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2014 Mac mini: RAM is not user-replaceable, no dual-drive server version — A look at the 2014 Mac mini — We've been working extensively with Mac minis for nearly 10 years. (Yes, we're nearing the tenth anniversary for the more-popular-than-you-think Mac.)
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| Judith Newman / New York Times: |
How a 13-year-old autistic boy became best friends with Apple's Siri — How Apple's Siri Became One Autistic Boy's B.F.F. — Just how bad a mother am I? I wondered, as I watched my 13-year-old son deep in conversation with Siri. Gus has autism, and Siri, Apple's “intelligent personal assistant” …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
Behind Microsoft's controversial takedown of No-IP and other legal battles to defeat botnets — How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet — It was 7 o'clock in the morning when the knocking on Dan Durrer's front door woke him up. His dog started barking, and Durrer thought he was getting an early morning package.| Steven Levy / Medium: |
Inside the nearly decade-old Google Scholar, which is still led by its creator Anurag Acharya — The Gentleman Who Made Scholar — Ten years after a Google engineer empowered researchers with Scholar, he can't bear to leave it — Anurag Acharya is the key inventor of Google Scholar … | Gideon Rosenblatt / Medium: |
Google's information processing and Amazon's transaction processing platforms are headed for a collision in the battle to dominate local retail — The Google—Amazon Retail Slugfest — Two competitors, seemingly in different businesses, now determine the future of shopping.| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Latest leak gives best look yet at Motorola's Droid Turbo — Motorola's next Verizon-exclusive Android phone hasn't been announced, but a number of leaks have left very little to the imagination. Now we're getting our best look yet at the device, called the Droid Turbo.| Christopher Breen / Macworld: |
Remembering Macworld Expo: Why we went to the greatest trade show on earth — This morning IDG announced that Macworld Expo (later known as Macworld/iWorld) is going on hiatus. How permanent this break is depends entirely on whether those running the show can find a financial model …
Tweets: @settern
| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Microsoft plans to launch a smartwatch in the next few weeks with two-day battery life — Microsoft Plans To Launch A Wearable Device Within Weeks — Microsoft is gearing up to launch a wearable device within the next few weeks, Forbes has learned. The gadget is a smart watch …
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The Verge, Gizmodo, Windows Phone Central and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @tomwarren. Thanks:@aatilley
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
This is the Fitbit Surge, a $250 ‘superwatch’ with built-in GPS — GPS and heart rate monitoring headline Fitbit's next flagship wearable — Fitbit is preparing to launch three new fitness trackers in the coming weeks. Two of those will be the Charge and Charge HR.
Tweets: @ow and @piercedavid
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Android Exec Says Google Will Loosen Reins on Watches, TVs and Cars Over Time — Google is taking its versatile Android operating system into new places, like cars and watches and TVs. As part of that process, it's also severely curtailing the degree to which hardware makers can tinker with the core parts of the software.
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BGR, MobileSyrup.com, SlashGear, PC World, Wearable World News, Tech Times and Business Insider
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The Retina iMac versus the Mac Pro, on paper — The 5K Retina iMac is out, and it looks incredible so far on paper — so incredible that I'm seriously considering selling my new Mac Pro to get the Retina iMac instead. In fact, the case for the Mac Pro for anyone but advanced video editors …
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MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Michael Tsai, ITProPortal and MacStories
Tweets: @jerols, @panzer and @marcoarment
| Glen Owen / Daily Mail: |
Britain to increase maximum sentence for online bullying from six months to two years — Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases — Internet trolls who subject victims to vile abuse …
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