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Everything must boldly go! Defunct asteroid mining company’s hardware put up for auction

GeekWire

If you have a sudden yen to replicate outer-space conditions, it behooves you to check out today’s online-only auction of the hardware left over from Planetary Resources , the Redmond venture that aimed to create a trillion-dollar asteroid mining industry. . — Wanna buy a used thermal vacuum chamber? GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle).

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IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1

Scott Lowe

This is a liveblog of the day 1 keynote at Intel Developer Forum (IDF) 2012 at Moscone West in San Francisco, CA. Prior to the start of the keynote, they show a video talking about “What misconception about engineers bothers you most? It’s a interesting and amusing video. IDF 2012 Keynote, Day 1.

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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. March 2010: Apotheker says he wants to transform HP from a hardware producer to a software and services provider. November 2012: HP takes an $8.8 billion or $11.7

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Nintendo says its next ‘gaming system’ will release in the year 20XX

The Verge

The company plans to “continue to expand its business around the core concept of creating unique integrated hardware-software products,” which I’m taking to mean that the company will (brace yourself) make more video games and video game hardware in the future. So sometime between now and 2099, I guess.) Image: Nintendo.

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Why former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky has been using PCs from the 1980s again

GeekWire

Some of the vintage hardware used by Steven Sinofsky to help refresh his memory of the early PC era while researching his new book (with help from his cat, Zozo, on the keyboard). Next time you’re grumbling about figuring out the settings join a video call, consider what Steven Sinofsky has been doing to research his upcoming book.

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Go read this story about how a lost NES game was recovered after 30 years

The Verge

Image: The Video Game History Foundation. Digital archivists working with the Video Game History Foundation have discovered a previously lost NES game based on the 1990 film Days of Thunder. Oberth died in 2012, but he left behind a trove of old computer hardware from his time as a developer.

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More on OnLive: New Cloud Solution Delivers Secure Cross-Platform Deployment for Graphics Intensive Applications

CTOvision

They typically struggle with hardware constraints, porting costs and interoperability issues of the ever-growing collection of portable and mobile client devices when delivering enterprise-level applications to employees in the field, or anywhere away from their high-end computers.