Author: Jack Slater
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Windows 10 Impressions
About a month ago I moved my desktop Windows installation to the Windows Insider Preview Program, which gets you an early and unfinished version of Windows 10. Tomorrow the first regular Windows upgrades to 10 will begin. Kind of like Chrome’s different update channels, there are two different paths in the preview program. The different update channels,…
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Razer’s Benevolence
Emanuel Maiberg: Just now, Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan told Polygon that Razer isn’t obligated to follow through on the payments developers are still owed through Ouya’s Free the Games Fund, but that it will make good on those payments anyway. “This is purely being done out of goodwill,” Tan said. “I think this is going…
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What do machines sing of?
Martin Backes: “What do machines sing of?” is a fully automated machine, which endlessly sings number-one ballads from the 1990s. As the computer program performs these emotionally loaded songs, it attempts to apply the appropriate human sentiments. This behavior of the device seems to reflect a desire, on the part of the machine, to become…
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Indie Developers: Ouya Owes Us Thousands of Dollars
Emanuel Maiberg: On Monday, gaming peripheral company Razer announced that it acquired the software and part of the team behind Ouya, which infamously raised $8.5 million through crowdfunding in 2012 to build an Android-based microconsole. It was a desperate move for the struggling small console maker–and now some indie developers who worked on Ouya games…
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Electronic Monitoring by Employers
Esther Kaplan: Every aspect of an office worker’s life can now be measured, and an increasing number of corporations and institutions – from cosmetics companies to car-rental agencies – are using that information to make hiring and firing decisions. Cramer, for one, is bullish on the idea: investing in companies like Cornerstone, he said, “can make you…