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Hi Guys Is your office messy or tidy? Mine is fairly tidy, and getting tidier by the day. If it's tidy, you much feel better, and you waste less time looking for things. It also looks better. Thanks

Hi Guys French taxi drivers are getting very upset about the expansion of UberPOP and are now making strong protests: French riot police battle Uber taxi protestors in Paris - Business Insider They see the service as unfair competition.

Hi Guys This is an interesting piece of new tech, a $130 PC-on-a-stick from Lenovo that connects to an HDMI port to turn a display into a Windows PC: Lenovo unveils the Ideacenter Stick 300: a $130 PC on a stick running Windows

Hi Guys I work on the computer for 20 minutes fully focused, then I can take a 7 minute break to do what I like. It's good to get off the computer to rest your eyes, so I like to either: - Go to the kitchen and make a cup of tea. - Have a quick walk around the garden. What do you like to...

Hi Guys I'm doing some content research. I'd be grateful if you would let me know what the last "How to ... ?" question that you searched for was. I've recently written some How To articles on WebRef.eu but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to link to them from here. Thanks

Hi Guys If you haven't heard of it, Softbank is a very interesting Japanese internet and telecoms company. It is now investing in solar farms in India, which should be good news for the planet: Softbank will spend $20 billion to power India's solar ambitions - Fortune

Hi Guys Google is using artificial intelligence to recognise images, which involves building neural networks. If you put these algorithms in reverse, you can make some nice surrealist art, as this article shows: Research Blog: Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks

Hi Guys Twitter is testing new ways to discover products and places, see their blog post at: https://blog.twitter.com/2015/testing-new-ways-to-make-it-easier-to-discover-products-and-places Any thoughts?

Hi Guys This person's experience of Steve Jobs made them think he was a terrible CEO: No CEO should aspire to be like Steve Jobs - Business Insider If what they say is true, and the more junior workers weren't being heard, whose fault was it?

Hi Guys Here's a good article by economist Jeffrey D Sachs on "The Endgame in Greece": The Endgame in Greece by Jeffrey D. Sachs - Project Syndicate Rgds

Hi Guys Here are 13 new European "Unicorn" startups, i.e. startups that are now valued at over $1 billion. How many of these have you heard of? 13 European 'unicorn' startups worth more than $1 billion in the last year - Business Insider I managed five, namely Funding Circle, Rocket...

Hi Guys Here's a good article about how Facebook's Open Compute Project has bought an open source element to computer hardware, with good results: Facebook Open Compute Project: A history of the project that ate the hardware market - Business Insider What I like about open source is that it...

Hi Guys Uber is experiencing phenomenal growth in China, as this Business Insider article discusses: Leaked graph shows Uber's meteoric growth in China - Business Insider Uber is definitely a company to watch.

Hi Guys If this article about Apple giving iPhone users the option to block web ads proves true, it's not good news for us: Apple iOS9 to allow ad blocking on iPhones and iPads - Business Insider

Hi Guys Who here is a fan of Spotify? Personally, I love it, and don't see myself changing service anytime soon. However, at their World Wide Developer Conference on Monday, Apple announced their Apple Music streaming service. Fortunately, Spotify has just closed a $526 million funding round...