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• Yahoo adds Gmail support to Mail app

  12-12-2015 16:35
  
  Yahoo is looking to pull a whole lot of new users into its new Yahoo Mail app by adding support for Google's popular Gmail.
  Yahoo, which has been in turmoil lately, launched its Mail app this past October, adding support for email services like Outlook.com, Hotmail and AOL Mail.
  What the app didn't have was support for Gmail.
  Yahoo is trying to rectify that omission now.
  "All the features you need and love in Yahoo Mail -- powerful search, smart contacts, rich compose features and Yahoo Account
  
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• Microsoft apologizes for riling OneDrive users, restores some free storage space on request

  12-12-2015 16:33
  
  Microsoft on Friday apologized for how it conveyed last month's decision to slash OneDrive storage allotments, and restored the 15GB of free cloud storage space to current users who asked for it. But it did not back down from its determination to eliminate the unlimited allowance.
  "We are all genuinely sorry for the frustration this decision has caused and for the way it was communicated," wrote Douglas Pearce, a group program manager for OneDrive, in a message that shut down a massive plea on
  
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• Microsoft launches insider program for... Solitaire?!

  12-12-2015 00:53
  Microsoft’s Insider early-access program worked so well for Windows 10, that it brought it to Windows Mobile. And Office. And now, well, Solitaire.
  It’s not quite the same thing, but Microsoft’s Casual Games Inner Circle program will allow fans of Solitaire, Mahjong, Jigsaw, and others to sign up and help contribute to the development of the new games. In a blog post, Microsoft promised that the new program will offer early access to “new builds,” as well as the ch
  
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• 'Ex Machina,' here we come: A new algorithm helps computers learn the way we do

  12-12-2015 00:46
  
  Machine learning is all about getting computers to "understand" new concepts, but it's still a pretty inefficient process, often requiring hundreds of examples for training. That may soon change, however, thanks to new research published on Friday.Aiming to shorten the learning process and make it more like the way humans acquire and apply new knowledge based on just a few examples, a team of researchers has developed what they call a Bayesian Program Learning framework and then used it to teach
  
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• Bitcoin miner KnC is planning another four-week datacenter build-out

  12-12-2015 00:14
  
  Four weeks: That's how long Swedish bitcoin mining company KnCMiner takes to build a new datacenter, from breaking ground to beginning operations."The longest part is signing the agreement," CEO Sam Cole said Friday, announcing plans for another 20MW datacenter in the Swedish town of Boden, part of the "Node Pole" technology cluster near Lulea where Facebook built one of its most energy-efficient datacenters.One reason for the speed is that KnC doesn't have to worry about air conditioning. The N
  
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