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Google’s most advanced voice search has arrived on iOS
The new Google Search app for iPhone and iPad helps you with enhanced voice search that answers any question.
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Introducing the new compose in Gmail
Posted by Phil Sharp, Product Manager We're always trying to make Gmail faster and easier to use, so today we're introducing a completely ...
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How Zappos' User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked
By Eric Goldman In re Zappos.com Inc., Customer Data Security Breach Litigation, 2012 WL 4466660 (D. Nev. Sept. 27, 2012). In January, Zappos (part of $AMZN) announced a massive data security breach affecting 24 million consumers. As typically happens in these...
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Bootstrap 2.2.0 released
Aww yeah, our first release since leaving Twitter is here with Bootstrap 2.2.0! We originally planned to release this as 2.1.2, but given the timing and scope…
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Forstall Out; Ive Up
Scott Forstall is leaving Apple; Jony Ive is taking over software design.
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Scott Forstall leaves Apple
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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Mozilla UX: Save For Later (why bookmarks are broken and how to fix it)
Firefox and “save for later” All browsers support two functions: searching and revisiting. My research questions whether constructs like bookmarks really are the right model to support revisiting. I worked ...
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North Carolina teacher's resignation letter
A letter from a disgusted teacher: I QUIT Kris L. Nielsen Monroe, NC 28110 Union County Public Schools Human Resources Department 400 North Church Street Monroe, NC 28112 October 25, 2012 To All it…
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Nexus: The best of Google, now in three sizes
We’re excited to announce three great new Nexus devices … in small, medium and large.
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Fear and Loathing at Zigfu: My Y Combinator Experience
Applications for YCombinator's winter 2013 cycle are due October 30. Let me tell you about my experience in YCombinator with Zigfu . Zigf...
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The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't
Preface This is a technical article chronicling one of the most interesting bug hunts I’ve had the pleasure of chasing down. At AdGear Technologies Inc. where I work, ssh is king. We use it for management, monitoring, deployments, log file harvesting, even some event streaming. It’s solid, reliable, has all the…
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The Core Memory Module from my dad’s homebuilt PDP-11/05
This is basically the 1974 version of a DIMM. It measures 16″ by 11.5″ and holds 16 kilobytes. It’s technically 18 bits wide but only 16 were used in the PDP-11. The raised part in the middle is where the cores are actually stored. Each bit is a little ring with 3 wires running through the middle. By running current…
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Singularity Chess
Board and Initial Setup You'll notice that the "squares" on the board are not really square— they range from more or less square ...
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An Ancient Piece of Computer Lore in a Place You’d Never Expect
Back in March of 2012 I was watching Duplicity and I noticed something odd about 28 minutes in:
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Give A Damn
I want to tell you about The Kid. The Kid really believed in 'Move Fast and Break Things'. Ship-First-Questions-Later.
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A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is very good, but not quite the best
When you buy a USB charger, how do you know if you're getting a safe, high-quality charger for your money? You can't tell from the outside...
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Why I'm returning my Microsoft Surface RT
Do not buy a Microsoft Surface RT yet. I’m typing this with gritted teeth. My 24 hours with the half-baked Surface have been a frustrating challenge, a mix of love and hate. I want want want this…
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Congratulations on IE10: from Mozilla with cake
Back when Firefox 2 was released (six years ago this week!), the Internet Explorer team started a friendly tradition of sending Mozilla a cake as congratulations. This continued for Firefox 3 and Firefox 4 . After Firefox switched from major releases once or twice a year to incremental updates every six weeks, they…
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An Alternate Universe (Microsoft Surface)
On the way to the Apple Store today to buy AppleCare+ for my wife’s new iPhone 5, we passed the new Microsoft Store , coincidentally in the middle of their Surface with Windows RT launch. (That is actually the product’s name. “Surface with Windows RT”.)
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