Tuesday 1 January 2019

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It's Tuesday, January 01, 2019.

Hey, good morning! You look fabulous.

Welcome to a new year. The calendar rolling over means we’re within just a few days of CES, but until then we do have a few other intriguing bits of information to discuss, like a Nokia leak and what’s going on with the FCC. Plus, we’ll list last year’s gaming highlights and check out a new teaser for Stranger Things. If you’re up around 10 AM, then keep an eye out for updates incoming from NASA’s New Horizons mission which should be relaying data after its historic flyby of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69, nicknamed Ultima Thule.

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'Stranger Things' season three arrives July 4th

Netflix brought in 2019 with a special announcement: the premiere date for the third season of Stranger Things. There’s a teaser trailer you should check out for some classic 80s Dick Clark vibes, mixed with the show’s usual Upside Down flavor promising new adventures in Hawkins, IN this summer.

How many lenses do you need?

Nokia's five-camera phone will include an in-screen fingerprint reader

Well-known leaker Evan Blass and MySmartPrice have posted stills and videos of the Android One phone, now called the Nokia 9 PureView (yes, the PureView revival is real), and it's evident that the spider-like rear cameras aren't the only trick up the device's sleeve -- we’re also expecting an in-display fingerprint reader. The five cameras will work in tandem to capture much more detail than usual, and "10X" the light of other smartphone cameras.

Shut down.

FCC to suspend operations January 3rd unless funding resumes

The commission released a statement saying that if the partial funding lapse continues into January 3rd, it will initiate an "orderly shutdown of operations." The majority of the FCC's operations will be put on hold by mid-day Thursday if funding isn't resumed and employees will have four hours to complete the shutdown.

‘God of War,’ ‘Celeste,’ ‘Reigns’ and a few others.

Our favorite games of 2018

Rather than try to come up with a simple "best of" list, the editorial team here at Engadget proudly presents the games that made the biggest impact on us this year, whether they were technically impressive, emotionally engaging or just flat-out fun.

But wait, there's more...

1. What's on TV this week: 'A Series of Unfortunate Events,' 'Titan Games' and the Golden Globes

2. Popsugar's celebrity look-alike app is leaking users' photos

3. Soulja Boy's emulator consoles meet their inevitable end

4. Beijing uses face-detecting smart locks to curb public housing abuses

5. Bootleg version of 'One Cut of the Dead' accidentally released on Amazon

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Monday 31 December 2018

Editor's Pick: The Smartest Tech Products of 2018

The Smartest Tech Products of 2018

Rob Enderle
Dec 31, 2018 5:00 AM PT

Picking a product of the year is anything but trivial because the products I cover every week range from headphones to laptops to books, cars and more. So, I thought I'd try something different this year and pick six products that each deserve the title and then name a winner that stands out from the rest. This allows me to simplify the task and get around a bit of a writer's block I've been having on this subject. [More...]

More Picks:

6 E-Commerce Shipping Strategies That Level the Playing Field for SMBs
E-commerce continues to become more competitive as large companies like Amazon, Target and Walmart soak up market share and customer attention. Shipping window expectations have become shorter, and many online retailers struggle to keep up, particularly SMBs. How can SMBs compete? Not only is competing possible, there are many SMBs that have been finding exceptional success. [More...]

Is Weak Data Integrity Foiling Your CRM?
American companies spend an enormous amount of money on training. Spending reached more than $90 billion in 2017, an increase of over 32 percent from 2016. It's unlikely that even a small share of the billions spent on training last year were devoted to educating and motivating employees to regularly and accurately input data into a company's CRM. Maybe it should have been. [More...]

The Do's and Don'ts of Designing a Great Digital UX
In tech parlance, the emotional result of a person's interaction with a website or digital app is called "user experience" or "UX" -- and the success of a business depends on it. Users who have easy, positive experiences with websites and apps likely will be drawn back to the business. On the contrary, websites and apps with poor navigation and slow loading times likely will turn off consumers. [More...]

Breaking Up the Crypto-Criminal Bar Brawl
As if e-commerce companies didn't have enough problems with transacting securely and defending against things like fraud, another avalanche of security problems -- like cryptojacking, the act of illegally mining cryptocurrency on your end servers -- has begun. We've also seen a rise in digital credit card skimming attacks against popular e-commerce software such as Magento. [More...]

What People With Disabilities Want Etailers to Know About Their Online Shopping Experience
Many shoppers would be just fine if they could never set foot in a retail store again. After all, everything is available online: books, groceries, pizza, household necessities, even big ticket items like mattresses and cars. However, 15 percent of people worldwide have a disability that affects their daily life, and many retailers are unaware that their websites are not always accessible to them. [More...]

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Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Monday -- December 31, 2018

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The Smartest Tech Products of 2018
It's Time to Take a Hard Look at Healthcare Cloud Security
Breaking Up the Crypto-Criminal Bar Brawl
4. 'DNA Printing' in the Cloud, Part 2
2018: The Year of Fighting for Positive Change
5 Ways to Make Your Website Gen-Z Friendlier

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Today's Story Highlights

The Smartest Tech Products of 2018

Picking a product of the year is anything but trivial because the
products I cover every week range from headphones to laptops to books,
cars and more. So, I thought I'd try something different this year and
pick six products that each deserve the title and then name a winner
that stands out from the rest. This allows me to simplify the task and
get around a bit of a writer's block I've been having on this subject.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85761.html

It's Time to Take a Hard Look at Healthcare Cloud Security

The healthcare cloud has been growing incredibly, becoming an ever-more-
important element of health information technology, or HIT. There are
many reasons why the HIT cloud has been becoming more prominent, such as
research and development and collaboration. Since the cloud has been
expanding so rapidly, this may be a good time to reconsider security.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85759.html

Breaking Up the Crypto-Criminal Bar Brawl

As if e-commerce companies didn't have enough problems with transacting
securely and defending against things like fraud, another avalanche of
security problems -- like cryptojacking, the act of illegally mining
cryptocurrency on your end servers -- has begun. We've also seen a rise
in digital credit card skimming attacks against popular e-commerce
software such as Magento.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85760.html

4. 'DNA Printing' in the Cloud, Part 2

In DNA printing, genetic code becomes computer code. This occurs when
the chemical bases adenine, thymine, cytosine and guanine present in a
chemical mix or gene sequence are translated by computer through gel
electrophoresis technology into their representative letters: A/T, T/A,
C/G, G/C. This alphabet code was formalized in 1970 by the International
Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85755.html

2018: The Year of Fighting for Positive Change

When I think of corporate responsibility, one company tends to float to
the top, and that is Cisco. With massive efforts to train people all
over the world in the critical networking skills needed to secure and
expand global communications, Cisco has been taking a major chunk out of
joblessness. It has invested millions to reduce homelessness near its
headquarters, for example.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85754.html

5 Ways to Make Your Website Gen-Z Friendlier

Generation Z is getting a lot of attention these days, as the cohort is
expected to outpace millennials, and comprise 32 percent of the world's
7.7 billion population. This powerful group of consumers was born into a
digital world. A much-reported claim is that Generation Z has an
attention span of 8 seconds. It may seem that your website should mirror
this lightning-quick attention span.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85752.html

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