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It's actually US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France and Germany.

Google Play Music uses Media Source Extensions[1], so no Flash required.

https://w3c.github.io/media-source/

IE10 supports flexbox, it just supports the 2012 syntax.

An important note from the article:

"The procedure Kurimoto performed is unlikely to restore his patient's vision. However, researchers around the world will be watching closely to see whether the cells are able to check the further destruction of the retina while avoiding potential side-effects, such as bringing about an immune reaction or inducing cancerous growth."

Seems that at this point they're still evaluating safety rather than actual therapeutic benefits. Still exciting progress :)

When I first read this I wondered if they might have been trying to get rid of left over processors from the Motoactv [1].

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoactv

First, I would guess that part of the reason Calico is a separate company instead of just a team within Google is that they don't fit within Google's central mission. Second,I don't know if there really needs to be an altruistic motive; is Larry's concern for his own health and the health of those he cares about not enough?

T-Mobile is claiming that they are not sponsorships and that Spotify, Rhapsody, Pandora, and the other launch partners are not paying for data-exempt status[1]. That said, this still raises serious net-neutrality red flags.

1. http://www.theverge.com/2014/6/18/5822996/t-mobile-music-fre...

Speaking from experience, I see everyone from the team leader to the interns tackling bugs on my team at Google. Furthermore, the engineer with the highest level on my team has done a tremendous amount of refactoring and maintenance work over the course of the past year. Clearly this is just anecdotal, but from what I've seen an engineer who took the initiative to improve performance/stability or significantly refactor old code would have just as good a chance of promotion as an engineer churning out new features.

I imagine it's a whole lot easier to pass campaign finance regulation than it is to transform a population of hundreds of millions of people into an intelligent, knowledgeable, rational group.

But that doesn't mean that we have to appoint from within industry. There are probably many academics who would be just as qualified or more than former industry lobbyists. Moreover, these people would probably be more than happy to return to academia and research after serving their tenure.

I had the privilege of seeing Dean Kamen speak last year about the DEKA arm. One of the things he lamented was that the FDA had to decided not to classify the arm as Class I, and as such it was getting caught up in drawn out regulation when there were people he felt it could help right now.

Video demo of the updated, 3rd-generation DEKA arm. http://youtu.be/auetIxOaSe8