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dropdatabaseon Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Encryption [video]

You forgot to give an example to illustrate your point

dropdatabaseon Facebook is eating the world

I disagree with the title, Facebook isn't even a content creator.

dropdatabaseon AlphaGo beats the world champion Lee Sedol in first of five matches

I don't think a computer could ever beat me at Calvinball

dropdatabaseon How much is Spotify paying Google Cloud?

However, Spotify still stores its music files on AWS and uses CloudFront for content distribution. They're only gonna use Google Cloud for analyzing customer data. They won't ditch AWS...

http://arstechnica.co.uk/information-technology/2016/02/spot...

dropdatabaseon Twenty years after Pokémon launched, its impact on Wikipedia remains

Hadoop could have been a good Pokémon name

dropdatabaseon A Review of the Amazon Books Store

I wonder if the book store is large enough to host a data center or if there's already one in there

dropdatabaseon Marc Andreessen Pro-Colonialism Tweet Riles India Tech World

Well that escalated quickly

dropdatabaseon Text Mining South Park

This is amazing, I wonder what results you'd get from The Simpsons

dropdatabaseon Help Make “The Essential Guide to Electronics in Shenzhen” a Reality

My favorite thing in Shenzhen is bargaining for electronics at Huaqiangbei, it feels like going to Disneyland. Over millions of square feet, merchants sell stuff from wires, LEDs and transistors to headphones, monitors and hard-drives. I used to pay electronics for 80% of their value, then I learned Mandarin and got them for 40%. Definitely try learning numbers in Mandarin and work on your poker face before getting your plane ticket.

dropdatabaseon League of Legends now owned entirely by Chinese giant Tencent

They'll probably end up charging people for it