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Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price
Bigger than Higgs? Boffins see hints of bulbous new Boson
Predictable: How AV flaw hit Microsoft's Windows defences
Typo in case-sensitive variable name cooked Google's cloud
All hail Firefox Dev Edition 44 – animations, memory and all
Downloads for Windows 10 November big-bang build axed by Microsoft
Muggins here
used MCT last week and managed to install the upgrade.
It fouled up on reinstalling my laptop's bluetooth driver and
that in turn broke the Send_To menu (all of it) and so I had to
get my hands dirty fixing it. I guess feedback from such not so trivial
incidents made MS pull the techie solution so they didn't have to cope
with the flack,
Rdio's collapse another nail in the coffin of the 'digital economy'
Microsoft to world: We've got open source machine learning too
Pause Patch Tuesday downloads, buggy code can kill Outlook
Google open sources machine learning software
Mostly Harmless: Google Project Zero man's verdict on Windows 10
NASA announcement of MAJOR MARS DISCOVERY imminent: WHAT can it be?
Ad-blocking super-weapon axed by maker for being TOO effective
Facebook gains power to Like any word ever written
Come on unicode you can dot it!
In Chinese, emphasis in body text is supposed to be indicated by using an "emphasis mark"which is a dot placed under each character to be emphasized. This is still taught in schools but in practice it is not usually done, probably due to the difficulty of doing this using most computer software.
src: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_%28typography%29#Punctuation_marks
Journos to be spared replacement by robots, BBC claims
Swooning MEPs go all Directioner over Edward Snowden
'Hey Siri, it's Obama, what should we do about Iran?'
Grinning BBC boss blows raspberry at UK.gov, eyes up buffet
The most tragic thing about the Ashley Madison hack? It was really 1% actual women
Use QuickTime … and become part of the collective
How British spies really spy: Information that didn't come from Snowden
Firefox to speed up dev cycle, go multi-process, rip and replace UI – soon
Google IS listening: Binary blob banished from Chromium build
Amazon enrages authors as it switches to 'pay-per-page' model
Cupertino GIVES IN to Taylor Swift, will pay Apple Music royalties
Why is that idiot Osbo continuing with austerity when we know it doesn't work?
Astroboffins perplexed by QUADRUPLE QUASAR CLUSTER find
Time to get your babble on: Microsoft opens Skype Translator Preview to all comers
Trouble with automatic translation: they present only the most popular result. If you use an uncommon idiom, for dramatic effect, it is almost bound to spoil your party. You are thus reduced to newspeak just to communicate - not just a language barrier also a cultural barrier.
See the Edinburgh Prof explain it all better than me here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UVgFjJeFGY&t=26m3s
Rand Paul: I'll filibuster the hell outta the Patriot Act, fellow Americans
Do you have the intellectual bandwidth to attend ISC 2015?
Facebook serves up shaved, pierced, tattooed 'butterfly' as CAPTCHA
Radio 4 and Dr K on programming languages: Full of Java Kool-Aid
Re: “Goto statement considred harmful”
message passing as between processes in Erlang/Elixir is really a resurrection of the goto
iex> send self(), {:hello, "world"}
{:hello, "world"}
iex> receive do
...> {:hello, msg} -> msg
...> {:world, msg} -> "won't match"
...> end
"world"
http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/processes.html
RELICS of the Earth's long lost TWIN planet FOUND ON MOON
'Virtual nose' makes VR less dizzying, say boffins
missing link
http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2015/Q1/virtual-nose-may-reduce-simulator-sickness-in-video-games.html
says:
Findings showed the virtual nose allowed people using the Tuscany villa simulation to play an average of 94.2 seconds longer without feeling sick, while those playing the roller coaster game played an average of 2.2 seconds longer.
Not to be sniffed at?
RIP Sir Terry Pratchett: Discworld author finally gets to meet DEATH
They've finally solved it: Schrödinger's cat is both ALIVE AND DEAD
Professor's BEAGLE lost for 10 years FOUND ON MARS
Quantum computing is so powerful it takes two years to understand what happened
Bada-Bing! Mozilla flips Firefox to YAHOO! for search
> As part of its deal with Mozilla, however, [Yahoo!] says it will now recognize Do Not Track again but only for Firefox users.
Okay, when you need a “burner” email account [1] - choose Yahoo using Firefox and that should be marginally safer.
[1] http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/11/14/Being-Secret
NetApp cyclists part from storage firm... go to Bora Bora
Philae healthier: Proud ESA shows off first comet surface pic
DAY ZERO, and COUNTING: EVIL 'UNICORN' all-Windows vuln - are YOU patched?
Are open Wi-Fi network bods liable for users' copyright badness?
Italian appeal court clears seismologists of manslaughter
We must SMASH the Democratic Deadlock with MINDFUL EVIDENCE
Virgin 'spaceship' pilot 'unlocked tailbooms' going through sound barrier
Feathers
Flight
Icarus
WH Auden
In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away
Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may
Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,
But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone
As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green
Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen
Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,
had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.