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• How UK startups are keeping their EU connections alive after Brexit

  29-01-2021 23:24 via thenextweb.com
  
  https://thenextweb.com/growth-quarters/2021/01/29/how-uk-startups-are-keeping-their-eu-connections-alive-after-brexit/
  
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• Use ItsMyData to stop ecommerce sites from abusing your valuable data

  29-01-2021 22:52 via zdnet.com
  
  Opting out can be easy with this new tool from ItsMyData.
  
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• Windows and Mac software: My 11 essential apps and services

  29-01-2021 22:30 via zdnet.com
  
  Here's a list of the apps and services I use day in and day out. It's an eclectic mix of desktop apps and browser-based tools, with some essential media players thrown in for good measure.
  
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• Bubble Integration Plugins by Pathfix

  29-01-2021 22:27 via pathfix.com
  
  https://pathfix.com/integration-plugins/
  
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• Microsoft's new Edge 'what's next' page is a good roadmap starting point

  29-01-2021 22:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft is providing more details about some of the consumer and business features coming to its Edge browser via a new roadmap page.
  
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• Microsoft to highlight improvements to the 'employee experience' in February 4 event

  29-01-2021 21:21 via zdnet.com
  
  Microsoft may be ready to unveil new Teams, Workplace Analytics, learning, HR and other capabilities in the name of improving the employee experience.
  
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• Google deploys Chrome mitigations against new NAT Slipstreaming attack

  29-01-2021 21:16 via zdnet.com
  
  After the discovery of NAT Slipstreaming 2.0 attack this week, Google says it will block Chrome traffic on ports 69, 137, 161, 1719, 1720, 1723, 6566, and 10080.
  
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• Langogo Summit AI pocket translator review: Quick and accurate translation and transcription from a compact device

  29-01-2021 21:14 via zdnet.com
  
  If you regularly need translation services the Langogo Summit AI translator is the device you need on your travels around the world.
  
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• Avantgarde Font

  29-01-2021 21:14 via fontspanda.com
  
  https://fontspanda.com/avantgarde-font-free-download/
  
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• Slack Chat for VS Code - Send your messages and files to Slack without leaving VSCode

  29-01-2021 19:25 via github.com
  
  https://github.com/alperg/slack-vscode
  
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• Safe dead code removal in a pure functional language

  29-01-2021 19:19 via jfmengels.net
  https://jfmengels.net/safe-dead-code-removal/
  
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• Brazilian women in IT negatively impacted by remote working

  29-01-2021 18:22 via zdnet.com
  
  Some female tech professionals believe operating from home during the Covid-19 pandemic fosters gender equality in the sector, but the majority struggles to balance domestic tasks and work, a new study has found.
  
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• Android 12 may offer a system-wide color theming feature

  29-01-2021 18:03 via androidpolice.com
  
  https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/01/28/android-12-may-offer-a-system-wide-color-theming-feature/
  
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• How To Create An Engaging And Useful Chatbot

  29-01-2021 17:29 via smashingmagazine.com
  
  https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2021/01/create-engaging-useful-chatbot/
  
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• Could 5G edge computing become 5G’s saving grace? [Status Report]

  29-01-2021 17:25 via zdnet.com
  
  Wait, wasn’t 5G supposed to be about greater bandwidth, faster service, and more options for consumer streaming? While we’re waiting for one revolution to start, perhaps another one can be jump-started downtown.
  
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• Open source at Facebook: 700 repositories and 1.3 million followers

  29-01-2021 17:02 via zdnet.com
  
  The company's review of 2020 shows promising results for the open-source community.
  
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• Illuminated River to light up five more London bridges

  29-01-2021 17:00
  
  The second part of London’s Illuminated River project will light up five more of the city’s bridges this spring.
  The latest bridges include: Blackfriars, Waterloo, Westminster, Golden Jubilee Footbridges and Lambeth Bridge. In 2019, London, Cannon Street Railway, Southwark and Millennium Bridge were illuminated as part of the public art project.
  Westminster Bridge renderThe illuminated installation will be in place for ten years and when completed will be the longest such commission
  
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• Disruptive Innovation 2021: These 15 big ideas are most likely to change the world

  29-01-2021 16:59 via zdnet.com
  
  ARK Invest Big Ideas 2021 annual research report seeks to highlight the latest developments in innovation and offers some of our most provocative research conclusions for the year.
  
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• A network of Twitter bots has attacked the Belgian government's Huawei 5G ban

  29-01-2021 16:51 via zdnet.com
  
  Twitter has now suspended the accounts.
  
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• How Science Fiction Influences Design Innovation

  29-01-2021 16:36 via mediatemple.net
  
  https://mediatemple.net/blog/design-creative/scifidesign/
  
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• How leading companies should be handling remote work

  29-01-2021 16:26 via zdnet.com
  
  Siddharth Rao, a staff software engineer and a technical lead in the revenue product organization at Twitter, tells Beth Mauder how companies can be confident in their remote employee hires.
  
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• Stufish partners with industry experts to launch COVID-safe Vertical Theatre

  29-01-2021 15:47
  
  Entertainment architecture and design company Stufish has launched The Vertical Theatre, a “freestanding tourable structure” that will allow socially distanced audiences to enjoy live performances again.
  So far, the coronavirus pandemic has wrought havoc on the performing arts: the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre estimated losses for the sector were around £630 million just three months into the crisis. As the country approaches the one-year anniversary of it
  
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• I've just seen the future of technology and you may not love it

  29-01-2021 15:29 via zdnet.com
  
  It's one thing to ask what the future will be like. It's quite another to ask what it will feel like. Twelve minutes listening to someone who really knows may make you question the meaning of life. And what's left of it.
  
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• Trickbot is back again - with fresh phishing and malware attacks

  29-01-2021 15:11 via zdnet.com
  
  The Trickbot botnet was disrupted by a coalition of cybersecurity companies late last year - but researchers have detailed what appears to be a new Trickbot campaign.
  
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• 10 Mobile Billing Systems For E-Commerce

  29-01-2021 14:33 via hongkiat.com
  
  Either you have an online business or a physical one, in order for your business to flourish, you need to offer your customers multiple modes of payment – one of which is mobile billing or...Visit hongkiat.com for full content.
  
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• Twitter updates its identity to match the “complexity” of conversations today

  29-01-2021 14:18
  
  Twitter has revealed a new visual identity which hopes to “fully reflect the complexity, fluidity and power of the conversations today”.
  The new work comprises imagery, typeface and animation and has been carried out by Twitter’s internal creative team in partnership with design studio Irradié.
  The far-reaching identity work, which does not include a new logo, will roll out over videos, posters, presentations, GIFs and banner ads as well as appearing across the product.
  
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• Ecommerce boom driving new robot helpers

  29-01-2021 13:00 via zdnet.com
  
  The pandemic has hastened the move online for retail and grocers. Robotics development is shifting into gear to meet the demand.
  
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• US, China or Europe? Here's who is really winning the global race for AI

  29-01-2021 12:59 via zdnet.com
  
  A new report shows that in the ever-more competitive race for AI, the US has a strong lead that China is catching up with, while the EU is falling behind little by little.
  
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• Telegram now lets you bring across chat history from WhatsApp

  29-01-2021 12:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Telegram offers a new chat migration tool to help the 100 million people it claims to have gained in January.
  
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• SolarWinds attack is not an outlier, but a moment of reckoning for security industry, says Microsoft exec

  29-01-2021 12:14 via zdnet.com
  
  Security companies need to be unified in their response, says Microsoft.
  
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• Has 5G made telecommunications sustainable again? :Status Report

  29-01-2021 12:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Our ongoing series on the progress of various technologies continues with a hard look at the most contentious, disputed, and geopolitically contentious system of communication since the telegraph.
  
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• Quiz: Which Famous Designer Said This?

  29-01-2021 11:45 via webdesignerdepot.com
  How good is your knowledge of the history of design? Do you know which famous designer disliked computers? Or which designer compared their job to that of a host at a dinner party?
  Kick back, relax, and take our quiz, featuring 24 memory-teasing quotes from some of the biggest names in design over the last century. How many can you get right?
  
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• Demand for Chromebooks is going through the roof

  29-01-2021 11:45 via zdnet.com
  
  Record sales for Chromebooks and tablets as businesses and consumers scramble to find the right kit for working from home.
  
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• Electronic health records provider Athena to pay $18m settlement in kickback lawsuit

  29-01-2021 09:44 via zdnet.com
  
  Athena was accused of paying under the table to push athenaClinicals software.
  
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• Singapore aims for global e-commerce excellence with focus on core infrastructures

  29-01-2021 08:10 via zdnet.com
  
  Government outlines its strategy to build up the country's footprint as a global e-commerce hub, which focuses on strengthening key underlying infrastructures such as 5G, logistics, and payment.
  
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• SAP Q4 2020: Steady results as the firm pivots to enterprise transformation solutions

  29-01-2021 07:51 via zdnet.com
  
  SAP's financial results remain stable despite COVID-19, travel and business disruption, and a recent shift in focus to business transformation solutions.
  
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• Google bans another misbehaving CA from Chrome

  29-01-2021 07:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Digital certificates issued by Spanish certificate authority Camerfirma will stop working in Chrome 90, in April.
  
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• Scams, terror, and national security: Problems with Chinese microloan apps in India

  29-01-2021 06:07 via zdnet.com
  
  The pandemic, accompanied by job loss and pay cuts, has made many Indians even more desperate than they normally were for loans. This has made them easy targets for spurious loan apps whose origins lie across the border.
  
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• Too manys tabs are never enough as Vivaldi stacks tabs on tabs

  29-01-2021 04:00 via zdnet.com
  
  Browser makes its tab grouping feature more obvious, and despite the garish look, it is now much more useful.
  
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• OAIC asks Home Affairs to create 'information champ' role for overseeing FOI requests

  29-01-2021 03:09 via zdnet.com
  
  Commissioner described the department's governance for sharing non-personal information as part of the FOI Act as 'not adequate'.
  
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• Western Australia expands mandatory SafeWA QR code COVID-19 register

  29-01-2021 03:00 via zdnet.com
  
  From February 12, retail venues such as supermarkets and shopping centres, public and private hospitals, and takeaway food and beverage services will be required to register patrons using the SafeWA QR code.
  
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• SK Hynix saw 84% surge in profit for 2020

  29-01-2021 02:08 via zdnet.com
  
  The South Korean memory maker saw its market share in the server market increase despite the pandemic.
  
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• Google tells ACCC it just makes advertising easy

  29-01-2021 02:08 via zdnet.com
  
  In its latest ACCC battle, the search giant says ad tech is a competitive market with low barriers to entry and promotes a healthy ecosystem.
  
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• NSW taskforce wants Australia-wide cyber standards harmony

  29-01-2021 01:46 via zdnet.com
  
  Report has called for industry and all governments to follow the same standards to 'build a more secure Australia'.
  
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• Apple CEO sounds warning of algorithms pushing society towards catastrophe

  29-01-2021 01:38 via zdnet.com
  
  Tim Cook says there will be consequences to having 'rampant disinformation and conspiracy theories juiced by algorithms'.
  
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• Google launches VM Manager for automated infrastructure management

  29-01-2021 00:16 via zdnet.com
  
  The search giant unveils a suite of infrastructure management tools it says will drive efficiency through automation.
  
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