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Well I can totally see where its coming from. When I was in high school the internet was the place to go to get away from bullshit drama. Sure I had my friends on MSN and AIM, but there was no in your face everything whether you want it or not.

1 day ago on Teens are tired of Facebook 'drama,' find refuge on Twitter and elsewhere, says Pew 1 reply

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I hate reading these, so for those that prefer numbers: 750 :p

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Its a blogging service, not a comment feed. There is a huge benefit for some blogs to not have the direct ramblings of others. And how exactly are they dead? The Yahoo acquisition is not at all telling which way the platform will go.

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The huge diffrence is that the audience is already there, so Microsoft has a lot more pushing power. People will buy the Xbox One for gaming, and from that use it as an all in one entertainment device. People had to buy Google TV knowing what it did, whereas with Xbox, people can own the device first for other reasons, and then get into the functionality of live tv. That pre-existing audience will make all the difference.

2 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 1 reply 20 recommends

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Both are for specific markets… Firefox OS is for the poorer places out there. It’s not supposed to be in the same league as Android. Tizen will have a following simply because its vastly open source, as well as its goals of being embedded in cars and smart TVs. Not everything is trying to compete with the iPhone.

3 days ago on Jolla prices first Sailfish OS smartphone at €399 for a 2013 launch 1 reply 2 recommends

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When there are only three competitors out there, why not list them..

3 days ago on Samsung beats Chromebook Pixel and Retina MacBook with new high-res laptop display

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Although I’m eagerly waiting for Haswell, I don’t see the connection here… Samsung is saying the screen itself is more energy efficient.

3 days ago on Samsung beats Chromebook Pixel and Retina MacBook with new high-res laptop display 2 replies 7 recommends

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Normally I would be on that boat, but not being able to move apps onto the SD is terribly limiting. I understand why they did it, but when you end up only having several Gigs to install apps, some of which are too stupid to know the difference between intsd and extsd, it quickly does not matter if you have a 64GB card. Rooting fixes this somewhat, but its still not as clean and trouble free as before.

3 days ago on Galaxy S III software leak reveals potential S4-class upgrades 1 reply

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THIS, a thousand times this.

9 days ago on Microsoft confirms Windows 8.1 as official name for 'Blue' update, free for Windows 8 users 1 recommend

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you both fail

http://www.theverge.com/products/xperia-z/6490

10 days ago on Sony goes back in time to announce a 13.3-inch e-reader 1 reply

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Yeah, this will be interesting. The funny thing is I can totally see the American masses refusing to eat this, but be perfectly fine eating their pink slime. Being able to farm meat at will can be huge for beating demand with supply, and eventually rule out global hunger if we can establish methods of creating this meat without as much infrastructure as it currently takes to get meat the old fashion way.

10 days ago on Would you eat a $325,000 test-tube burger? 3 replies 3 recommends

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And as battery life becomes worse and worse on other screened devices, the benefits of a secondary or third device that does not die at the end of the day becomes very apparent.

10 days ago on Sony goes back in time to announce a 13.3-inch e-reader 1 reply 2 recommends

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The big thing would probably not be reading books, but using that stylus. Noteslate anyone?

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There were plenty of well made tablets, and business people used them well enough years before Apple came into the scene. Apple brought them to the general masses. Just because in hindsight you think they were bad does not mean they were when they were the newest thing.

Same can be said for smartphones.
hurhurhur blackberry and palm can’t say they had smartphones before Apple did, because they are not Apple.

10 days ago on An emotional Bill Gates details his last visit with Steve Jobs 2 replies 4 recommends

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Tell that to OLPC and all the articles The Verge does that is not focused directly on tech.

This is hit farming.

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Right, however for driving directions the car will need to know road layout, which currently is easily done via GPS.

10 days ago on Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update)