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• UK gets first drone conviction after flights over football stadiums

  20-09-2015 23:01
  
  A U.K. man has been convicted of flying drones illegally over buildings and congested areas, the first conviction of its type in the country.
  Nigel Wilson of Nottingham was fined £1,800 (US$2,800) and ordered to pay an additional £600 in costs after pleading guilty to offenses under the U.K.'s Air Navigation Order 2009. He was also banned from purchasing, owning or flying a drone, or assisting anyone else to fly a drone, for the next two years.
  Manchester Police arrested Wilson
  
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• Microsoft's Edge browser will soon support Skype calls without a plugin

  20-09-2015 22:07
  
  Windows 10 preview build 10547 features plenty of new tweaks and improvements, and among them is a preview of the Object RTC (ORTC) APIs for Microsoft Edge, a collection of tools that will make it easier for developers to build audio and video calling into Web apps without requiring any browser plugins.
  Skype is a natural fit for ORTC, and sure enough, the Skype team announced Friday that it is working on new versions of Skype for Web and Skype for Outlook.com that take advantage
  
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• Comparing iCloud's new lower prices to the competition

  20-09-2015 17:56
  iCloud just got cheaper. Apple announced price cuts September 9, but they went into effect for new subscribers on September 16. Apple still includes a paltry 5GB at its free tier, but it bumped its first paid tier at $0.99 per month from 20GB to 50GB. (Prices vary worldwide, and aren’t a straight conversion, as with most Apple fees.)
  The 200GB tier is now $2.99 a month, a dollar cheaper than before. Apple dropped the 500GB tier entirely, but slashed the price for 1TB by $10 a month: it&rs
  
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