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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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Review: Intel's upcoming $500 Core i7 NUC mini PC improves on performance of cheaper models — Mini-review: Intel's powered-up Core i7 Broadwell mini PC — 28W chips give a nice CPU and GPU performance bump to the first Core i7 NUC. — Earlier this week, Intel sent us its latest variation of its growing line of NUC mini PCs.| John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
New Apple TV Will Not Support 4K Video Streaming — After three years, Apple is overhauling its dusty set-top box — but not with support for the next-generation high-res video standard. — BuzzFeed Illustration — When Apple's next-generation Apple TV finally arrives at market later this year … | 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.
Tweets: @arstechnica
| 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 …
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Preparing for its MVNO, Google in talks over a deal that lets Americans use the service abroad with no roaming fees on Hutchison Whampoa's networks — Google in talks with mobile operators for cheap overseas calls — It is understood that Google aims to create a global network that will cost …
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Netflix molds TV's future with 4K and HDR content, by pushing for faster internet and recommending TV sets — How Netflix Is Creating the Ultra-High-Def Future of TV — Netflix crystallized the idea of an internet service that streamed unlimited amounts of TV and movies into your home.
| Dana Wollman / Engadget: |
HP Spectre x360 review: the attractive, long lasting 13-inch laptop starts at a reasonable $900, but its weight makes the device hard to use as tablet — HP Spectre x360 review: What happens when Microsoft helps build a laptop? — The Spectre x360 is HP's newest flagship notebook.
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| Claire Cain Miller / New York Times: |
Female-Run Venture Capital Funds Alter the Status Quo — Step into the offices on Sand Hill Road, the heart of Silicon Valley venture capital, and one thing is immediately striking — the almost all-male cast of leading characters. — But there is another corner of the venture capital industry that looks quite different.| 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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Sharp plans to spin off LCD panel unit, ask government-supported investment fund for help — Sharp Seeks to Spin Off LCD Panel Unit — Troubled Japanese electronics provider plans to ask government-supported investment fund for help — TOKYO—Sharp Corp., the troubled Japanese electronics provider … | Lucia Moses / Digiday: |
Medium now has four branded-content partnerships, is looking to fund more content creators; comScore measures about 3M monthly uniques — Medium is courting writers and advertisers. But will the dollars follow? — Medium was created by Twitter's founders, gets contributions from notables … Sponsor Posts
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