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Why I’m glad I got a car with On*Star

This week, in Columbus, a couple was car-jacked.
Okay, I realize this goes on it big cities all the time. Or, at least, that’s the impression I get. But when it happens in Columbus, Georgia, it’s news.
The bad news is: an elderly couple, 82-year-old Henry White and 79-year-old Betty White, was forced out of their car [...]

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Speechin’ and talkin’ and such

Seems that Microsoft is banking on computers not using keyboards anymore. According to an AP report, Bill Gates thinks that touchpads and speech will be how folks use computers:
“It’s one of the big bets we’re making,” he said during the final stop of a farewell tour before he withdraws from the company’s daily operations in [...]

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My car sent me an email

I got an email from my car yesterday.
I’ve never received an email from a car before. So, it was my first time.
I was sort of expecting it. But when it came, I guess I still wasn’t prepared for it.
What did the car want?
It wanted to tell me to put air in a tire.
No, really.
You see, [...]

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