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After a whole series of delays, Microsoft is finally ready to release its up to $22,000 Surface Hub to the businesses. If  you’re not familiar, the Surface Hub is giant all-in-one touchscreen PC designed for conference rooms and teams. It supports dual pen input (the pens are more like digital markets) via a OneNote whiteboard, and comes with speakers and microphones designed to cover a full conference room. It even has two webcams – one to follow the presenters, and

In an attempt to look good in front of advertisers, Snapchat is touting its ability to hypnotize its fervent teen base into consuming content. According to a report from Business Insider, citing a source familiar with the matter, Snapchat is now saying that its users spend between 25-30 minutes in the app per day. This is quite a feat, considering Snapchat’s young audience: the company estimates it reaches 41 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18-34 — those dang millennial

A bill proposed in congress this week would require that all users provide identification and register prepaid ‘burner’ phones upon purchase. Earlier this week we reported that burner phones are what kept Islamic extremists a step head of law enforcement in the days and weeks leading up to the Paris attack. While it’s not clear this bill is related to that revelation, it is a sign of the times and the US government’s clear-cut mission to put a stop to privacy anonym