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Alan Alda, Morgan Freeman Sign Letter To Stop Killer Robots
I'm not making this up. A bunch of people including some top AI researchers are adding their signatures to an open letter urging everyone to keep AI research from careening into darkness and...
View ArticleRussia Blog Law Scares Off Intel. Who Will Be Next?
Intel shut down a Russian-language developer forum for fear that the site might not comply with Russia's law about bloggers, GlobalVoices reports. The law requires companies that operate big websites...
View ArticleNeil Young Is A Deaf Old Man Selling Snake Oil
Everyone is raving about Neil Young's new high-rez PonoPlayer, but Mario Aguilar of Gizmodo is not impressed. Young says you can hear the difference. But can he hear the difference? He's 69 years old,...
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This Is How Bad Blackberry Sucks
You may remember that there was once a company in Canada called RIM — no, really, that was its name — and this company made a product called the BlackBerry. The BlackBerry was a kind of precursor to...
View ArticleMicrosoft Kills The Dumbest Ad Campaign Ever
Microsoft has shuttered its ridiculous and awful "Scroogled" ad campaign, in which it created a string of horrible ads attacking Google and ended up looking like a crazy old man in a bathrobe yelling...
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Hero NYC Councilman Wants to Make Uber's Batshit Surge Pricing Illegal
Uber, one of the only large tech companies that openly hates you, has made a name for itself not based on its convenience (which is ample) but its price gouging practices (which are gratuitous). Now,...
View ArticleWired Editor Commands Slobs On Staff To Be Less Filthy
Wired editor in chief Scott Dadich, is an anal retentive neat freak organized and highly creative fellow who recently sent a memo to the filthy, slobby hacks on the magazine's editorial staff...
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Bad-Ass Evan Williams Tells Sarah Lacy: Fuck Off
Evan Williams founded Blogger, Twitter and Medium, and he's perfected the aw-shucks role of a nice, pleasant choir boy CEO. Nevertheless, last week Williams told angelic role model and hero mom Sarah...
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Google Is Already Building Its Driverless Cars in Detroit
Google is teaming up with auto builders in Detroit to build its driverless cars, according to Chris Urmson, director of Self-Driving Cars for Google.Read more...
View ArticleOn Blogging As An Iterative Process
Earlier today I put up a post about Evan Williams telling Sarah Lacy to "fuck off." I've gone in and changed that post a bunch of times after I originally hit "publish." I changed the headline. I...
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Vulture Capitalist: New Kevin Rose Startup Is Just A Lottery Ticket
I have this friend who works as a venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. I call him the Vulture. He always has the best stories about what really goes on inside these crazy startup deals, and how VCs...
View ArticleXiaomi Is Coming On Strong
Xiaomi is a Chinese mobile phone maker, and suddenly they're getting lots of attention for a bunch of new products that apparently are really good, like a new phablet called the Mi Note. Is this the...
View ArticleI Told You That BlackBerry Sucks
Yesterday I posted an item about how someone at BlackBerry had sent out a tweet using an iPhone, and how this proves just how bad BlackBerry sucks. Then all of a sudden a rumor hit that Samsung was...
View ArticleElon Musk Versus AI-Powered Robots
The battle: Elon Musk versus killer robot with AI brain. On one side, enormous intelligence combined with a completely ruthless, amoral worldview and limitless resources. On the other side, a robot....
View ArticleGlass Is Dead, Long Live Glass
Google will stop selling its dorky nerd glasses that nobody wanted. But Tony Fadell, the former Apple guy who created the Nest thermostat, has been put in charge of the Glass team at Google and...
View ArticlePoor Old Uber Just Can't Catch A Break This Week
First Uber caught shit for outsmarting government regulators in Australia and blocking their mobile phones so the cops can't catch Uber breaking the law.Read more...
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And Now A $6,000 Smartphone For Rich, Vulgar People
Is your smartphone up to your lifestyle? That's a question a lot of us ask ourselves, and for some people, until now, the answer has been no. But now there is a Lamborghini smartphone and it costs...
View ArticleOne Man's 'Crash' Is Another Man's 'Hard Landing'
Man-god Elon Musk tried to do something amazing last week, and he almost pulled it off. His company, SpaceX, was going to fire a rocket, and then have it fly back down from 50 miles up and land on a...
View ArticleLinus Torvalds Does Not Give A Shit About You And Your Dumb Opinions
Linus Torvalds created Linux, and you didn't. What else do you need to know? Torvalds was at some conference in New Zealand this week and pesky question people started giving him shit for not being...
View ArticleNow Some Assholes Are Taunting The Pro-Diversity People
Diversity activist Shanley Kane (@shanley) is "cofounder and CEO of ModelViewCulture," as well as a "cultural critic, organizer, writer and feminist." Yesterday she went on a tirade about Linux creator...
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