Exclusive: Advanced Micro Devices mulling breakup, spinoff – sources
Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is at the initial stage of reviewing whether to split itself in two or spin off a business, seeking to reverse its fortunes and take on rival Intel Corp, according to three people familiar with the matter.
June 20, 2015 at 10:19AM
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Six Months Inside A Coliving House, Silicon Valley’s Answer To Urban Housing Problems
The commune, the kibbutz, the college dorm: Group living has been done before, but can it make for a viable business?
June 20, 2015 at 09:14AM
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Glued to the screen: A third grade class where kids spend 75% of the day on iPads
Is this the future of education? What digital learning looks like when third-graders use it all day in one suburban district.
June 20, 2015 at 05:21AM
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After Bitcoin loan goes south, judge rules man must repay over $67,000
A judge in rural Breathitt County, Kentucky (population: 13,878) ruled earlier this month that a local man who received a loan of 11.95 bitcoins in December 2013 must repay it, including interest, for a total amount of over $67,800.
June 19, 2015 at 04:16PM
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Reddit Is A Shrine To The Internet We Wanted And That’s A Problem
What we now see in Reddit is the crash of internet utopian idealism against the rocks of human reality.
June 19, 2015 at 03:27PM
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Google Will Honor Requests To Remove “Revenge Porn” From Search Results
In a brief blog post, Google said that it will soon introduce a formal process that will allow web users to request removal of “revenge porn” images from Google’s search results.
June 19, 2015 at 02:10PM
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There’s Something Suspicious About This Ramen-Making Machine
Wow this thing has it all! Sausage! Eggs! It laser-cuts chopsticks and delivers food via drone! All of our problems are solved!
June 19, 2015 at 10:12AM
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My Smartphone Gave Me a Painful Neurological Condition
A few months ago I started getting headaches, and they were weird. If a bad hangover headache feels splitting, I’d describe these headaches as searing, as if someone had hit me over the head with a red hot rod of steel sending electric bolts of pain across my skull.
June 19, 2015 at 09:30AM
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Hit Counters: The Analytics Tool of the Early Web
It wasn’t so much that these developers weren’t ready for web analytics as it was that web analytics wasn’t ready for them: most solutions to monitor site traffic were expensive, complicated, or both. However, this did leave these amateur web developers with one, obvious, burning question: How many people are looking at my website?
June 19, 2015 at 09:30AM
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Oculus Touch Hands-On: So Damn Good
What looks silly might be virtual reality’s biggest breakthrough.
June 19, 2015 at 06:26AM
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