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Friday 25 September 2015

Amazon announces new $50 Fire tablets, sells them by the six pack

 This tablet costs $50.

Mozilla fixes 14-year old Firefox bug, turbocharges Adblock Plus #vmvwiki ps

The problem was related to how Firefox handled ABP’s style sheets and could, in certain edge cases, send memory usage rocketing up to 2GB

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/214823-mozilla-fixes-14-year-old-firefox-bug-turbocharges-adblock-plus

Friday 18 September 2015

Google Docs Voice Typing lets you speak instead of type #vmvwiki ps

Last week, Google announced it has added free speech-to-text capabilities to Google Docs (Google calls it Voice Typing). This would have been huge news 20 years ago, yet when Google unveiled it, it was only described in a single paragraph in a middle of a larger blog entry.

IBM’s upcoming block chain release could change the internet #vmvwiki ps


IBM has announced that it will soon  release its own, open source version of blockchain software — the public ledger system that lets Bitcoin work.



Thursday 10 September 2015

Disagreement over Bitcoin’s future threatens to fork the currency #vmvwiki ps

There’s no central authority or ultimate decision maker for the Bitcoin crypto currency.


Friday 4 September 2015

New analysis shows over 99 percent of the women on Ashley Madison were fake

#vmvwiki ps



Ashley Madison site having fake woman profiles.



http://www.extremetech.com/internet/213019-new-analysis-shows-over-99-percent-of-the-women-on-ashley-madison-were-fake

Chrome will automatically block Flash ads starting September 1 #vmvwiki ps


Chrome and others will block non essential flash ads from Sept 1.

http://www.extremetech.com/internet/213089-chrome-will-automatically-block-flash-ads-starting-september-1