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You should have heard my father-in-law arguing with Alexa yesterday. 
Also, she spent more time trying to push unwanted content on him.
Alexa is definitely not AI.
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FCC chairman Ajit Pai wants Apple to turn on the FM radio that’s hidden inside of every iPhone. "Pretty please."
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The 'droids that support it generally don't have built in FM antennas either, they run an internal connection from the headphone jack to the FM tuner built into the rest of the RF chip they bought. That means Apple probably *can't* add it to their older phones even if they wanted to (since it'd've required adding the hardware support years ago); and with more Android OEMs drinking the no headphone jack coolaid support there will probably end up largely vanishing over the next few years. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Amazon surprised everyone with a press event that unveiled a bunch of new Echo hardware. An Echo here, an Echo there
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there... there... there...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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A new look, better dev tools, and up to twice the performance in key benchmarks Striving to put right what once went wrong
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I thought this wasn't the second time I saw it. (First at the source.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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Current speed test:
IE 11.0.9600.18792 - 39.3 ± 0.87
Chrome 61.0.3163.100 - 139 ± 13
Firefox 56.0 - 93.8 ± 1.8
If the double speed is true FF will fly off the grid...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Data is the new oil, or so the saying goes. So why are we giving it away for nothing more than ostensibly free email, better movie recommendations, and more accurate search results? Maybe one day celebrities will be cleaning my address off cute baby seals.
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Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first object-oriented programming language, Simula. Simula version 1.0 was presented in 1967
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I guess that rather proves that there's nothing new under the sun.
Quite surprised that I'd never heard of it before.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Toyota barely unveiled its second-generation self-driving testbed half a year ago, but it's already back with an update. Could give a whole new meaning to back seat drivers
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It will be available on January 31st. Maybe the best things in life aren't free
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If I read it correctly: a company that accumulates data about you without your permission or any kind of contractual relationship, sells it without your permission and fails, in the process, to secure said data, will try and look after it a little bit better (providing that you happen to be an American) for free (for a very limited time).
That's really rather good of them, isn't it? I like these people!
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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All you need to do is to avoid doing business with banks who include Equifax in the list of partners you can't opt out of them sharing your data with.
If you go that way, I hear Under Mattress has a better reputation than Between Couch Cushions or Shoebox in the Closet. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing 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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SUSE and Microsoft have the longest running partnership between Linux and Windows. Here's where they've been, where they are now, and where they're going tomorrow. According to sources, .NET Core and the Microsoft R Server for big data will be available on SLES and on SLES on Azure, AWS, and Google Compute Engine.
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Oath, the Verizon-owned parent company of Yahoo, is releasing for free some of its most important internal software, which the company has long used to make recommendations, target ads and execute searches. Let me Vespa that for you ...
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Thanks, but I'd rather Lambretta it.
Walks away with an Inocenti look on his face...
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There's a bug in the latest version of Internet Explorer that leaks the addresses, search terms, or any other text typed into the address bar. You mean the one where someone looking over your shoulder sees what you type?
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That would be yet another great reason to use Edge, then.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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People are still using Internet Explorer?
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Yes...
Chrome not allowed and FireFox so reduced by the IT and GroupPolicies that I don't get the Popup to choose what/how I want to paste something here, or the auto clickety-links when urls are pasted. Or can't execute the plugin for Skype on Web and things like that. Heck the other day I even had problems opening a pdf of the internal wiki...
So yes, for many things I have to use IE
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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