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Wonder if this will help WebVR run smoother
Who will buy Yahoo! Sports?
Re:Amazon Free Shipping minimum is now $49 on Monday February 22, 2016 @03:45AM (#11149445)
Brilliant, though I think they are investing more time in the drones
Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals on Friday February 19, 2016 @07:34PM (#11137908)
Staying where? With the holding company that has the Alibaba stock?
Re:Tiny Farms Raises Seed Round as Cricket Farming Heats Up on Friday February 19, 2016 @02:45PM (#11136047)
Chocolate dipped crickets actually doesn't sound that bad. It could be a hipster's crunch bar in a few years.
Re:Yahoo is shutting down about half of its content verticals on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:28PM (#11122041)
Will fantasy football get cut soon?
Re:The crash of 2016? on Wednesday February 10, 2016 @05:17PM (#11076554)
Can you ELI5 the significance of the "money stock" in the graph you linked to?
Re:Yelp Posts Q4 Loss, CFO Resigns on Monday February 08, 2016 @08:46PM (#11062474)
They will be acquired by Twitter or AOL/verizon
Re:Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software on Monday February 08, 2016 @05:31PM (#11061366)
Apple should step up it's software game, but it's hard to compete will so many startups singularly focused on executing one thing.

Music, messaging, news. All these things are entire billion dollar industries, we can't expect them to hit a home run on everything.

Re:A VR Cycling Experience for $40 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:09AM (#10972523)
I can see this as a new feature for gyms
Re:Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:32AM (#10950954)
That's about 5% of what Google has made in profit from Android since ~2008.
Re:Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:30AM (#10950949)
I wonder how much Google got charged for the opportunity in 2015
Re:Google Paid Apple $1B to Keep Search Bar on iPhone on Friday January 22, 2016 @12:30AM (#10950948)
I wonder how much Apple would pay for https://duckduckgo.com/ just to screw over Google.
HTML email made me think of IE6 as the iPhone 6. The rendering engines on most clients are horrible.
Re:The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:09PM (#10905948)
"Information is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will." - people before the Internet
Re:A Bitcoin Believer’s Crisis of Faith on Thursday January 14, 2016 @07:08PM (#10905941)
The Bitcoin Blockchain is still processing transactions right?

What part of the technology has failed?

Re:A Bitcoin Believer’s Crisis of Faith on Thursday January 14, 2016 @05:58PM (#10905454)
> Bitcoin is a failure and if you invested into it then you're getting what you deserve.

How do you quantify a failure?

Re:Lock Up Your Customer Accounts, Give Away the Key on Friday January 08, 2016 @06:05PM (#10868982)
Could this be used for online Bitcoin wallets?
They should invest all their money in real estate around Silicon Valley
Does anyone else think that Bitcoin will become a popular course in colleges across the country? Who will be the first to dedicate a whole department to it?
Taught by the CEO of 21, no less
JustFab is on the cutting block too
Amazon has such a commanding lead over everyone in ecommerce, it's going to take more than scale to beat them out.
Re:Netflix Is Now Available Around the World on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:24AM (#10856519)
Are you saying it costs too much or the data is too slow?
Who is doing the mining/securing if they aren't using Bitcoin?
Have you worked with Redux/React at all?
Re:Can India modernize without relying heavily on coal? on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:29PM (#10803793)
India has enough sun and engineers to figure out how to do solar on a massive scale.