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So sad....
because it's so true.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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No venture capital, no Bay Area presence, no crazy burn rate: MailChimp’s founders built the company slowly by anticipating customers’ needs and following their instincts. Not your typical start-up fairy tale.
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It seems Spotify is in for trouble as numerous music lovers are reporting that its freemium streaming service is pushing malware-infested ads to its users. Show's over, folks. Nothing to see here.
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Slipping on Google's Daydream View headset, I'm instantly immersed in a new world. Someone described the headset as underpants. Is there something I'm missing?
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Uber driver Nathan Stachelek was pulled off to the side of the road when he saw the self-driving car turn the wrong way. Yea, but does it go the wrong way on a one-way street more than I do?
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If a self-driving car can navigate Pittsburgh, Cleveland will be simple.
My question is, what happens when a self-driving car runs out of juice on a hill?
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Yahoo Inc last year secretly built a custom software program to search all of its customers' incoming emails for specific information provided by U.S. intelligence officials, according to people familiar with the matter. If Yahoo scans customer emails, but has no customers, does it reveal any information?
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Would that include the accounts badged as ATT.net and administered by Yahoo! (including ameritech.net and so on)?
And in that case, were other CEO's consulted as well? Which other firms would be included?
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During comments in Houston, Neal Lane says the Moon is a good testbed. For NASA, the South Pole of the Moon may eventually return as a target for human outposts.
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Because that's where she sent all her "deleted" emails. She wants them back.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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You may have thought it was just a cloud computing service, but Microsoft's Azure Cloud is on its way to become the first artificial intelligence supercomputer, according to the company's CEO Satya Nadella. "My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer (and it backs up in the Cloud)."
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It all makes sense now.
Azure is the color of the sky. And MS's platform is .net...
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At its hardware launch event in San Francisco today, Google officially announced its new Pixel and Pixel XL Android Nougat-based flagship phone. Quite Black, Really Blue, and Very Silver are my colours.
modified 4-Oct-16 14:56pm.
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Will they be unlocked like the Nexus?
i cri evry tiem
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Unless you're elephanting stupid enough to buy them from the sunshine network (aka verizon); in which case you're all but guaranteed the joy of not getting security patches because the marketing team things it's more likely make you buy a newer phone from them.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Microsoft's strange foray into wearables may be at an end. Mary Jo Foley was tipped off that the Band 2 has been pulled from Microsoft's online store Microsoft says it's still exploring wearables space, but has stopped making wearables?
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Over nine thousand developers took part in the first edition of the State Of JavaScript survey. Random comment: "Next time make a survey that works with Javascript disabled."
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Apple is making its new macOS Sierra available to customers as an automatic download.. It has already begun. I was too late to warn you, my friends.
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Server 2016 wants to be your everything—in the cloud, data center, or server closet. Microsoft Windows Server 2016 picks up where its predecessor (Server 2012 R2) left off three years ago
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Tuesday, October 4th is Google’s biggest hardware event, all the leaks will tell you, with everything from a pair of "by Google" smartphones to Google Home smart speakers, new wireless routers, and a 4K Chromecast. Begun this phone war has.
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A study from Cambridge University documents an immense drop in complaints against police officers when their departments began using body cameras. Thankfully I'll get pulled over on my left side -- that's my best side.
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I assume that knowing they are on "Candid Camera" reduces both illegal actions on the part of the policemen and malicious complaints on the part of the "clients".
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The infamous message board 4chan is struggling to stay afloat and will have to make changes to reduce costs, the site’s owner wrote in a post on Sunday. Imagine a day when 4chan shuts down and its users descend upon other sites looking for a new home.
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Isn't JSOP looking for a new job?
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Never heard of it.
Has anyone?
Apparently not.
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