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    Nadella to Microsoft: “Devices and services” out, but still “mobile first, cloud firs

    I wonder if a version of "Office for Linux" would subscribe to that vision of productivity.
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    Romanian hacker who leaked George W. Bush’s terrible paintings indicted

    Author (Mr Joe Silver) you might be an exceptional painter. However, can you please remove the word "terrible" in your title? It's irrelevant to who Mr Bush is. There is no reason to qualify his art work as terrible.
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    Oculus expects to sell “north of a million units” for first consumer Rift

    But, in the South hemisphere, when you stand on the ground, the North is under your feet! That's why I thought North would be more "logically" associated as "down".
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    Oculus expects to sell “north of a million units” for first consumer Rift

    I wonder if an Australian/NZ reader would interpret "north of a million units" as "below 1 million units"
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    Eugene—the supercomputer, not 13-year-old—first to beat the Turing Test

    Can every human pass the Turing Test? Seriously, had the Turing Test been gauged against real humans? If the judge panel are top class intellectuals, I am not sure I will pass it.
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    Want to design a Mars base for Nasa? Now’s your chance

    Assuming the base is perfectly built. There is still a question of the eco-system. The humans body needs various elements in minuscule quantities such as phosphorus, copper, etc. Without these, there will be weird maladies. On earth these are recycled through the food naturally. How can we...
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    It’s payback time as FindTheBest wrests legal fees from patent troll

    Should the lawyers of the troll be put to jailed too?
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    Reminder: Apple would spend about 2% of its cash hoard to buy Beats

    Maybe Apple knows theirs stocks would plummet soon, so they try to buy things with paper money while it still has value?
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    Ubuntu 14.04 review: Missing the boat on big changes

    Greatly appreciated that the author has referred to various versions of Ubuntu using the Year.Month notation instead of the two words name, which personally, I have no idea about their time line. BTW, is the automatic trim feature also implemented in other derivatives (Xubuntu for example) or...
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    Review: Why buy an HTC One M8 Google play Edition instead of a Nexus 5?

    +1 and +1 for both accounts. I am the type of person who doesn't care absolutely care about the exterior of the phone. After a year or two my plastic phone protected with a $2 TPU case and a $2 PET screen protector looks absolutely better than expensive aluminum phones having plenty of...
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    Review: Why buy an HTC One M8 Google play Edition instead of a Nexus 5?

    Are you using TouchControl? https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... uchcontrol Battery usage seems negligible. If you do use it, how did you check that it increases battery usage? Thanks in advance.
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    Ubuntu desktop moving application menus back into application windows

    What a relief. Now I am waiting to hear the next announcement, that the Windows buttons are back to the right side of the title bar.
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    Windows 8.x reaches 200 million licenses sold

    At our home, we are half way of the scenario you described. We do have Smartphone, Tablets, Laptop and Desktops. One thing which is 100% sure is that we don't need new desktop nor laptop unless the ones we currently have are broken. The other trend is that for common data consumption (mostly...
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    Stop trying to innovate keyboards. You’re just making them worse

    caps lock key is designed for Oracle DBAs and probably Oracle developers too. The day this key disappear from the KB, Oracle will go out of business as their clients will get lost without the uppercases.
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    Internet Explorer continues to grow, and Mavericks already on 11 percent of Macs

    If I use Firefox on an Android phone. Does that count in Firefox or in Android Browser?
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    Review: Acer and Haswell give Chrome OS the battery life it deserves

    Does that means booting an USB and simply install like a traditional laptop? No special hack or unlocking of something?
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    Unravelling the origins of life with mathematical chemistry

    Help needed: "Hydrogen cyanide is a very simple molecule with only three atoms". Can you please explain how this simple structure can generate up to trillions of different molecules? Thanks in advance.
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    Microsoft needs a new CEO who probably doesn’t exist

    Ashton Kutchner will needs some make-ups to play Ballmer in his next movie.
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    United States charges Snowden with espionage, asks Hong Kong to arrest him

    Don't mess up too much with Edward Snowden, he might be your future President.
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    It’s back: District court judge revives SCO v IBM

    What if SCO loses again and doesn't have enough money to re-imburse IBM's legal fees?