ComEd doesn’t deliver any solar energy to its Chicago-area customers, and California-based SolarCity doesn’t do business in Illinois, but from distant reaches of the country, and from opposite ends of the power grid, the two companies have come to much the same conclusion about the future of utilities.

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In Google’s vision of a perfect world, all phones running Android would do away with customized skins and just look and feel like a Nexus. While some skins, like Samsung’s TouchWiz, are ugly and intrusive, others, like OnePlus’ Oxygen, actually bring a lot of useful additions to the table. And while some

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“Microsoft Monday” takes a look back at the past week of news related to Microsoft. This week, “Microsoft Monday” includes details about the Windows 10 roll back period trimming down, two Windows 10 updates in 2017, the 2TB white Xbox One S selling out without plans to restock, the Master Chief within the Xbox One S, the free Windows 10 upgrade loophole shutting down, new Skype bots and more!
Microsoft Trims Windows 10 Roll-Back Period

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From hacking elections to sending yachts off course to cutting power grids, cyberwarfare is reshaping the dynamics of conflict and leveling the global playing field, claiming privacy as its first causality

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We are less than a month away from the release of the new iPhone, likely to be called the iPhone 7, and the leaks won’t stop coming. Courtesy of Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman comes further confirmation that the new Apple device will use a dual-camera setup and have no headphone jack. But the most exciting news to me is this: Apple will apparently finally do away with the iPhone’s very outdated home button.

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Rooster Teeth has just announced ‘Lazer Team 2,’ the sequel to its crowdfunded, first-ever feature film from early 2016. I believe these three improvements to the sequel could make it better than the first film, and would improve the film’s quality and critical reception overall.

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The worldwide computer outage experienced by Delta today reminds us about the downsides of corporate-owned data centers and why so many businesses have moved to the cloud

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Niantic is testing a new addition to Pokémon GO called “sightings” that tries to fix its long-running tracking problem. Early testing seems to indicate that it may actually work, and wild Pokémon are trackable once more.

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