There is plenty of trash on the internet.

Time to return results is a performance metric of browsers and search engines. TFS also mentioned that the difference could be a dozen seconds on slower connections. This is significant.

Every US citizen us required to pay US taxes, even when they live abroad.

No they won't. Consumers rarely abandon things in droves. They have short attention spans, and even while those last, any ethical or moral considerations fly right out the window when a company provides goods/service at a competitive price.

What a headline... Can their AI help with that?

They're taking about Florida and Pennsylvania, where traffic took down the voter registration sites, obviously. They are three other two incidents mentioned in the summary. Use some context clues.

Why do the comments ignore line breaks? I really didn't intend this to be a wall of text...

"Imagine a world where we left idiots to say idiotic things, and didn't tie ourselves up in knots trying to protect the public from their ramblings." The problem isn't that they "leave idiots to say idiotic things." They have given them a platform to distribute idiotic things, complete with an algorithm to direct those idiotic things to the people most receptive to them. Facebook is hardly "tying themselves up in knots trying to protect the public from the idiots' ramblings." They've only just now considered whether to stop helping them. The proposed ban is not equivalent to stuffing a rag into someone's mouth because you don't like what they have to say. It's telling them that they can no longer use your PA system. Personality, I think Facebook's whole PA system does not have benefits that outweigh its costs. I think the greater issue is that social media's model for distributing information creates incentives orthogonal to the validity of the information. If you think the issue should be resolved by correcting the system rather than trying to respond to every problematic consequence that emerges as a result, then I completely agree. However, don't act like Facebook can live and let live; they've created the environment where this happens solely for their own financial gain.

Finally, people will realize how cool Bing, er *Microsoft* Bing really is.

There's a big difference between professional reviews selected for marketing material and a public forum for user reviews. The former doesn't imply that it is a fair representation of all feedback, but the latter does.

Actually, I have been involved in open source biosensor projects such as ECG and EEG that are still in the development stage. There are others out there: http://openeeg.sourceforge.net... Also, open source and profit are not mutually exclusive.

None of those factors prevent them from being open source.

Yes, one trillion in France would be called one quintillion in the US. See the wikipedia article on long and short scales, linked by turkeydance.

There are separate images displayed to each eye. A wrap-around screen wouldn't be in 3D, because you wouldn't get the depth perception cues from parallax (as Agent0013 mentioned). You could get increased field of view though. However, a wrap-around screen with 3D glasses might be feasible. Still, if you want to do head tracking, so that you can lean around obstacles etc, you'd still need to update the screen quickly enough that you won't get sick.