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This Wizard of Oz-inspired wearable lets you click your heels to order a taxi or text your friends

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by on October 20, 2014 at 10:33 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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We’ve all found ourselves trapped in an awkward dinner situation where we want nothing more than to be rescued by a “important call.” A new device called Dorothy might be able to come your rescue. A different take on wearables made by iStrategyLabs, Dorothy works by attaching a ‘Ruby’ (a small Arduino-based Bluetooth device) to your shoe and tapping your heels together three times to trigger an action.   That triggered action could be a call from a fake contact, or you can configure it to send a custom message and location to your friends. The company says it’s looking in…

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You can now pre-order the Nexus 9 and Nexus Player

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by on October 20, 2014 at 8:04 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Google, Insider

Google has officially opened up the pre-order forms for the freshly-announced Nexus 9 tablet and Nexus Player streaming device. The Nexus 9, an 8.9-inch tablet running the latest version of Android 5.0 Lollipop, starts at $399 for the 16GB model and is slated to ship on November 3rd. The Nexus Player, Google’s first Android TV streaming device, goes for $99 and ships “in three to four weeks.” Its accompanying game control pad is sold separately at $39, though it is currently listed as “out of stock.” Pre-orders for the Nexus 6 will start next Wednesday October 29. ➤ Google

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Facebook is suing the lawyers that defended a faked company ownership claim

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by on October 20, 2014 at 8:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg today sued four law firms which represented Paul Ceglia in a 2010 case where the client claimed he owned as much as 84 percent of the company. In 2013, a judge dismissed the case, stating that the contract Ceglia claimed as proof of his ownership was nothing but a “recently created fabrication.” Ceglia had allegedly forged the document based on a real contract that had been signed when Zuckerberg worked for Ceglia’s company in 2003. Ceglia was arrested for the falsifications in 2012. Now Facebook is moving to make his lawyers pay for the alleged forgery. According…

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Microsoft offers up Azure’s cloud processing power to help combat Ebola

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by on October 20, 2014 at 6:50 pm
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At its cloud computing event today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that the company would be offering up its Azure cloud computing service to assist in Ebola research. Essentially, the company is handing out grants to provide successful applicants with Azure’s processing power for easing access to services and data healthcare workers and researchers may need. In order to make use of the award, applicants should be associated with an academic institution and submit a proposal for how they intend to use the service. With growing concerns about the potential for the disease to spread, its a nice gesture by the company to help…

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Microsoft announces new Azure G family virtual machines and premium storage feature

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by on October 20, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches

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At today’s Microsoft cloud event, Vice President of Cloud and Enterprise Scott Guthrie introduced two new services to Azure. The first is the new G family virtual machines which offer customers up to 32 Intel CPU cores, 450 GB of RAM and 6.5TB of local SSD storage. According to Guthrie, these machines offer twice the memory of anything offered by Amazon’s AWS service. The company also introduced a new premium storage service for its customers with each virtual machine getting up to 32 TB of storage with a read latency of less than 1ms. Guthrie says that these two new features will…

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