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Raspberry Pi 3: the credit card-sized 1.2GHz PC that costs $35b

Raspberry Pi foundation launches new model as it announces 8m devices have been sold in four years, making it the UK’s all-time bestselling computer The little PC with a big reach … Raspberry Pi 3. Photograph: Photographer: Matt Richardson/Raspberry Pi Foundation The Raspberry Pi foundation has launched

Acer Announces Aspire Switch 12 With Broadwell-Y Processor And 1080p Display

Today, Acer announced the successor of its multi-mode “Acer Switch 10” laptop from last year, which could be used as a tablet, as a notebook, as a display with the screen facing away, or as a “tent.” The new Switch 12 seems to be a little less

Exclusive: Hootsuite’s Content & Social Strategy

As an economics graduate from Vancouver, Roger Graham, Hootsuite’s Director of Marketing for the APAC region, has had an exciting career working for start-ups, professional marketing companies and working for global corporations. He joined Hootsuite in 2013 and recently moved to Singapore. Roger shared some insider info on Hootsuite’s social and content

Construction workers walk off Tesla’s new Reno site in protest over pay

Hundreds walk off job at battery manufacturing plant as union organizers say out-of-state workers are increasingly being hired for lower pay The Tesla Gigafactory is shown under construction outside Reno, Nevada. Photograph: James Glover/Reuters/Corbis Hundreds of union construction workers walked off the job at Tesla Motors’ battery

Google self-driving car collides with bus in California, accident report says

If it is determined the Google vehicle caused the crash, it would be the first time one of its SUVS caused an accident while in autonomous mode A Google self-driving car was trying to navigate some sandbags when it collided with a public bus. Photograph: DDP USA/Rex/Shutterstock 

NBA Scores the Top U.S. Brand on Social Last Week

  For the week of February 22, 2016 – February 28, 2016, U.S. brands captured 1.4 billion likes, shares, comments and retweets on content published on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Powered by Shareablee data, the top U.S. brands across Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for each respective industry

New Surface 3 Tablet Abandons Windows RT, Rocks Intel Cherry Trail Chip

Microsoft’s corporate vice president of the Surface division, Panos Panay, todayannounced the Surface 3 tablet. The big news here is that the device doesn’t sport Windows RT like the previous two versions, but the full-blown release of Windows 8.1 powered by an Intel Atom chip. Customers can

Amazon Sizes Up UK Restaurant Delivery Market

Amazon.com Inc has begun surveying UK customers about their use of restaurant delivery services, in what analysts said was likely the first step in an international expansion of a business it rolled out in the United States last September. In recent days, the online retailer sent its

Popular Linux distro hit by hacked version on official site over the weekend

When you download an operating system, you certainly don’t expect to be installing an altered version with a backdoor in place, but sadly this is what happened to some folks who downloaded a popular version of Linux over the weekend. To be precise, we are talking about

Microsoft leaves Windows Server support as-is, doesn’t prune pledged timeline as with Windows 7

Microsoft last week said that the support rules for the Windows Server software would not change, even though the Redmond, Wash. company has said it will curtail support for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 after mid-2017. Review: 8 password managers for Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and