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Will We Have Pilot-less Planes in the Near Future?

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Google has been working on driver-less cars for a while, with a pretty good success rate. Now they’ve set their sights on flights. According to Bloomberg:  The chief of Google Inc.’s experimental cargo-drone program wants to see automated flight go beyond pilotless planes and extend to commercial air travel. Just …

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Great Sale on SD Cards Today

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After my brand new computer died a fiery pretty non-eventful death, I decided to invest in a cheap Chromebook just in case.  One thing about Chromebooks is you rely heavily on SD cards for storage, so I was poking around Amazon looking for cards.  Then saw a set significantly less than …

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Tips from Tiff: (Almost) Pickpocketed in Rome

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On a 3-week trip to Europe in 2007 we accidentally left our camera in a cab and didn’t have a camera for the rest of the trip. Back in November while traveling in Japan, I accidentally left our camera and my phone on the Bullet Train in Kyoto. Luckily this …

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