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• Someone got Windows 95 running on an Apple Watch, because of course they would

  30-04-2016 20:30
  
  The tech world was a very different place in 1995. Back then, a 100MHz processor was considered powerful, the upcoming Copland operating system was going to be Apple’s next big thing, and Windows 95 was going to change everything on the PC side of things.
  As if to prove the point, Nick Lee of mobile app development firm Tendigi Studios hacked his Apple Watch to run Microsoft’s one-time flagship operating system.
  To get the hack to work, Lee ported the Bochs x86 emulator to the
  
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• Elon Musk opens virtual gym to train your robots

  30-04-2016 17:00
  
  High-tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched an open-source training "gym" for artificial-intelligence programmers.
  It's an interesting move for a man who in 2014 said artificial intelligence, or A.I., will pose a threat to the human race.
  "I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence," Musk said about a year and a half ago during an MIT symposium. "If I were to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably that... with artificial intelligence, we are summon
  
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• The death of Intel's Atom casts a dark shadow over the rumored Surface Phone

  30-04-2016 16:59
  
  Intel’s plans to discontinue its Atom chips for phones and some tablets may not have killed the dream of a Microsoft Surface phone—just the piece of it that made it so enticing.
  In the wake of a restructuring that relegated the PC to just another connected device, Intel confirmed Friday that it has cancelled its upcoming SoFIA and Broxton chips. That leaves Intel with just one Atom chip, Apollo Lake, which it had slated for convertible tablets.
  Microsoft has never formally commented
  
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• New Microsoft beta lets workers build their own apps without coding

  30-04-2016 00:29
  
  Employees that need access to certain business data on the go can now build their own app for it using a tool from Microsoft that went into public beta on Friday.The company has announced that it's opening up its PowerApps app creation service to the world, after a private beta period that began last year. PowerApps allows line of business employees to take data from a variety of sources and create apps that run on phones and tablets without requiring them to do any coding. Developers' time
  
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