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Source: http://gizmodo.com/googles-adding-the-ability-to-make-a-hangouts-call-dire-1592483665
Google's adding the ability to make a Hangouts call directly to phone numbers that show up in your search results. Click on the number, and Google will connect you. Neat.
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Source: http://gizmodo.com/sharps-free-form-display-make-bezels-super-thin-screen-1592497236
Rectangular screens are so square. Which is presumably why Sharp has announced a new technology called Free-Form Display—that could allow screens to come in any space, and reduce bezel size to almost zero.
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Google's education arm has donated $100,000 towards a joint project between Code Club and Technology Will Save Us which allows children to build and programme their own games console for just £60, thereby teaching them early essential skills for a potential lifetime in technology. Announced today...
http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/06/18/google-donates-100000-help-kids-build-games-consoles/
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Dogecoin, for those who don't spend their time indulging in internet meta-memes, may seem like harmless nerdery. But for one enterprising hacker, it's created a small fortune -- at the price of annoying a lot of systems administrators. A pair of researchers at Dell's Secureworks security division...
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-06/18/dogecoin-hacker
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Jun 16, 2014
Today's news of flash-memory giant SanDisk buying out Fusion.io in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.1 billion wasn't entirely all that unexpected. Today's flash storage market is in a state of flux with a flood of acquisitions and offerings taking place as big storage players like SanDisk and Western Digital are trying to boost their storage expertise with companies that can bring software expertise to the table.
In late May, storage provider Seagate Technology purchased Avago's flash businesses for $450 million. Last September, Western Digital swallowed server-side flash storage company Virident for $683 million, which came only three months after the hard-drive maker spent $340 million to purchase solid-state drive company sTec. EMC has even gotten into the flash storage battleground with its updated VNX hybrid storage array that it rolled out last September.
With the advent of cloud computing, companies don't want to have spend their time manually determining which data should be partitioned to RAM, flash or even a spinning disk; they want software to figure this out and automate the task.
While Fusion.io's recent management issues certainly don't offer a sense that the company was operating on steady ground, the fact that SanDisk sought it out highlights the ever-important need for software to be integrated with hardware in order to improve efficiency.
Both Western Digital and Sandisk have specialized in making physical boxes, but they haven't focussed on software, which is Cottonwood Heights, Utah-based Fusion.io's specialty.
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