January 2019
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The shutdown comes in response to news that Facebook has been using Apple’s program for internal app distribution to track teenage customers with a “research” app Source: Apple blocks Facebook from running its internal iOS apps – The Verge This doesn’t surprise me. Facebook as a company is trying every tactic to learn about everybody,…
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Mike Trout was worth 9.8 fWAR for the Angels in 2018. He’s the standout star of a team that only won 80 games last year. In theory, if Mike Trout didn’t play for the Angels and was replaced with a replacement level outfielder worth 0 fWar, they’d only win 70 games.But what if Mike Trout…
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Microsoft is limiting Cortana instead of competing with Google and Alexa, it will work with them “Cortana needs to be that skill for anybody who’s a Microsoft 365 subscriber,” explains Nadella, referencing Microsoft’s new consumer subscription push. “You should be able to use it on Google Assistant, you should be able to use it on…
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The first stories of the iPhone XS battery cases all immediately looked at the mAh capacity of the battery. I assumed Apple put a smaller battery in the case because the battery in the phone was larger, thus needing less weight in the case to more than make up the total charge time. Turns out,…
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A solar system has been identified with two sets of binary stars. the two binary systems have stars that orbit their mutual centers of gravity at a distance about the same as the Earth’s distance from the Sun. The two binary systems are separated by about 54 times that distance, or about 1.8 times the…