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Microsoft Bringing Teams Meeting Reminders To Windows 11 Start Menu
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Game Developer Survey: 50% Work at a Studio Already Using Generative AI Tools
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Cop28 Deal Will Fail Unless Rich Countries Quit Fossil Fuels, Says Climate Negotiator
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How Much of the World Is It Possible to Model?
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Airbus Is Pulling Ahead as Boeing's Troubles Mount
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Apple Offers To Open Mobile Payments To Third Parties Amid EU Antitrust Case
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'Where Have All the Websites Gone?'
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Sam Altman Says AI Depends On Energy Breakthrough
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Boeing Cargo Plane Makes Emergency Landing in Miami After 'Engine Malfunction'
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David Mills, an Internet Pioneer, Has Died
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Physicists Design a Way to Detect Quantum Behavior in Large Objects, Like Us
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Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Faster Than Scientists Previously Estimated, Study Finds
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Error'd: Grasshopper
One of my multitude of peeves is the phrase "special characters." Somehow, our lexicon has been corrupted by semiliterate middle-schoolers, who have never learned that the name for ,.;: and so on is punctuation and/or symbol. Dustin Hoffman's Raymond was a special character. Period ain't.
This week, Robert F. had the misfortunate to step into it, and observed "What boggles my mind is that someone had to actively choose to create a validation rule specifically for this."
Saver Stewart was frustrated by Fido's failure to refresh a field in their messages app. "It isn't reassuring when a major financial corporation can not count to zero correctly," he fretted. I figure they just reached zero and didn't update every element on-screen immediately.
In an echo of earlier error'ds, an anonymous member of our Helvetian contigent reminds us that Swiss Railway's apps (not to be confused with SwissRail's Zoppas) sind immer noch schlecht. Sagt mann "Ah, perfect! The Swiss Railways' app is telling me that I'll be there in NULL time 👌" Super!
"Even in the best families..." laments Lucio Crusca , shaking his head sadly. "This is WhatsApp Web since yesterday on my PC."
Finally, "I didn't think my age would be a problem..." stammered junior Jake. The cutoff age must be 34.5. Patience, grasshopper.
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80 Years Later, GCHQ Releases New Images of Nazi Code-Breaking Computer
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BMW Will Employ Figure's Humanoid Robot At South Carolina Plant
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Bing Gained Less Than 1% Market Share Since Adding Bing Chat, Report Finds
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Google To Invest $1 Billion In UK Data Center
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Remote Work Doesn't Seem To Affect Productivity, Fed Study Finds
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IBM Scraps Rewards Program For Staff Inventions, Wipes Away Cash Points
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Google Is Rolling Out WebGPU For Next-Gen Gaming On Android
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