Tales From A Young Microsoft: The Consequences Of Writing Bad Code

Here’s the third in a series of throwback stories from the years Microsoft was emerging as a global powerhouse in the 1990’s but still acted in many ways like a start-up.  The first two stories highlighted the time a 26 year old invented Expedia and the ways stock options changed employee behavior.

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El próximo ‘Moto 360’ podría venir en dos tamaños

No podemos negarle a Motorola el mérito de haber construido un smartwatch que sin duda hizo sombra a numerosos relojes inteligentes con Android Wear, sin embargo, el bonito diseño del Moto 360 no fue capaz de tener en cuenta un importante detalle: pa…

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How This Hackathon Is Inspiring Students To Better Education

HackingEDU is inspiring college students to hack their way to a better educational future. The organization’s inaugural Hackathon is coming up on October 23-25th at the San Mateo Event Center in San Francisco and is set to be the largest educational hackathon event in the world, bringing over 1,000 young and ambitious hackers from all over the country together to improve the landscape of higher education, while competing for over $100,000 in prizes.

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Sony’s New Star Wars-Themed PS4 Leaves Much To Be Desired

This weekend, Sony showed that in addition to having Activision properties like Destiny and Call of Duty in their pocket, they’re also quite friendly with EA. They’re releasing a Star Wars: Battlefront bundle for the PS4, which includes not only the game itself (destined to be one of the biggest of the fall), but a fully Star Wars-themed PS4 as well.

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