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Off topic: ‘Waste’ supermarkets, car-free day, bodies of water, U.S. of food deliveries
Pay-what-you-can “waste” supermarkets and cafes coming to the United States from across the pond. From Detroit to Paris to Istanbul, photos from car-free day this past weekend. Rivulet, ghyll, freshet and […]
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Apple has technology to stop texting-and-driving, but doesn’t: report
Attention, commuters habitually stuck in horrendous traffic caused by people looking at their phones instead of the road: Apple is here to save you. Well, actually not. But it appears that Apple […]
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Racial issues dominate U.S. political chatter on Facebook
Racial issues dominated U.S. political chatter on Facebook ahead of tonight’s presidential debate between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican rival Donald Trump, data from the social media giant released […]
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Speculation swirls over Marc Andreessen’s Twitter break
At 11:43 p.m. Saturday night, Marc Andreessen, one of tech’s leading lights and top Silicon Valley investors, announced he was quitting Twitter for awhile. Taking a Twitter break! — Marc […]
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Uber drivers get ready for their close-up with new selfie security feature
Say cheese! Uber is asking drivers across the U.S. to start taking selfies. But the pictures won’t end up on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter — instead they will be part of a […]
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On topic: Tech news to know now
Here’s what’s going on in tech. Adobe and Microsoft team up to compete with Salesforce in the cloud. (Bloomberg) A Google self-driving car was involved in a crash Friday in […]
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Spectacles sunglasses connect to Snapchat, record video
Oh Snap. There’s a new Google Glass in town, sort of, and it comes from the company formerly known as Snapchat. Spectacles are $130 sunglasses that can record video — […]
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Off topic: Green shoes, actors and ages, ex-football player turned crime solver, rivers into Mississippi
The shoes without a (carbon) footprint are made mostly of made from gaseous waste captured from power plants. California now has a law requiring IMDB to remove an actor’s age upon request, enacted […]
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Twitter suspends account of USA Today columnist over ‘Run them down’ tweet about protesters
You could call it a poor excuse from a poor excuse. When USA Today “Instapundit” columnist Glenn Reynolds tweeted “Run them down” with a news item about protesters blocking a roadway […]
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Quinn: Salesforce’s mission of love as it possibly pursues buying Twitter
It is hard to find a way that Salesforce buying Twitter makes sense except love. Love of Twitter, for its real-time platform, its 24/7 river of opinions and news, its […]
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