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The real reason why France wants a right to be forgotten law is because they want to find a way to bury the memory of: Blenheim, Oudenarde, Ramillies, Malplaquet, Rossbach, Vellingshausen, Minden, Leipzig, Waterloo, Sedan (1870), Chemain des Dames, Somme, Sedan (1940), and Dien Bien Phu.
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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Google just got a patent for a special kind of coating on self-driving cars that could help prevent pedestrian injuries. I am having terrible, Grand-Theft-Auto-type visions in my head.
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How do you clean bugs off the car?
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They're not bugs, they're features.
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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That is so right!
Google cars decorated with insects!
PS. Why do Google cars need windshields? They need have no glass/transparent surfaces since the cameras can be mounted outside and feed their on-board computers.
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By the end of this year Chrome will begin ignoring Flash as Google takes another step towards removing the “final Plugin” by replacing Flash with HTML5. Adios, Cowboy.
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Early sentiment about Allo is overwhelmingly positive: It looks beautiful, lets you doodle on images before you send them, comes with stickers as well as emojis, and it’s the first Google product to offer end-to-end encryption, which is certainly a good thing. But if you care at all about your privacy, you should not use Google Allo. Maybe I want to show the world my sexting game -- it's on point.
modified 20-May-16 14:35pm.
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Disk image files in ISO format have mostly replaced old-fashioned shiny disks. Windows 10 includes the ability to mount any ISO file as a virtual DVD. To unmount the file, you need to use a slightly illogical command. A tip for users of all levels
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How is right-click, Eject "slightly illogical"? You do the same thing for a real DVD, and for USB keys, so it seems like the most logical option to me.
It's not even as illogical as the old joke about having to click "Start" to shut down. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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#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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Microsoft promised developers that Windows would run anywhere. This summer, it finally will. You can do your shopping at home or play Mortal Kombat with a friend in Vietnam.
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Our users have often told us that they would like to do even more with their Chromebooks -- run more apps, use Office files more easily, connect with a variety of apps, and do more when they’re offline. So we're bringing Google Play to Chromebooks. (the newer ones, at least. maybe you should buy a new one *wink wink*)
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One of the things you may not realize is that Uber can tell when your phone battery is about to die. In an episode of NPR’s The Hidden Brain, Uber’s head of economic research Keith Chen says when you hit accept to download, you give Uber the permission to know this in order to tell when to switch to low-power mode. Alcohol declined to comment.
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The new store, which opens this Saturday, includes 42-foot sliding glass doors that double as two-story windows, a 6K video screen on the second floor, and living trees lining its new customer support section. Bigger, shinier, and more pretentious.
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The typical solar PV power installation requires access to a private roof and a big budget. However, wouldn't it be possible to get around these obstacles by installing small solar panels on window sills and balconies, connected to a low-voltage direct current (DC) distribution network? Author decided to power Low-tech Magazine's home office in Spain with solar energy, and write articles off the grid.
modified 20-May-16 14:34pm.
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Alphabet CEO Larry Page testified in federal court this morning, saying that he never considered getting permission to use Java APIs, because they were "free and open." "It was established industry practice," says Page, as Oracle v. Google nears end.
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At I/O this year, Google displayed its vision for a more ubiquitous and conversational way of interacting with technology. Brought to you by people who went so you don't have to
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We started a stealthy project at Google several years ago to see what we could accomplish with our own custom accelerators for machine learning applications. My TPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer.
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I want to talk about practical, everyday things that people who aren't deeply technical can do to better protect themselves. I better go home and delete the "my secret online identity" textfile on my desktop.
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Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis is the largest and most detailed measurement of online tracking to date. We measure stateful (cookie-based) and stateless (fingerprinting-based) tracking, the effect of browser privacy tools, and "cookie syncing". Could there be an ocean too deep?
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Some have criticised Google for falling behind when it comes to social networking and new communications services, but the company is now working hard to catch up. Today, the company announced a new video calling app called Duo — a high-definition app for Android and iOS devices. 5 years later, Google answers
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A Kurdish region of Syria that borders territory held by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has received an $11,000 donation in allegedly stolen bitcoin from a vigilante hacker. Pretty sure Robin Hood gave to the poor and not militant groups, but I get where they're going with the analogy.
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A brief history of a dominant Google's soul-searching competition battle in the EU. Ivan vs. Goliath
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We’ve heard a lot about Uber’s plans to create its own self-driving vehicle, but we’ve always been curious to see what it would look like. Today, Uber gave us a glimpse of its current self-driving car. Spoiler alert: It's Navy Blue. Wait. Black? Wait.
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Tesla Motors Inc. said it will sell about $1.4 billion in stock to help pay for an expansion that includes its forthcoming Model 3 electric car and boosting annual production to 500,000 vehicles in 2018. More cars, more batteries.
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