Thursday, November 14, 2019

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Motorola revives iconic Razr flip phone

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bbc.com - Motorola has revived its slim Razr flip phone, some 15 years after the original “game changing” device hit the market. The new device features a 6.2in screen which folds together when closed, with an…

The Next Pop Culture Phenomenom Was Just Unleashed

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inc.com - It happened in July 2016. That was when Nintendo released Pokemon Go to the world. The first mass market, augmented reality game exploded. By the end of the year, it had been downloaded 500 million t…

Attempting To Force Progress Through Spending

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medium.com - There seems to be one thing that I am very good at when it comes to the idea of business. That is identifying useful services and signing up to use that service. Over the past 5–10 years I have at va…

Google Details Which Features Will (and Won't) Work at Stadia's Launch - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - Next week, Google will launch one of its most anticipated products in recent memory. Stadia, the company’s new game-streaming service, is nearly here and thanks to a Reddit AMA yesterday, we have a f…

Microsoft Releases Windows Community Toolkit 6 - Thurrott.com

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thurrott.com - The Windows Community Toolkit 6 includes a XAML Islands update, ARM64 support, new controls, and more. “The Windows Community Toolkit version 6.0 [was] made possible with help and contributions from …

Screen Recorder app now lets you record in 90fps and 120fps

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androidcommunity.com - One of the things that phones like OnePlus 7 Pro and Pixel 4 has brought to the smartphone market is to bring high refresh-rate displays. Those who have experienced this will now have trouble going b…

Homeis adds community tools for Mexican immigrants – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Homeis, a startup building networking tools for immigrant communities, officially launched its community for Mexican immigrants this week. Co-founder and CEO Ran Harnevo (pictured above) previously f…

Target integrates Shipt’s same-day delivery service into its mobile app – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Same-day delivery is coming to Target’s app. The retailer announced this morning that its same-day shopping service Shipt, which Target acquired two years ago for $550 million, will now be integrated…

Instagram tests hiding Like counts globally – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Instagram is making Like counts private for some users everywhere. Instagram tells TechCrunch the hidden Likes test is expanding to a subset of people globally. Users will have to decide for themselv…

Quibi series from Steven Soderbergh starring Tye Sheridan focuses on smartphone survival skills – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - People dramatically proclaim all the time that they don’t think they could survive without their smartphones, but a new series from the forthcoming streaming service Quibi from Jeffrey Katzenberg and…

Google brings RCS support in its Android Messages app to the U.S. – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Google today announced that it is now rolling out support for Rich Communication Services messages (you can think of it as the next generation of SMS) in the Android Messages app to all of its users …

Salesforce announces it’s moving Marketing Cloud to Microsoft Azure – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - In the world of enterprise software, there are often strange bedfellows. Just yesterday, Salesforce announced a significant partnership with AWS around the Cloud Information Model. This morning, it a…

Spotify confirms it’s testing real-time lyrics synced to music – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - With the launch of iOS 13, Apple added perfectly timed live lyrics to its Apple Music app. Now Spotify may do the same. Several users in international markets are now seeing a similar synced lyrics f…

Daily Crunch: John Carmack steps down at Oculus – 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. John …

The new AirFly Pro is the perfect travel buddy for your AirPods Pro – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Accessory maker TwelveSouth has a solid lineup of gadgets, many of which fill a niche that their products uniquely address – and address remarkably well. The AirFly Pro ($54.99) is a new iteration on…

Facebook quietly built “Popular Photos”, an in-app Instagram – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Facebook is copying Instagram while simultaneously invading its acquisition with branding and links back to the mothership. TechCrunch has spotted Facebook testing a feature called Popular Photos, wh…

Social network for motherhood Peanut raises $5M, expands to include women trying to conceive – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Peanut, an app that began its life as a match-maker for finding new mom friends but has since evolved into a social network of more than a million women, announced today it has closed on $5 million i…

48 hours left to save up to €500 on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Livin’ la vida loca pretty much sums up the early-stage startup life. We understand just how crazy-busy life gets, but we’re here to remind all the last-minute mavens that you have just 48 hours to t…

Consumer Reports puts Tesla Model 3, Model S back on its recommended list after reliability improves – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Tesla gained ground and moved up four spots in in the latest Annual Auto Reliability Survey from Consumer Reports, thanks largely to improvements with the Model 3. Reliability has improved in the Mod…

The ONNX format becomes the newest Linux Foundation project – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The Linux Foundation today announced that ONNX, the open format that makes machine learning models more portable, is now a graduate-level project inside of the organization’s AI Foundation. ONNX was …

AWS confirms reports it will challenge JEDI contract award to Microsoft – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Surely just about everyone was surprised when the Department of Defense named Microsoft as the winner of the decade long, $10 billion JEDI cloud contract last month, none more so than Amazon, the com…

The ByteCode Alliance wants to bring binary apps into your browser

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arstechnica.com - Back in 2015, a consortium including Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and the WebKit project announced WebAssembly. This week, Mozilla, Intel, Red hat, and Fastly announced a new consortium called the Byt…

How the FCC solves consumer problems—well, it doesn’t, really

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission's extremely hands-off approach to broadband-customer complaints has alarmed a member of Congress. US Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) wrote a letter to FCC Chairman Aj…

Another company is dialing back expectations for self-driving taxis

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arstechnica.com - Daimler is planning to "rightsize" its spending on self-driving taxis, Chairman Ola Källenius said on Thursday. Getting self-driving cars to operate safely in complex urban environments has proved mo…

Goat MMO Simulator impressions: Massively moronic

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arstechnica.com - You'd be forgiven for forgetting about Goat Simulator after it launched this April. The tiny broken-sandbox game was a funny lark that earned its $10 price whether you viewed it as a high-minded, sat…

FCC sued by dozens of cities after voting to kill local fees and rules

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arstechnica.com - The Federal Communications Commission faces a legal battle against dozens of cities from across the United States, which sued the FCC to stop an order that preempts local fees and regulation of cable…

Death Stranding is Kojima unleashed, and it’s as weird as you’d expect

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arstechnica.com - That sentence carries a lot of weight in the video game universe, where solid personal branding and marketing across decades of Metal Gear titles means Kojima ranks as one of the rare game auteurs pl…

Built to win: Deep inside Obama's campaign tech

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arstechnica.com - The reelection of Barack Obama was won by people, not by software. But in a contest as close as last week's election, software may have given the Obama for America organization's people a tiny edge—m…

Breach affecting 1 million was caught only after hacker maxed out target’s storage

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arstechnica.com - The US Federal Trade Commission has sued an IT provider for failing to detect 20 hacking intrusions over a 22-month period, allowing the hacker to access the data for 1 million consumers. The provide…

FTC head asks Congress for real privacy laws he can enforce

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arstechnica.com - In testimony before a House subcommittee Wednesday, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Joseph Simons renewed his call for Congress to pass new privacy legislation, telling representatives, essentially…

Apple plans to bundle Music, News+, and TV+ in one subscription, report says

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arstechnica.com - According to a report in Bloomberg, Apple may be planning to launch a bundled subscription service that would include services like Apple News+, Apple TV+, and Apple Music as soon as 2020. This strat…

Google gives up on US carriers, will roll out its own RCS chat system

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arstechnica.com - Will RCS ever matter? The standard has been hanging around for years as an upgrade to the aging carrier SMS texting standard, but since the carriers are in charge of it, the Rich Communication Servic…

Stadia what? Xbox game streaming will become part of Game Pass in 2020

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arstechnica.com - At Microsoft's annual X0 fan conference in London on Thursday, Microsoft confirmed a huge piece of news for its game-streaming platform, Project xCloud. The service will launch with full compatibilit…

Would It Be Better If There Were Only One Browser? | Webdesigner Depot

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webdesignerdepot.com - When Tim Berners-Lee gave us the WorldWideWeb in 1990, it was the first and only web browser. But it didn’t remain alone for long. Even in those early days of the web, there was plenty of competition…

17 jQuery Off-Canvas Menus

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freefrontend.com - Collection of free jQuery off-canvas menu examples and plugins. jQuery Menus jQuery Context Menus jQuery Fullscreen Menus jQuery Mega Menus jQuery Scrolling Menus React Menus CSS Menus jQuery Off-Can…

How to Create an Online Course with LifterLMS: A Step-by-Step Guide

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designbombs.com - If you are considering setting up an online eLearning business, then LifterLMS may be the WordPress plugin for you. LifterLMS is packed full of features and functionality, making it a great option fo…

Report: Security flaws in 5G could let hackers spy on your cellphone

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fastcompany.com - As cellphone carriers and users await the rollout of 5G networks, researchers at the University of Iowa and Purdue University warn in a new paper that the system may still have some serious bugs to w…

Dubai Motor Show Goes Electric And Connected

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forbes.com - Over the years, I have attended many motor shows across the world and have been coming to the conclusion that such events are obsolete in this digital age. Thankfully, the 2019 Dubai International Mo…

Facebook is fixing a bug that turned on phone cameras

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engadget.com - Some users said that when they viewed a video in full screen and then shrank it back, the app layout would shift slightly to the right. In the space on the left, you could see the phone's camera had …

Google Pay loses transit passes once mobile app is uninstalled

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androidcommunity.com - Before Google gets into the finance business, allow us to rediscover Google Pay first. We haven’t featured the mobile payment service in a while. The last time was information about Cubit transport c…

OnePlus Care app now available in the United States, Canada

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androidcommunity.com - We always say this, “OnePlus Never Settles”. The company’s five-year-old motto is still going strong and so far, so good. OnePlus has lived up to most of our expectations. Major OS upgrades and softw…

Google Stadia team hosts Reddit AMA a week before market release

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androidcommunity.com - The only Reddit AMA sessions we would feature here were those with OnePlus and the Essential team back when their products were hot subjects. The Google Stadia team went to Reddit to discuss with con…

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Android 10 beta update rolls out stateside

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androidcommunity.com - Finally, after weeks of waiting, the Android 10 beta program for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is now available in the United States. The OS update is slowly rolling out to a number of smartphones from …

Fitbit OS update brings new features to Versa 2, other devices

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androidcommunity.com - While we’re still waiting for the finalization of the Google acquisition, life goes on for Fitbit and its users. A new update to its OS brings new features related to heart rate tracking, sleep track…

Google to enter the banking industry with Citigroup

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androidcommunity.com - Google isn’t the tech giant for nothing. Its parent company may be Alphabet but between the two, Google is the most recognized name. Not many people even know about Alphabet but it is home to Google.…

You’ll be stuck on Hulu with ads on Disney+ bundle

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androidcommunity.com - A lot of people are already signing up for Disney+ since it launched the other day. We don’t have the numbers yet, including those who signed up for the bundle which includes Hulu and ESPN+. What a l…

Google Drive backup stops working on Android mobile devices

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androidcommunity.com - When the Pixel 4 series arrived, we learned the original quality uploads to Google Photos from Pixel may be over. There is still no confirmation on this one issue but it seems the tech giant is doing…

Amazon Fire devices now support Apple TV+

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androidcommunity.com - The battle of the streaming services is officially underway as Apple TV+ and Disney+ are now officially available in several territories, challenging the likes of Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video an…

Google Play Store undergoes redesign on Wear OS smartwatches

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androidcommunity.com - If you own a smartwatch running on Wear OS, you might want to check the Play Store on your device as you might be pleasantly surprised that it looks different now. Well, that is, if the latest update…

Google Maps adds built-in text-to-speech translation

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androidcommunity.com - Google Maps is probably one of the most useful apps that you can have when traveling to an unfamiliar (or sometimes, even already familiar) place. It does get a little tricky sometimes if you’re in a…

Nokia Smart TV from Flipkart may be released soon

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androidcommunity.com - Is Nokia venturing into the smart home game? That is what we’re looking at now that reports of a Nokia smart TV have been surfacing online. Rumor has it Flipkart will be offering the Nokia-branded sm…

Hong Kong Protestors Using Mesh Messaging App China Can't Block: Usage Up 3685%

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forbes.com - How do you communicate when the government censors the internet? With a peer-to-peer mesh broadcasting network that doesn't use the internet. That's exactly what Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters ar…

Homeless Man Helps Woman Fix Tire, Stranger Gifts Him with Motel Stay

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breitbart.com - The man, Randy Head, was fixing a flat tire at a RaceTrac gas station when Scott Landry decided to capture the moment on Facebook. The post shared by Scott Landry went viral, gaining more than 3,100 …

11 Deadly SEO mistakes to avoid in 2020 - Search Engine Watch

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searchenginewatch.com - SEO is extremely important for growing your brand in 2020. This is especially after social media’s importance in driving traffic reduced and Google became the major source of referral traffic in 2017…

Report: Health Websites Are Sharing Medical Data with Google, Facebook, Amazon | Breitbart

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breitbart.com - A recent investigation by the Financial Times has revealed that popular health websites are sharing users’ private and personal medical data with big tech firms such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook a…

Google Restricts Data-Sharing for Ads Under Privacy Pressure

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newsmax.com - Google said it would make changes to its advertising technology to better protect people’s privacy following scrutiny by European Union watchdogs. Starting in February, Google will no longer divulge …

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PayPal Drops Pornhub and the Crypto Community Rises to Fill the Gap

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ccn.com - In a drastic move, PayPal suspended its services to the world’s largest free pornographic site, Pornhub. Although the reasoning behind it is unknown, this could be an opportunity to show the intrinsi…

Ethereum 2.0 tokens could be securities, warns CFTC chairman - Decrypt

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decrypt.co - Heath Tarbert, chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, sounded out a warning yesterday over the potential for staked tokens (i.e. the coins that support proof-of-stake blockchain n…

Price Analysis 13/11: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH, LTC, EOS, BNB, BSV, XLM, TRX

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cointelegraph.com - Although Bitcoin (BTC) is not showing any trending move, Bakkt and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group continue to roll out products designed to attract the large traders. Bakkt recently anno…

Trump Organization boasts millions could be made from foreign governments: Sales brochure

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rawstory.com - The Trump Organization insists the president’s family-owned business is losing money because it won’t solicit foreign business — but its pitch to investors tells another story. President Donald Trump…

Venezuela Is Secretly Exporting Millions of Barrels of Oil

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finance.yahoo.com - (Bloomberg) -- The Dragon, a massive oil tanker flying the Liberian flag, is supposed to be floating somewhere off the coast of France, according to its last GPS signal. Instead, it’s currently thous…

Equiteq advises Intuitus on sale to Endava

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consultancy.uk - Technology provider Intuitus has agreed to be purchased by Endava, in a deal expected to enhance the digital transformation firm’s private equity market penetration. Merger and acquisitions (M&A) adv…

Two Former Executives Of China Subsidiary Of International Multi-Level Marketing Company Charged In Manhattan Federal Court For Scheme To Pay Bribes And Circumvent Internal Accounting Controls

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justice.gov - Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York (“SDNY”), Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Criminal Division of the United States Department…

Indonesia’s Travelio raises $18M to help tenants rent apartments – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - More than 50% of residential apartments and other real estate properties in Jakarta are currently vacant, according to official estimates. A startup that is attempting to make it easier for tenants t…

Apple wants affordable housing in California—but laws stand in the way

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arstechnica.com - Apple has pledged $2.5 billion to help address California's affordable-housing crisis, the company announced on Monday. In recent years, the San Francisco Bay Area has become the most expensive housi…

Canada’s Largest Bank Mulls Crypto Exchange After Bitcoin Ban — Report

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cointelegraph.com - A Canadian bank, which banned its clients from buying Bitcoin (BTC), could now become the first in the country to launch a cryptocurrency exchange. As innovation economy news outlet The Logic reporte…

Punchh lands $40M to give physical retailers Amazon-style analytics – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - E-commerce accounts for around 11% of all retail sales in the U.S., but it’s growing much faster than brick-and-mortar sales, going up 14.8% this year versus a mere 1.9% for physical retail, accordin…

Johannes Reck from GetYourGuide to talk about reaching unicorn status at Disrupt Berlin – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Earlier this year, GetYourGuide raised a gigantic $484 million funding round with SoftBank’s Vision Fund leading the round. Now that the German startup has reached a valuation well over the $1 billio…

Lyft deploys 200 long-range EVs for its rideshare rental fleet in Colorado – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Lyft is making 200 new long-range EVs available to rideshare drivers as part of its Express Drive program, the company revealed today. Express Drive is a program that Lyft offers to provide rental ca…

Disney+ to launch in India, Southeast Asian markets next year – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Disney plans to bring its on-demand video streaming service to India and some Southeast Asian markets as soon as the second half of next year, two sources familiar with the company’s plans told TechC…

Where top VCs are investing in real estate and proptech (Part 1 of 2) – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The multi-trillion dollar global real estate market is getting flipped on its head. Business model innovation, data accessibility and the proliferation of mobile, SaaS and other cloud-native software…

Fourteen years after launching 1Password takes a $200M Series A – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - 1Password has been around for 14 years, and the founders grew the company the old-fashioned way without a dime of venture capital. But when it decided to take venture help, it went all in. Today, the…

Decide which type of investor to target for raising capital – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - I recently wrote Should you raise venture capital from a traditional equity VC or a Revenue-Based Investing VC? Since then, I’ve talked with a number of other firms and greatly expanded my database: …

Recycling robots raise millions from top venture firms to rescue an industry in turmoil – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The problem of how to find the potential treasure trove hidden in millions of pounds of trash is getting a high-tech answer as investors funnel $16 million into the recycling robots built by Denver-b…

Lyft is ceasing scooter operations in six cities and laying off 20 employees – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - In an industry where unit economics and rider utilization are key to running a profitable business, perhaps it’s better to cut your losses early on. Lyft notified employees today that it’s pulling it…

Moveworks snags $75M Series B to resolve help desk tickets with AI – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Moveworks, a startup using AI to help resolve Help Desk tickets in an automated fashion, announced a $75 million Series B investment today. The round was led by Iconiq Capital, Kleiner Perkins and Sa…

This ride-hailing PR pitch shows platforms and digital campaign ‘dark arts’ want democracy to be pay to play – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - A UK PR firm pitching to run an account for Ola has proposed running a campaign to politicize ride-hailing as a tactic to shift regulations in its favor. The approach suggests that, despite the appea…

Indian telcos Vodafone Idea and Airtel post $10.3 billion in combined quarterly losses – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - It’s not a good day for two of the top three telecom operators in India. Vodafone Idea, India’s second largest telecom operator by subscriber count, said its consolidated loss had widened to $7.14 bi…

Adobe announces GA of customer data platform – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - The customer data platform (CDP) is the newest tool in the customer experience arsenal as big companies try to help customers deal with data coming from multiple channels. Today, Adobe announced the …

Norwest closes its 15th fund with $2 billion — its biggest vehicle to date – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Norwest Venture Partners, the 58-year-old venture firm backed primarily by Wells Fargo, has closed its 15th fund with $2 billion. The firm closed its last fund with $1.5 billion at the beginning of 2…

358: House Hacking 101: Live Free and Turn Your Biggest Expense into a Profit Center

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sidehustlenation.com - What if you could make your rent or mortgage payment go away? Or, what if instead of paying that expense every month, your living situation actually paid you? It’s not as far-fetched as it may sound.…

From Naval Officer to CEO: How to Lead a Growing Business

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smallbusinessonlinecommunity.bankofamerica.com - So just what is a man who was the captain of an Indian naval warship of 85 men and officers, doing running a women’s healthcare company in Boston Changing the world, and changing his world, that’s wh…

Alibaba Partners with Lolli to Allow US Shoppers Earn ‘Free Bitcoin’

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cointelegraph.com - Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has partnered with Bitcoin (BTC) rewards shopping app Lolli, enabling its shoppers to earn 5% back in Bitcoin. Alibaba customers can now get Satoshis (sats), the smal…

CoinMarketCap Now Provides Crypto Investors With Data on Liquidity

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cointelegraph.com - Leading crypto data site CoinMarketCap has announced the launch of its new metric to compare exchanges and token pairs based on liquidity. The announcement comes from The Capital, CoinMarketCap’s ina…

Wyoming Unveils First-Ever Crypto Custody Rules for ‘Blockchain Banks’

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cointelegraph.com - The United States’ state of Wyoming has unveiled a series of opt-in custody rules for its so-dubbed “blockchain banks,” covering areas such as forks, airdrops and staking. The rules were announced du…

Is the Shorter Workweek for Everyone?

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shrm.org - In August, Microsoft Japan experimented with a four-day workweek for its 2,300 employees. They were given five Fridays off, with no reduction in pay. Productivity rose nearly 40 percent. Last year, P…

The Remote Work Report by Zapier

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zapier.com - Remote work isn't niche anymore—it's everywhere. Anyone who frequents a coffee shop knows that. At this point, companies of all sizes are implementing remote work policies. A number of forward-thinki…

Powell says he doesn't see a 'day of reckoning' coming for the US anytime soon

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cnbc.com - "We are the strongest country, we have the best institutions, we have the best labor force," he said. "We have such strengths, and I think possibly the day of reckoning could be quite far off." The c…

Jared Kushner Helped Put Cadre on the Map, Then Held It Back

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bloomberg.com - Executives at Cadre eagerly watched SoftBank’s Vision Fund dole out billions of dollars to companies like Uber, WeWork and Slack Technologies. Then they got their chance. After presenting Cadre’s rea…

Exclusive: An inside look at the investor pitch for Trump's DC hotel

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cnn.com - Those lawsuits claim Trump has violated the emoluments clause of the US Constitution, which forbids the President from receiving gifts or payments from foreign governments. In its defense, the Trump …

Work Long and Prosper

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govexec.com - Over the years, I’ve met many people who continue to work past their 65th birthday. In fact, in a few more years, I may be one of them. One notable federal employee, Millie Parsons, retired from the …

Company co-founded by Nancy Pelosi’s son charged with securities fraud

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washingtontimes.com - The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a company cofounded by Paul Pelosi Jr. with fraud on Wednesday after learning that two convicted criminals were running the business. Paul Pelosi …

U.S. Economy Shows No Strains from China Tariffs | Breitbart

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breitbart.com - Prices for goods rose by a sizeable 0.7 percent in October, the Labor Department said Wednesday. That was the biggest monthly jump since a 1 percent rise in March. But seventy percent of that was cau…

US Chickens Headed to China after Beijing Lifts 5-year Ban

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newsmax.com - China is lifting a five-year ban on U.S. poultry, a goodwill gesture at a time when the world’s two biggest economies are trying to finalize a tentative trade deal. China had blocked U.S. poultry imp…

New Jersey Hits Uber With $650 Million Tax Bill; Stock Slides

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infowars.com - Two months after Uber decided to ignore new California legislation requiring companies to reclassify contract workers as employees – a measure which would affect up to one million residents who work …

Warren Says Big Business Shouldn't Worry About Her Presidency

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newsmax.com - Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren sought to reassure business leaders and investors they have nothing to worry about if she is elected president -- as long as they obey the law. “I b…

Jobs at Risk as China's Services Sector Feels Heat of Trade War

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newsmax.com - The firm's woes highlight a bigger problem for the world's second-largest economy and its stability-obsessed leaders - the intensifying pressure on employment as a structural slowdown in the once-boo…

Bernie Sanders, AOC to Unveil $10B Environmental Bill

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newsmax.com - Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., will unveil new legislation Thursday aimed at residents of public housing. The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act will upgrad…

Just in case the Fed ignites the atmosphere… | Sovereign Man

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sovereignman.com - In early 1940s as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, the most powerful person in the world was NOT Adolf Hitler. Nor Franklin Roosevelt. Nor Winston Churchill. Nor Josef Stalin. The most p…

California Faces Fraught Path Out of Wildfire, Power Crisis

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newsmax.com - The utility that serves more than 5 million electrical customers in one of the world’s most technologically advanced areas is now faced again and again with a no-win decision: risk starting catastrop…

Half of Europe’s Nearly Five Million Illegals Have Ended up in Just Two Countries, Germany And the UK

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infowars.com - Two-thirds of all so-called unauthorised immigrants in Europe live in just four member states, and by one count there are more illegals in the United Kingdom than any other EU nation, according to ne…

Jobless Claims Hit 5-Month High in Holiday Week

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newsmax.com - The number of Americans filing applications for unemployment benefits rose to a five-month high last week, but this likely does not signal a shift in labor market conditions as claims for several sta…

A Trump tax break to help the poor went to a rich GOP donor’s superyacht marina

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SCIENCE

Benchmarking Transformers: PyTorch and TensorFlow

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medium.com - Our Transformers library implements several state-of-the-art transformer architectures used for NLP tasks like text classification, information extraction, question answering, and text generation. It…

Machine Learning for Beginners: An Introduction to Neural Networks - victorzhou.com

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victorzhou.com - Here’s something that might surprise you: neural networks aren’t that complicated! The term “neural network” gets used as a buzzword a lot, but in reality they’re often much simpler than people imagi…

Robotic 'mules' set to modernize infantry brigade combat teams

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army.mil - DETROIT ARSENAL, Mich. -- The Army has selected General Dynamics Land Systems to produce the Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport, or S-MET, to lighten Soldiers' loads by providing Infantry Brigade…

Documentaire Margreet Bos LOVE TO LIVE – Genieten en geluk ondanks grote tegenslag – Binnenland en Buitenland Nieuws

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055nu.com - Ze woonde nog in Het Dorp in Arnhem. Margreet Bos:”Ik heb een fysieke beperking, maar ik heb besloten dat ik met niet laat beperken’, vertelde Margreet. ‘Ik ben wereldkampioen genieten.” Margreet sch…

Apple Research app arrives on iPhone and Apple Watch with three opt-in health studies – TechCrunch

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California’s new data privacy law brings U.S. closer to GDPR – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Data privacy has become one of the defining business and cultural issues of our time. Companies around the world are scrambling to properly protect their customers’ personal information (PI). However…

Eigen nabs $37M to help banks and others parse huge documents using natural language and ‘small data’ – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - One of the bigger trends in enterprise software has been the emergence of startups building tools to make the benefits of artificial intelligence technology more accessible to non-tech companies. Tod…

VoltServer adds a data layer to electricity distribution in a move that could help smart grid rollout – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Stephen Eaves, the chief executive of a new startup which promises to overlay data on electricity distribution has spent years developing data management technologies. Eaves’ first company, the epony…

Wedding bells or single again: Psychology predicts where your relationship is headed

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theconversation.com - Is he or she the one? You know… the one to introduce to my parents, the one to move in with, the one to start a family with, the one to marry? At some point in every dating relationship, you ask your…

Major fish nurseries are awash in microplastics

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arstechnica.com - For a brief moment at the start of their lives, fish from different ocean ecosystems live side by side in gigantic fish nurseries, where surface waters converge and the prey is abundant. Prey isn’t t…

NASA report finds Boeing seat prices are 60% higher than SpaceX

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arstechnica.com - On Thursday, NASA's inspector general released a report on the space agency's commercial crew program, which seeks to pay Boeing and SpaceX to develop vehicles to transport astronauts to the Internat…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the single leading source of anti-vax ads on Facebook

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arstechnica.com - Just two organizations were responsible for the majority of anti-vaccine advertisements on Facebook before the social media giant restricted such content in March of this year, according to a Novembe…

Physics holds the secret to volleyball’s highly unpredictable “float serve”

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arstechnica.com - A good float serve at just the right moment in volleyball can make or break a tight game, since the ball's trajectory is so tough to predict. It's the surface panels on conventional volleyballs that …

Firefly Space Systems charges full-speed toward low Earth orbit

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arstechnica.com - CEDAR PARK, TEXAS—Former SpaceX engineer Tom Markusic has brought Firefly Space Systems to the outskirts of Austin to make rockets and chew bubblegum, and he’s all out of gum. Standing in the vast fi…

New 3D display combines visuals, haptic feedback, and sound

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arstechnica.com - Plenty of technology development comes in areas where we've already settled on an efficient design. Wind turbines are a great example. Several decades ago, some radical ideas were floating around, to…

Generating PDFs with Node

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buttercms.com - PhantomJS Puppeteer Html-pdf-chrome What would we do without PDFs? It’s the safest, most secure way of storing visual information, and it’s accessible on every major platform in the world. Dynamicall…

How to analyse a usability test

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evolveresearch.app - There are many different reasons for testing an experience, such as: Your reason for testing will shape your research objectives. Your research objectives will, in turn, determine how you analyse you…

Some CSS Grid Strategies for Matching Design Mockups | CSS-Tricks

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css-tricks.com - The world of web development has always had a gap between the design-to-development handoff. Ambitious designers want the final result of their effort to look unique and beautiful (and true to their …

A Complete Guide to JavaScript Tooling

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hoangbkit.com - JavaScript has become very popular and powerful; you can use it to build web applications, servers, mobile applications and so much more. Huge adoption leads to a big ecosystem, the community has bee…

High-speed Light Trails in Three.js | Codrops

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tympanus.net - A creative coding exploration into how to recreate a high-speed lights effect in real-time using Three.js. From our monthly sponsor: Design every part of your website with the brand new Divi Theme Bu…

Autonomous robots serving dorm delivery munchies on campus | ZDNet

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zdnet.com - The robots are coming, the robots are coming. And that's good news if you're a college kid with the munchies. The University of Houston has become the latest college campus to offer food delivery via…

Elon Musk says Neuralink could bring A.I. ‘superintelligence’ to the brain

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inverse.com - Beyond cortical and limbic systems, the company Neuralink could add a third layer of digital superintelligence to humans and avoid artificial intelligence enslavement, its founder Elon Musk claimed T…

What We Know About Daemons on HIS DARK MATERIALS - Nerdist

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nerdist.com - Warning: This post contains major spoilers for episode two of His Dark Materials. The premiere of His Dark Materials shared a lot about daemons. In Lyra’s world they are the physical manifestation of…

National parks estimated to save trillions in mental health costs

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cosmosmagazine.com - The sanity offered by the tranquil beauty of national parks has been conservatively valued at around US$6 trillion globally per year. The estimate, published as a peer-reviewed Perspective in the jou…

Climate warnings from the distant past

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cosmosmagazine.com - By Fiona Hibbert, Eelco Rohling and Katherine Grant from the Australian National University Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000 years ago, according…

"Visitor from a Strange Land" --Star Ejected at Mind-Boggling Velocity by Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole | The Daily Galaxy

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dailygalaxy.com - “Seeing this star is really amazing as we know it must have formed in the galactic center, a place very different to our local environment. It is a visitor from a strange land,” said NASA Hubble Fell…

CDC Admits Vaccines Contain ‘Aborted Human Fetus Cells’

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thestandardsc.org - Vaccines currently in use in the United States contain ingredients including “human fetus cells lines” and “African Green Monkey kidney pus cells” harvested from diseased primates, according to a bom…

‘Diversity Gaffe’: Richard Branson Apologizes For Appearing In A Photo With White People

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Plastic Additives, Stress During Late Pregnancy Boosts Risk of Premature Birth

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infowars.com - Women exposed simultaneously to stress and plastic additives late in pregnancy are at increased risk for premature birth, according to a study by Rutgers and other institutions. The study, published …

“Free Roger Stone!” Roger’s Emergency Message To America

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Alex Jones Responds To Coming Roger Stone Verdict

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Watch Live: Exclusive Information On Roger Stone Trial! MUST WATCH

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The cognitive benefits of reading

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triviagenius.com - A little more than a quarter of Americans say they haven’t read a book in the past year. But did you know that reading a book, no matter what genre, provides significant benefits to brain function? N…

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LEISURE

Poop Token: A Literal Sh*tcoin for San Francisco's Homelessness Crisis

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ccn.com - If ever there was a sh*tcoin that lived up to its name, SF Poop Token would be it. Blockchain developer Hart Lambur has created the first-ever crypto solution to track human poop sightings in San Fra…

My Idea of Walking Has Changed and Planning to Go for a Long Walk

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medium.com - Over the past five years, I have been tracking my steps daily with a fitness tracker. An act that on the surface seems rather superfluous. There is one question that I have asked myself at times. Is …

6 Things You Should Know About Travel Bloggers

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landlopers.com - Blogging was the last thing I ever thought I’d be. Diplomat, international businessperson, author, these all seemed likely when I graduated with my MA in International Relations way back in the halcy…

How I Overcame My Life to Travel

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travelexplored.com - At the end of the year 2000, I decided that it was time to move on from my school studies and head into the workforce. I was 17 years old and although I had travelled somewhat often, it was not far o…

Writing and Building The Idea Muscle

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simpledailynotes.com - Wouldn’t it be amazing as a writer if ideas just appeared on demand, like flies at a summer BBQ? Unfortunately though getting and having a good supply of ideas takes work. The ability to develop an i…

My First Month on Medium

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medium.com - Over the past 10 years, the primary outlet for my writing has been a self-hosted blog based on the Wordpress platform. In my mind, this was the ideal option, giving me total control over my content. …

Sicily: Where Cultures and Histories Converge and Giants Roam

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ancient-origins.net - Sicily is the most famous triangle in the middle of the Mediterranean. But unlike Bermuda, nothing disappears here - it’s actually where many things and people have been gathered. The island shines l…

Amazon and Google double down on hands-free recipes to help sell their smart displays – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Amazon and Google have identified a solid use case for their smart speaker devices, powered by Alexa and Google Assistant, respectively: recipes. The companies this week have both announced new produ…

Ford’s all-electric SUV is officially the ‘Mustang Mach-E,’ and you can reserve one starting Nov. 17 – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Ford has revealed the official name of its forthcoming EV SUV, which has a Mustang lineage and will be officially revealed on November 17 in LA. The new vehicle is called the Mustang Mach-E, and foll…

Yodel.io is a digital receptionist for SMBs taking calls – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Yodel.io, an Austria-founded startup that developed a “digital receptionist” to help SMBs and other small teams handle in and outbound phone-calls, has picked up $1 million in “pre-seed” funding. It …

On writing: What illuminates a story?

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bigthink.com - MICHAEL POLLAN: So this was an enormously challenging book to write. First of all, I knew very little about neuroscience. I knew very little about psychology, psychotherapy. And I had very limited ex…

Waffle House customers bus tables when a worker takes on Alabama crowd

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dailymail.co.uk - A scheduling mix-up forced customers into action at a Waffle House restaurant in Birmingham, Alabama on Saturday evening. It appeared to be a miscommunication over coverage of shifts. The waffle-size…

15 Home Office Organization Tips to Save Time and Get More Done

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lifehack.org - The opportunity to work from home has become more common as the way we work shifts away from the traditional office to more flexible arrangements where companies can hire the best not just locally, b…

Ford opens its order books for Mustang Mach-E electric crossover

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arstechnica.com - Ford sent us this faceted pony as an invite to the Mach-E reveal, which takes place on Sunday in Los Angeles. If you think you need a faceted pony in your life, it will be up for grabs in our end-of-…

50 Work-From-Home Jobs Paying as Much or a Lot More Than the Average American Salary

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entrepreneur.com - There was a time when working from home was a pipe dream, but recently, there's been a surge of jobs you can do from your own place. Whether that’s working remotely for a company or starting your own…

Company Gifts That Workers Hate

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shrm.org - Coffee mugs and water bottles emblazoned with the company's logo. Gift cards to stores that employees rarely visit. These are among the gifts that companies give to workers—and that workers hate, tha…

Holiday Travel Tips – The Travel Bite

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thetravelbite.com - It’s the most wonderful time of year, and it’s also the busiest! Whether you’re planning to visit family, or headed out for a holiday getaway, you’re bound to run into bigger crowds at airports and a…

Spiced Apple Bread With Walnuts – The Travel Bite

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thetravelbite.com - This spiced apple bread recipe is a perfect for breakfast in the morning or enjoying with an afternoon tea to warm up on a cold day. It’s one of my favorites to bake throughout the holidays, from the…

How to CONTROL Your MIND! (The Secret to Creating A New Reality!) Law Of Attraction – Use THIS! – Law of Attraction Lover

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loalover.com - Shreyoshi Biswas 1. Find what it is that you want, you will know what you really want when you are willing to do anything to get it, when you really want it you will find time and energy it has to be…

Meghan Markle, Prince Harry, Archie skipping the queen's Christmas

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usatoday.com - The annual royal Christmas holiday at Sandringham will be missing Prince Harry, Duchess Meghan and baby Archie this year: They'll be spending it with her mother instead. After tabloid reports early W…

Have You Noticed That The Crazy People Are Starting To Take Over Our Society?

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infowars.com - In order for society to function properly, we need to be able to assume that most people are going to behave rationally. And when I was growing up, it was generally safe to make that assumption. But …

Milwaukee Day Trip to Mount Horeb and New Glarus

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milwaukeemag.com - When you drive the unglaciated, rolling hills of southwestern Wisconsin, it seems like there’s an interesting and historic small town around every bend in the road. The two we visit here are worth th…

11 Main Streets In Wisconsin That Are Pure Magic During Christmastime

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onlyinyourstate.com - Finding holiday spirit during the Christmas season in Wisconsin is never a problem. Pretty much every where you look you’ll find a tree, a wreath or some other symbol of the season. If you really wan…

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WORLD

Ukraine President's Aid Reveals Democrat Witness Lev Parnas Lied About President Trump and Ukraine

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penmediainc.com - Serhiy Shefir, the first aid to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, revealed that Democrat witness Lev Parnas lied about a meeting where he claimed he threatened to withhold military aid. Parnas to…

US-born Marine vet wrongly held by ICE for three days to be paid 190G

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foxnews.com - An American-born Marine war veteran who was wrongly detained by immigration authorities for three days will receive a $190,000 settlement from the city of Grand Rapids, Mich., according to media repo…

Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos on what scares him most about the upcoming U.S. presidential election – TechCrunch

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techcrunch.com - Alex Stamos rose to fame as the former chief security officer for Yahoo and then Facebook. But today he’s the director of Stanford’s Internet Observatory, where he’s immersed in teaching and research…

Veterans stood up for US democracy, now we ask Congress to do the same

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usatoday.com - I never thought I’d see a day when a service member was attacked for standing up for our country, but that’s exactly what I saw after Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified on Capitol Hill last we…

Impeachment hearing reveals major White House phone security fail

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arstechnica.com - In testimony yesterday before the House Intelligence Committee, diplomat William Taylor said that he had recently learned of a phone call between George Sondland—the US ambassador to the European Uni…

Diplomats' Warnings Over Mass Deportations Ignored by Trump Administration

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foreignpolicy.com - The Trump administration sought to deport hundreds of thousands of Central American nationals allowed into the United States under a decades-old humanitarian program, despite warnings from U.S. diplo…

Ukrainian Docs Claim Millions Funneled To Biden And Kerry Families

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infowars.com - Newly released documents, allegedly leaked from the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s office, show a series of money transfers between Burisma Holdings Limited and former President Obama’s Vice Presiden…

Erdogan Showed “Surreal” Propaganda Video From iPad to GOP Members During White House Visit – Reports

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infowars.com - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan showed a “surreal” propaganda video during his visit to the White House on Wednesday, Republican senators confirmed. Erdogan showed the video to a group of Repu…

Talking Turkey: Little to show, while Erdogan mocks us

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hotair.com - When I wrote yesterday about Turkish tyrant Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s impending state visit with President Trump, I was feeling pessimistic, to say the least. As it turns out, there was plenty of reason…

Axios: Heated Trump-Erdogan Meeting Included Propaganda Video

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newsmax.com - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a heated discussion with Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., during an Oval Office meeting Wednesday at which he forced attendees — President Donald Trump included…

November 14th – 2019 Presidential Politics – Trump Administration Day #1029

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theconservativetreehouse.com - Xi and his gang are at full on murderous and now reaching out to PornHub to spread their propaganda, Does the US really want to make a deal? “China’s messaging against the Hong Kong protests has foun…

Ukraine Foreign Minister: U.S. Aid, Investigations Were 'Never' Linked | Breitbart

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breitbart.com - Prystaiko spoke the day after the first public hearings in the House Intelligence Committee as part of the “impeachment inquiry,” where two witnesses said they came to believe there had been such a l…

Another Day of Chaos Looms for Hong Kong Amid Relentless City-Wide Protests

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newsmax.com - Protesters have torched vehicles and buildings, hurled petrol bombs at police stations and trains and vandalized prime shopping malls over the past week in some of the worst violence seen in more tha…

“I’ll Die For Hong Kong”: Students Transform Campuses Into Armories As Protests Rage For 4th Straight Day

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infowars.com - The situation in Hong Kong went from bad to worse on Thursday, as the unprecedented weekday protests – a violation of the tacit agreement between the pro-democracy movement and the business community…

NKorea: US Offering to Restart Nuclear Talks in December

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newsmax.com - North Korea on Thursday said the United States has proposed a resumption of stalled nuclear negotiations in December as they approach an end-of-year deadline set by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un fo…

Ann Coulter: How to Get into Harvard Without Good S.A.T. Scores!

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breitbart.com - The only thing Kathy could do to impress her father — and our nation’s elite institutions — was to become a domestic terrorist. It worked. Her parents showily displayed Kathy’s motorcycle helmet from…

Op-Ed: Screw Getting Rid Of Guns, Just Get Rid Of Ammo

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bearingarms.com - I’m constantly amazed at the so-called clever people who are convinced they have found a solution to the “gun problem” but who typically know jack about firearms in general, much less the people who …

Tucker: ‘The Territorial Integrity of Ukraine is Essential’ But ‘Our Own Borders Mean Nothing’

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infowars.com - President Trump was elected on a platform of making peace with Russia but “getting along” with Russia “is a crime” in permanent Washington, Tucker Carlson said Wednesday night on Fox News. “Getting a…

Daniel Franckowiak: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

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heavy.com - Daniel Franckowiak is an American tourist from Bismarck, North Dakota, who was arrested in Thailand after unleashing a disturbing and racist rant in Chiang Mai. Franckowiak’s outburst was caught on v…

A US father fears for his young children trapped in Syria

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cnn.com - Somehow, his wife, Rashida Sumaiya, was radicalized and decided to join ISIS in Syria, Shikder said. For the first few years she would send messages and pictures from Raqqa, the capital of the self-d…

Trump hikes price tag for US forces in Korea almost 500% as Seoul questions alliance

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cnn.com - In the US, congressional aides and Korea experts familiar with the talks say the President's $4.7 billion demand came out of thin air, sending State and Defense Department officials scrambling to jus…

Peter King Pioneered the Persecution of American Muslims

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thedailybeast.com - In May 2010, a radicalized Pakistani immigrant named Faisal Shahzad loaded his SUV with explosives and parked it in Times Square for detonation. Shahzad’s ambition, to kill Americans as vengeance for…

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#CAREERS

Company Gifts That Workers Hate

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shrm.org - Coffee mugs and water bottles emblazoned with the company's logo. Gift cards to stores that employees rarely visit. These are among the gifts that companies give to workers—and that workers hate, tha…

Is the Shorter Workweek for Everyone?

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shrm.org - In August, Microsoft Japan experimented with a four-day workweek for its 2,300 employees. They were given five Fridays off, with no reduction in pay. Productivity rose nearly 40 percent. Last year, P…

The Remote Work Report by Zapier

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zapier.com - Remote work isn't niche anymore—it's everywhere. Anyone who frequents a coffee shop knows that. At this point, companies of all sizes are implementing remote work policies. A number of forward-thinki…

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