... and somewhere in the world, MySpace Tom is sitting on a beach, sipping a Mai Tai, and laughing at Mark Zuckerberg.
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"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."
Skype is a "wildly popular communication software" in the same way that chlamydia is a "wildly popular" STI. Sometimes numbers alone don't tell the whole story...
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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." -- George Carlin
Until Stephen Hawking (and Elon Musk, for that matter) starts doing active development/research into artificial intelligence, I don't care what his opinion is on the "potential dangers" of it. This is the equivalent of listening to a Hollywood actors' opinion on vaccines--it's just a famous person's view on a subject they have a casual familiarity with, usually full of ignorant assumptions and junk science.
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Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
Student 1: I don't mean to brag, but I took part in an orgy the other day...
Student 2: No, you didn't. You just fell asleep in biology class.
Student 1: Totally counts!
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Carpe noctem!
I for one am shocked--SHOCKED!--that a company that needlessly tracks everything I do would turn around and sell that data to a 3rd party just to increase their profits. I mean, it's almost like they have no respect for the privacy of their users...
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Windows 10--the world's first Freemium OS!