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Boot up: Intel v big data, wearable and health, Apple on tax, Google Island and more

Source: Guardian Unlimited

A burst of 9 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Intel is a $53bn-a-year company that enjoys a near monopoly on the computer chips that go into PCs. But when it comes to the data underlying big companies like Faceb ...
Full article at: Guardian Unlimited  More like this  23 hours ago, 1:39am CDT

Tumblr Users Have All the Feels About Yahoo Acquisition

Source: Wired

Early this morning Yahoo announced would be acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash – roughly a quarter of the purchase price Disney put up for Lucasfilm – and promised to “not screw it up.” Naturally, there were some long-ti ...
Full article at: Wired  More like this  1 day ago, 4:20pm CDT

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Xbox One preorder notification gets you a $10 Microsoft credit
Xbox One preorder notification gets you a $10 Microsoft credit
Free $10 credit at the Microsoft Store (online only) when you sign up for preorder notification
 
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Wii U console drops $60
new Xbox announced, Wii U drops $60 at Target
 

Will Yahoo! Do To Tumblr What It Did To Flickr & GeoCities?

Source: ABC News

Yahoo! is buying Tumblr it seems, and there's nothing we can do about it. Media companies (like Yahoo!, NewsCorp., Google) often look at the acquisition of large platforms with millions of users as an opportunity to grab a wider audience for thems ...
Full article at: ABC News  More like this  1 day ago, 12:20pm CDT

In the Programmable World, All Our Objects Will Act as One | Gadget Lab | Wired.com

Source: The Huge Entity

On a 5-acre plot in Great Falls, Virginia, less than a mile’s stroll through ex­urban scrub from the wide Potomac River, Alex Hawkinson has breathed life into a lifeless object. He has given his house, a sprawling six-bedr ...
Full article at: The Huge Entity  More like this  2 days ago, 7:08pm CDT

The best writing of the week, May 19

Source: The Verge

In sheer numbers, these microbes and their genes dwarf us. It turns out that we are only 10 percent human: for every human cell that is intrinsic to our body, there are about 10 resident microbes. Albums by megabands like Fleetwood ...
Full article at: The Verge  More like this  2 days ago, 9:30am CDT

Wired Writer Imagines Google Island

Source: Slashdot

This appears to be a story depicting a sort-of utopian future (of limited extent - an island) where there are no rules. I'm not sure from the context whether the author is in favor or against the concept. It somehow feels like he ...
Full article at: Slashdot  More like this  3 days ago, 6:37pm CDT

Google Play for Education Versus...

Source: Hack Education

Google held its annual developer conference this week, and during Wednesday’s keynote, the company touted its work in education, including the growing adoption of Google Apps for Education (some 25+ million users worldwide) and Chromeboo ...
Full article at: Hack Education  More like this  4 days ago, 12:47am CDT

First POST: Compromises

Source: techPresident

Top officials from President Barack Obama's campaign arm, which was recently rechristened as Organizing for Action, are working to dampen the passionate grassroots opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, j ...
Full article at: techPresident  More like this  4 days ago, 9:51am CDT



 

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