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Category: Technology
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Whack-A-Mole
Would have been one of Gruber’s best headlines, if it weren’t for the typo. Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
FACEBOOK TP DEPLOY AD BLOCKER BLOCKER BLOCKER BLOCKER
Whack-a-mole all the way down.
The URL is still amusing:
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/08/11/facebook-ad-blocker-blocker-blocker-blocker
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Please Don’t
From The Verge, words I never thought I’d read or write:
please don’t fly a drone while wearing a virtual reality headset and sitting on the edge of a cliff
It’s simple, people: you could fall very easily
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Canadian Spam
Gmail’s spam filter let this one through:
been a while my Canadian frend! do u still live near Mississauga?
I had to Google “Missassauga” (near Toronto). I’m not Canadian nor anyone’s “frend”.
Google, work on the spam filter…
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Ho hum, SpaceX Sticks the Landing Again
Last night was a landing on solid ground, which generally means it’s an “easier” landing (the easy kind of rocket science). It’s a bit ridiculous that this impressive feat is becoming routine.
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Alexa Changes Everything
As a very satisfied Amazon Echo owner, I’m currently annoyed that I can’t say “TV, off”.
Where’s the damn remote…
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Elon Musk is Popeye
I’m not exactly sure why this picture reminds me of Popeye (obviously the pipe blowing smoke but out of both sides?).
This picture just before the landing is awesome (serious tilt, talk about barely making it):
More here via The Verge.
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SpaceX Sticks the Landing II
It was going twice as fast as the first one (higher orbit needed for the satellite) so they weren’t expecting success. Makes the audio in this video even more fun to listen to. Go to minute 29…
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Tesla X vs. Ferrari
Tesla in Ludicrous mode smokes the Ferrari…
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Naked Backdoor
From SMBC, of course…
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