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Tweet Microsoft has slashed its prices for all ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ retail packages, including the coveted Limited Collector’s Edition, which is now available for just £99.99 – but only until next month. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Days after the launch of the world’s thinnest smartphone, the 4.85mm-thick Oppo R5, Vivo now hopes to steal that title with a device that’s half as thick as an iPhone 5/5s, with a sleek 3.8mm profile. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Microsoft may not have officially announced the U.S. sales numbers for Xbox One consoles for January, but clues offered by both Microsoft and NPD may have revealed the numbers from last month. Read more…      Neowin

Tweet Which social media company just bought a whopping 85 petabytes of object-based storage? That’s the question on our minds after Jason Capitel, EMC’s COO for the EMEA region, referred to the sale onstage at our Structure:Europe conference in London. A petabyte (PB) is a quadrillion bytes. To give you a sense of the scale we’re talking about here, Facebook’s photo-filled data warehouse, built up over many years, stood at…

Tweet Plenty of startups — from massive open online course (MOOC) providers like Coursera and Udacity to adaptive learning companies like Knewton to the “online Ivy” Minerva Project — want to rethink it means to get an education. But bigwig Silicon Valley investor Reid Hoffman wants entrepreneurs to go one step further and upend the college degree. In a post on Linkedin and The New Republic, the prominent investor and…