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almost_startedon Intel open sourced Stephen Hawking’s speech system

.Net WinForms? No wonder it sounds so bad.

almost_startedon NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98

It HAD an ESI of 0.98 1075 years ago. By now, the inhabitants have burned through all their fossil fuels and then annihilated each other with nuclear weapons leaving the planet in both a long-term nuclear winter and with a runaway greenhouse effect. Its ESI must be at least 1.0 by now.

almost_startedon Target stores hit by data breach affecting 40 million cards

Well, they are sort of asking for it with a name like "Target", and a giant red bullseye painted on every fricken store!