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• Microsoft reverses course, says 'no thanks' to Bitcoin payments

  13-03-2016 19:22
  Bitcoin’s day in the sun at Microsoft appears to be over, at least for now. According to a report on Softpedia published Friday, the purveyor of all things Windows has decided to stop taking the cryptocurrency after accepting it as a form of payment on the WIndows Store since late 2014.
  Sure enough, Microsoft published a short help doc to its website that confirms the chance in policy. To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Digiwell will teach you an NFC trick your old dog may already know

  13-03-2016 19:01
  
  Patrick Kramer pulled back his sleeves and reached out an empty hand to offer his business card.His contact details appeared on the smartphone screen as if by magic, but it was a sufficiently advanced technology that made it happen.For an encore, he opened a locked door without a key. When anyone else touched the handle, it remained locked.Unlike other magicians, Kramer willingly explained the secret to the trick, which is so simple a dog could perform it: In the flesh between his left thumb and
  
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• Vodafone readies pan-European virtual private cloud service for SMEs

  13-03-2016 16:28
  
  Small businesses with global ambitions will soon have a new cloud partner -- at least wherever Vodafone has data centers.Vodafone Total Cloud Flex is a virtual private cloud service that can be managed via a self-service portal, and directly integrated with on-premises infrastructure via VPN or MPLS.Telecommunications operator Vodafone unveiled the service in Hanover, Germany, on Sunday, on the eve of the Cebit trade show.The service is scheduled to go live by the end of June in Germany, Italy,
  
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• Google's AlphaGo defeated in fourth Go game by South Korean player

  13-03-2016 12:12
  
  Google DeepMind's AlphaGo was defeated Sunday by Lee Se-dol, the South Korean player that the program had defeated in three consecutive games.The loss stymies the AI system's prospects of equaling a 5-0 win against an European Go champion in October.A move by Lee, described by commentators as "brilliant," was followed immediately after by a mistake by the computer program, leading Lee to say that AlphaGo, though a formidable opponent, has weaknesses or bugs that degrades its performance when fac
  
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