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Hawking has a history of making bets with other physicists about his theories. Until now, he’s yet to win any of them (or at least those that have been publicized). But with Harvard University researchers discovering that the universe expanded exponentially after the big bang, Hawking says he’s finally put one in the win column.
"Say. I'm. Your. Bitch. Say. It."
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Facebook has reached a major milestone in computer vision and pattern recognition, with ‘DeepFace,’ an algorithm capable of identifying a face in a crowd with 97.25 percent accuracy, which is pretty much on par with how good the average human is (97.5 percent accurate) at recognizing the faces of other walking, talking meat sacks. And nothing bad will come out of this
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HP Software is refreshing its application life-cycle management (ALM) portfolio with new and updated versions that focus on testing for mobile and cloud-based applications. The release is the biggest portfolio release from the company since ALM 11 was announced more than two years ago, according to Kelly Emo, ALM and quality evangelist for HP.
I found the release of HP Sprinter for mobile interesting. I didn't release that many developers were still doing manual testing
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Two years ago, Webmaster Academy launched to teach new and beginner webmasters how to make great websites. In addition to adding new content, we've now expanded and improved information. I don't know: do you think this web thing has any legs?
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Microsoft has RTM'd SQL Server 2014, which includes a new in-memory OLTP engine built jointly by Microsoft Research and the SQL Server team. Chock full of must-have upgrades like... uhm... ah...
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Oracle's long-anticipated update includes addition of lambda expressions and shift to functional programming language. Countdown to first hack begins .... now.
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Google said it is working with several existing Android device makers–HTC, LG, Asus, Motorola and Samsung–as well as watch maker Fossil and chipmakers Broadcom, Imagination, Intel, Mediatek and Qualcomm with the first watches due out later this year. It also is releasing a “developer preview” of the watch software so app makers can get ready. Watch this Spot
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A round display? Ohmygawwdd. Don't know what to make of that.
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723 patents and 61 lawsuits over the unique form factor of the screen. 
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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A very tricky phishing scam that takes advantage of Google Docs is making its way around the web. And since it uses a google.com URL and even makes use of Google's SSL encryption, it's almost impossible to tell that it's a hack. Your best safeguard, as always, is a little bit of common sense. Beware of wolves in slightly less dangerous wolves' clothing
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Is Microsoft about to buy Xamarin? C'mon baby write my (multi-platform) code... [with apologies to Jim]
/ravi
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I found this blurb interesting:Quote: This year at its Build conference, Microsoft is expected to continue in that vein. Word has leaked that Microsoft is building a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), the framework for building desktop applications, that many believed Microsoft had abandoned the way it had Silverlight. It sounds like the new WPF will be one of the topics addressed at Build. (De Icaza told another person on Twitter yesterday that he'd recommend using WPF to build new projects.)
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: It sounds like the new WPF will be one of the topics addressed at Build. (De Icaza told another person on Twitter yesterday that he'd recommend using WPF to build new projects.)
But WPF "has no plans to be supported on Mono" or at least that's what their site says. Hopefully WPF will be made to run on Mono, that would be impressive.
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Indeed.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Can you imagine that? Making nice looking applications for both Windows and Linux.
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hoo'd'a'thunk'it?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: Word has leaked that Microsoft is building a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF),
It is indeed. Microsoft is building up the WPF team as we speak.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: ahmed zahmed wrote: Word has leaked that Microsoft is building a new version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF),
It is indeed. Microsoft is building up the WPF team as we speak.
In line with other MS moves to consolidate their tech stacks I'm thinking ... one XAML/runtimeAPI for WP8/Metro/Wpf-Desktop apps?
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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I wonder though if this is going to be some crappy "Windows 8 only" framework.
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I don't think so. They already have a crappy Windows 8 only version. They don't need two.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: They don't need two.
This is Microsoft we are talking about... 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Microsoft is in the final stages of negotiations that could lead to either an acquisition or major investment in Xamarin, sources with knowledge of the discussions told CRN recently.
If true, I give Nadella two thumbs up for this move.
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Same here as long as they keep the crossplatform nature of Mono intact. If they do and also incorporate "native" knowledge of .Net into Mono, that'd be awesome! I think that would make the platform more easily depended on.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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ahmed zahmed wrote: as long as they keep the crossplatform nature of Mono intact.
There would seem little point in not doing so, otherwise why not just use existing Visual Studio? But pricing could be interesting.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote: pricing could be interesting
Yes, it would be. At least increase the minimum size of the executables for the free version. At the moment, 32kb makes it rather difficult to write any really usable free apps...
"I've seen more information on a frickin' sticky note!" - Dave Kreskowiak
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