Thursday 12 October 2017

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E-Commerce Minute: Thursday -- October 12, 2017

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FTC Tightens Screws on Social Media Influencers
Walmart Throws Down Gauntlet to Amazon
Container Runtime Brings Greater Flexibility to Kubernetes and BOSH
Salesforce Gets Granular

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Today's Story Highlights

FTC Tightens Screws on Social Media Influencers

Social media influencer advertising has become a major factor in e-
commerce. Marketers of both big and small brands long have committed
large chunks of their advertising budgets to endorsements by well-known
personalities. Social media influencer campaigns are based on that
tried-and-true formula, but the implication is that the endorsements are
voluntary.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84876.html

Walmart Throws Down Gauntlet to Amazon

Walmart on Tuesday outlined plans to grow its critically important e-
commerce business in the U.S. by 40 percent over the next fiscal year.
The company intends to leverage a series of key acquisitions and its
more than 4,600 brick-and-mortar locations to mount a direct challenge
to Amazon for millennial customers. Walmart is the largest retail
operation in the world and the leading U.S. challenger to Amazon.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84872.html

Container Runtime Brings Greater Flexibility to Kubernetes and BOSH

The Cloud Foundry Foundation has launched Container Runtime as the
default deployment and management platform for containers using
Kubernetes and BOSH. The foundation announced Container Runtime at its
annual European user conference. Cloud Foundry is an open source
Platform as a Service offering used for building and managing
applications in the cloud or in data centers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84874.html

Salesforce Gets Granular

If you need an example of digital disruption, you can't do better than
the retail banking industry. A byzantine collection of rules and
regulations plus the overhang of many legacy systems have conspired to
prevent banks from becoming more involved with their customers. Even
innovations like the ATM, which entered the scene several decades ago,
only serve to distance banks from their customers.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84873.html

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The Morning After: Cutting the strings on VR

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It's Thursday, October 12, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

This Thursday, one porn site is using AI to catalog the stars of its clips, Amazon has a waterproof Kindle (unrelated) and we discuss how Blade Runner 2049 is pushing forward AI in fiction.

No strings on me.

Oculus Santa Cruz gets closer to the future of wireless VR

Last year, Oculus’ wireless VR headset was a hacked together jumble of exposed wiring, but now the Santa Cruz prototype is looking more like a real product. Nicole Lee gave it a shot, along with some new Touch controllers, quickly deeming it “easily one of the most comfortable VR headsets I’ve ever tried.”

Everything you need is right there.

Oculus Go is a $199 self-contained VR headset

While Santa Cruz is still a concept, Oculus is ready to put this VR headset on sale. It also lacks tethering, but for a different reason -- it’s completely standalone, with no PC or phone required. Better yet, the Go brings virtual reality to your face for just $199. Apparently, it will run the same apps as the Gear VR and is expected to ship early next year.

The system uses machine learning to catalog and tag every clip in Pornhub’s vast database.

Pornhub is improving search with an AI porn addict

“I’d recognize that face anywhere.”

A glitch could cause the smart speaker to listen in a little too closely.

Google disables Home Mini's top button so it won’t record everything

Google hasn’t even started shipping the Home Mini yet, but its launch has been marred by an unusual situation where some of the devices would record and upload practically any sound. As a result, Google says it’s taking the step of disabling all top touch functionality on the Home Mini. While owners can still control it using their voice and a volume switch on the side -- that’s it.

More movies in one place.

Disney relaunches Movies Anywhere with support from Fox, Warner, Sony and Universal

After nearly a decade, Disney may have the advantage in its digital movie locker war vs. Ultraviolet. Four other big studios are joining its Movies Anywhere platform, which will link to accounts on stores like iTunes, Vudu, Amazon and Google Play to unlock movies you’ve purchased across all of them. Even if you’re not set up with Movies Anywhere, you can snag five free movies just by logging in and linking your accounts.

The latest premium Kindle has a lot more going for it.

Amazon’s new Kindle Oasis is waterproof and has a bigger screen

Amazon’s last Kindle Oasis was “the perfect e-reader for the one percent.” That still describes the new Oasis, which Amazon is officially unveiling today. It includes some genuinely useful features: a larger 7-inch screen, an all-metal body, and yes, it’s waterproof. A decade after introducing its first e-reader, Amazon has finally delivered the first beach-ready Kindle.

The rare sequel that surpasses a classic.

'Blade Runner 2049' dives deeper on AI to transcend the original

According to Senior Editor Devindra Hardawar, Blade Runner 2049 is a miracle. It’s a sequel that nobody really wanted -- certainly not fans of the seminal 1982 original by Ridley Scott. And ponderous explorations of artificial intelligence aren’t something that typically clicks with mainstream audiences. But it turns out that Blade Runner 2049 -- directed by Denis Villeneuve -- may be the ideal sequel. It builds on its incredibly influential predecessor by asking deeper questions about AI. As the lines between humans and replicants blur, the idea of being “more human than human” seems truer than ever.

The only way to stop a bad guy with a drone is a good guy with an RF rifle.

The rise of drone crime and how cops can stop it

In 2015, US Border Patrol caught a two people dropping off 28 pounds of heroin in Calexico, California, and, in the same year, caught another drug ring delivering 30 pounds of cannabis to San Luis, Arizona. Drones -- easy to fly, difficult to spot and far more practical than catapults -- are quickly gaining favor among criminals for everything from smuggling and snooping to actively countering police actions and intimidating the locals. Elsewhere, police in the UK received 3,456 incident reports of drones behaving badly in 2016, a threefold jump from 2015, a 12-fold increase since 2014. The incidents ranged from minor spats between neighbors to covertly dropping drugs and firearms into prisons. Fortunately, counter-drone systems are as varied as they are numerous, ranging from shotgun shells loaded with wire nets to eagles trained to snatch UAVs from midair.

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1. OnePlus' OxygenOS is collecting your private data without permission

2. Twitter temporarily locks Rose McGowan's account

3. Cadillac's hands-free Super Cruise fixes the worst parts about driving

4. Razer will debut its first smartphone on November 1st

5. Kamigami is a cute robot bug you build yourself

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Wednesday 11 October 2017

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This Week's Top News Headlines From the E-Commerce Times

Walmart Throws Down Gauntlet to Amazon
(Posted 11-Oct-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84872.html

Small Companies Often in the Dark About Cyberattacks
(Posted 10-Oct-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84865.html

Android Devs May Follow Apple's Face ID Lead
(Posted 09-Oct-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84868.html

HPE Gave Russia Deep Dive Into Security Software Used by Pentagon
(Posted 06-Oct-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84862.html

Are You Ready for a RoboCEO?
(Posted 05-Oct-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84858.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

LogicHub CPO Monica Jain: Focus on Results
(Posted 11-Oct-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84869.html

Zuckerberg Pays Virtual Visit to Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
(Posted 10-Oct-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84870.html

Google Pixel 2: 8/10ths of an Apple-Killer Strategy
(Posted 09-Oct-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84860.html

Report: Russian Hackers Penetrated Elite NSA Hacking Division
(Posted 07-Oct-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84864.html

Gadget Ogling: Same Old Apple
(Posted 06-Oct-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84861.html

AI Ripples Through Google's New Product Lineup
(Posted 05-Oct-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84857.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

OpenWorld 2017
(Posted 10-Oct-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84871.html

AI-Powered Mobile Chatbots Promise More Efficient Customer Service
(Posted 09-Oct-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84867.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

GNOME and Budgie: 2 Comfy Ubuntu 17.10 Environments
(Posted 10-Oct-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84866.html

With the Shell, You Can Go Wild(card) and Follow Your Pipe Dream
(Posted 06-Oct-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84863.html

Hologram Debuts Open Source Cellular Modem for IoT
(Posted 05-Oct-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84859.html

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