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Amazon puts Fire TV Cube to work, repurposes streaming device for desktop computing

GeekWire

Amazon WorkSpaces , the company’s virtual desktop service, just unveiled its first device for end users, a $195 product created by directly repurposing the hardware design for Amazon’s Fire TV Cube. “That is exactly what we’re going for,” he said.

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Chrome OS tablets are getting fancier but not better

The Verge

HP and Lenovo are aiming higher with their latest tablet Chromebooks If you go looking for a new Chromebook, you’ll find a lot of traditional clamshell laptop designs and some convertible models with 360-degree hinges. The HP and Lenovo share a lot of design traits. The HP has an 11-inch, 2160 x 1440 pixel 3:2 LCD touchscreen.

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What’s the best student laptop? We asked students

The Verge

Kristin Wallace purchased a budget HP laptop for her daughter, Bella, but didn’t realize how quickly the nine-year-old would fill up 32GB of storage. “It I need a computer with more storage space,” said Bella, who uses the laptop to Zoom with friends and take virtual guitar lessons and math enrichment classes.

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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

If that doesn’t work for your office’s Windows-only programs, you can always keep running Windows 7, with a lot less danger, on a virtual machine (VM) on Linux. This is an image of the Mint operating system which you can use to run or install the operating system. Which Linux? Try Mint out. Download Mint.

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Technology Short Take #41

Scott Lowe

Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) is a networking topic that is starting to get more and more attention (some may equate “attention” with “hype”; I’ll allow you to draw your own conclusion there). Operating Systems/Applications. Virtualization. Networking. Servers/Hardware.

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IDF 2014 Day 1 Recap

Scott Lowe

I was able to hit two technical sessions yesterday and liveblogged both of them: Virtualizing the Network to Enable a Software-Defined Infrastructure. Bare Metal, Containers, and Virtualization: The Growing Choices for Cloud Applications. Similar Posts: IDF 2014: Virtualizing the Network to Enable SDI. Both were good sessions.

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Why you should care about Facebook’s big push into the metaverse

Vox

It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s a joke.