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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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Sean Ewington wrote: Imagine a day when 4chan shuts down and its users descend upon other sites looking for a new home.
They already moved to Facebook, sadly.
The day 4chan dies will be the death of the most stupid memes I ever saw - I long for that day.
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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The company that makes Signal, one of the most secure phone call and messaging apps in the world, said Tuesday that earlier this year it received its first federal grand jury subpoena for a customer’s communications records but only shared limited information with authorities. "Please stop making data so secure, we might need to look at it some day."
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The long-running feud between Elon Musk’s space company and its fierce competitor United Launch Alliance took a bizarre twist this month when a SpaceX employee visited its facilities at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and asked for access to the roof of one of ULA’s buildings. And another video of the explosion.
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October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release and availability for download of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now the latest stable and most advanced one. *tiny tiny parade ensues*
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October 2, 2016, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release and availability for download of the Linux 4.8 kernel branch, which is now only 30 years behind, instead of 31.
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Samsung's annual Global SSD Summit featured the normal product announcements and presentations outlining the company's latest flash-based advances, but the company also outlined its vision of the current state of the SSD market and future trends. SSDs are steadily displacing HDDs in more applications, but NVMe is shaping up to be the dark horse that may put the venerable HDD to rest. Let them fight.
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Do their drive products also explode into flames?
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only if they're powered by lithium batteries... 
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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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wow.  
#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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That's just their new quick dry feature.
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