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The European Commission has fined Qualcomm €997m for abusing its market dominance in LTE baseband chipsets. Qualcomm prevented rivals from competing in the market by making significant payments to a key customer on condition it would not buy from rivals. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules.
For those who did not know or remember:
Quote: In 2011, Qualcomm signed an agreement with Apple, committing to make significant payments to Apple on condition that the company would exclusively use Qualcomm chipsets in its "iPhone" and "iPad" devices. In 2013, the term of the agreement was extended to the end of 2016.
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A new era of computing just got closer, as researchers have created the design and run the first ever practical test for an artificial synapse that could let computers replicate some of the brain’s most powerful and intricate functions. A simulation of a possible chip design that might be made? Where do I invest?
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I wonder if it will include the feature where by you walk into a room to get something and forget what it was you're looking for?
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Two exoplanets in the TRAPPIST-1 system have been identified as most likely to be habitable, a paper by PSI Senior Scientist Amy Barr says. So's my couch. Plus, it's closer.
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If it is made of Trappist beer, I am certainly game!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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The name doesn't sound too inviting. Welcome to TRAPPIST-1. You can't leave now. I'm not even going on about the second meaning with initial letter missing.
In order to understand stack overflow, you must first understand stack overflow.
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Let’s face it, programming books suck. Those general books on distributed systems or data science or whatever can be tomes for a lifetime, but, with few exceptions, there’s something about the books on how to write code in a language/framework/database/cupcake-maker, the ones with the animal covers and the cutesy sample apps, they just tend to be so forgettable, so trite, so….uneducational. "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn"
(Which apparently he didn't say)
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They tend to burn pretty well though.
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25 years ago, the first release of Mosaic web browser appeared and the web, as you know it, began. That WWW just might catch on
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A new NPR/Marist poll finds that 1 in 5 jobs in America is held by a worker under contract. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the American workforce. "Gypsys, tramps and thieves"
Nice to see the rest of the working world (in the US) catching up to our industry
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Windows 10 Insider builds & Windows Server now include a beta release of the OpenSSH client and server for you to try! Each are available as independent optional features that you can choose to install if you want to be able to employ SSH from the Windows command-line. Oh, ssssssshhhhhh! (to be completed by the reader and/or Putty users/developers)
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Since the internet became mainstream less than 20 years ago, faith in traditional institutions and consumption of traditional media has also been displaced by faith in newer, digital institutions and consumption of newer, digital media, according to the 15th annual Digital Future Report recently produced by the USC Annenberg Center for the Digital Future. I thought it was more like 17 hours a day, personally
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Some major product news from veteran anti-tracking search engine DuckDuckGo: Today it’s launched revamped mobile apps and browser extensions that bake in a tracker blocker for third party sites, and include a suite of other privacy features intended to help users keep surfing privately as they navigate around the web. Getting your privacy ducks in a row
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A man at an electronics store in China decided to give a smartphone battery his own litmus test by biting it. The battery ruptured and caused a small explosion. Mental note: don't do this
On a related note:
W.
T.
F.?!?!
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Seems logical. I know lots of people that touch their tongues to 9 volt batteries. When asked how it tasted, the man said it was like a flavor explosion in my mouth.
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After receiving significant pushback from privacy authorities in Europe and other regions, Microsoft has been steadily refining their approach to collecting data from your PC. I'm sure that wall of numbers will be useful to someone
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A ‘Flick’ is 1/705,600,000 of a second and designed to help sync video frame rates Flicking great
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I guess they can borrow it and take credit for the name, but most web developers know it as the time distance between the announcement of new javascript frameworks. Maybe it will catch on and take on the name cryptofrequency.
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They came up with the concept when timing the duration from when a cute cat video is interrupted by Facebook advertising, to the instant the user 'flicked' to the next post. 
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Oh I thought it would be something like UselessBrowsingFacebook Minute or something similar?
Don't let your mind wander too far.
It's too small to be let out alone.
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The first line of the article is, "Facebook launched a new product today, ..." My question is, how can this possibly be a new product? It is supposed to be a unit of time so how can it be sold?
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Rick York wrote: t is supposed to be a unit of time so how can it be sold?
They will find a way, no worries...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you get paid by the hour, aren't you selling time?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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