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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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| 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.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10: Much better than Windows 8.1, OS still lacks some functionality and apps, best to wait for more features 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.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| Alex Rosenblat / Motherboard: |
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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| 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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How Goldman Sachs Became a Tech-Investing Powerhouse — “They weren't coming just to get wasted,” says Mel Cavaricci—aka DJ Mel—recalling the crowd milling in front of his sound table at a party in March. It was at the height of the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, held in Austin, Texas.| 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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| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
CBS Will Live-Stream Super Bowl Ads In Big Move For Media Industry — TV's most memorable and most-watched commercials will no longer be relegated to the TV set. — For nearly half a century, the only way for the average consumer to see all the glitzy commercials that accompanied … | Sarah Kessler / Fast Company: |
Vine is less about users sharing life moments, more about content creators using it to entertain viewers — Vine's Quiet, Stealthy Pivot — The video app is no longer all about sharing. “It's more like the entertainment industry,” Jason Mante, Vine's head of UX, tells us.Thanks:@steverubel
| 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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| 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 — When Microsoft bought Nokia's handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all.| 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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| Tony Romm / Politico: |
How a federal agency mishandled $3.5B of stimulus money to expand rural broadband coverage and failed to deliver — Wired to fail — How a little known agency mishandled several billion dollars of stimulus money trying to expand broadband coverage to rural communities.
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| Ariha Setalvad / The Verge: |
Facebook is testing out LinkedIn-style profile tags — Facebook seems to be taking a cue from LinkedIn and is early in the process of testing a new feature — profile tags. — Verge reader Luke M. alerted us to Facebook's new profile tags feature, and the company confirmed it was testing …
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