You got it. For me, I like getting my personal and work emails pushed to my iPhone in the same place (the Mail app). Though I have the Gmail app I don't use it.
The whole thing sounds crazy -- I wonder if it's a competitor trying to sink them. Or an even crazier twist would be a competitor trying to sink them while simultaneously leveraging their open code base...
Exactly. It's not clear to me whether they're only checking for SNPs in a single locus or if they can multiplex (or do whole exome). Though Oxford NanoTech is still essentially vaporware at this point, their technology excites me a lot more than something like this.
My first thoughts exactly when I saw this post. Well actually my first thought was "Doesn't OP mean Google is laying fiber in Austin? Ooooooohh I get it...". I'm happy about this -- it means that Google's mission is coming along nicely. Screw AT&T.
Scroll, scroll, scroll, close window. Typically left feeling completely neutral. I've got kids and my friends are at the getting married / having kids age now as well, so my feed has gone from "I'm so fucking high!" pictures to "Look how cute my ugly baby is!". Occasionally I use it to contact people whose phone number / e-mail address I don't have, and it's great for that. It's like my White Pages.
This is all really great, but my ISP and router situation is not at 100% uptime and about once a week I need to reset them both. I wouldn't be able to rely on this completely :/