Tuesday, 6 November 2018

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It's Tuesday, November 06, 2018.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

It’s election day in the US, but before you head out to collect those I Voted stickers, it’s time to check out our first impressions of Apple’s new iPad Pro and MacBook Air. Plus, you should bookmark our holiday gift guide (or just go ahead and order a few things now before you forget) and get a heads-up on Chrome’s latest ad-blocking expansion.

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Apple's new tablet is a big step forward, but it has its quirks.

iPad Pro preview (2018): Early signs point to a powerhouse with potential

If nothing else, Apple built a big pro-level iPad that physically fits better into people's lives. Four days isn’t enough time to give a full impression of the new slate, but Chris Velazco is ready with some early feelings about this fully specced out 12.9-inch Pro with 1TB of storage.

The best gadgets your loved ones didn't know they needed.

Check out Engadget's 2018 holiday gift guide

Team Engadget has been hard at work on the 2018 holiday gift guide. This year's round-up is stuffed with 126 recommendations across 16 categories and a wide range of price points, with more than four times as many products under $50. In fact, about 30 percent of the items on this year's list falls into that budget range.

Big on power and price

ThinkPad X1 Extreme review

According to ThinkPad enthusiast Terrence O’Brien, this four-pound laptop is surprisingly thin and light considering it has a 15-inch 4K HDR screen and powerful desktop-caliber internals. Just don’t plan on wandering too far from a power outlet -- its battery life is pretty mediocre.

‘Ingress Prime’ is more beginner friendly.

Niantic revives ‘Ingress’ for the post-‘Pokémon Go’ world

Niantic is taking the time to remind the world that its own original geo-game, Ingress, still exists. Launched in 2013, it was the company’s first game and one of the first to ask folks to wander around their locale and hunt for goodies. Six years and several million players later, Niantic is relaunching the game as Ingress Prime. It's hoping that a fresh start, a cleaned-up game and a deeper storyline will help coax back all those people who tried Ingress once then walked away.

A developer's conference in San Francisco is a good place to debut the software.

Samsung’s foldable phone will finally be revealed this week

In a call with reporters after its quarterly earnings report, Samsung exec Lee Kyeong-tae explained that the company would show off some of the UI features of the long-teased device and elaborate on how it could improve multitasking and (hopefully) the entire point of the new screen format. Reports suggest we’ll see some detailed images of the device, if not the actual thing in the flesh.

Awkward, since advertising is such a big part of Google’s business.

Chrome will block all ads on ‘consistently deceptive’ websites

As of December, Chrome 71 will block all ads on the "small number" of sites that consistently use shady tactics like pop-ups and redirects

The company said it was tipped off by US law enforcement.

Facebook blocks 115 fake accounts ahead of midterm elections

Facebook sent out an alert that it disabled 115 accounts (30 on Facebook and 85 on Instagram) that "may be engaged in coordinated inauthentic behavior." The social network said its investigation is in a "very early stage" and that it acted on the accounts based on a tip from US law enforcement, which believes the accounts may be linked to foreign entities -- and it’s just the latest in a long string of reports following the 2016 election campaign and the role of social media played through spurious methods.

But wait, there's more...

1. FCC pushes carriers to implement caller ID authentication by 2019

2. Apple releases watchOS 5.1.1 after previous update bricked devices

3. 7-Eleven is testing a 'scan and go' mobile checkout system

4. AMC hikes prices for its MoviePass rival in 15 states

5. What's on TV: 'Tetris Effect,' 'Outlaw King' and 'Great British Baking Show'

6. Intel's 48-core Xeon will go head to head with AMD in 2019

7. Amazon's HQ2 could end up split between two cities

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Monday, 5 November 2018

Editor's Pick: It Is Well Past Time for Elections to Be Online

It Is Well Past Time for Elections to Be Online

Rob Enderle Nov 5, 2018 8:51 AM PT
	Tomorrow a minority of those who are eligible will take time off, drive through traffic, and wait in lines to take part in one of the most artificially annoying obligations of United States citizenship: voting. Many who make that inconvenient trek will treat the process like a multiple choice test they haven't studied for, either voting the party line or guessing at the right answers. [More...]

More Picks:

Former White House CIO Theresa Payton: 'There Are Grave Concerns About Election Interference'
Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions, is one of the most influential experts on cybersecurity and IT strategy in the United States. She is an authority on Internet security, data breaches and fraud mitigation. She served as the first female chief information officer at the White House, overseeing IT operations for President George W. Bush and his staff. [More...]

The Resurrection of SoLoMo for Today's Brick-and-Click Shoppers
In the last decade or so, the inability or unwillingness to adapt has caused many businesses to succumb to a newer, more innovative company, or one that has re-thought how to do business in the digital age. For example, people who can remember browsing the aisles of Borders likely understand the irony of one of Amazon's first moves into the brick-and-mortar realm: book stores. [More...]

Feren OS Delivers Richer Cinnamon Flavor
Feren OS is a nice alternative to Linux Mint and an easy stepping stone to transition to Linux from Microsoft Windows or macOS. I am a long-time user of Linux Mint, but I am falling out of love with it. Mint is getting stale. That diagnosis started me thinking about a suitable replacement distro that runs the Cinnamon desktop with a bit more innovation and flare. [More...]

Digital Disruption Pathways
Digital transformation means a lot of things to different people, but if you do it right it should be virtually unique to your circumstance. The other day I caught up with Rip Gerber, CMO at Vlocity, the Salesforce partner that specializes in vertical industries like telecommunications and insurance. Of digital disruption, Gerber told me, "Nobody changes anything without a strong business case." [More...]

IT Resume Dos and Don'ts: Formatting for Readability
I'd like to share some common of the most common formatting problems that I see regularly. Of course, an IT resume requires more than great formatting. It requires well-written, targeted content, and a clear story of career progression. It needs to communicate your unique brand and value proposition. Still, if the formatting is off, that can derail the rest of the document. [More...]

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Tech News Flash

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Headline Scan
It Is Well Past Time for Elections to Be Online
The Blurry Line Between Journalism and PR
IT Resume Dos and Don'ts: Formatting for Readability
Oracle, the Hardware Company
Changing Up Your Linux Distro
Human Knowledge to Escape Earth's Boundaries
Crisis in Tech: Who Can Save Companies When Execs Go Off the Rails?
Open Source Software: 20-Plus Years of Innovation
Former White House CIO Theresa Payton: There Are Grave Concerns About Election Interference
What Can We Expect From AI?

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Today's Story Highlights

It Is Well Past Time for Elections to Be Online

Tomorrow a minority of those who are eligible will take time off, drive
through traffic, and wait in lines to take part in one of the most
artificially annoying obligations of United States citizenship: voting.
Many who make that inconvenient trek will treat the process like a
multiple choice test they haven't studied for, either voting the party
line or guessing at the right answers.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85657.html

The Blurry Line Between Journalism and PR

The line between journalism and public relations can be fuzzy, and news
organizations have wrestled with that problem for some time. However,
that line recently has become more blurred than ever, with some
publications enlisting armies of nonprofessional scribes to satisfy an
insatiable appetite for content. It's easy to understand why the problem
has mushroomed.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85658.html

IT Resume Dos and Don'ts: Formatting for Readability

I'd like to share some common of the most common formatting problems
that I see regularly. Of course, an IT resume requires more than great
formatting. It requires well-written, targeted content, and a clear
story of career progression. It needs to communicate your unique brand
and value proposition. Still, if the formatting is off, that can derail
the rest of the document.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85655.html

Oracle, the Hardware Company

For all of the dazzle of its rapidly evolving software portfolio, which
includes a self-monitoring and self-patching database that also
configures itself, as well as numerous cloud applications, Oracle has
begun showing its credibility as a hardware vendor. Hardware has
commoditized and will not return to the prominence it had in the early
days of the tech era.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85650.html

Changing Up Your Linux Distro

It's common for Linux users to hop between distributions and survey the
field, and I recently reached a point where I had to seriously rethink
the one I was using most of the time. Between hardware compatibility
issues with my old standby and some discouraging missteps with other go-
to choices, I felt the time had come to reassess my pool of preferred
distributions and repopulate it from scratch.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85652.html

Human Knowledge to Escape Earth's Boundaries

SpaceChain has teamed with the Arch Mission Foundation to use open
source technology to launch an ambitious project involving the storage
of large data sets in spacecraft and on other planets. Arch Mission will
load large quantities of data onto SpaceChain's satellite vehicles with
the eventual aim of storing data on other planets. The joint effort will
help launch the Earth Library.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85648.html

Crisis in Tech: Who Can Save Companies When Execs Go Off the Rails?

"Too many digital leaders have lost their minds," Kara Swisher recently
wrote, citing some frightening examples of poor leadership. She pointed
to the solution adopted by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who hired a
chief ethical officer -- but I think that would just repeat the mistake
we made with chief risk officers around a decade ago. The risk managers
had responsibility but no real authority.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85644.html

Open Source Software: 20-Plus Years of Innovation

Open source led to a new software development and distribution model
that offered an alternative to proprietary software. No single event
takes the prize for starting the technology revolution. However, Feb. 3,
1998, is one of the more significant dates. On that day, Christine
Peterson, a futurist and lecturer in the field of nanotechnology, coined
the "open source" term.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85646.html

Former White House CIO Theresa Payton: There Are Grave Concerns About Election Interference

Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions, is one of the most
influential experts on cybersecurity and IT strategy in the United
States. She is an authority on Internet security, data breaches and
fraud mitigation. She served as the first female chief information
officer at the White House, overseeing IT operations for President
George W. Bush and his staff.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85641.html

What Can We Expect From AI?

Fear mongering about killer robots and the recent deaths connected with
Uber and Tesla autonomous vehicles have rekindled concerns about AI in
the machines around us. We are well beyond answering Alan Turing's
question, "can machines think?" There is now good reason to ask how we
should think of AI, and what we should expect from it. There have been
phenomenal advances in just the past few years.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85640.html

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