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Monday, 14-November-2016 17:54:24 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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If you're in NZ, I hope you're not too badly affected by the series of earthquakes that have hit over the last couple of days. Aftershocks continued throughout Monday morning. Many schools and offices stayed closed while engineers checked the buildings, and ferries and trains were cancelled.
Tonight and tomorrow night a super moon will be visible from Australia (and everywhere else). "Enjoy it, you don't need a telescope or binoculars, although they would make it look nice. "It's a free show and you won't see this again for a long time. "This was last seen in 1948 and won't be seen until 2034. Even if you couldn't give two hoots about the Moon, it's something you can do with the kids."
I keep telling my kids that one day we'll be able to just ask an invisible computer questions, like on Star Trek - HWSecrets checked out Google Home, which launched recently. I must say that constantly calling the Home device “OK Google” was very tiresome. I felt like I was constantly doing an advertisement for Google. In comparison, talking to the Echo by calling the name “Alexa” did not bother me a bit and it made her feel like part of the family. One comfortable thing about the Home is that when you say “OK Google, Good Morning”, she will respond with weather, news, traffic and other personalized daily facts that you have chosen in the app.
Or you could shortcut the whole thing with a brain implant. A paralysed woman has learned to use a brain implant to communicate by thought alone. It is the first time a brain–computer interface has been used at home in a person’s day-to-day life, without the need for doctors and engineers to recalibrate the device. “It’s special to be the first,” says HB, who is 58 years old and wishes to remain anonymous. She was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2008. The disease ravages nerve cells, leaving people unable to control their bodies.
Meanwhile Spotify has been thrashing storage. For almost five months—possibly longer—the Spotify music streaming app has been assaulting users' storage devices with enough data to potentially take years off their expected lifespans. Reports of tens or in some cases hundreds of gigabytes being written in an hour aren't uncommon, and occasionally the recorded amounts are measured in terabytes. The overload happens even when Spotify is idle and isn't storing any songs locally.
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