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May 10, 2025Ravie LakshmananBiometric Data / Privacy Google has agreed to pay the U.S. state of Texas nearly $1.4 billion to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of tracking users’ personal location and maintaining their facial recognition data without consent. The $1.375 billion payment dwarfs the fines the tech giant has paid to settle […]
Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG -3.30%) disappointed investors when it reported first-quarter 2025 earnings. The stock is down about 25% from its 52-week high. Wingstop (WING -3.15%) posted weakening results, too, but it managed to do better than Chipotle. Is it a better buy with its stock around 35% below its 52-week high? Here’s what you […]
Understanding getHashCode() in C# When working with various controls or items in C#, particularly in Windows Phone 7 (WP7), you might encounter the getHashCode() method. This method is an integral part of the object class, allowing objects to produce a hash code, which is a sequence of numbers that computably represents the object. You may […]
A lament regularly heard in school playgrounds across the land goes something like this: “Eeeeeuuugggh! Shuuuttttt up!” …followed by: “Girls are gross!” So proclaims generation after generation of little boys – only a few years before the hormones kick in and they spend the rest of their lives obsessing over women. As goes the birds […]
