During the past week since Mr. Robot‘s season two premiere, a fan theory from Reddit has been circulating around online discussion and writing about the show. The theory is that Elliot is suffering through a far greater delusion than the one he experienced in season one, when his dead father emerged as a separate personality …
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Mr. Robot added more questions to the stack it already hasn’t answered in the third episode of the season. We still don’t know where Tyrell (Martin Wallstrom) is, what exactly happened on 5/9 or any of the other questions we came into the season with. But now we have a whole slew of other questions …
I’m writing this while watching the Republicans gather for their quadrennial excuse to wear cheese hats and paper mache giant Ronald Reagan heads. Okay, I’ll admit it. I get a twisted sort of morbid glee when politics goes very, very wrong. That’s why I had such high hopes for this week. See also: A dozen …
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The marketing and advertising industry is under ongoing transformation, with shifting consumption habits and increasing ad avoidance by consumers. Not too long ago, the rise of social media shifted control of communication channels from the advertisers to the consumers and redefined the metrics for success (engagement over impressions). Today’s frontier technologies will similarly usher marketers …
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Bing has long occupied a place in Microsoft’s gallery of boneheaded products with the Zune music player, Clippy and the little-remembered Kin smartphone. Microsoft spent billions of dollars of shareholder money in a quixotic attempt to build a web-and-search empire that could compete with Google. Even the name Bing is worthy of ridicule. Bing is still no …
Image: CNET/CBS Interactive We may never know if the feds have hijacked Amazon Echo. Amazon has so far issued two transparency reports since it began declaring how many government data demands and wiretap orders it receives. Both reports outlined how many subpoenas, search warrants, and court orders the company received to cloud service Amazon Web …
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MODESTO What: Youth safety fair When: Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Where: Roosevelt Park, Orangeburg and Bronson avenues Info: The Antlers, a youth leadership group sponsored by the Modesto Elks, is holding its second annual youth safety fair. Free to the public, the event will include safety materials, giveaways, carnival games, and hot dogs. …
Cisco previews Monica, its team-oriented, collaboration-focused twist on virtual assistants. Included in the “Collaboration Reimagined” keynote at Cisco Live last week were two previews of what’s in Cisco’s innovation labs. The first one was a one-touch join button for audio conferences, both in apps and on the phones themselves. It looks to be nicely implemented, …
When I woke up this morning, I asked my assistant a simple question: “Siri, is it going to rain today?” Siri understood my intent, pulled the local weather data via an API and answered me in less than two seconds: “There’s no rain in the forecast for today.” In the not-too-distant past, this kind of human-computer interaction would …
ARM, the British chip designer responsible behind the A-series processors used in Apple’s iOS devices, looks set to be bought by Japanese telecoms company Softbank. The deal will need to be approved by shareholders, but with ARM recommending it and a valuation 43% above last week’s closing price, it looks likely to go through. It is, …
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