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Google’s first self-driving car crashes!

Posted by on Aug 9, 2011 in Fascinating, Hard to Believe!, Real Life, Technology | 0 comments

Have you heard about this thing?  On the roads of Southern California is a car Google has developed that drives itself!  By using a complicated configuration of lasers and other sensitive equipment, reportedly, Google has logged more than 140,000 with these prototypes without incident.  But last week, they had their first accident – not a bad one but...

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Facebook – you now have competition!

Posted by on Aug 1, 2011 in Fascinating, Real Life, Technology | 0 comments

WOW!  Spent some time over the weekend getting to know Google + and this fascinates me!  As I was reviewing it I kept thinking that the folks at Facebook are probably banging their collective heads against the wall saying .. “why didn’t we do this!?” and at the same time, now working 24/7 to catch up with what Google is about to make...

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Norway, Winehouse, politicians and the NFL! SAD!

Posted by on Jul 23, 2011 in Hard to Believe!, Humanity, Real Life | 0 comments

I find myself saddened by the news of the past 24 hours.  I’m sure many feel as I do. For a 32 year old male idiot to purchase 6 tons of fertilizer 6 months ago, put together a car bomb similar to the McVeigh bomb years ago in Oklahoma City and blow up a government building in Norway killing at last count 7 people is bad enough.  But then to leave...

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