Author: gyasistory
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BuzzFeed Raises $50 Million From Andreessen Horowitz
By Greg Kumparak Not too many years ago, announcing major (positive) news on a Sunday evening in the middle of August would seem crazy. Who would read it, right? News dropped tonight — a Sunday evening in the middle of August — that BuzzFeed raised $50 million dollars from Andreessen Horowitz. And as a shining…
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If You Think Big Data’s Big Now, Just Wait
By Ron Miller We’ve been hearing a great deal about the power of Big Data over the last couple of years. The hype says that as we gather more data, we will be able to get better answers to business problems, but the data levels we have seen so far could pale in comparison to…
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Saying Goodbye To Windows 8
By Alex Wilhelm Considering the most recent leaks involving the Charms Bar, desktop improvements and the like, it’s becoming plain that some of what Windows 8 emphasized will be scaled back in Microsoft’s next Windows build. If Windows 8 was a dramatic lurch towards mobile computing, especially on tablets, Windows 9 appears to be heading…
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Why The iPhone 6 Will Be The Device Of The Year
By Darrell Etherington Apple is gearing up for a big product announcement on September 9, and all indications are that it will be a new iPhone. The iPhone 6, as it’s being called in the press, will deliver a lot of changes over the iPhone 5s, which got relatively modest updates compared to the iPhone…
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New Microsoft Project Turns Boring First-Person Videos Into Awesome Hyperlapse Sequences
By Frederic Lardinois There’s barely a mountain biker, climber, skydiver or skier left who doesn’t have a GoPro camera attached to his helmet. Nobody really wants to sit through an hour of video of you heading up and down the slopes, however. You could just speed these videos up, but then they become completely unwatchable.…
