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Right now, the FCC has designated [the internet] as a telecommunications service —like a phone service which includes all of the rules that apply to prevent [a company] from blocking or throttling or favoring one company over another, the real question, to some degree, is: is the internet going to work like the old telephone where you get to decide who you called and what you do or is it going to become more like cable?

The wheelchair isnt a restriction. Its society that creates restr... by Garrison Redd

The wheelchair isnt a restriction. Its society that creates restrictions for wheelchair users.

What really annoyed me is that when it first started people would switch off their phones in embarrassment; now they are cupping their hands over the receiver and carrying on talking.

Thousands of members of the military have learned to ride through the program so far, we're proud to extend this opportunity in 2016 so even more military personnel can enjoy the very freedom they protect. Never ridden before ? No problem. As the company says.

Harley Davidson managing director

All we would need to do is to fit a small microchip to every potential illumination device. And this would then combine two basic functionalities: illumination and wireless data transmission, and it's this symbiosis that I personally believe could solve the four essential problems that face us in wireless communication these days. And in the future, you would not only have 14 billion light bulbs, you may have 14 billion Li-Fis deployed worldwide -- for a cleaner, a greener, and even a brighter future.

We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

Hans Kristensen

Stealthy bombers equipped with numerous stealthy LRSOs would - in the eye of an adversary - be the perfect surprise attack weapon.

Hans Kristensen

Ten days is a really short amount of time for such a bright object to appear, usually with NuSTAR, we observe more gradual changes over time, and we dont often observe a source multiple times in quick succession. In this instance, we were fortunate to catch a source changing extremely quickly, which is very exciting.

Hannah Earnshaw

This result is a step towards understanding some of the rarer and more extreme cases in which matter accretes onto black holes or neutron stars.

Hannah Earnshaw

Acoustic transmitting beacons can be implemented in, say, a plane’s black box, if it transmits a signal every once in a while, you’d be able to use the system to pick up that signal.

I wish I could guarantee that the positives [of social media] are destined to outweigh the negatives, but I can’t.

Facebook Gather

Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook—of which it’s a very small amount of the content—influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

We have been building Messenger into a service to express beyond... by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

We have been building Messenger into a service to express beyond text.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibilities. That was a mistake, and I'm sorry for it.

It’s really a myth that you need to track people to get good search results, most of the personalization people want is really localization. And we can do that without tracking you, because your location is kind of embedded in the request you make to us. We can use that on the fly for that search and not save or store it and still give you local things on DuckDuckGo.

Gabriel Weinberg

I really set out to build tools on top of Google and then slowly... by Gabriel Weinberg

I really set out to build tools on top of Google and then slowly got to something that could launch.

Gabriel Weinberg

Samsung Electronics has been continuously introducing innovative products that define TV as an industry leader for years, from now on, I will open the era.

We go on site, we help with the training, but we’re going to see this commercial market explode in the United States within the next year.

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The exemption is nationwide which gives us flexibility to work on construction and other industrial sites around the country … but you do work with local air traffic control if you are close to an airport … the FAA will always be informed of our operations.

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Starting this year, I think Shaquille O’Neal invested in a team, A-Rod invested in a team, Rick Fox owns a team. It’s all these celebrities and big money people from the industry outside of this are starting to look at this and say ‘hey, this is pretty cool.’ So they’re tossing money now.