Fascinating article about the abadoned Japanese island of Hashima which was used as the hide out of the new Bond villian.

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Dmitry Fadeyev on the practice of changing the default font smoothing for WebKit for no reason other than misguided aesthetics:

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MG Siegler speculates on the reasons for Sinofsky's departure from Microsoft:

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In the video, the speaker explains and demonstrates improvements made to the machine understanding of his English words, which are automatically transcribed as he speaks. Microsoft, he says, has taken in oodles of data, and can thus have that translated Mandarin spoken. And the final kicker: he has fed the system an hour’s worth of his voice, and thus the software will speak in Mandarin, using his own tones.

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I’m seriously disappointed in Google not standing behind a defective Nexus 7, just because I didn’t purchase it from them. Apple and Amazon stand behind their products no matter where you purchased them.

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I don't understand how Dan Lyons went form insightful pundit to this.

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Today's Dilbert comic is opportune.

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An ingenious idea, and probably the fastest way to create a working prototype.

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Lukas Mathis:

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What can I say about the iPad mini that hasn't already been said?

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If you live in the UK and use Safari, this extension redirects your Google searches to google.co.uk.

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Don Lehman analyses the ramifications of Apple's recent management changes:

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