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Satya Nadella envisions a Microsoft that is more willing to favor big bets on new technologies over protecting legacy cash cows — Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft) Has a Far-Out Vision — Last June, in the basement of the Microsoft visitor center in Redmond, Wash., Todd Holmdahl …
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We tried Microsoft HoloLens: This is going to be much bigger than Google Glass — We just tried the company's new hologram gadget HoloLens. — It was a demonstration that was equal parts really awesome and really weird. — We were struck right away by how different this device is from Google Glass.
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Microsoft details HoloLens: spatial sound, inertial measurement unit with accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer, and Holographic Processing Unit — BUILD 2015: A closer look at the Microsoft HoloLens hardware — This week, at the Microsoft Build Developer Conference …
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Spotify raises $350M at $8B valuation: Sources — Music streaming service Spotify raised $350 million in a new funding round, sources told CNBC. Before the recently raised cash, the company was valued at $8 billion. (Tweet this) Goldman Sachs' institutional clients took part in the fundraising, sources added.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Grooveshark ceases operations as a result of settlement with major record companies, offers apology — Grooveshark, the Free Music Service That Used to Scare the Big Labels, Gives Up — Remember Grooveshark? — At one time, the music startup — which promised 35 million users they could …
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| Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
House Committee passes USA Freedom Act, but kills amendment to prohibit NSA's internet mass surveillance and forced backdoors in devices — Expansive surveillance reform takes backseat to House politics — Congress is waving the white flag about moving forward with more expansive intelligence reform.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 won't launch on phones this summer — While Microsoft is planning to launch Windows 10 on PCs this summer, the phone part of the operating system will debut at a later date. Speaking at a media event at Build in San Francisco today, Microsoft's Joe Belfiore explained the company's plans for the launch of Windows 10.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Mumblehard spam botnet infects thousands of computers running Linux and FreeBSD OS — Spam-blasting malware infects thousands of Linux and FreeBSD servers — Sophisticated Mumblehard spamming malware flew under the radar for five years. — Several thousand computers running the Linux … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Meerkat launches Android app, currently in beta but with most functionality from iOS version, beating Twitter's Periscope to the platform — Meerkat Launches Its Android App To All — Live video streaming app Meerkat beat Twitter's own Periscope to market on iOS, and now it's available …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Rocket Internet's Foodpanda Gobbles Up $100M More Led By Goldman Sachs — Less than two months after raising $110 million, Foodpanda — the Rocket Internet-backed food delivery service — is back at the table gobbling down an additional $100 million serving from investors.| Chris Kohler / Wired: |
Tweets viewed on the web can now embed playable emulations from Internet Archive's collection of classic MS-DOS games — Turns Out You Can Embed Playable MS-DOS Games in Tweets — Embedding playable DOS games into tweets? Why not? — The post Turns Out You Can Embed Playable MS-DOS Games in Tweets appeared first on WIRED.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla wants to deprecate non-secure HTTP, will make proposals to W3C ‘soon’ — Mozilla today announced its intent to phase out non-secure HTTP, and that it will be making some proposals to the W3C WebAppSec Working Group soon. Specifically, the company says it is committed to … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Uber's SOS button will send live GPS updates to police in India — Uber added an “SOS” button to its app in India following the alleged rape of a passenger last year, and today Uber has announced plans to start improving that button in a significant way. Starting in the city Kolkata …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
IHS: 38mm Apple Watch Sport component and manufacturing costs are $83.70, about 24% of retail price — Apple Watch Sport Component Costs Estimated at $83.70, Which Won't Sit Well With Tim Cook — IHS iSuppli often tears down devices to estimate component costs, and today …
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