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Twitter decided to give a nice Happy Halloween to users today in the form of radically changing the site's design and modifying tweets upon an update containing solely "#trick" or "#treat" tweeted from its standard web client. Below are some screenshots of this temporary feature (for historic pu
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We've talked and complained about Google on many other occasions within this blog, but with many discussions of Google also comes discussions of privacy, and the fact that Google aims to distribute an operating system should be no different - that is to say, not only is Google open to almost everyth
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Privacy Policies: You know they're there (hopefully), you know what they're basically trying to convey to you, yet most of us never even read them besides a one-time skim to make sure some new service isn't trying to pull one over on us. I got bored one day (on the toilet, no less) and started l
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The European Union is funding a new middleware platform designed to allow higher-level software to take full advantage of the readily-available sensors in modern cars. The platform acts as an abstraction layer, providing an easy to use, higher-level API for programs to use while interpreting the res
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Hey guys its me ert3 back from the grave to start up a new segment I call Retro Player. I will take the best elements from games of yester-year that are lost upon the modern game world. For my first shining example of aged gold I chose my personal favorite. Descent 2 (because I never played th
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[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="550" caption=""me stoned""][/caption] Anyone else remember furbies? Yeah, I found this and think it's amazing what a rolled up Taco Bell receipt and a red marker can do.
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Google's Suggest feature was taken out of beta testing and added to the world-renown search engine giant's front page not more than a year ago, and has proven to be a very useful tool in finding similar search queries as you type them. But the new tool has also become a target of criticism for it's
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