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| Terry Myerson / Windows Blog: |
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today — When we first unveiled Windows 10 in September, we outlined our plans for a new era of Windows. We wanted to create a Windows that empowered people and organizations to do great things. Our vision was one platform, one store …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 review: a great fix to the problems of Windows 8 with the new Start menu, Cortana, and more, but bugs linger and Edge browser lacks extensions — Windows 10 review — Looking back at Windows 8, it's easy to see where Microsoft went wrong. It was a giant bet on touch-based computing …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed — Your very own personal assistant, a better browser... and something called the Start menu. — I'm more conflicted about Windows 10 than I have been about any previous version of Windows.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10: fine for laptops but not desktops, OS lacks functionality and apps, best to wait for more features and new machines, expected in fall — Review: Goodbye, Windows 8; hello, Windows 10 — Here's my 'non-reviewer's review' of Windows 10 after using it for a week.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources say Twitter's list of outside CEO candidates is lacking, pointing to Dorsey or Bain, with Bain in lead because of Dorsey's Square commitment — Adam Bain Is Soooo Nice, Jack Dorsey's Hamlet Act and Other Things You Need to Know About the Twitter CEO Search
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter added just 2M MAUs in Q2, excluding “SMS Fast Followers” — Twitter Asks for More Time to Fix Things — And Freaks Out Wall Street — Twitter added just two million new core users last quarter, and while it also beat Wall Street revenue estimates, investors still aren't buying the Twitter story.| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
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Study shows that Uber's app for passengers doesn't reliably show the exact locations of drivers, likely as a side-effect of forecasting supply — Uber's Phantom Cabs — When Heather*, a driver who has been working for Uber for about eight months, opened up the passenger app a few weeks ago …
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils a proposal for drone-only airspace that would allow for high-speed delivery — Amazon provides new details on its plan for a drone superhighway in the sky — When I arrived in San Jose last night, the newspaper on the front desk at the hotel had this headline splashed across …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Nokia's Ozo is a 360 degree VR camera for professionals with fast low-res rendering for rapid playback, price expected to be in the mid-five figures — Nokia reveals Ozo, a futuristic new camera for filming virtual reality — Microsoft bought Nokia's handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all.
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Coding bootcamps to graduate 16K students in 2015, up from 6,740 in 2014, almost one-third as many as all US Computer Science departments — As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change — SAN FRANCISCO — After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Intel and Micron unveil new storage chip called 3D Xpoint that's 1,000 times faster than flash memory, doesn't use transistors, and is already in production — Intel and Micron team up to launch a new class of computer memory — The decade-long partnership between Intel and Micron to build better NAND … | Sean O'Neill / Tnooz: |
Investors pour $16M into Tripping, a vacation rental search engine — Tripping.com has raised $16 million in Series B financing. The company also hit an inventory record of more than 5 million property listings. — Steadfast Venture Capital, an early-stage investment firm in New York City, led the round.| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Motorola unveils $399 Motorola X Style with Universal LTE in US, $299 Moto X Play globally, and an upgraded, waterproof, and customizable $179 Moto G — Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play, updates Moto G — The Moto X Style will be known as the Pure Edition in the US, and will be sold directly to consumers.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Citrix aims to simplify, unload GoTo business as CEO retires — Citrix's second quarter showed improvement, but the company is evaluating multiple alternatives as it reaches a deal with activist investor Elliott Management. — Citrix said it is reviewing plans for its GoTo family of products … | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Expensify launches venture arm for strategic investments in business travel, payments, and finance startups using part of their recently raised $17M — Expensify Launches Venture Arm With Part of $17M New Round — One company can't pursue all of the good ideas in its industry …
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| Brian Crecente / Polygon: |
Razer says it will pay what Ouya owes to indie devs — Razer will make good on more than $600,000 in funds potentially owed indie developers as part of Ouya's Free the Games initiative, the company's CEO tells Polygon. — Only about a quarter of the developers promised matching support …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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