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Philips Hue Go Offers Smart Lighting Without The Cord

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Philips has a new addition to their Hue smart lighting system: The  Hue Go , a portable light that packs three hours of use on a full charge before it needs to be plugged in again. The Hue Go has a single button that offers local control over light tone and dynamic effects, as well as a low power standby mode and auto dimming to maximize usage on the go.

Mozilla Wants To Bring Virtual Reality To The Browser

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Last summer, Mozilla launched a very experimental version of Firefox with support for  web-based virtual reality apps  that could be experienced through the Oculus Rift. Earlier this week, support for WebVR also  landed  in Firefox’s Nightly and Developer Edition release channels.

Bill Gates Drinks Faeces Water

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What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done to promote a cause? Maybe you participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS last year, and had an ice cold bucket of water dumped over your head (while on camera, of course). Maybe you distributed information around your neighborhood. Maybe you organized a food drive to help those less fortunate during the Christmas season. When we want to bring awareness to a cause that’s near and dear to our hearts, we’re often willing to do what others think is crazy and outlandish – but where do you draw the line? Or, let me rephrase the question: If you were promoting water filtration, would you drink a glass of water made from human feces? Yes? No way – gross!? Maybe? Whether you and I would or not, it’s  exactly what Microsoft founder Bill Gates did , and he even went as far as to say it even compared to the best water he’d ever tasted. It’s getting him a lot of publicity, which is exactly what he was trying to do in the first place.

Bill Gates Drinks Faeces Water

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What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done to promote a cause? Maybe you participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS last year, and had an ice cold bucket of water dumped over your head (while on camera, of course). Maybe you distributed information around your neighborhood. Maybe you organized a food drive to help those less fortunate during the Christmas season. When we want to bring awareness to a cause that’s near and dear to our hearts, we’re often willing to do what others think is crazy and outlandish – but where do you draw the line? Or, let me rephrase the question: If you were promoting water filtration, would you drink a glass of water made from human feces? Yes? No way – gross!? Maybe? Whether you and I would or not, it’s  exactly what Microsoft founder Bill Gates did , and he even went as far as to say it even compared to the best water he’d ever tasted. It’s getting him a lot of publicity, which is exactly what he was trying to do in the first place.

The search for AirAsia Flight QZ8501

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Indonesian searchers battling bad weather in their Efforts to find more remains from AirAsia Flight QZ8501 have so far recovered 10 bodies from the sea, officials said. A day after the first bits of debris from the commercial jet were spotted afloat off the coast of Borneo, the search operation was hampered Wednesday by big waves, strong winds and heavy rain. And answers about why the aircraft, with 162 people on board, fell from the sky Sunday remained elusive.

Google Expands Its Android One Initiative To Bangladesh, Nepal And Sri Lanka

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Back in June,  Google introduced its Android One program  to improve the affordable smartphone experience in emerging markets. The project debuted in India in September, and now it is  making its first expansion  expanding to cover neighboring Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. ( It launched in the UK  last month.)

The Enormous Implications Of Facebook Indexing 1 Trillion Of Our Posts

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A whole wing of the Internet just got added to our collective conscience, like websites by Google or knowledge by Wikipedia before it.