Apple Loop: New iPhone 8 Leaks, Apple’s Latest Victory Against Samsung, Fixing The Flawed iPhone 7

Tthis week’s Apple Loop includes leaks and rumors around next year’s iPhone 8, a reminder on how Apple makes money, questioning Siri’s stupidity, more sensors packed under the curved glass, Apple and Samsung’s latest court adventures, the increasing prominence of iPhone 6 Touch Disease, the smart case that fixes three major iPhone 7 problems, and a look at who durable the Jet Black iPhone 7 actually is.

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Android Circuit: Samsung Kills Note 7, Apple Victorious, Why People Hate The Perfect Pixel

This week’s Android Circuit includes Samsung’s official cancellation of the Galaxy Note 7, how Apple will exploit Samsung’s mistake, why people hate the practically perfect Pixel, Google Duo taking over from Hangouts, Google’s Android Wear smartwatches leak, Three’s UK exclusive deal with ZTE, and Sony’s promise to bring mobile games to Android during 2017.

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Epic cloud wars lead to AWS – VMware deal

A decade after the launch of the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Web Service (AWS) is still the leader in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing. However, ten years into a market, companies are expecting more than cheap infrastructure.  Cloud conversations have shifted to business agility and advanced services. With cloud computing emerging as a fundamental component of next generation IT architectures, Microsoft, Google, and IBM battle to topple AWS from its throne.

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Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp


Curta calculator: The mechanical marvel born in a Nazi death camp
If you’ve ever spent time thumbing through back issues of magazines like Scientific American, you may have seen ads for the Curta — a strange little device that resembles a pepper mill. It cost a shocking amount of money and was claimed to perform all sorts of arithmetic functions purely mechanically and with incredible precision.

October 14, 2016 at 04:10PM
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