This has people up in arms, in a good way
First it was developer tools, then Kinect for the PC, now Microsoft’s given hackers a shot at the Kinect code under an open-source license.…
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Roku 3 Review
There are two things you should know about me right up front. One is the list of shows I’m currently watching: at this moment I’m at various points in The West Wing, Homeland, House of Cards, Scandal, Alias, Mad Men, Community, The Office, Parks and Recreation, How I Met Your Mother, Workaholics, The League, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Girls, New Girl, Modern Family, The Newsroom, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Louie, and The Wire. (And those are just the ones I’ve watched recently.) I also watch a lot of movies, and religiously follow three different sports. The second thing you should know is that I don’t have cable, so I’m entirely reliant on the internet to get my fill.
That combination has led me to audition nearly a dozen…
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Dell Announces XPS 18: A Giant All-in-One Windows 8 Tablet
When we reviewed the best Windows 8 all-in-one desktop computers, it was a giant, bulky, pricey Dell desktop that rose to the top of the heap. Today, Dell’s trying its hand at a radically different Windows 8 experience: an 18.4-inch tablet that you can pick up and carry with you. It’s called the XPS 18.
Dell’s dubbing it a “portable all-in-one,” and that makes a certain degree of sense. Like the Sony Vaio Tap 20 before it, it has most things you’d expect from a full computer, including a range of potent Intel processors, up to 8GB of memory, and a large hard drive. It also adds a five-hour battery so it doesn’t always have to be plugged into the wall, quelling some concerns we had when some details of the device leaked online.
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Educational Linux Distro Provides Tech-Bundle for Kids and Educators
How are we going to teach the next generation about open source and Linux? More importantly, how can we get the right technology into classrooms to empower our educators to teach our children the open source way?
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