Thursday 9 November 2017

The Morning After: Uber gets NASA assistance with its flying taxis

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It's Thursday, November 09, 2017.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

If you like retro-inspired things, you might like the first new manual SLR in decades. If you’d rather keep your eye on the future, take a look at Uber’s plans (with NASA) to get its flying taxis off the ground. (Not sorry about that pun.) Also: Niantic Labs, the team behind Pokemon Go, is making a Harry Potter game. Get excited.

The device reportedly will have its own screen and chipset.

Apple may be working on an AR headset for 2020

Apple has been talking a lot about AR lately. Its recent ARKit allows developers to create augmented reality apps for iOS devices, but that’s just the first step. The company is reportedly developing an AR headset that will be ready by 2019 -- a device that may change the game as much as the iPhone did back in 2007.

They can also prevent the spread of dengue, yellow fever and other diseases.

EPA approves good guy mosquitoes to battle Zika

MosquitoMate will be releasing a plethora of mosquitoes across the US -- not to start a bug-pocalypse, but to prevent it. The US Environmental Protection Agency has just approved the use of the startup’s mosquitoes as a biopesticide against their Zika-, dengue- and other disease-carrying counterparts in 20 states and Washington DC. The company’s insects carry a common bacterium called Wolbachia pipientis, which infects a wide range of invertebrates. By releasing them, they can spread bacteria to the wild population of Aedes albopictus or Asian tiger mosquitoes -- and stop the spread of those aforementioned diseases.

Bust out the tinfoil.

Aluminum foil can actually improve your wireless signal

Lifehack.

New Filegear AI organizes 10,000 photos in 60 seconds

Amazon takes on the smart home once again.

Amazon Cloud Cam review: a Nest Cam rival with Alexa smarts

Amazon’s first home-security camera offers great value for money. Not only is it cheaper than comparable rivals by $80 or more, it stores recorded events for up to 24 hours without requiring a subscription. Subscriptions buy you more storage space, and you also get the benefit of extra features like person detection and setting up zones for the camera to ignore (which we wish were available by default). The Cloud Cam’s geofencing feature does get a little temperamental but its other qualities more than make up for it.

Los Angeles will be its third test city.

Uber works with NASA to get flying taxis ready by 2020

At a speech at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Uber’s Head of Product Jeff Holden revealed the company has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to create the air traffic control system that will manage its low-flying taxi fleet, which it aims to have in the air by 2020. The company also announced that a third test city, Los Angeles, joins Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai. According to Uber, its UberAIR service could compress a one-and-a-half-hour journey from LAX to the Staples Center during rush hour to under 30 minutes. We can’t wait for E3 2020.

But wait, there's more...

1. The FCC is helping cable companies evade consumer protection rules

2. Apple offered to help FBI unlock Texas shooter's phone

3. Engadget Experience: 'Dinner Party' relives an interracial couple's alien abduction in VR

4. A SpaceX rocket engine exploded during a qualification test in Texas

5. 'Harry Potter' AR game is coming from the makers of 'Pokémon Go'

6. The Reflex 1 is the first manual film SLR in decades

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Wednesday 8 November 2017

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Amazon Sneaks In Third-Party Seller Discounts
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The Long Black Friday Shopping Day Has Dawned
(Posted 06-Nov-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84934.html

IBM Launches Private Cloud to Ease Public Cloud Transition
(Posted 03-Nov-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84931.html

The Eve of the Self-Driving Revolution
(Posted 02-Nov-17)
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84930.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From TechNewsWorld

High Price Undercuts Microsoft's Xbox One X Mic Drop
(Posted 08-Nov-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84938.html

Marcher Malware Poses Triple Threat to Android Users
(Posted 07-Nov-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84936.html

Dilbert vs. Trump: Why False Facts Have Power
(Posted 06-Nov-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84927.html

Call of Duty WWII Kicks Off Holiday Season With a Bang
(Posted 04-Nov-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84933.html

Razer Debuts Cutting-Edge Mobile Gaming Phone
(Posted 03-Nov-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84932.html

Sony's Aibo Resurrected From Robot Pet Cemetery
(Posted 02-Nov-17)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84929.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From CRM Buyer

Facebook Messenger Jumps to Business Websites
(Posted 08-Nov-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84940.html

5 Innovative Ways to Inspire Customer Loyalty
(Posted 06-Nov-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84935.html

New Relationship Marketing Hub Aims to Goose Conversion Rates
(Posted 03-Nov-17)
http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/84922.html

This Week's Top News Headlines From LinuxInsider

Nvidia Containerizes GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning
(Posted 07-Nov-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84928.html

New Collaborative Platform to Spur Open Source AI Development
(Posted 02-Nov-17)
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/84926.html

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The Morning After: FBI can’t unlock Texas church shooter’s phone

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It's Wednesday, November 08, 2017.

Hey, good morning!

Welcome to Wednesday. The FBI battles with smartphone encryption once again, there’s a new type of energy fusion and we struggle with shaving a giant’s leg in Your Hands Are Feet.

A digital wallet is only as trustworthy as the software that manages it.

Code mistake freezes up to $280 million in digital currency

Digital wallet company Parity is warning its users that a large volume of Ethereum funds have effectively been frozen after one coder accidentally deleted the library needed to use multi-signature wallets (those that require more than one signature to move funds) created after July 20th. They triggered a long-unpatched bug that turned Parity’s wallet contract into a standard multi-signature wallet, making every wallet suicide and erase the guiding library code.

Whether or not you believe it was a mistake, it could have very serious consequences. Observers estimate there could be more than one million in ether locked away, which would amount to roughly $280 million.

Prime Video is nearly everywhere now, so this gives folks a way to watch it.

Amazon made a budget Fire TV Stick for the rest of the world

Amazon has unveiled the Fire TV Stick Basic Edition in over 100 countries, including Canada, France, Italy and Spain. It costs €60 in Europe but has been temporarily marked down to €40 for Prime customers. Amazon recently launched Prime Video around the world (both with and without the regular Prime service). The Fire TV Stick Basic Edition comes with quad-core processor, 1GB of memory and 8GB of storage, so despite the name, it appears to be the same as the $40 Fire TV Stick currently sold in the US. The main difference is that the US version comes with an Alexa remote that can take voice commands, while the Basic Edition has, well, a basic remote.

Back to basics.

Microsoft will create game studios to ensure more Xbox One exclusives

Microsoft has been chasing Sony in console sales for years and has subsequently entered a pattern of shuttering internal studios and cancelling games. Now, according to an interview with Xbox chief Phil Spence, the Washington-based company is going to do the opposite: start or acquire studios to develop more games and software in-house.

This is sure to reignite the encryption debate.

The FBI can’t unlock the Texas church shooter’s phone

At a press conference, an FBI official investigating the man who killed 26 people in a Texas church last Sunday said the agency can’t open the shooter’s encrypted phone. The agent painted the issue as a growing concern among law enforcement at all levels who can’t access data on devices without their owner’s credentials.

A room-scale VR adventure

‘Your Hands Are Feet’ puts you inside a psychedelic egg yolk

Let’s get weird. We explore the first of four immersive-media projects coming from our Alternate Realities grant program. The bizarre world of Your Hands Are Feet will debut, along with four other prize-winning immersive-media projects, at the Engadget Experience on November 14th, 2017. For more information about the Engadget Experience and to grab a ticket, check out all the details here.

But wait, there's more...

1. Quark fusion makes 10 times as much energy as nuclear fusion

2. The surprising Islamic beauty of 'Engare'

3. NVIDIA GPUs are 'Star Wars' merch now

4. What we're playing: 'Super Beat Sports' and 'Animal Crossing'

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Tuesday 7 November 2017

E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Tuesday -- November 7, 2017

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Amazon Sneaks In Third-Party Seller Discounts
The Long Black Friday Shopping Day Has Dawned
5 Innovative Ways to Inspire Customer Loyalty
IBM Launches Private Cloud to Ease Public Cloud Transition
New Relationship Marketing Hub Aims to Goose Conversion Rates
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Today's Story Highlights

Amazon Sneaks In Third-Party Seller Discounts

Amazon recently began reducing prices on merchandise sold by third-party
sellers, ratcheting up its market share competition with discount
stores, including Walmart. The company has started to display a new tag,
"Discount Provided by Amazon." Price cuts so far have been a little less
than 10 percent on goods sold by independent retailers. Amazon has been
absorbing the losses itself.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84939.html

The Long Black Friday Shopping Day Has Dawned

Black Friday falls on Nov. 23 this year, but retailers already have
begun to promote the huge discounts they plan to offer in its name. Some
deals already are available to shoppers. Although Cyber Monday has grown
in significance, Black Friday "is still significant as the kickoff to
the holiday season," said Ray Wang, principal analyst at Constellation
Research.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84934.html

5 Innovative Ways to Inspire Customer Loyalty

Getting customers -- and keeping them -- is the name of the game in e-
commerce. "The e-commerce market is crowded and noisy, and brands need
to do everything they can to differentiate themselves from the pack,"
said Eric Hansen, CTO of SiteSpect. "Loyalty programs do just that,
giving a brand the edge they need to stay a step ahead of their
competitors."
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84935.html

IBM Launches Private Cloud to Ease Public Cloud Transition

IBM has announced IBM Cloud Private, a software platform that allows
enterprise customers to run applications and store critical data in an
on-premises, private cloud environment. The new service employs a
Kubernetes-based container architecture that supports both Docker
containers and Cloud Foundry. IBM also introduced new container-
optimized versions of core enterprise software.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84931.html

New Relationship Marketing Hub Aims to Goose Conversion Rates

Optimove has released a new version of its relationship marketing hub.
Optimove 6.0 lets users automate targeted marketing campaigns for new
visitors as precisely as they can for current customers, the company
said. It combines Web analytics with look-alike data, machine learning,
and AI from its retention ecosystem to make accurate predictions of
future spend before customers make a purchase.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84922.html

The Eve of the Self-Driving Revolution

A decade ago, there wasn't much talk about self-driving cars or
autonomous-cars, but Toyota and Lexus were setting the stage with their
self-parking cars. They aired television commercials showing how cars
magically parallel-parked themselves. At the time, it seemed amazing,
but that was nothing compared to what's coming next. The self-parking
revolution is now expanding.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84930.html

6 Ways E-Commerce SMBs Can Offer Great Customer Service on a Tight Budget

Keeping customers satisfied is the No. 1 priority of any retail
business. Technological advances such as interactive voice response
systems, chatbots, omnichannel accessibility and robotics have helped
many large e-commerce companies improve customer satisfaction rates.
However, these options require financial and manpower resources that
small and mid-sized firms often don't have.
http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/84924.html

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