Anybody looking for alternatives: there are plenty, and I don't mean corporate ones like Brave or Vivaldi. Try open source Chromium or Firefox forks like Cromite, IceRaven, Thorium.

The trading plan may have been set months in advance. However, the date of announcement could have been easily coordinated to match this date.

You have a lot of third-party options for a better GUI - for example ConEmu.

Sony likes this.

Either this is Android-based, or their last hardware-based gaming platform.

Sure, why wouldn't it be? Since the 9x era all that's changed was its location

I never understood why anyone thought they were an iconic studio. The only game they ever delivered in the scale and originality they promised was Black & White. Fable, while good, was already showing cracks (compared to what Molyneux promised) and the only other original IP was The Movies, which - while also being an interesting concept - was a costly flop. That's all. Their last decade was basically spilling out Fable sequels in worsening quality, parallel of how Molyneux became more and more depressed and actually mad. After (and actually before) he left, there wasn't a strong, visionary lead there. Microsoft was actually merciful to keep them around this long.

"someone is going to do something awful that involves encrypted communication. At that point, the corporations look bad." What? People do awful things with encrypted communication centuries. Tell me one event that would make general society and the media say "well, ok, the government can listen to all our communications from now on". It can never be justified. Frankly, setting up strong, practically uncrackable communication channels is too easy (and free) to not be the default.

This. Why Nintendo isn't in full-in on mobile platforms is beyond me. They should have been long running separate or tie-in AAA franchises on iOS and Android, maybe abandoning own hardware altogether (maybe make an own Android phone line). Maybe it's because the company is run by depressed men in their 50s.

Sorry but all your said features are already there (I can only speak for Android here): you can mute individual apps since 4.4, and while the default mail client usually sucks (note that chances from vendor to vendor) GMail is most often preinstalled and it's superb. Also, if you have a big enough development community, software differences are non-existent - devs will almost always come up with a similar, if not better solution.

Actions you committed under whatever name you currently used at that time (if in the real world, real name) should be accessible, if crawled or backed up. There is no "forced forgetfulness" in the real world: if you walk a street drunk and naked, you can't force bypassers to forgot your sorry face. Forced erasure of fairly recorded content in the name of "fair image" is just censorship in disguise.

I also thought it was lame first, but actually it has use, the same traditional swords have: to protect the hand holding the sword.

Why is he surprised? This dev created a tool that manipulates FB's core features (even if only on the front-end) - sure, it is used by a niche slice of users, but its a threat that FB understandably tries to marginalize, if not ericadate. Instead of anonimity and silent work, SocFixer's dev made his person public, he even contacted and taunted FB (while crying loud to its users through in-app messages) - he still naively believes that his public outcry and a few thousand users would push FB to continue to let him propagate this hack right on a FB page. I absolutely love Social Fixer and respect Matt Kruse's work, but his irresponsibility in not being anonymous with this type of project will now probably kill this great tool.

The more Bill Gates interviews I read, the more assured I am that he really is tired of the tech industry. He won't be a Wozniak-type of guy who will critically observe MS or other companies, judge platforms or review products. He endorses coding, talks about future technologies in broad terms, but he must be really pressed by reporters to share anything relevant to current affairs. He couldn't care less.

I would never, ever buy a product or service suggested by a graphical browser ad. For big brands, I just ignore it, for any previously unknown brand, it makes the advertised item cheap and phoney. There are so many better, and less obtrusive ways. Clearly marked articles (that are in line with the rest of the articles on a site), infobox in a related article, sponsored tweets, anything that fits the content on a site, and doesn't want to jump out.