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Flashback: Microsoft’s ‘Skinput’ research project in 2010 foreshadowed an AI gadget of 2023

GeekWire

“Skinput,” from Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University, circa 2010. As shown in the video below, from 2010, Skinput was a research project that projected light onto a user’s skin, using sensors to distinguish among the waves that run through the arm or hand to detect different inputs.

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US video game spending hit a 10-year high in June

The Verge

Video game spending in the US reached its highest point since 2010, according to a new NPD Group report , with sales through June reaching $6.6 billion on hardware, software, and accessories. US NPD VG - Year-to-date tracked spending across Video Game hardware, software, accessories and game cards reached $6.6

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Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’

GeekWire

(Sega Image) A new study found that the vast majority of video games with a physical release in the U.S. In the study, Salvador’s VGHF research team set to find out how many “classic” video games that received an official release in the U.S. Kelsey Lewin, co-director of the Video Game History Foundation. between 1948 (i.e.

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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO Business Intelligence

Rather than selling software to customers, HP said, Autonomy had been selling them hardware at a loss, then booking the sales as software licensing revenue. June 2010: Autonomy acquires CA Technologies’ information governance business. The 2010s: Autonomy’s unravelling September 2010: Ex-SAP CEO Léo Apotheker is named CEO of HP.

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Prioritizing AI? Don’t shortchange IT fundamentals

CIO Business Intelligence

Fundamentals like security, cost control, identity management, container sprawl, data management, and hardware refreshes remain key strategic areas for CIOs to deal with. The same issues were revealed when Microsoft launched Delve, and before that when the FAST integration brought powerful search to SharePoint in 2010. But it was.

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Outlook 2010 Speed Tip: Using the Quick Step Box - SeanDaniel.com

Sean Daniel

Outlook 2010 Speed Tip: Using the Quick Step Box. Outlook 2010 has been out for a while, but one of the more recent features I started to depend on to make email faster for me is the Quick Steps box on the dialog: The Quick Steps bar allows you to make quick and customized operations on pieces of email that you have in your inbox.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Windows Server Codename ?Aurora? Video.

Sean Daniel

Thursday, July 15, 2010. Windows Server Codename “Aurora” Video Walkthrough. Wow, over on WeGotServed , Terry found an awesome video that talks about Aurora from our very own Michael Leworthy, product planner for SBS. Labels: Aurora , Beta Announcement , SBS 2011 Essentials , Small Business Server , Videos.

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