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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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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
$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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| 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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Apple To Debut New iPad, 4-Inch iPhone On March 21, Day Before FBI Hearing — Apple's first media event of 2016 will occur one day prior to the company's March 22 showdown with the government over a motion that would compel it to help hack an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp to end support for BlackBerry, Nokia, and other older operating systems by the end of 2016 — WhatsApp is to cease support for a number of operating systems by the end of 2016, the company announced yesterday. — With Android and iOS dominating the smartphone realm …
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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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Naked Security, Softpedia News, BetaNews, The Register and Computerworld
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
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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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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Google AMP is about speeding up mobile web, not beating Facebook at news, and may expand beyond publishing to e-commerce and other types of websites — Google AMP Is Less About Beating Facebook at News, More About Gobbling Up the Mobile Web — When Google looks at the mobile Web, it sees so many things it does not like.
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