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  1. The truth behind the video... on Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic 'Snow' On the Surface of a Comet (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Seems to be a little different. It's a 25 minute video that has been compressed in that GIF, so the effect is 'dramatized'. https://www.livescience.com/62... According to that report, the GIF, impressive as it is, is somewhat misleading.

  2. Impressive and somewhat sad on Google's AlphaGo AI Beats Lee Se-dol Again, Wins Go Series 4-1 (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I've been following the matches with the same expectation and anger I felt in 1997 during the Kasparov & Deep Blue rematch. The final result has been similar, and although it has been well reasoned that chess and go are pretty different games and Deep Blue and AlphaGo are pretty different machines, the bittersweet sensation is identical. I had a naive hope in the human superiority just for a little more time. I was pretty sad after the final game: Lee Sedol seemed really disappointed and sad himself. I can't imagine the pressure he's felt throughout the event, and his face -that's my impression- seemed to tell us "I've failed you all". He later told in the press conference that he felt he could have done more in the games -I'm sure he'd like to play more games to test himself again- and I wonder what could have happened if the matches would have been played without general knowledge. Feeling that kind of coverage must have been really stressful. If you ever read this, Mr. Sedol, thank you. And please, don't ever feel disappointed, you've done a fantastic job.

  3. Re:Located In Naples on Apple To Launch First European Development Center (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. There seems to be more than a coincidence here http://www.wsj.com/articles/it... The choice of Naples is what strikes me.

  4. Fast, reliable, not expensive = win on AMD Launches Radeon R7 Series Solid State Drives With OCZ · · Score: 3, Informative
    Seems a good bet if you want reliability: in the last paragraph of Guru3D's review, they say:

    the AMD Radeon R7 SSD series is very fast, has a greatly refined Barefoot controller with accompanying firmware and Toshiba's latest A19nm NAND flash memory. It is a product you'll like and use for a long time. I also dare to state that it is one of the most reliable product on the market anno 2014, combined with the excellent new ShieldPlus warranty this is a pure win in our book, and as such it comes very much recommended by Guru3D.com

    Maybe an OCZ with a sticker, but who cares, really? Quality product, good price. Not much to hate here.

  5. Shuttleworth is not Canonical's CEO on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 1

    There's a little mistake in this article. Mark Shuttleworth stepped down from his CEO position in 2009, to "focus my Canonical energy on product design, partnerships and customers".

  6. Stallman ahoy on Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions · · Score: 4, Funny

    What would you ask to Richard Stallman if you had to interview him? :)

  7. Re:Thanks on Thanks For Reading: 15 Years of News For Nerds · · Score: 1

    Not only created, but also maintained the community, at least for lots of people. Gracias.

  8. I was much mor generous. on Google Donates $2 Million To the Wikimedia Foundation · · Score: 0

    As I told on my Twitter account..., just a little quick math:

    Google's revenues on Q409: $6,6 billion dollars. So $2 millions (0.000299% of that) wasted here and there don't seem much of a problem.

    I was much more generous. My Q409 was well bellow that, and I donated $10. That's aprox 0.0024% of that revenues. 10 times more.

  9. RIM has its own App Store, too on Competition For the App Store Is Mounting · · Score: 4, Informative

    The company announced some months ago its own version of the App Store for BlackBerry, the BlackBerry Application StoreFront

  10. "People are", not "People is" on The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Seems I wasn't wrong after all. Cambridge points out that people is the plural of person, so you must use the plural form of the cerb: "People live much longer than they used to". There's another example here with the sentence "People like to be made to feel important.", and AskOxford also confirms that. So I have better english skills than I thought :)

  11. Re:the people is working on The Uncertain Future of BitTorrent · · Score: 1

    Sorry for that. That 'people' thing always confusses me, I guess I was thinking in spanish - I'm from Madrid. Too bad :(