Microsoft Invites Devs to Tinker With HoloLens

Microsoft on Monday announced that its HoloLens Development Edition was available for preorder, with units set to ship to developers beginning March 30. The company early last year introduced the holographic computer technology as a feature for Windows 10. It later announced a partnership with Volvo that would allow the application to be applied to the automobile sales floor. Over the past year, Microsoft has unveiled partnerships with Autodesk Fusion 360, NASA, Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic.

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Apple Motion Seeks to Block Feds From Acquiring 'Dangerous Power'

Apple last week filed a motion to vacate a federal order requiring the company to create a tool or code to unlock the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters. The order would set a dangerous precedent and release a powerful means to breach security on potentially millions of phones around the world, Apple argued. It transcends one phone and would empower government to make private companies compromise the security of all their users whenever it sees fit, the company said.

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Feds test SkyTracker rogue drone detector

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How to build a time machine

Every now and again, we all indulge in dreams about traveling in time. Wouldn't it be wonderful to return to that specific point in the past to change a bad decision or relive an experience -- those halcyon days of childhood, that night you won an Oscar -- or to zip ahead to see how things turn out in the far future.











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Government enlists tech giants to fight ISIS message

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5 cool technology leaps about to change aviation

Given the terrifyingly airline seat patents filed in recent years, the future of flying often looks bleak.











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Apple vs. FBI debate may be the least of our challenges

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Google Killed the Laptop Star

Anyone who went to business school recognizes the basic tenet that you use marketing to build demand in order to sell products. Through the 1990s, there was impressive marketing surrounding laptops. Apple aggressively marketed this class, as did Microsoft, and it seemed every other brand on TV was trying to convince us we needed a new PC. PC marketing dropped off a cliff in the last decade, and when the iPad launched with a powerful Apple campaign it nearly took out the PC at the knees. What happened in the 1990s that killed PC marketing?

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Why we need a leap year

Here's what you always wanted to know about leap year ... but were too afraid to ask.











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