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Of frying pans and fires: Despite mistakes, Apple’s still better on privacy

One of the favorite tropes of the serial jerkery The Macalope covers is the repeated insistence that any one event taken in isolation from everything else will doom Apple forever. Writing for the Forbes contributor network and Carnival Barker Academy, Gordon Kelly says “Apple Just Gave 1.4 Billion iPad, iPhone Users A Reason To Leave.” […]

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Barry sobbed as he begged for his job. VR is getting heavy, man

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Barry shifted uncomfortably in his seat. He didn’t know why I’d called him into my office, but he knew it couldn’t be good. I told him we had gotten another report of inappropriate behavior — his sixth this year. “Oh come on, everyone is so sensitive,” he said. “You know, it wasn’t like this 10

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Hashtag Trending – Pleas to big tech, AI predicts when you’ll quit, a robotic exosuit

Companies ask tech giants Apple and Amazon to think about the planet, Harvard says it can use machine learning to predict who is going to quit their job next, and a robotic exosuit that can boost your ability to walk and run. Planet before profits! That’s the message the bosses of some of the world’s

Learn to love legacy systems

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I’ve been corrected more than once. I’ve used the term “legacy system” in meetings and been quickly taken to the woodshed by the language police for saying something that was a clear pejorative. Even here I’ve started saying “traditional system” instead. I’ve gotten less crap about that, but it’s the same thing. I’ve worked on

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The BBC is developing its own digital voice assistant

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The BBC has announced that it is working on its very own digital voice assistant, but there are no plans to release any hardware. Instead, it will be used alongside existing BBC apps and services like iPlayer. The assistant will be platform agnostic as a result, working with existing smart speakers, TVs, and phones. There

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The new Mac Pro to release in September/October

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The release of the completely redesigned Mac Pro is fast approaching. After the last debacle with the trash can styled Mac Pro, Apple decided to go with a “tried & tested” design for its new Mac Pro. The company is actually going back to its roots with the new machine; its built like a tower

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House Homeland Security Lawmakers Issue Subpoena For 8Chan Owner Jim Watkins

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The House Homeland Security Committee issued a subpoena Wednesday against Jim Watkins, owner of online extremist forum 8chan. The bipartisan subpoena issued by the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), and ranking member Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) calls for Watkins to appear before the committee on Sept. 5 to testify on what he’s doing

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If you bought an original Pixel, Google owes you $20—and maybe a lot more

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Google’s Pixels may be among the best Android phones you can buy, but they had some problems. Among the notable flaws with the original Pixel was an issue with the microphone not recording when it was supposed to. Now Google is paying out a cool $7 million to make it right. That means anyone who

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Female Founders Alliance unveils second accelerator class and partnership with Microsoft – GeekWire

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The CEOs leading this year’s Ready Set Raise companies. (FFA Photo) Female Founders Alliance is back with its second accelerator cohort as the Seattle-based organization looks to help another round of female-led startups grow their businesses and land funding. Eight companies from across the country working in various industries made the cut this year, beating

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Monster Tumbleweed Invades US – Geek.com

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A hybrid species of giant tumbleweed once expected to go extinct is alive and well—and growing. Salsola ryanii, according to a study from the University of California Riverside, develops more “vigorously” than its parent plants thanks to a double set of their chromosomes. “[This] is a nasty species replacing other nasty species of tumbleweed in

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