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9 years ago
Expression powpowMicrosoft Cortana is already available on Xbox one, if you know the right tricks
It was reported by one of the users over Reddit that Cortana ( voice assistant ) as a hidden feature is already available
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9 years ago
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Why Some of the World’s Most Famous Chefs Don’t Want a Michelin Star
In 2003, the renowned, 52-year-old French chef Bernard Loiseau, then one of the most famous chefs in France and an inspiration for the chef Auguste Gusteau in the Pixar film Ratatouille, shot himself in the mouth with a hunting rifle amid speculation that the Michelin restaurant guide was about to pull his restaurant’s third star.
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9 years ago
Current Event powpow
Snapchat will let users pay to replay Snaps
Those disappearing Snaps on red-hot messaging app Snapchat won't vanish as quickly because of a new paid feature rolled out Tuesday. Snapchat announced it will allow users to purchase Replays of any Snap they receive. For $1, users will be able to replay a Snap up to three times. There is one caveat: You can only buy a Replay on a specific Snap once. So, drop the idea of purchasing several Replays and watching a Snap repeatedly.
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9 years ago
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Pedestrian Question - Is Barack Obama a Muslim?
According to a new poll, a majority of Republicans still believe that President Obama is a Muslim. Jimmy was shocked by this and thought it might be a good subject for our audience guessing game #PedestrianQuestion. So we went out on the street and asked people “Is President Obama A Muslim?”
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9 years ago
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Wells Fargo Contractors Allegedly Stole Family Heirlooms Rescued From Nazis
The few remaining defenders of the Obama administration’s failure to prosecute the executives who helped cause the 2008 financial crisis argue that the bankers’ actions were unethical but not criminal. President Obama himself has made this claim: “Some of the most damaging behavior on Wall Street … wasn’t illegal,” he told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes in December 2011.
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9 years ago
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Confirmed: Long-Lost Nazi Loot Train Found In Poland
Last week, a pair of anonymous treasure hunters approached officials in Walbrzych, Poland via their lawyer to claim they had found an old Nazi loot train. Now officials have confirmed that the pair certainly found a train. Whether it's full of gold remains to be seen. As NBC News reports, a press officer confirmed that a military train had been found and the town's deputy mayor Zygmunt Nowaczyk made the following statement at a press conference...
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9 years ago
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Hollywood Finally Gets Hacking Right with Mr. Robot
A few weeks ago I started hearing about a new show on the USA network, Mr. Robot. The synopsis for the show was “Mr. Robot is a psychological thriller that follows a young programmer who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night.” Yeah, that sounds like another Hollywood crapfest. Cue crazy GUIs and virtual reality flybys representing hacking scenes. After watching the pilot though, I realized I couldn’t have been more wrong.
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9 years ago
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Posted in: What's Wrong With a Little Free Library?
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9 years ago
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What's Wrong With a Little Free Library?
Three years ago, The Los Angeles Times published a feel-good story on the Little Free Library movement. The idea is simple: A book lover puts a box or shelf or crate of books in their front yard. Neighbors browse, take one, and return later with a replacement. A 76-year-old in Sherman Oaks, California, felt that his little library, roughly the size of a dollhouse, "turned strangers into friends and a sometimes-impersonal neighborhood into a community...