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"V'ger... expects an answer."

Well, he is used to dealing with the people on Facebook

IF successful product THEN duplicate

So much for asking Cortana to get you a decent browser

Is the AI going to have to watch commercials before taking over the world?

If it's broke, why bother fixing it?

Here, have a cookie. You'll feel better.

It's C++, ++!

Because people go crazy for a well-dressed data tool?

It was the old "off-by-one" (satellite) error

Speak for yourself

Remember when every government was after Microsoft? Yeah, good times.

Just in time for a summer vacation

Look out! They've cloned Clippy!

"You can recognize a pioneer by the arrows in his back."

It's not enough they beat us at chess and go, now they want to take away Ms. Pacman?

Shocking data from an open source company. You won't believe the results!

Developers, developers, etc?

"When one door closes another door opens, but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

If you’re a mobile developer who works frequently with iOS, you probably have your share of issues with how Apple has built out its app tool-kit.

In this article, I'm going to list some of the best practices you can follow to build a secure Android app that doesn't leak data or permissions, and is, in general, less vulnerable to malicious apps that might be installed on the user's device.

Starting with Android N, a device that has been powered on can boot into a new mode called Direct Boot before the user has a chance to unlock it for the first time. In this mode, the operating system is fully operational, but access to private app data is limited and only apps that have been updated to be Direct Boot aware can run.