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$3,000 HoloLens dev kit available for pre-order now, shipping March 30 — Futuristic hardware finally gets into developers' hands. — If you want to get your hands on Microsoft's holographic headset, the company is now taking pre-orders for the HoloLens Development Edition.
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Raspberry Pi 3 with 64-bit quad-core SoC, built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth announced for $35 — Months after introducing its most affordable Raspberry Pi Zero, the company has introduced the Raspberry Pi 3, successor of the Raspberry Pi 2 that was introduced back in February last year.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
HTC 's Vive VR headset available for pre-order for $799 in US, ships April 5th — The HTC Vive is coming April 5th, and you can preorder it now — Preorders have just opened for HTC's Vive virtual reality headset. Created in partnership with Valve, the Vive is going to start shipping …
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| Mark Scott / New York Times: |
EU and US trans-Atlantic data transfer deal, Privacy Shield, has stricter rules on data transfer, new limits on surveillance — E.U. and U.S. Release Details on Trans-Atlantic Data Transfer Deal — American and European officials released details on Monday about a new trans-Atlantic data …
| Mathias Döpfner / Business Insider: |
Mark Zuckerberg talks AI, VR, Facebook's origins, and more in extensive interview — Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of Facebook, virtual reality and artificial intelligence — Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg sat down with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner for the German newspaper …
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Mark Zuckerberg Is ‘Obsessed’ With Livestreaming, Making Live a Top Priority at Facebook — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a heightened interest in livestreaming over the past few months, redirecting internal resources to help build out the company's Live product that lets people broadcast video …
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Verizon most likely buyer for Yahoo, followed by Time Inc., and private equity; sources say Marissa Mayer has approached several PE firms — Who Will Buy Yahoo? — Yahoo Inc. is on the block. Again. — The last time we went through this was in 2011, when several private equity firms kicked …
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| Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet could gain a $3.5B tax benefit if Intel prevails in IRS dispute over cost-sharing with foreign subsidiaries — Google's Parent Could Be Big Winner in Intel Tax Dispute — Alphabet stands to gain at least $3.5 billion if IRS loses its appeal of court ruling
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| Charles Duhigg / New York Times: |
Inside Project Aristotle, Google's study of what makes some teams succeed while others fail — What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team … Like most 25-year-olds, Julia Rozovsky wasn't sure what she wanted to do with her life. She had worked at a consulting firm, but it wasn't a good match.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Study: 3.67% of sites in Alexa 1,000 are either blocking or presenting CAPTCHAs to Tor users, often carried out by CDNs like CloudFlare or Akamai — Tor users blocked or faced with CAPTCHA if IP address matches known exit node — Tor users blocked or faced with CAPTCHA if IP address matches known exit node.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Inside Facebook's Audience Network, its ad network for mobile web and apps, with $1B annual gross revenue run rate in Q4 — How an ‘oddball’ team created one of Facebook's biggest threats to Google — Facebook is a mobile advertising machine. — Last quarter, 80% of company's $5.63 billion … | Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
Sources: Snapchat wants to sell its own ad inventory on Discover channels where publishers like BuzzFeed and Vox had exclusive ad rights — Snapchat's new audience-based ad strategy could wrest control from Discover publishers — As Snapchat's ad platform evolves, the top publishers … Sponsor Posts
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