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• 16% off AVerCapture HD 1080p Game Stream Video Capture Device - Deal Alert

  13-03-2017 22:29
  
  AVerCapture HD is a USB capture card that can record and stream Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, WiiU or PC gameplay up to full HD 1080p with HDMI and component input. It features built in H.264 hardware encoder for ultra-low latency to perfectly synchronize gameplay and voice commentary. AVerCapture HD requires less CPU processing power and generates smaller MP4/H.264 format files in full HD 1080p, resulting in a faster processing and post-editing experience. With the TimeShift function
  
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• BrandPost: Deep Learning stands to benefit from data analytics and High Performance Computing (HPC) expertise

  13-03-2017 21:57
  
  As I noted in a February blog post, many enterprises today need solutions that couple high-performance computing with data analytics. This convergence of technologies is blurring the boundaries between HPC and big data, and clearing the way forward for the advent of high-performance data analytics (HPDA). In a parallel trend, enterprises increasingly need solutions that merge technologies for machine learning and deep learning — a need I will explore more deeply in today’s post.The r
  
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• After rocky tenure, Mayer to leave Yahoo 'tarnished'

  13-03-2017 21:56
  
  After nearly five rocky years as CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer will be leaving her post with something of a tarnished image.
  As Yahoo continued to struggle under her tenure, so did Mayer's reputation as someone who could run a top-tier company. And that is likely to affect the jobs she'll look at taking on next.
  "I think she'll end up on the boards of directors of several companies, but probably will not receive an offer to head up a top company anytime soon," said Dan Olds, an analyst with Orion
  
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• Most repair shops can’t fix your iPhone, but that may change

  13-03-2017 21:27
  
  I drive an old car and it naturally needs repairs now and then. When it does, I can take it to the repair shop of my choice and the mechanics will likely have all the manuals and access to parts they need to do the job. But if I have a problem with my iPhone, that’s not the case. Apple makes it hard for independent shops to get the manuals and sometimes the parts or software they need to fix their expensive products.Think about that. You’ve spend more than $600 for a smartphone and A
  
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• Pennsylvania sues IBM over troubled $110M IT upgrade

  13-03-2017 21:20
  
  Pennsylvania is suing IBM over a $110 million IT project to upgrade its unemployment compensation system that the state says was never completed.
  The lawsuit alleges that state residents ultimately paid $170 million "for what was supposed to be a comprehensive, integrated, and modern system that it never got," Gov. Tom Wolf said in a statement last Thursday announcing the lawsuit.
  Asked to comment, an IBM spokesperson said: ""The claims alleged by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania are without me
  
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• Say goodbye to the camera bump with this smartphone concept

  13-03-2017 20:59
  
  Engineers at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute have developed a smartphone camera module that's thin enough to be squeezed inside a smartphone, removing the need for a "camera bump" without compromising on quality.On most modern smartphones, the camera necessitates a bump on the back of the phone. That's because the focal length of the lenses and camera assembly cannot be made any thinner.The concept from Fraunhofer does things differently.It uses four image sensors rotated 90 degrees so they point
  
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• Why laptops won’t come with larger SSDs this year

  13-03-2017 20:48
  
  A dearth in NAND flash chip supply will cause the prices of mainstream solid-state drives (SSDs) to leap by as much as 16% this quarter over the previous quarter, meaning laptop makers won't likely offer consumers higher capacity SSDs in their new systems, according to a report from market research firm DRAMeXchange.
  On average, contract prices for multi-level cell (MLC) SSDs supplied to the PC manufacturing industry are projected to go up by 12% to 16% compared with the final quarter
  
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• Los Angeles tests gunshot sensors on light poles

  13-03-2017 20:44
  
  Los Angeles is testing sensors attached to streetlights to wirelessly detect gunshots and other noises, and may expand the service to include sensors to recognize air pollution and earthquakes.
  Dozens of cities globally, including New York, began monitoring gunshot sounds with sophisticated rooftop sensor technology that measured two to three feet in length more than a year ago. However, newer sensors to detect gunshot sounds that are being tested by L.A. are smaller, about 1.5 inches in diamet
  
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• Staples dropped the price of this HP 15-inch Notebook to $500

  13-03-2017 20:01
  
  Staples has a nice sale on a solid daily driver for those in the market for a new laptop. The HP Notebook 15-AY163NR is on sale this week for $500, $150 off the suggested price and about $60 to $100 cheaper than what you can find elsewhere right now.
  The notebook features a 15.6-inch display with 1366-by-768 resolution. That is admittedly not great when 1080p displays are so commonplace, but the rest of the specs make up for it.
  At the heart of this PC is the dual-core 2.7GHz Intel “Kaby
  
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• 55% off Gears of War 4 for Xbox One - Deal Alert

  13-03-2017 20:00
  
  A new saga begins for one of the most acclaimed video game franchises in history. After narrowly escaping an attack on their village, JD Fenix and his friends, Kait and Del, must rescue the ones they love and discover the source of a monstrous new enemy. In Gears of War 4 for Xbox One, enjoy two-player co-op with friends locally via split-screen or over Xbox Live. Player 2 can select either Kait or Del. Team up with four others and battle wave after wave of increasingly difficult enemies b
  
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• With quantum computers here, developers seek uses

  13-03-2017 19:39
  
  After decades of research, the first quantum computers are now up and running. The question now is: What do we do with them?IBM and D-Wave are trying to cash in on their expensive quantum computers by commercializing services. Both agree that quantum computers are different than PCs and can't be used to run every application.Instead, quantum systems will do things not possible on today's computers, like discovering new drugs and building molecular structures. Today's computers are good at findin
  
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• BrandPost: How to develop mature DevOps practices

  13-03-2017 18:41
  
  Every company must act like a software company these days. That's why DevOps is so critical to your success: DevOps methodologies help you get better software to your users, and build tighter feedback loops for more effective learning.If you’ve already undergone a DevOps transformation, you’re likely already seeing better cross-functional alignment and shared responsibility.  Hopefully you’re deploying software more frequently, recovering from failures faster, and dealing
  
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• Here’s why Google Cloud support is now priced per person

  13-03-2017 18:38
  
  One of the key messages out of Google Cloud Next last week: The company has gotten serious about serving enterprise customers in a way that meets their needs. A key component of that is a new set of support plans for customers of its cloud platform.Instead of paying one big support fee, businesses will pay per user for support privileges, based on how quickly they will get a response. The new plan replaces a set of monolithic tiers that required businesses to pay a flat fee per month plus a perc
  
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• Why Intel is buying car-vision company Mobileye for $15.3B

  13-03-2017 18:28
  
  Intel Corp. announced an agreement to buy Israel-based Mobileye N.V., a maker of automotive vision technology used for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and fully autonomous vehicles.
  The deal, valued at $15.3 billion, would set up Intel as the premier provider of autonomous vehicle chip and machine-vision technology for the ADAS industry, which the company estimates will grow to $70 billion by 2030.Creative Commons Lic.A MobileEye EyeQ2 chip used in a Hyundai Lane Guidance camera modul
  
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• WikiLeaks dump brings CIA spying powers into the spotlight

  13-03-2017 18:22
  
  Has the CIA ever spied on you? That’s a key question swirling around the WikiLeaks document dump that allegedly details the U.S. agency's secret hacking tools.The documents themselves don't reveal much about who the CIA might have snooped on. But the agency certainly has the power to spy on foreigners outside the U.S., said Paul Pillar, a former deputy counterterrorism chief with the CIA.That's its job after all: to collect foreign intelligence. But even so, the CIA is pretty sel
  
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• Of course your TV’s spying on you

  13-03-2017 18:22
  
  Julian Assange, Wikileaks’ founder and Russian propagandist, must be proud of himself. In his latest “revelation” that theCentral Intelligence Agency can hack Apple and Android smartphones, PC operating systems and smart TVs, he has people throwing fits about how awful the CIA is.
  Please. Give me a break.
  Wikileaks uncovered nothing really new. Zero. Zilch.
  As my fellow Computerworld writer buddy Mike Elgan said, “The Wikileaks/CIA stories simply remind us anything with
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 5 top challenges to digital transformation in the enterprise

  13-03-2017 18:12
  
  Each year, I sit through dozens of hours of research sessions with consumers. If there is one theme I hear consistently it's that consumers expect the brands they engage with to provide a flawless digital experience in their interactions.  And though that’s a notion that is consistent across all age groups, it’s a theme we hear unanimously from millennials.  It only takes a quick look around various industries to see that the companies that are delivering a strong, dig
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How a typo took down Amazon's cloud

  13-03-2017 17:15
  
  On Tuesday, tens of thousands of websites including Quora, Medium, and Giphy were taken down as servers with the Amazon Web Service (AWS) crashed for a few hours. People immediately speculated about what had caused such a serious crash, with ideas ranging from a software bug to even a massive DDOS attack.But as Amazon revealed, the cause behind the server crash was that a “command was entered incorrectly” – or in other words, a typo. Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) t
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: 3 ways tech companies can stop paying lip service to diversity problems

  13-03-2017 17:00
  
  Many tech organizations tout the importance of diversity and inclusion, but few have successfully acted on those goals. In fact, many businesses make headlines over their diversity programs precisely because of their repeated failure to make meaningful progress. It’s not all bad news, though. Tech businesses like Pinterest, HubSpot and Twitter have largely met their 2016 diversity goals, and continue to work toward addressing underrepresented groups.To read this article in full or to leav
  
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• Transcript: Innovation takes flight at SFO

  13-03-2017 16:30
  
  The below is a transcript of an Insider digital event with San Francisco Airport CIO Ian Law. To listen to the full conversation, please click here. This transcript has been lightly edited to ease reading.John Gallant, IDG's Chief Content Officer: Hi, everyone and welcome to another installment of our Insider Digital Innovators series. I am John Gallant, Chief Content Officer at IDG. I want to thank all the members of our insider program, which is our premium technology content program, for
  
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• Mayer to quit as CEO of new holding company after Yahoo sale to Verizon

  13-03-2017 16:28
  
  After Yahoo sells its operating business to Verizon Communications, Marissa Mayer step down as CEO from the holding company that remains, according to a regulatory document posted Monday.However, Mayer and Yahoo still have not yet announced whether she will move with the operating business to Verizon or take another position. When Yahoo announced the deal with Verizon last July, Mayer said she planned to stay with the company."For me personally, I’m planning to stay," she said then. "I lov
  
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• Digital innovation takes flight at SFO

  13-03-2017 16:28
  
  Ian Law, CIO of San Francisco International Airport (SFO), is constantly at the intersection of a variety of business challenges. The obvious: running the technology powering air travel, passenger safety and well-being. The not so obvious: working with retailers, ride-sharing name brands and government agencies to make sure all operations are running smoothly.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• IT-management platform voor hoger onderwijs gelanceerd

  13-03-2017 15:46
  Leverancier van IT-managementoplossingen voor MSP’s en middelgrote organisaties Kaseya heeft een platform ontwikkeld voor het hoger onderwijs waarmee IT-beheerders netwerken verspreid over vele locaties kunnen beheren en waarmee ze beschikken over een uitgebreide suite met oplossingen.Beheerders hebben onder... lees meer
  
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• BrandPost: Today’s Managed Services for IT: How to Make them Work for You

  13-03-2017 15:28
  
  Organizations are  recognizing that there is no single outsourcing approach that works for every service requirement. Companies shouldn’t force-fit an approach that isn’t the right one. However, more and more IT teams are turning to managed service providers to handle certain functions — typically well-defined capabilities such as application support and data center management— in order to allow IT teams to focus more on strategic  initiatives.To read this artic
  
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• Google’s next wearable is a $350 Levi’s jacket that controls music by brushing your sleeve

  13-03-2017 15:26
  
  Among the many announcements at Google I/O in 2015 was one that seemed like a fantasy: connected clothing that could control music and lights, and even interact with images on a nearby screen. Dubbed Project Jacquard, Google proved it was serious about the tech by partnering with Levis to make a denim jacket that it showed off at last year’s I/O, and now we finally know how much it’s going to cost.
  And it’s not horribly expensive. Although it is a couple hundred dollars more t
  
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• Intel buys Mobileye for $15 billion to challenge Nvidia for the future of self-driving cars

  13-03-2017 15:03
  
  Intel is no longer satisfied just partnering with other companies to create self-driving cars: it wants to own the whole stack. Well, at least as far as the autonomous hardware and software go. The chip maker just announced it intends to purchase Jerusalem-based Mobileye for $15.3 billion.
  The two companies were already working together on various projects. The pair announced a partnership with BMW in July 2016 with the aim of putting an autonomous car on the streets by 2021. Then in November,
  
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• Intel races ahead in autonomous cars with $15.3 billion Mobileye buy

  13-03-2017 15:01
  
  Intel has shifted its self-driving car efforts into high gear with a $15.3 billion deal to acquire computer vision and collision-avoidance company MobileEye.With the deal, announced Monday, Intel gets its hands on technology for machine learning, data analysis, localization and mapping for driver assistance systems and autonomous driving.Mobileye develops a full package of software and chips designed for use in autonomous cars.The deal is expected to close in nine months and calls for the combin
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: Kindle Oasis: Why it beats the iPad and iPhone for reading

  13-03-2017 14:40
  
  I’m a huge fan of Apple’s iOS devices. I use my iPad Pro and iPhone 6s Plus every day, and they do quite a lot for me. I can’t imagine life without them.I have the 12.9-inch version of the iPad Pro and I love it for certain things such as reading web pages, listening to audiobooks, reading comics, and using various apps. But I don’t love it as much when it comes to reading ebooks.The iPad Pro has a beautiful screen, but it’s also too big and heavy to be a comfortabl
  
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• How much are vendor security assurances worth after the CIA leaks?

  13-03-2017 14:40
  
  Following the recent revelations about the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's cyberespionage arsenal, software vendors reiterated their commitments to fix vulnerabilities in a timely manner and told users that many of the flaws described in the agency's leaked documents have been fixed.While these assurances are understandable from a public relations perspective, they don't really change anything, especially for companies and users that are the target of state-sponsored hackers. The software the
  
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• GOP senator alleges password-hijack attempts after blasting WikiLeaks founder

  13-03-2017 14:31
  
  Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) Saturday claimed that hackers were trying to gain access to his personal and government-issued devices through bogus password-reset notifications.
  In a short flurry of Twitter messages, Sasse blamed the hacking attempts on his criticism of WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, earlier in the week.
  "Heads-up...I've been critical of Assange & WikiLeaks this week. So...big surprise: Am having multiple 'password reset' attempts right now," Sasse tweeted Saturday. Th
  
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• Today Only 48% off Omron 10 Series Bluetooth Wireless Blood Pressure Monitor - Deal Alert

  13-03-2017 14:14
  
  The Omron 10 series wireless blood pressure monitor averages 4.5 out of 5 stars on Amazon from over 4,450 customers (read reviews). With a regular list price of $99.99, this 48% off deal puts it at just $51.99.  The bluetooth monitor is compatible with Omron's free iOS and Android apps. It features multi-color indicator lights which show if your readings is in the normal (green) or hypertension (orange) range. BP level bar displays how your reading compares to normal home blood pr
  
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• An action plan for cloud management

  13-03-2017 13:12
  
  Companies everywhere are moving core enterprise systems to the cloud. Formerly complicated and expensive on-premises outsourcing implementations are now relatively simple and inexpensive in the cloud. This reduction in cost and complexity is causing an explosion of cloud services and cloud service providers. With multiple cloud services, many companies are losing track of the who, what, where, when and why of their data. Below, we outline potential issues involved in having multiple cloud servi
  
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• Why GE is winning the war for tech talent

  13-03-2017 13:00
  
  Hiring enough tech talent to facilitate digital transformations typically tops the list of challenges CIOs face. They could do worse than follow the blueprint crafted by 125-year-old General Electric.The company has lured top tech executives from Apple, Google and Microsoft by underscoring the huge role GE plans to play in the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era defined more by software platforms and APIs than heavy metal. It has also overhauled a talent recruitment practice that was
  
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• IDG Contributor Network: How to navigate the changing landscape of cybersecurity

  13-03-2017 12:02
  
  The world of cybersecurity has changed drastically over the past couple of decades. We have evolved from a world of keystroke logging and trojans to a universe of full fledged ransomware and cyber warfare. From a governmental, corporate and personal standpoint, the increasing frequency of cyber attacks combined with their severity is unnerving, to say the least. Add to that the fact that the cybersecurity workforce is expected to see a shortage of 1.8 million employees in 2022, and the unsettlin
  
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• 10 cities where IT pros aren’t paid what they’re worth

  13-03-2017 11:57
  
  Cities where IT pros aren’t paid what they’re worthImage by ThinkstockWhile IT salaries continue to rise and many are still well above the national median income, new research from compensation and salary data solutions company Paysa shows that many tech workers are still underpaid when you compare their current pay to their market value.Paysa examined more than 5 million resumes of tech and engineering professionals from their salary database and compared their education, experience
  
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• Review: Slow internet? Firebind can sniff out the problem

  13-03-2017 11:30
  
  We found Firebind to be an effective tool for reaching into branch office networks to diagnose internet-based performance problems. Firebind has a simple agent installation procedure and uses email-based alerting, so network managers won’t find it a burden to install or operate.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• How to remove ransomware: Use this battle plan to fight back

  13-03-2017 11:30
  
  Ransomware doesn’t sneak into your PC like ordinary malware. It bursts in, points a gun at your data, and screams for cash—or else. And if you don’t learn to defend yourself, it could happen again and again.
  Armed gangs of digital thieves roaming the information superhighway sounds like an overwrought action movie, but the numbers say it’s true: Ransomware attacks rose from 3.8 million in 2015 to 638 million in 2016, an increase of 167 times year over
  
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• Zix wins 5-vendor email encryption shootout

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Email encryption products have made major strides since we last looked at them nearly two years ago. They have gotten easier to use and deploy, thanks to a combination of user interface and encryption key management improvements, and are at the point where encryption can almost be called effortless on the part of the end user.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Switching from Mac to PC: Choosing a laptop

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  I’m committed to switching from a Mac to a PC, and the next step is to start shopping. When you haven’t used anything but Macs for close to two decades, the sheer quantity and variety of Windows choices poses a challenge. So, while I researched which new Windows laptop would be a good fit for me, I spent some time experimenting with the first Windows computer I could get my hands on: my Mac.Easing into Windows via BootcampMost modern Apple computers come with Boot Camp Assistant&mda
  
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• Pivotal, Google team up for Kubernetes cloud management

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Pivotal and Google have launched Project Kubo to apply Pivotal's Bosh tool for deploying and managing cloud software to Google's Kubernetes container orchestration platform.
  Currently in an alpha release stage, Kubo instantiates, deploys, and manages Kubernetes clusters on any cloud. Pivotal has been working on the project with members of the Google Cloud platform team.[ To the cloud! Real-world container migrations. | Dig into the the red-hot open source framework in InfoWorld's beginner's gui
  
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• Discover the power of Bash on Windows

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Microsoft Windows may be the dominant player on the desktop, but the rapidly increasing open source software market—especially for admin and dev tools—clearly favors Linux. Not to mention the mobile market, where Android uses Linux variants. If you’re a developer on Windows, the drumbeat to get hip to Linux capabilities keeps getting louder.
  Over the years, Microsoft has introduced various workarounds for using Linux capabilities on Windows, such as PowerShell with SSH and Cyg
  
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• Disaster recovery: How is your business set up to survive an outage?

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Asynchronous vs synchronous. Dark disaster recovery vs. active architecture. Active/active vs. active/passive. No setup is objectively better or worse than another. The best one for you primarily depends on your level of tolerance for what happens when the server goes down.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Augmented reality: Next-gen headsets show business promise

  13-03-2017 11:00
  
  Technology entrepreneur Raven Zachary has seen things he has difficulty talking about.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  
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• Joe Biden’s passionate plea at SXSW: ‘We need your help’

  13-03-2017 00:22
  Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot is a personal mission, one he’s forging ahead with after leaving office. A year after President Barack Obama took the South by Southwest stage, Biden and wife Dr. Jill Biden arrived in Austin to appeal to the festival’s technology entrepreneurs, developers, and engineers: “You’re the future,” Biden said. “You can make a gigantic impact. We need your ingenuity. We need you to help us reach people to change their
  
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