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Microsoft is sponsoring an esports competition with prizes totaling $10,000. The game? Well, it’s not exactly a game — it’s Microsoft Excel. People just watch that for the crashes
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A Google Play Games app will be available in 2022, built by Google to allow games from Google Play to run on Windows laptops, tablets, and PCs. So I can finally play Candy Crush (in the native resolution)?
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"The Internet is on Fire"[^]
Computer security experts around the world are racing to patch one of the worst software vulnerabilities discovered in years
(I'm not sure if I'm even supposed to post here, but it's 12 hours old and I didn't see it here. I hope I'm not stepping on your toes Kent)
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 11-Dec-21 0:12am.
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Toes definitely not stepped on - I like it when others post news (especially on my day off  )
It is Kent-with-a-t, though 
TTFN - Kent
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Whoops, sorry about that, Kent.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Windows 11 is getting a new "Voice Access" feature to control the operating system using your voice and a microphone. No, I said "For Matt, hard drive"
Dang shopping lists.
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Sorry... but I could not resist it: Meme[^]
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A stealth way of slipping in some audio spying?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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stealth?
After Alexa, Siri and some others... that's not stealth or discret or... it is pretty obvious.
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I stand corrected! 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: and a microphone.
Really? A microphone is required? Like, duh.
Well, Scotty would be pleased - the mouse clearly wasn't the right input device for voice commands.
Hmm, Blue - Mouse[^] not what I was looking for...
Ah, USB Mouse with Microphone + Speaker[^] that.
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180 chars/minute. Slow on average, but ten ten as fast as your average American!
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The European Commission, the executive arm of the European Union, has put forward a series of proposals that could lead to millions of gig workers across the bloc getting similar legal protections to traditional employees. Gig work? I can barely do milliwork most days
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Microsoft is moving ahead with its work to bring Azure cloud capabilities to companies that need satellite, geospatial and other space-related technologies In space, no one can see your cloud bill
"Microsoft officials said today that Azure Orbital is now in public preview. Azure Orbital allows customers to communicate with and control satellites from Microsoft's own and its partners ground stations." <- Nope, I can't see any problems that can come from that. Nope.
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It wouldn't be the first time[^]
Sadly, we don't have Sean Connery anymore to fix the mess... 
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The next computer revolution might be a new kind of hardware, called processing-in-memory (PIM), an emerging computing paradigm that merges the memory and processing unit and does its computations using the physical properties of the machine—no 1s or 0s needed to do the processing digitally. Because it's not all about 1s and 0s
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Researchers are finding that the intersection of Google, smartphones and our memories is starting to mess with how we judge our own abilities. The internet *is* my brain
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I'll need to Google to see what I think about that. 
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In this C# Advent post, we have a little fun and talk about some nice, lesser hyped .NET 6 features that might make you happy Or just keep doing that as it still works
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Finding and fixing bugs in code is a time-consuming, and often frustrating, part of everyday work for software developers. Can deep learning address this problem and help developers deliver better software, faster? Some bugs are deeper
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Some bugs are deeper
And some bugs are creepy! 
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Consumer Reports recently reviewed a variety of virtual private networks, finding that most of them don't keep their promises. "Surprise, surprise, surprise!"
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Researchers have found another 17 malicious packages in an open source repository, as the use of such repositories to spread malware continues to flourish. Sharing security problems is caring?
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The research from Upwork indicates freelancing rates hold steady in the U.S., contributing $1.3 trillion to the economy. Salaries are so last year
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