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Protein powder made from crushed insects goes on sale - and creator says it tastes 'nutty'
Finnish start-up Entis has launched a new protein powder made from crushed crickets and pea protein, dubbed Protein Power
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NASA showcases stunning photo of lightning strikes beneath the Milky Way
NASA has featured the incredible photo - which was snapped from the southern tip of Italy - as its Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Is that you or a virtual you? Are chatbots too real?
There's a fine line between AI that interacts for us and AI that interacts AS us. Or is there a line at all? Will anyone care? Questions abound.
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Is that you or a virtual you? Are chatbots too real?
There's a fine line between AI that interacts for us and AI that interacts AS us. Or is there a line at all? Will anyone care? Questions abound.
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IDG Contributor Network: Amazon and Microsoft moves indicate that hardware OEMs may become obsolete

[Disclosure: Qualcomm and Microsoft are clients of the author.]

I&m at the Qualcomm 5G Summit this week and according to both them and Cisco, next year we should reach critical mass on 5G. I didn&t really think about how big a change this would be until I listened to what Qualcomm said about Microsoftnew Surface X (upon which I&m writing this very column) and the announcement from Amazon on their new AWS Outpost initiative.

Separately these announcements are certainly interesting. Together they may mean a massive change back to something far more like the old IBM mainframe model than most of us realize. In that model, the vendor owned the entire technology stack and the user experience. In this new case, the vendors in question are cloud vendors not OEMs.

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28 keyboard shortcuts Mac users need to know

I&m sure most Mac users know Command-C means copy and Command-V means paste, but therea host of other useful shortcuts that make a Mac userlife much easier. I&ve assembled this short collection to illustrate this truth:

Esc

Never underestimate the power of the Esc key to get you out of trouble. Say you're taking a screen shot and managed to select part of your screen for that shot, only to discover it's the wrong part & tap Esc and you won't need to worry about it. That's basically the principle of Esc. Use it to cancel a previous command. Another example: Web page won't load and is sucking up your system resources?

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