(The feature is also available on the Mac App Store.) Pre-orders are only available after the App Store has approved an app, and customers won’t be charged until they download the app. So this probably won’t lead to vaporware or scammy pre-sales.
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The Russian-linked Fancy Bear group (also known as Strontium, APT28, Sednit or Sofacy) have been linked to targeted attacks.
A recent study, Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis, conducted by researchers at Princeton University discovered that Google is tracking users on nearly 80 percent of all of the Top 1 Million Domains. How are they doing this? Not surprisingly, they’re using a variety of tracking and identification techniques and they’re doing it for the obvious reason: To manipulate you. In the beginning tracking you was just about getting you to buy stuff; now, it’s evolving, and in the future, it will be all about subtle, insidious manipulation.
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The Wall Street Journal reports the obvious:
Co-founder Sergey Brin said Tuesday that Google is open to self-driving cars that can also be driven manually, or switch between the two modes.
“I don’t think we’re going to see [a world with] no human drivers anytime soon,” Mr. Brin told reporters at Google headquarters. “And I think there’s always going to be pleasure in being able to hit the open road and enjoy that.”
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