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Co-founder and long-time CEO of Intel, Andy Grove, has died aged 79. He has been called the "guy who drove the growth phase" of Silicon Valley. Steve Jobs, when he was considering returning to be Apple's CEO, called Grove, who was someone he "idolized," for his personal advice. In 1997 Time magazine chose him "Man of the Year", for being "the person most responsible for the amazing growth in the power and the innovative potential of microchips.".
Something that came and went so quickly I missed it entirely, was Microsoft's attempt to make a learning twitter chatbot. Naturally enough the internet trained it to become a massive racist in no time at all and then Microsoft deleted it. Just another day on the internet, folks. However, some of the responses were organic. The Guardian quotes one where, after being asked "is Ricky Gervais an atheist?", Tay responded, "ricky gervais learned totalitarianism from adolf hitler, the inventor of atheism."
Meanwhile Matt spotted this new robot from Apple, which takes apart iPhones. True innovation means considering what happens to a product at every stage of its life cycle. Liam disassembles your iPhone when it’s no longer functioning, so the materials inside can live on.
If the Windows 10 upgrade thing is troubling you, OCAU member metamorphosis points out GWX Control Panel. This is a free tool that can remove and disable the 'Get Windows 10' notification area icon on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Recent versions can also disable 'Upgrade to Windows 10' behavior in the Windows Update control panel and do much more. See the user guide at the Ultimate Outsider blog.
Here's something different but oddly fascinating, a investigation into sci-fi fonts.
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