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On this day Windows 2000 Introduced On this day Windows 2000 was introduced Yes, in 2000. Windows 2000 brought plug-and-play to the Windows NT line, it was targeted to the business market and not the consumer.

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I acknowledge that I took things too far... - PewDiePie

I acknowledge that I took things too far… – PewDiePie

PewDiePie apologized today for making anti-Semitic jokes that he now says “went too far” and which led to him losing major deals with Disney and YouTube. “I’m sorry for the words that I used as I know they offended people, and I admit that the joke itself went too far,” he says

In the video, he apologizes for about 2 minutes, and the rest of the time he’s blaming the press, WSJin particular, for…

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Reminder – New official video from ‘Starboy’ New video from The Weeknd's new album - Starboy

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Auto-play on Audio on Facebook videos is back?

Auto-play on Audio on Facebook videos is back?

Facebook Audio Auto-Play is coming back

Remember that time? Oh such a good memory..Not!

Today Facebook announced that they are bringing back the Facebook Audio Auto-Play as they expect to combat YouTube on the market. Everyone expects when click on YouTube video that it will auto-play, right? But we don’t expect that from Facebook.

Ehh, if you just need to stop auto-play, here is how you can do…

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Hover Taxi will be set to Launch in Dubai within months!

Hover Taxi will be set to Launch in Dubai within months!

Hover Taxi

Dubai will launch Hover Taxi within months. The EHang 184, built by Chinese drone manufacturer EHang, has been in development since 2013, and was on display this week at the World Government Summit 2017 in Dubai.

Hover Taxi is no longer an idea. “Passengers don’t need to learn how to fly it, they don’t need get to a pilot’s license,” EHang co-founder Derrick Xiong told Aaron Tilley at

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New Official Video For 'The Let Out' - Jidenna

New Official Video For ‘The Let Out’ – Jidenna

Watch the new official video released today from Jidenna . He’s collaborating with Nana Kwabena for this song, which is a part of his new album “Chief”.

  You can pre-order the album, here.

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How much to charge for a logo design?

How much to charge for a logo design?

Surely it shouldn’t cost companies millions to commission logo designers when the market shows that a straightforward tick seems to work well enough for the likes of Nike?

  More about Chris Do and the company he co-founded, here.

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The ball should bounce the same for everyone - Nike

The ball should bounce the same for everyone – Nike

Nike’s newest initiative, a film titled “Equality” premiered last night during the Grammys. The idea behind this is to inspire people to take the values of sportsmanship to our everyday lives.

LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Serena Williams are some of the famous athletes that are included in this campaign.

Leading by example

The film ends with the words “Equality has no boundaries.” To make this…

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Why Solar Roadways Aren’t Worth The Effort The World's First Solar Roadway Explains Why We Don't Have Solar Roads "Their questionable efficiency is one of the main reasons that more solar roads aren't currently being built.

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Chance The Rapper beats Drake and Kanye for best album and Adele went 5 for 5 - Grammy Awards 2017

Chance The Rapper beats Drake and Kanye for best album and Adele went 5 for 5 – Grammy Awards 2017

So, the Grammy’s happened. I would say nothing new, because Adele, the other British queen went five for five. Sweeping the top categories of album, record and song of the year in a triumphant return to the spotlight following a long, trying hiatus. “My dream and my idol is Queen Bey, and I adore you and you move my soul every single day and you have done for nearly 17 years, and I adore you and…

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5G wireless has a legit new logo

5G wireless has a legit new logo

5G wireless is already being hyped by AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and Verizon as their next-gen tech trials gets underway.

The Future is here

Roger Gurnani, chief architect for Verizon said: The nation’s largest wireless carrier will begin field trials on so-called fifth-generation, or 5G, technology within the next 12 months. He expects “some level of commercial deployment” to begin by 2017. That’s…

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Camera-contact lens by Sony patented in US Camera-contact lens We received the news in April 2016 when Sony filed to Patent smart camera-contact lenses…

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Adidas to Tesla: Your Model 3 logo is too familiar.

Adidas to Tesla: Your Model 3 logo is too familiar.

Over a week ago, Tesla quietly changed the logo for its Model 3 from three slick lines to the numeral “3.” There was little attention paid to the switch at the time, which looked to be purely stylistic. But recent court filings suggest there might be a more of a kick behind the move.

On Friday, adidas filed a notice with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office challenging Tesla’s use of three lines…

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(Hint: malicious code) Developers, beware when you paste code in terminal!

(Hint: malicious code) Developers, beware when you paste code in terminal!

If you are a developer, you definitively spend a lot of time online researching a solution to a problem. And over 90% of that time you are copy/pasting code snippets from the browser to your project. Or terminal. Well, beware when pasting to the terminal. Here is why you shouldn’t do this. Try pasting the following line to your terminal (SFW)

ls; clear; echo 'Haha! You gave me access to your…

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Online supermarket pick and pack robots Online Super Market Robots In the following video you can check pick and pack robots that "works" in a online super market.

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Same Drugs - New Video from Chance The Rapper

Same Drugs – New Video from Chance The Rapper

Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book track “Same Drugs” has a new music video. In the clip, the rapper duets with a singing puppet behind a grand piano.

“Same Drugs” appeared last year on Chance’s Coloring Book mixtape. The tape is nominated for Best Rap Album at the upcoming Grammys. That’s one of several nominations Chance received: he’s also competing in the categories for Best New Artist, Best…

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2017 - The Year of the Bezel less phones

2017 – The Year of the Bezel less phones

Mi MIX pioneered no bezels phone

2017 will probably be the year of bezel less phones. After Mi announced their bold, no bezels phone Mi Mix back in October 2016, designed by the French designer Philippe Starck, and released a month after, the tech world kind of got a glimpse of what the future of the phone design holds.

The stunningly beautiful, but expensive bezel less Mi MIX, released November…

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