty much like a 401k or a Flexible Spending Account. But instead of saving …

A startup factory? $1.2B-exit team launches $65M super{set} – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Think Jack Dorsey’s jobs are tough? Well, Tom Chavez is running six startups. He thinks building businesses can be boiled down to science, so today he’s unveiling his laboratory for founding, funding…

Coinbase users will earn rewards on USDC holdings – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase wants to foster USDC adoption by letting you earn rewards when you keep USDC on your Coinbase account. Essentially, if you’re a U.S. customer, your Coinbase account h…

Brex wants to replace startup bank accounts with Brex Cash – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Brex, a Silicon Valley fintech darling, has lofty plans to battle big banks —and Stripe. Code-named “Gemini,” Brex today announced a new product designed to replace and improve the functionality of t…

Snaplogic raises $72M more for its enterprise data integration platform – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Cloud services and the adoption of apps that rely on them continue to grow in popularity, but a persistent theme in enterprise technology has been that a lot of organizations still continue to use le…

T2D3 Software Update: Embracing the Founder to CEO (F2C) Journey – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It’s been four years since TechCrunch published my blog post The SaaS Adventure, which introduced the concept of a “T2D3” roadmap to help SaaS companies scale — and, as an aside, explored how well my…

Blue Origin’s passengers will pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for a ticket on New Shepard – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - After committing to having a first crewed launch of its rocket ship in 2019, Blue Origin, the rocket manufacturer and launch services company backed by Jeff Bezos, is likely going to have to push tha…

Tesla delivers a record 97,000 electric vehicles in third quarter – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Tesla said Wednesday it delivered a record 97,000 electric vehicles in the third quarter, a nearly 2% increase from the previous period, but still short of analysts’ expectations. Tesla shares fell n…

India’s Udaan raises $585M to expand its B2B e-commerce platform – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Udaan, a three-year-old business-to-business e-commerce platform in India, has raised more than half a billion dollars in a new financing round as it looks to bring more kirana stores, chemists and o…

Lookout, Robinhood. E*Trade, Schwab, Ameritrade all go zero-fee – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The biggest players in online stock trading all just copied Robinhood by removing their fees for stock and ETF trading. Charles Schwab announced yesterday it would drop its $4.95 fee, leading to plum…

More Generous Support for Seniors | Our Platform

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2019.liberal.ca - We will make life more affordable for people as they age, with more generous support for seniors and widows. Canadians are living longer than ever before, but today’s seniors are also facing rising h…

Un soutien plus généreux aux aînés | Notre plateforme

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2019.liberal.ca - Nous rendrons la vie plus abordable pour les gens, au fur et à mesure qu’ils vieillissent, grâce à un soutien plus généreux aux aînés et aux personnes veuves. Les Canadiens vivent plus longtemps que …

Robots are shrinking American paychecks | Markets Insider

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markets.businessinsider.com - Robots are eating into American wages. That's according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which found that the portion of national income that goes to America…

U.S. manufacturers experience worst month since 2007-2009 Great Recession, ISM finds

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www.marketwatch.com - The numbers: American manufacturers posted the biggest contraction in September since the end of the 2007-2009 recession, reflecting a slowdown in the U.S. and global economies made worse by a tense …

8 Ways to Make Money Online Without Quitting your Day Job

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www.entrepreneur.com - Want to make money online? Want to rake in millions almost effortlessly? Sure, most silver-tongued marketers might lead you to believe that the good life is just a few keystrokes away. They tell you …

Need to Refocus your Small Business? Start at Zero

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - In marketing and business, we get quite caught up in all that’s come before, where we are, all our history. Yet there’s no greater enemy to small business than “that’s how we’ve always done it.” Some…

Blockchain Firm Helps Congo Mine Fight Against Blood Diamonds

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cointelegraph.com - Berlin-based blockchain company RCS Global is delivering mine-to-market technology solutions to help fight against conflict minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo. On Oct.1, Reuters reported th…

4-day workweeks are the future — and this is how you can make them happen

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thenextweb.com - Lift your head up from your desk and take a look around the office. Is the number of people at work today the same as yesterday? Probably not. Across the world, standard workweeks are already taking …

UPS gets permission to ship out drone delivery fleet for some serious amounts of air miles

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www.theregister.co.uk - UPS is boasting of a deal with the Federal Aviation Administration which the shipping giant says will dramatically expand its drone delivery operation. The parcel-mover on Tuesday said it had been gr…

IRS: Sorry, but It’s Just Easier and Cheaper to Audit the Poor

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www.govexec.com - The IRS audits the working poor at about the same rate as the wealthiest 1%. Now, in response to questions from a U.S. senator, the IRS has acknowledged that’s true but professes it can’t change anyt…

Broken Promises on COLAs

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www.fedweek.com - Last week I continued the tortured path that the payments of retiree COLAs took from their beginning in 1962 to 1984, when the Deficit Reduction Act specified that civilian and military COLAs would b…

GAO Cites Need for Better Compensation, Other Steps

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www.fedweek.com - Improving compensation for federal employees is one of the steps GAO cited at a recent House hearing for addressing the government’s problems with recruiting and retaining workers in a tight labor ma…

The Pentagon Has Officially Taken Over the Security Clearance Process

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www.nextgov.com - The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday handed off its National Background Investigations Bureau to the Defense Department, leaving the Pentagon in charge of conducting the vast majority of gov…

MBA Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey Posts Solid 8.1% Gain for September 27 | People's Pundit Daily

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www.peoplespunditdaily.com - The Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey posted a solid 8.1% gain for the week ending September 27. The Market Composite Index is a measure of mortgage loan applic…

Trade war fallout: U.S. manufacturing index falls again, down to lowest level since 2009 recession

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hotair.com - The ISM index dipped to 49.1 percent last month, the worst number in years and evidence that the U.S. manufacturing sector was now in a recession even though the broader economy was not. (Anything be…

Wall Street Plunges on Domestic Growth Worries

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www.newsmax.com - U.S. stocks fell more than 1% for the second straight session on Wednesday, hitting a fresh one-month low, as September's weak private payrolls report added to concerns of a slowdown in the world's l…

Donald Trump’s Sons Have Sold More Than $100 Million Of His Real Estate Since He Took Office

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www.forbes.com - There are big dreams, and then there are Trump-size dreams, ones that demand capital letters and tower over cities. They are what nudged Donald Trump’s grandfather Friedrich from Germany to New York …

Restrictions On H-1B Visas Found To Push Jobs Out Of The U.S.

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www.forbes.com - Acting Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Ken Cuccinelli at a ceremony on July 2, 2019, in New York. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Getty Images Important new researc…

China and the world: Inside the dynamics of a changing relationship

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www.mckinsey.com - Briefing Note (PDF-132KB) Executive Summary (PDF-799KB) Full Report (PDF-2MB) The relationship between China and the world now is changing. The McKinsey Global Institute’s (MGI) new China-World Expos…

Techniques To Help You Find Car Shopping Success

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carshopping.biz - A lot of people consider car shopping one of the least desirable things that they have to do. It can be fun having a new car, but picking the proper one requires studying, researching, and time. Use …

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