Friday, March 4, 2016

Raspberry Pi 3 Model B review and other top stories.

  • Raspberry Pi 3 Model B review

    Raspberry Pi 3 Model B review
    The Raspberry Pi 3 is the latest version of the popular single-board computer aimed at hobbyists and at helping children to gain developer skills. The new model, released just a year after the Raspberry Pi 2, adds built-in wireless capability for the first time and switches to more powerful CPU cores that make the Raspberry Pi 64-bit-ready. The Raspberry Pi 3 was announced at the end of February, and is available to order from all the usual distributor partners, such as Element 14 and RS Compo..
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  • German court rules Facebook can ban fakes

    German court rules Facebook can ban fakes
    German court rules Facebook can ban fakesFacebook may prevent its users from using fake names following a ruling from a German court, that overturns a previous order from the Hamburg data protection authority.The ruling on Thursday is a coup for the social network firm which has long argued its real-name policy ensures people know who they are sharing and connecting with and protects them from the abuse of the wide-open internet.The Hamburg data protection authority, which is responsible for pol..
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  • Virtual Reality Mcdonald's Happy Meals

    Virtual Reality Mcdonald's Happy Meals
    McDonald’s is jumping aboard the virtual reality bandwagon by giving its popular Happy Meal boxes a hi-tech makeover. From Friday, the fast food chain will begin selling Happy Meal boxes that transform into VR headsets through a series of simple folds and tears. The Happy Goggles initiative is set to be trialled in 14 McDonald’s restaurants across Sweden, with 3,500 of the VR headsets available to customers. Try Newsweek for only $1.25 per week “The idea came about, quite simply, ..
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  • Apple's Genius Bar takes to Twitter with @AppleSupport

    Apple's Genius Bar takes to Twitter with @AppleSupport
    We're ready to believe you – Apple's blue-shirted geniuses have discovered Twitter. Rather than line up to speak with a genius in a blue shirt, Apple users can now turn to Twitter with their iTech queries.Encountering a technical problem with your iGadgets can often leave you trawling the forums in search answers, especially when Apple has a habit of dragging its feet when it comes to acknowledging bugs with its products. Now the tech giant has taken a proact..
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  • Animal Logic to Push Digital Animation Creative Boundaries With Brocade Networking Solutions for the New IP

    New Core Network Will Cost-Effectively Eliminate Complexity and Make Network Operations Far More Agile and Responsive SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwired - Mar 7, 2016) - Animal Logic, one of the world's most accomplished digital animation and visual effects studios, is gearing up to work on the data demands of the next generation of 3D movies by investing in new network switches from Brocade (NASDAQ: BRCD). The Sydney-based studio, which recently opened a new site in Vancouver, has seen i..
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  • Learning from Destiny, Ubisoft details a year of content for The Division

    Learning from Destiny, Ubisoft details a year of content for The Division
    Check out more of our 20th anniversary of Pokémon coverage this week at GamesBeat. Ubisoft is about to launch its next major franchise, and the company is taking notes from the competition about how to avoid disappointing fans. Tom Clancy’s The Division, an apocalyptic shooter set in New York, has a year of extra content in the works, and the publisher is providing a detailed roadmap for when fans can expect everything to roll out. Ubisoft is planning on using a combination of free updates in ..
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  • Cryptography Pioneers Win Million-Dollar Turing Award

    Cryptography Pioneers Win Million-Dollar Turing Award
    By Jack M. Germain Mar 3, 2016 12:09 PM PT The Association of Computing Machinery on Tuesday named Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman recipients of the 2015 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their contributions to modern cryptography. Their invention of public key cryptography and digital signatures revolutionized computer security, the organization said. The award, considered the Nobel Prize of computing, includes a US$1 million prize, with financial support provided by Google. It is named ..
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  • Mexico's America Movil top buyer in wireless spectrum auction

    Mexico's America Movil top buyer in wireless spectrum auction
    The logos of America Movil is seen on the wall of the reception area in the company's corporate offices in Mexico City August 12, 2015. REUTERS/Henry Romero MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican telecoms giant America Movil bought the largest share of mobile Internet frequencies in a federal auction meant to spur more and better mobile data services, Mexico's telecoms regulator said on Thursday.A subsidiary of billionaire Carlos Slim's America Movil paid 2.1 billion pesos ($117 million) against..
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  • How the PC gaming industry is challenging consoles like the Xbox One and PS4

    How the PC gaming industry is challenging consoles like the Xbox One and PS4
    This weekend sees the first ever PC-specific, major gaming convention to be held in the UK.It's easy to assume that it's a bit unnecessary given there are many other conventions held and consoles dominate sales. But, quietly, over the past few years PC gaming has made a bit of a comeback. It's challenging the idea that the video games industry revolves around the Xbox and PS4, and we've been finding out how it's happened. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYWX3T6Va_8 Image caption 27 million peo..
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