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Google updates some search features that expand on its ability to answer your questions directly. "In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with love."
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "In time you will come to regard me not only with respect and awe, but with
love."
+5 for "Colossus: The Forbin Project" reference!
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WebKit long has been the dominant open source Web-rendering engine, but with Google’s Blink fork, its future has turned murky. The Web Blinks, and we're back to browser wars.
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Microsoft today launched BrowserSwarm, an open source tool to help Web developers automate testing of their JavaScript frameworks and libraries across devices and browsers. To take advantage, all you have to do is sign up for free here. If you're going to use JavaScript, might as well be sure it works
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Scientists at the lab are reporting that they’ve successfully managed to get two photons to interact with each other and form a “photonic molecule” that acts as if it has mass but maintains the properties of light. Photons as a rule contain no mass and don’t interact with each other, which is why two beams of light pass right through each other. Lightsabers aside, the creation of a “photonic molecule” is actually a Pretty Big Deal. "An elegant weapon, for a more civilized age."
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"managed to get two photons to interact with each other"
That's some tiny lightsaber.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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It's not the size, but in how you use it. 
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Cloud-based IDE provider Codenvy has introduced the idea of “instant projects” where developers can jump into a configured environment and immediately begin coding. These temporary environments require no authentication and open up interesting new possibilities for developers seeking community assistance or evaluating technology. Remember when code sharing involved floppies? Yeah. How primitive.
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Explore the tunnels and control rooms of the world's biggest particle collider from the comfort of your own home using Google Street View. Watch out for the sharp left after ALICE
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Terry Myerson is a tough guy to pin down. Where his predecessor, Steve Sinofsky, would post pages-long blogs explaining in raptuous telemetric detail many of the components that made Windows 7 and 8 (and by extension 8.1) tick, Myerson has a reputation for letting his products speak for themselves. That's going to make it hard to second-guess where the next version of Windows is headed -- but all indications at this point are encouraging. It helps they left so much room to improve
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Thirty years ago, on 26 September 1983, the world was saved from potential nuclear disaster. Thank you, Mr. Petrov.
This one pops up every once and a while (strangely at this time of the year), but it's worth remembering.
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Bill Gates made many exceptional decisions while he was leading Microsoft to immense success. He did, however, make a few errors. One of those was the idea of using “Control-Alt-Delete” — initially designed to efficiently reboot a computer — as a way to log into Windows. Let's all salute him, with your choice of number of fingers
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It was not a mistake; it was well thought-out, and the right choice as well. Rather unusual for Microsoft I guess.
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In keynote address, Wozniak recounts hacking adventures in his college days and early Internet times. Oh, that Woz
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Google confirmed this week it has made a change to better protect the privacy of how people search. However, it left loopholes in that protection and once again failed to seize an opportunity to encourage all sites to go secure. Secure from everyone (except those who pay Google)?
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If you know Java at all, you probably think of it as something from the late ’90s, a child of the original internet boom, a little piece of downloadable software that sent a cartoon mascot dancing across your Netscape web browser. You think of it as something that promised a world of software apps that could run on each and every one of your personal machines — from PCs to cellphones — but that ultimately failed in the face of endless security bugs and poor decisions from its creator, Sun Microsystems. “For the general populace,” says LinkedIn principal staff engineer Jay Kreps, “Java is some annoying thing that really out-of-date websites try to make them download.” And if you see it as anything more than that, you probably dismiss it as a way of building stodgy “middleware” tools that connect things like web servers and databases. "I thought you said if we destroyed the brain, it'd die!"
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Wow, Wired used be a decent tech magazine, but somehow they failed to realise that Java has been heavily used server side for fair few years now.
When I first saw this I thought there was a resurgence of usage in the browser, that would be truly awful.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Working from feedback from the PhoneGap app developer community, the folks at Adobe have built a new open source CSS library designed with speed in mind. This should prove incredibly useful for web app design. The language was initially based on languages for Brackets and Edge Reflow and it has evolved from there. Just in case you needed another CSS framework (although this one is from Adobe)
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Topcoat, the most effectual Topcoat,
Who's intellectual close friends get to call him T.C.
Providing it's with dignity.
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Despite Microsoft's leadership problems and Windows 8 struggles, there are still huge opportunities for partners and customers. "'Ere, he says he's not dead."
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Microsoft’s F# programming language continues to catch on with developers and is gaining traction in the enterprise. For F-ing good code
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Computing, like life, may soon be carbon-based. A functioning computer has been built from carbon nanotubes – complete with its own operating system and software. Sadly, it doesn't run Windows 8 yet
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The first big update to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser in three years will feature a number of advanced security features – and a whole lot more. That browser agent change is going to hurt a lot of sites
modified 25-Sep-13 18:17pm.
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Dew - water droplets on cool outdoor surfaces: moisture from the air that has condensed as tiny drops on outdoor objects and surfaces that have cooled, especially during the night
small drops: drops of moisture of any kind, e.g. tears or sweat
freshness and purity: a fresh and pure or refreshing quality in something
So IE11 is already under water? 
(I think you meant 'due')
Keep Clam And Proofread
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√(-1) 23 ∑ π...
And it was delicious.
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