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On Microsoft's 40th birthday, a look at how Satya Nadella is upending Microsoft's old Windows-first strategy — Opening Windows — A once-dominant software giant is determined to prove that life begins again at 40 — “WHAT are you on? The ‘f**k Windows’ strategy?”
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Bill Gates: under Nadella, “Microsoft is better positioned than ever to lead” in computing — Read the letter Bill Gates sent to Microsoft employees for the company's 40th anniversary — On April 4th, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen started a little company named Microsoft.
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OnePlus's Android Lollipop-based ROM, OxygenOS, is available to download now — A little later than expected, OnePlus has finally launched its much-anticipated Android Lollipop-based operating system, OxygenOS, for its One smartphone. — The China-based mobile phone manufacturer … | iFixit: |
Teardown of the HTC One M9: streamlined design makes some parts more accessible, but battery is buried, and display would be very hard to repair — HTC One M9 Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
HTC One M9 review: some improvements over last year's model, but the throttled Snapdragon 810 processor runs hot, hurting performance and battery life — HTC One M9 review: HTC's flagship feels like an afterthought — A design from 2013 and a heavily-throttled SoC make for a disappointing update.
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| Dan Frommer / Quartz: |
The number of daily tweets to Periscope streams settles near Meerkat's level after explosive launch week — The Meerkat-Periscope live-streaming race is neck-and-neck after a crazy week — The rise of two strikingly similar mobile live-video streaming apps—Meerkat and Periscope … | Kale Williams / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Operator of “revenge porn” website sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison in a first-of-its-kind prosecution — ‘Revenge porn’ site runner gets 18 years in prison — In a first-of-its-kind prosecution, the convicted operator of a “revenge porn” website was sentenced …
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Apple demonstrates how to use Apple Watch with new guided tour videos — Your Best Apple Watch Glimpse Yet In Four Official Videos — Will the Apple Watch be so radically different we won't understand how to use it at first? Perhaps so: Apple has produced a series of videos … | Alex Davies / Wired: |
Delphi created an autonomous car that drove across US without human input for 99% of the time — This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country — An autonomous car just drove across the country. — Nine days after leaving San Francisco, a blue car packed with tech …
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| Anna Irrera / Wall Street Journal: |
UBS to Open Blockchain Research Lab in London — Swiss banking giant UBS is to open a technology lab in London to explore how blockchain technology can be used in financial services. — The lab, set to open this month and occupy a dozen desks at Canary Wharf-based fintech accelerator space Level39 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Is Testing An Online Note-Taking Service With “Project Composer” — It appears that Dropbox is bringing back HackPad, the collaborative documents service the company acquired a year ago. The Y Combinator-backed startup had grown to become a popular tool for taking quick notes at conferences …
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google+ Stories now showing up as a Google Now card for some users — Google+ has long had an interesting feature called “Stories” that creates a fun timeline out of your uploaded photos, but now users are reporting that these are now showing up in Google Now.
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