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    Blizzard Employees Walk Out, Fans Rebel After Company Bows to China

    The company behind “World of Warcraft” has been vilified by its fans and its employees have walked out in protest after it banned a professional gamer for supporting Hong Kong pro-democracy protesters...
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    Get Ready for Targeted Ads on Your Smart TV

    If they give me a free TV and free streaming service then I might be inclined to accept. I have all dumb TVs in my house. Two with Roku devices and one with a RaspberryPi connecting to my server via emby and kodi, respectively. I see no reason for me to change anytime soon.
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    The End of Blu-ray

    Just when MakeMKV was coming out of beta :)
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    NASA Rover Opportunity Succumbs to the Martian Weather After 15 Years of Operation

    Now that's some bang for your buck. Hats off to the engineers.
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    Microsoft Fights Fake News with New Edge Browser Feature

    Sounds fine to me:ROFLMAO:
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    Automation Will Change Every Job, but Only 25% Are on the Chopping Block

    How many jobs do we have today that we did not have in the 80's or 90's? How many were lost since then? typewriter repairman. How many jobs were lost because of the steam engine? The steam engine was the start of the industrial revolution and changed the workforce dramatically. It created more...
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    Amazon Enters the Ground Delivery Robot Market

    Can it do multiple deliveries or does it have do got back "home" to get a new delivery?
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    The Original Ghostbusters Cast Will Return for New Movie

    I thought Ghostbusters 2016 was insulting and a cunt move. Why do women have to try and take over? Star Wars, Ghostbusters etc. Why don't they make their own thing?
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    FDA Chief Threatens to Take E-cigarettes off the Market

    They didn't say they quit nicotine. They said they quit smoking. Had they said they quit nicotine then your sugar comparison would make sense. Smoking is from a combustible. Vapor is from evaporation. If you exhale vape into a heat source it will quickly return to a gas state and disappear. That...
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    Robomart Is an Autonomous Grocery Store on Wheels

    When I lived in Philadelphia my car window was broken and my work pants and shirt were taken. My CDs were still there and other things of some value were left behind. I quickly located my pants on the sidewalk at the end of the block. I guess they didn't fit. I don't know who did it, but I...
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    California Lawmaker Wants to Move toward E-receipts

    Ahh I see. The government protects everybody and the environment. Good to know. By the way, I live under a rock:ROFLMAO:
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    California Lawmaker Wants to Move toward E-receipts

    You must be one of those gun toting rednecks. Fracking deplorables!;)
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    California Lawmaker Wants to Move toward E-receipts

    Why is the Government involved in this? Let the market decide and change naturally if that is the direction consumers wish to take it.
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    Roku to Launch Premium Channel Service

    The free Roku Channel with ads isn't bad. This might be worth it if at a competitive price.
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