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Optional OmniFocus Subscriptions

Posted on December 13, 2018 by HeyJK

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But our current model doesn’t cover every situation. It’s designed for software that you run on your own devices, where you can buy something from us and run it for as long as you wish (so long as you keep a compatible system around to run it).

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Virgin Galactic aims to reach space with tourism rocket

Posted on December 13, 2018 by HeyJK

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MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is preparing to take the long-awaited step of trying to fly its tourism rocket ship to the edge of space.

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Samsung angers hypebeasts by partnering with fake Supreme brand in China

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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Samsung is getting criticized by hypebeasts everywhere after it claimed to be collaborating with Supreme; in reality, it partnered with a Supreme rip-off.

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Hundreds of Complaints Flood In About New York Store Signs, but From Whom?

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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The calls to 311 started to pick up steam about a year ago. They were complaints about an arcane New York City statute requiring special permits for businesses to hang signs or awnings larger than six square feet.

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Eric Schmidt: ‘Were The Killer Robots To Start, We Would Find A Way To Stop Them’

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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Tech billionaire Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, is optimistic that humans will be able to shut down dangerous machines should they start to appear.

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Super Micro audit complete, including servers supplied to Apple: no spy chips found

Posted on December 11, 2018 by HeyJK

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The tech news was dominated in October by a dramatic Bloomberg claim that Chinese spy chips had been embedded into the Super Micro motherboards of servers supplied to Apple, Amazon and others. The report claimed that Apple had discovered the chips, and reported the fact to the FBI.

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As We May Think

Posted on December 10, 2018 by HeyJK

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This has not been a scientist’s war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership.

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50 years on, we’re living the reality first shown at the “Mother of All Demos”

Posted on December 10, 2018 by HeyJK

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A half century ago, computer history took a giant leap when Douglas Engelbart—then a mid-career 43-year-old engineer at Stanford Research Institute in the heart of Silicon Valley—gave what has come to be known as the “mother of all demos.

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The SpaceX ‘Clown Car’ Launch Actually Worked—Here’s How

Posted on December 7, 2018 by HeyJK

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Not, like, the bird of prey. Like the big SpaceX rocket that, similar to its avian namesake, swoops back down to Earth once it’s done its job.

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Apple acquires artist development startup Platoon

Posted on December 7, 2018 by HeyJK

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Apple has acquired artist development startup Platoon, reports TechCrunch. Platoon works with creators to produce and distribute their work, and it uses analytics to target audiences and build marketing strategies.

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Apple Watch can now detect your irregular heart rhythms and other problems: Here’s how it works

Posted on December 7, 2018 by HeyJK

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You might also see atrial fibrillation, low or high heart rate, or an inconclusive result, which might be because you moved around too much or you need to tighten your Apple Watch around the wrist.

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Uber self-driving cars to make a comeback in smaller test: NYT

Posted on December 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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FILE PHOTO: Uber’s logo is displayed on a mobile phone in London, Britain, September 14, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay/File Photo(Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc UBER.

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A SpaceX Delivery Capsule May Be Contaminating the ISS

Posted on December 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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In February 2017, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted through low clouds, pushing a Dragon capsule toward orbit. Among the spare parts and food, an important piece of scientific cargo, called SAGE III, rumbled upward.

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SpaceX Launches Its 20th Rocket Of The Year, But Doesn’t Quite Make The Landing

Posted on December 6, 2018 by HeyJK

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SpaceX has successfully launched its 20th rocket of the year, a mission taking supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), but the landing wasn’t quite as successful. Their Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 40 in Florida at 1.16pm Eastern time (6.

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“Everyone’s for Sale”: A Generation of Digital-Media Darlings Prepares for a Frigid Winter

Posted on December 5, 2018 by HeyJK

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It was around this time last year that things were starting to look a little dicey for the media industry’s once breathlessly-hyped digital unicorns. Both BuzzFeed and Vice made news for substantially missing their revenue targets. Mashable was sold at a dramatic price reduction.

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NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor

Posted on December 4, 2018 by HeyJK

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft has arrived at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its first visitor in billions of years. The robotic explorer Osiris-Rex pulled within 12 miles (19 kilometers) of the diamond-shaped space rock Monday.

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The little black book of scams

Posted on December 3, 2018 by HeyJK

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Venture Capitalists Are Taking $18-an-Hour Jobs to Understand the Gig Economy

Posted on December 3, 2018 by HeyJK

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Venture capitalist Jamison Hill was momentarily flummoxed by a strappy red garment.

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Hacking inner peace

Posted on November 29, 2018 by HeyJK

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The principal calls this a mindful school. Johane Ligondé is effusively warm but with the kind of emotional solidity you’d expect from someone who wakes each morning to manage more than 1,000 kids at the only public middle school in the village of Freeport in Long Island, New York.

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Locals Kill One of Elon Musk’s Plans for a Tunnel Under LA

Posted on November 29, 2018 by HeyJK

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Lawsuits, man. Elon Musk’s Boring Company has abandoned its plans to dig a tunnel under the west side of Los Angeles after it and the city settled a lawsuit brought by two area neighborhood groups who opposed the scheme. The project, announced last spring, had entailed building a 2.

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