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• Malware peddlers offered Raspberry Pi money to infect your micro-PC

  27-12-2015 21:09
  
  The Raspberry Pi—the popular mini-PC that's about the size of credit card—is attracting attention from malware distributors. But not in the sense that you might think.
  Last Wednesday, the Raspberry Pi Foundation tweeted a screenshot of an email in which a company effectively asked to install malware onto users Raspberry Pis.
  In the email, the company, whose name was redacted, offered the Foundation money in order to distribute an exe file on Raspberry Pi machines (never mind the fac
  
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• The geek gifts you didn't (but still can) get this holiday

  27-12-2015 16:17
  
  The technology gifts you won't find simply anywhereChristmas is here, and geeks across the world are investigating their newest tech toys. But maybe you didn't get everything you wanted, or you have holiday cash you'd like to spend on more gadgetry. In the spirit of spreading holiday cheer of the gadget variety, InfoWorld presents our picks for the coolest gadgets for Christmas 2015 (or whatever holiday you celebrate). Chances are you won't find these suggestions at a big-box retailer, so they a
  
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• 12 essential apps for your brand-new iPhone

  27-12-2015 16:16
  Did Santa bring you a new iPhone? Man, that jolly old elf is solid. Faced with literally more than a million apps and games on the App Store to choose from, however, how can you possibly pick the best things to add to your luscious new slab of technology? Why—coincidentally—by continuing to read this very page!
  The apps below are some of the very best that exist for the iPhone and iPod touch, whether that’s because they do something better than the built-in apps, really help s
  
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• The 11 apps every brand-new iPad needs first

  27-12-2015 16:15
  Trick out your new toyImage by Christopher PhinIf under your Christmas tree you found a new iPad—regardless of whether or not you put it there yourself for yourself because you work hard dammit—then you’ll quickly find yourself wanting to add apps to it so that it becomes even more amazing. There are more than million in the App Store, however, so choosing which ones to get is a daunting task.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Our favorite free iOS games of 2015

  27-12-2015 16:13
  All play, no payAs our Freemium Field Test column explored this year, many prominent free-to-play games look promising, but end up being droning grinds. No huge surprise there. But there are truly great games amidst the junk, some of which stand tall alongside the year’s top paid games.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• $20,000 hoverboard actually hovers...for a few minutes, anyway

  27-12-2015 16:12
  
  Those faux-hoverboards that look like Segways with the handlebars cut off have gotten all the attention lately, what with the exploding batteries and viral videos of riders wiping out. But hoverboards that actually hover do exist—they’re just...really expensive.
  Case in point, take a look at the Arcaboard, a hoverboard from aeronautics company Arca Space Corporation. Unlike some hoverboards, like the Hendo and Lexus’s prototype hoverboard, which only work on certain condu
  
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