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NewsGoogle will tell you when it thinks its search results aren’t good Pin
Kent Sharkey23-Apr-20 8:30
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NewsElon Musk announces that early access to the Starlink satellite-internet project will launch this year Pin
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NewsBing disables “trending” feature after wildly inappropriate results Pin
Kent Sharkey23-Apr-20 7:30
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Microsoft has shut down a feature in its Bing search engine that shows popular articles from major websites after Ars Technica reported that the feature was showing wildly inappropriate results from the stock photo site Shutterstock.
Boing

and a great comment on the article:
"Not only inappropriate results, but incorrect as well. That is not a 'big tit' but a great tit (Parus major)."
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NewsThis CSS library makes it easy to build Windows 98-inspired UIs Pin
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NewsPython 2.7.18, the last release of Python 2 Pin
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NewsApple and Google's contact tracing will launch early, on April 28 Pin
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NewsTiny sensors fit 30,000 to a penny, transmit data from living tissue Pin
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NewsThe Air Force wants you to hack its satellite in orbit. Yes, really Pin
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NewsThings I wished more developers knew about databases Pin
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NewsWindow 10 update weakened Google Chrome's security Pin
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