And Google Tasks? Which is a pretty recent product. I don't understand why they didn't just expand Tasks a little bit. Keep is kinda an awkward name.

Story of the day: nobody gives a damn about uptime bragging.

Capitalism is supposed to be beneficial for mankind in that advancing technology is supposed to be profitable, which is the reason for the recent incentives to privatize the space industry. Of course the link between innovation and profits isn't direct, so oftentimes innovation will steer off course towards designing a more visible animated billboard for the underside of that flying car rather than increasing redundancy in its lift components.

The suit's controller package needs to calculate over several measurements if objects are getting closer to you before issuing a warning. Then the article's example of walking between library bookshelves being problematic wouldn't be anymore. Bonus points if it also accounts for the relative direction and size of projectiles to determine if there truly will be a collision or not.

Too bad I don't have any points to mod you up right now, it's time someone talked sense around here. All these FOSSheads ultracompact devices to be fully modular, and they'll never stop complaining until they have everything... except with computers, which can always be faster.

Which is also why I specifically bought an HTC Aria without subsidy a couple years ago and still use it today. I just flashed CyanogenMod 10.1 (Jelly Bean) on it and it feels like I have a new phone.

All the better to confuse the enemy!

Now I can't buy any cables till they replace them with this. Damn you, technology.

The mass of X number of molecules of element Y = 1 gram.

Like there is for the second:

"the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the caesium-133 atom."

And if you wanted an article that actually intelligently criticized Windows 8 instead of that completely unscientific article from Scientific American:

Windows 8 — Disappointing Usability for Both Novice and Power Users

Stop propagating the myth Steve Jobs started that few people bother to test first hand.

Here's some articles from people who actually USED Windows 8:

Surprisingly, touchscreen laptops don't suck

Touchscreens and the Myth of Windows 8 ‘Gorilla Arm’

If Microsoft paid them, wouldn't other major software brands want funding to port to Windows 8 too? And after that, what if other OSes wanted popular software ported to their platform? Sets a terrible precedent IMO.

However, they could either A) make a substantial anonymous donation to the Kickstarter fund or B) outright buy VLC and internalize the development team.

a prelude to the first war in space?

Unidirectional microwave-only cloak -> omnidirectional visible light cloak?

It's gonna take a little more than "a few years".

I believe a planet with 7.1 times the mass of Earth, assuming the same density, would only have 1.1923 times the radius of Earth. Check your math.