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We’ve all been there: you’re exploring the vast interwebs, opening tabs rapid fire like the middle-clickin’ master you are. Suddenly one of the zillion tabs you’ve got open in the background starts autoplaying some terrible ad — now your laptop is yelling to your entire office about man part pills or free ipads or something. Google wants to end this. Read More... →

Facebook didn’t get to be one of the largest video streamers on the web without making a few enemies. Unfortunately, up to this point, a lot of those enemies were the people actually creating cool video content for the site. Today, Facebook is trying to rectify its poor management of controlling video piracy on its site and appease video creators who have been getting kind of pissed off… Read More... →

When it comes to politics, the Internet, it seems, has been a great disappointment. Read More... →

Your fellow Showrunners, even those serving the very same niche(s) that you're serving, are not your enemies. 95 percent of the world has no idea what you're doing as "podcaster," so don't turn a cold shoulder to the few who do. This week's episode of The Showrunner begins with a discussion about the value of meeting your listeners in person when you get the opportunity to do so.... →

Google says the European Commission's antitrust charges are "wrong as a matter of fact, law, and economics."... →

Microsoft’s new browser, Edge, has a new rendering engine, EdgeHTML. Like Edge, the new rendering engine is only available in Windows 10, but it does more than just power the company’s new browser: It’s also readily available to developers. To show off what EdgeHTML can do, Microsoft has built a browser using predominantly JavaScript, HTML, […]... →

by Jayson DeMers SEO best practices frequently get revised as new algorithm updates are released by Google and Bing. These changes render some tactics more popular, and others entirely irrelevant. Keyword research, and the obsession with keywords when it comes to SEO campaigns, is a prime example of this. Years ago, prior to the April 2012 launch of Google's Penguin algorithm,... →

Google has announced a new tool designed to help developers build apps for Android Auto. With Desktop Head Unit (DHU), Google is essentially letting devs emulate a car dashboard running Android Auto, thus making the testing process far more practical. All a developer needs to do is connect their phone to a computer via USB, […]... →

The latest data breach victim to make the headlines is a big one — deeply personal and private information of more than 21.5 million current and former federal employees and over a million unique fingerprint scans, were leaked in an attack on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) that is believed to be the work of the Chinese. Government officials said longtime security lapses left… Read More... →

Need a quiet spot to check your email? Looks like for many people, that’s the bathroom. According to a new study from Adobe, 42 percent of Americans use their time there to check their email. This result is part of a wider study Adobe did to look at trends in email usage — something the company obviously cares about given the email marketing services it offers. Read More... →

In this new series on The Mainframe, hosts Tony Clark and Chris Garrett discuss the importance of the right metrics in growing your business, and why you should not be paralyzed by math. In this episode of The Mainframe, Chris Garrett and Tony Clark discuss: How you can determine the correct metrics for your business Where to start,... →

Nearly 60% of smartphone users expect their favorite apps to look visually appealing. We've always believed that in-app ads can enhance an app's overall experience by being well designed. So today we're announcing a completely new look for our interstitial in-app ad formats - also known as full-screen ads - that run on apps in the AdMob network and DoubleClick Ad Exchange. Inspired by Material Design , the new app install interstitial comes with a beautiful cover photo,... →

Samsung Pay is now being beta tested in the U.S. The new digital payment method will be available to select owners of Galaxy devices including the S6, S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, and the Note 5. Samsung Pay allows users to upload credit card information to their phone and use it as a way to pay at credit card accepting retailers. Samsung […]... →

We’re a little over five years into the EU’s antitrust investigation of Google and today’s back and forth is about Google Shopping results. Back in April, Europe’s antitrust chief, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said: Our preliminary view in the SO is that in its general Internet search results Google artificially favors its own comparison shopping service… Read More... →

While companies like iCracked have extensive repair networks allowing you to get a phone or tablet repaired in just hours, getting a laptop repaired normally requires making an appointment, dropping your device off, and eventually picking it up days later. Techy (a recent winner of our TC Radio pitch-off) solves this problem by providing an on-demand platform for laptop repairs.… Read More... →

It would appear that the next-gen iPhone may come with some added flare. Sources told 9to5mac that the UI for the iPhone 6S may come with animated wallpapers, not unlike the animated watch faces that shipped with the Apple Watch. Those sources said that animated wallpapers could include animated fish in a koi pond, as well as ‘colorful arrays of smoke.’ Given that most… Read More... →

As of late, it's fashionable to write hell for leather. In fact, there's a hot cottage industry in the writing culture. But is it good for the writing community? Or detrimental? For lack of better terms, let's call this trend the "The Hell-For-Leather Writing Movement." Or HFLWM. You see HFLWM in titles like "How to Write Fast," "Write an Article in 20 Minutes," and "How Fast Can You Write?... →

After months of shaky service and false alarms, The Pirate Bay is down again. As always, the cause of the outage is unknown, but the site has been down for more than an hour, so this isn’t just another random blip. The Pirate Bay, one of the most popular torrent sites on the planet, has […]... →

Министерство промышленности и торговли опубликовало паспорт проекта постановления правительства, отменяющего запрет на дистанционную продажу алкоголя. Предполагается, что изменения вступят в силу с ноября 2015 года.... →

The rumors have been flying for months about a possible 4-inch iPhone, but the device will reportedly not be announced at Apple’s September 9 event. The good news is that Apple has indeed been developing the 4-inch screened device (which has the same features as last year’s iPhone 6), but it is not ready to ship, […]... →