Category: Miscellaneous
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The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
From Backchannel After 1.7 million miles we’ve learned a lot — not just about our system but how humans drive, too. About 33,000 people die on America’s roads every year. That’s why so much of the enthusiasm for self-driving cars has focused on their potential to reduce accident rates. As we continue to work toward…
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The surprising story of the world’s oldest dot-com
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Internet is celebrating a big birthday next week: The world’s oldest dot-com domain, symbolics.com, is turning 30 on Sunday. The first dot-com was purchased by a Massachusetts-based computer company Symbolics on March 15, 1985 — four years before the World Wide Web even existed. (Email and the Internet pre-date the…
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MacBook vs Chromebook
For your quiz tomorrow spot the ONE thing that makes this not entirely accurate.
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76 Google Now Voice Commands: Learn One New One Today
from lifehack.org Hi new students, a simple trick is to look down a long list like this and find ONE command that you think you might use again, like “Record a Video” and practice it. I don’t recommend bothering with an entire list, but learning one new thing you are going to put into practice…