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everyone has conspiracy theories about what is "really going on here", this is to stamp out a competitive threat in google, or whatever, but I do think this story probably is just …

luckily Chromecast seems to be an important piece of Stadia, so it should be around for a long while

why continue to make the planes when you have no idea when you can actually push them out the door? given that they continued to produce the MAX while they were grounded, they must…

For my local movie theater, AMC's subscription is $24/month. Doesn't seem bad if you see three movies per month (it says three per week with no blackouts). Considering that I see m…

For real. I always think of this bit[1] while I'm riding in the middle. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFx1Cpxpx1E

I agree, I bet this is about designing non-computer products for him, but it looks like he'll still have some level of input on Apple products as an external consultant.

Yup, kids love their Juul. Smoking is uncool, but Juuling is what all the kids are doing. Arguably it's creating worse nicotine addicts that cigarettes ever did. Interesting articl…

a well-encoded mp3, ogg, or aac file will be audibly transparent to almost every end user, even on extremely high-end equipment. mp3 does have the side benefit of being supported o…

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I'm sure the SEC will find some way to call this insider trading, if they want. The mortgages are destined to be securitized!

There was an interesting article in the New Yorker covering this as well, for those who want to read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/12/12/the-power-of-n...

I have the 5i5 (Skylake) NUC running as a HTPC, and it's pretty nice. At the time I think I paid about $600 with the RAM and an SSD. I use it for the typical things, playing music …

Microsoft gloms together the pay-per-use/subscription part that totally doesn't need "the cloud" (Office apps) along with the other bits that do (email, Skype/Teams, OneDrive, etc.…

When I was hiking in Big Bend, TX, there was a lady with one of those Google Maps backpacks taking imagery for street view, presumably it was collecting other interesting data as w…

But iOS doesn't have a concept of swap like a traditional PC OS like macOS or Windows does, does it?

What if I have really weirdly shaped tears?

If you're on an iPhone, you can use App Limits as a part of the iOS 12 Screen Time functionality.

Which is a bit weird because the main buyer of G Suite is a CIO, and presumably its Finance/Payroll/HR making the final decision on the hiring software.

While having a guaranteed wider seat is nice, I've never found the width of coach seats to be all that terrible -- it's the lack of leg room, and the airlines continue to have sole…

Eyeballs, basically. The eyeballs are on YouTube already, so if you want an audience and you're off YouTube, you're fighting an uphill battle. But classical music, sad to say, larg…

On the other hand, most credit cards already sell transaction data to third parties.