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    Microsoft Employees Beg Company Not to Bid on US Military's Project JEDI

    Well don't be a bunch of pussies! Put your names to your open letter, so the company can properly evaluate your collective value to the company in comparison to the $10 billion DoD contract.
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    Command & Conquer Remasters Are in the Works for PC

    Now with microtransactions! Tired of waiting for that ion cannon to charge? It will charge instantly for the low cost of $3!
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    AMD and NVIDIA Reveal Plans to Lower the Impact of Tariffs on Video Cards

    Maybe they could screw on the retaining bracket stateside and claim Assembled in USA.
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    Industry Powerhouses Invest into Game Streaming as a Game Console Replacement

    Streaming requires ubiquitous high-bandwidth, low-latency internet service with consistent, reliable performance. I'm not sure we are there yet.
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    Hot Wheels and GoPro Team Up

    Seemed like it might be a bit top-heavy when it hit the curve.
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    All Your Routers Are Belong to Russia

    Are they compelling the router manufacturers to fix the firmware vulnerabilities in their products that allowed this to happen in the first place?
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    Robots are Learning How to Chase us Down

    Let's see it turn.
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    Own an Android Phone? You Might Not Get That Loan

    I'm still running a Windows Phone. They would probably call the cops on me.
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    Intel Delays 10nm Cannon Lake Processors Again

    I'm waiting for 14nm+++.
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    Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

    Mac used to have some nice niche specialties in photo editing and desktop publishing. I don't think they have much of an advantage there anymore. It looks like they are focusing on Mac as primarily an iOS dev platform going forward.
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    Twitter CEO Declares Bitcoin Will Become World's Single Currency Within 10 Years

    Bitcoin is already experiencing scalability issues. No way it will be suitable as a universal currency.
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    Bitcoin - What Goes Up Must Come Down

    Buy now! It's constrained by zero on the bottom end, but unlimited on the top end.
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    False Hawaii Nuclear Alert Not a Mistake

    So he thought a Post-It note from the night shift was a real emergency?
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    Western Digital Launches World’s First 14TB Hard Drive

    Trust me, you don't want one of these. They are host-managed, which means either the file system or a filter driver needs to explicitly manage the I/Os to be compatible with the SMR band requirements. It isn't going to work like a regular block device.
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    Why Phone Makers Are Trying to Kill the Headphone Jack

    Clearly the just want to be courageous, like Apple.
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    First Video of Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot Engaged

    So they didn't even integrate the screen into the interior? Looks like they just epoxied a monitor to the dash.
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    Say Goodbye to These Windows 10 Features in the Fall Creators Update

    Paint is great for quick cropping and resizing of screenshots. I only looked at the new Paint 3D app briefly, but the interface seemed lobotomized, and I can't think of an instance where the pseudo-3D feature would be useful to me. They have already made a terrible mess of Calculator, which...
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    Tesla Owner too Stupid to Buy New Tires

    This guy should buy a bus pass and be done with it.
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    Verizon Completes $4.48 Billion Acquisition of Yahoo; Marissa Leaves with $23 Million

    $23M!? I would have happily destroyed Yahoo for half the price.
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    NSA Leaker Outed by Modern Printer Technology

    The printers here have hard drives in them that record all print jobs they receive. Who knows how long they retain them. Possibly until it needs to reclaim space for new content. Printing documents related to criminal activity, breach NDA, or contain otherwise objectionable material on a...
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    Facebook Rejects Female Engineers’ Code More Often

    People don't fail a code review to be mean. They fail a code review because the code has problems. Occasionally, the feedback will be somewhat frivolous or a matter of stylistic preference. Are the female coders more prone to frivolous feedback or are the criticisms typically valid?
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    Man Fined $500 for Writing "I Am an Engineer" in Email to Oregon Engineering Board

    I'm not an engineer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express.
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    HARDOCP BREAKING NEWS: New Mac Pro Spotted

    I see they have upgraded the quality of the components too.
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    Man Who Claims He Invented E-Mail Is Now Running for US Senate

    Sounds fair. Al Gore invented the internet and he ran for President.
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    Augmented Reality Lets Cars Communicate to Reduce Road Rage

    Damn. Where did they get my picture?
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    Razer Launches BlackWidow Keyboard With 16.8 Million Colors

    I bought a backlit mechanical keyboard at one point, but went back to my old buckling spring board. What annoyed me most was the inverted number and symbol glyphs on the top row (i.e. normally 2 would be on the bottom and @ would be on the top). The Cherry switches, by their design, are not...
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    Samsung Likely To Unveil Foldable Phones In Q3

    I thought their specialty was flammable phones?
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    SpaceX Plans Jan. 8 Launch After Completing Failure Investigation

    I thought they told us Boeing shot it with a rifle.
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    Electric Cars Must Make Noise By 2019

    That should come as standard equipment on windowless vans.
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    Should We Ban Killer Robots?

    What's the point of having a robot that doesn't kill?
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    Emoji Have Been Added To The Museum of Modern Art

    They don't appear to communicate emotion. These are just a set of dingbats/wingdings type characters.
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    Germany Asks Tesla To Rename “Misleading” Autopilot Feature

    It has been a couple of decades since I have flown a light plane, but I believe all the autopilot does is maintain heading and altitude. Basically, similar functionality to automotive cruise control. Perhaps newer GPS-enabled units have more functionality? Autopilot did not have any...
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    MIT Lets You Decide Who To Kill In A Self-Driving Car Wreck

    Children make smaller dents.
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    iPhone 7 Plus 2,717 Foot Drop Test

    Stupid criminal of the day?
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    Son Of Chinese Billionaire Bought Eight iPhone 7s For His Dog

    The dog would have been happier with 8 tennis balls.
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    Apple iPhone 7 Event Livestream

    The suspense is killing me.
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    Steam Hardware & Software Survey For August

    Interesting that they don't itemize SteamOS in the Linux group. I suspect if it were doing well, they would be happy to provide the number.
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    Tesla Model S Engulfed In Flames During Worst Test Drive Ever

    My experience is: Check engine light flashing = Your gas cap isn't on tight enough.
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    Man Arrested For Threatening Blizzard HQ With An AK-47

    I hope he was planning on obeying the 10-bullet magazine law.
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