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• Toshiba is selling off part of its memory business

  28-01-2017 16:49
  
  Toshiba on Friday officially announced it will sell a portion of its flash memory business, including the SSD business of the Storage & Electronic Device Solutions Division, to a not-yet-named buyer.
  The company, which invented NAND flash in the early 1980s, announced last week it was exploring spinning off its memory business. A Nikkei's Asian Review said Toshiba had been considering spinning off its semiconductor operations and selling a partial stake to Western Digital (WD), "as it tries
  
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• 33% off Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Motherboard - Deal Alert

  28-01-2017 16:37
  
  Currently discounted 33% on Amazon the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B Motherboardfeatures a quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex A53 clocked at 1.2 GHz. The Pi 3 features on-board 802.11N WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Why fake news is a tech problem

  28-01-2017 13:01
  
  News used to be reliable.
  While "fake news" has always existed, we enjoyed a halcyon period in the second half of the 20th Century where the news media in industrial democracies produced a reliable, shared reality. People disagreed, but their opinions were mostly based on credible facts produced by solid journalism standards, fact-checking and editorial integrity.
  Then the web arrived, followed by the social web. Now, instead of three reputable news sources, you hear facts and ideas from thousa
  
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• Booted up in 1993, this server still runs -- but not for much longer

  28-01-2017 12:00
  
  In 1993, President Bill Clinton was in the first year of his presidency, Windows NT 3.1 and Jurassic Park were both released, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed, and Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, booted up a brand-new Stratus Technologies fault tolerant server.
  A lot has changed in 24 years, but one thing hasn't: The Stratus server is still in operation and Hogan -- who works at steel products maker Great Lakes Works EGL in Dearborn Mich. -- continues to keep
  
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• IT service providers prepare for potential H-1B visa changes

  28-01-2017 03:10
  
  While new U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent proclamations related to immigration have centered on his plans for a Mexican border wall and bans on Syrian refugees, the IT outsourcing industry is anticipating details on his strategy for reforming the H-1B visa program.Trump railed against the shifting of U.S. jobs overseas during his campaign and called for raising the minimum salary for H-1B holders to $100,000 per year, from the current threshold of $60,000 per year.A purported draft of
  
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