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by mrseb 2mo ago
I am also getting these on my mobile Chrome new tab/discover feed. This one is for an Ars Technica story about Neuromancer… https://discover.aigc/?id=12944643404484710755
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by mrseb 10y ago
Hi. Do you have any more info on that? A screenshot maybe? And ideally the URL that's being called. Will help us find the bad ad (if there is indeed one).
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by mrseb 10y ago
We've updated the story - did some more investigation. Definitely looks like it was Telecity.
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by mrseb 11y ago
Yeah, I don't think we have such a public statement at the moment - and maybe that's something we should rectify. All I can tell you is that native content/advertorial would be very, very clearly labelled. We would never try
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by mrseb 11y ago
Heya. I'm the editor of Ars Technica UK, where this story was originally published. It's not native advertising. The author just really likes the 911. Ars doesn't do native advertising/advertorial. We do some sponsored s
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by mrseb 12y ago
Author here. I was being ironic :) I'm an equal-opportunities OS user. I have two Linux boxes (Slackware!), two Windows boxes, and an OS X laptop within arm's reach of my desk. I was just poking fun at the Year of Desktop Linux th
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Dyson's 'truly intelligent' Eye 360 robotic vacuum cleaner is finally here(extremetech.com)
1 points by mrseb 12y ago|0 comments
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by mrseb 15y ago
Ditto. The OP probably just visits Wikipedia a lot, so Google is bumping it up to the top.
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by mrseb 15y ago
It's a bit of a leap to go from 'Zynga must tell Facebook about any games it's about to launch' to 'FACEBOOK CAN VETO ZYNGA GAMES OMG!' Facebook probably just wants a little warning so that it can get its software and hardware resources int
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by mrseb 15y ago
Yea, I actually played with that sentence a few times. I thought about making it clear that Firefox and Thunderbird weren't called Firefox and Thunderbird when they were part of Mozilla Suite... but the codebases are the same, I think. Some
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by mrseb 15y ago
Yep, very good point. Inserted a paragraph about it on page five ("Firefox 1.0") - thanks :)
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by mrseb 15y ago
Aza Raskin has written about the Home button before: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/the-problem-with-home/ And other iPhone buttons, too: http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/in_my_recent_article_about/
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Wireless power could cut cord for patients with implanted heart pumps(kurzweilai.net)
4 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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Hands on with the new Android Market (and a link to the APK)(geek.com)
5 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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by mrseb 15y ago
I'm blushing :) Yes, I actually got to the last paragraph and realized that I could then dive into Google Fiber and Chrome OS... but I had to wrap it up! There's definitely more to say about Google and/or Facebook taking of the web, though,
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by mrseb 15y ago
re: 6 -- there were very few performance tweaks in FF6. Mostly CSS3 and HTML5 additions. FF7 is the 'performance' build (Azure, first round of start-up, smaller memory footprint). FF8 seems to have some performance bits -- and presumably it
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by mrseb 15y ago
Can echo that Nightly (8) is very stable on Windows, too.
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6 browser add-ons that enhance Google+(extremetech.com)
4 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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ISPs' plan to clamp down on piracy is a good thing for pirates(extremetech.com)
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Thunderbird unseats Evolution in Ubuntu 11.10(extremetech.com)
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TouchPad teardown: it costs $328 to make, $10 more than the iPad 2(extremetech.com)
9 points by mrseb 15y ago|1 comments
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IBM Watson (DeepQA) to replace salespeople and cold-calling telemarketers(extremetech.com)
4 points by mrseb 15y ago|1 comments
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by mrseb 15y ago
I thought about throwing 'silver' in before the 'surfer', but now I'm glad I didn't.
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by mrseb 15y ago
Thanks, I'll put that into the story.
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Fixes to memory footprint and garbage collection arrive in Firefox 7(extremetech.com)
86 points by mrseb 15y ago|42 comments
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Google's new "taskbar" continues the OSifiying of the web(extremetech.com)
1 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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Carnegie Mellon University develops "hive mind" for autonomous, crash-proof cars(extremetech.com)
1 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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A photo tour through a printed circuit board factory(extremetech.com)
1 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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Lovotics: the new science of human-robot love(extremetech.com)
1 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments
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IE10 preview 2 released: HTML5 drag-and-drop, web workers, and more(extremetech.com)
2 points by mrseb 15y ago|0 comments

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