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| Kevin Dallas / Building Apps for Windows: |
Windows 10 coming to Raspberry Pi 2, developers can use it for free — Windows 10 Coming to Raspberry Pi 2 — This blog was written by Kevin Dallas, General Manager, Windows IoT Group. — Today the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the retail availability of their new board, the Raspberry Pi 2.
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| Lester Haines / The Register: |
Raspberry Pi 2 is 6x faster than its predecessor, features a quad-core SoC with 1GB of RAM, available today for $35 — Turbocharged Raspberry Pi 2 unleashed: Global geekgasm likely — El Reg lays claws on surprise new quad core chipped fruity minicomputer
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pebble has now sold over 1 million smartwatches; new hardware and software are planned for this year — New hardware and software are planned for this year — While Google and Apple have been getting the lion's share of attention for smartwatches lately, indie darling Pebble … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Sony Sells MMO Publisher And EverQuest Creator Sony Online Entertainment — Sony has sold Sony Online Entertainment, the studio and publisher that created EverQuest (and, to a large extent, the modern MMO genre), in a deal that will see it owned by investment management firm Columbus Nova and rebranded as Daybreak.| Cordell Eddings / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple Plans $5 Billion Bond Sale; Fourth Since 2013 — Don't Miss Out — … (Bloomberg) — Apple Inc. is planning to sell $5 billion of bonds in the iPhone maker's fourth multi-billion dollar debt offering in the past two years as it preserves its overseas cash hoard, according a person with knowledge of the matter.
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| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags featured in 50% of Super Bowl ads; 4 Facebook mentions, 3 Twitter, 1 Snapchat — Super Bowl Commercials With Hashtags Slipped To 50% In 2015 — Facebook is the most mentioned social network with four; Snapchat makes its debut. — Fifty percent of 2015 Super Bowl ads carried hashtags …
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Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are paying to get around AdBlock — Some of the web's biggest companies have been paying to get around AdBlock Plus, according to a new report from the Financial Times. Microsoft's Bing search ads and Taboola's “recommended links” box are among the ads …
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| Jens Hack / Reuters: |
Intel buys former Infineon ‘Internet of Things’ chip unit Lantiq — (Reuters) - Intel has agreed to buy German network chipmaker Lantiq for an undisclosed amount to expand its range of chips used in Internet-connected gadgets, the companies said on Monday. — The former Infineon unit … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Twitter tests instant timeline, which shows tweets to new users who haven't followed anyone — Twitter Displays Its Value With Instant Timeline for New Users — Anyone who has created a Twitter account knows how difficult it can be to get value from the service.
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @rsarver, @nytimes and @vindugoel
| Martin Anderson / The Stack: |
U.S. Army releases forensics framework on Github — A research branch of the United States army has released a version on Github of an internal forensics framework which has been in use in the military for five years. — Dshell is an open-source Linux-based Python tool to aid forensic analysts …
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| Jeremy Hsu / Backchannel: |
How Riot Games' behavioral testing of its 27M daily League of Legends players is helping it curb toxic behavior — Inside the Largest Virtual Psychology Lab in the World — Riot Games wants you to behave yourself when you play League of Legends, so it's turned the game into a virtual lab| BBC: |
BMW patches flaw in ConnectedDrive-equipped vehicles that let researches wirelessly open doors — BMW fixes security flaw that left locks open to hackers — BMW has patched a security flaw that left 2.2 million cars, including Rolls Royce and Mini models, open to hackers.
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