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Tweet Microsoft held an event today, where the company finally announced a clamshell device, appropriately called the Surface Laptop. We went hands on with the device and here are our first impressions. Read more… Neowin

Tweet For the early history of computing, data tended to be kept locked down within isolated, local systems for security reasons. With the advent of the cloud however, the idea of accessing data from anywhere, using cost-effective on-demand services is now thoroughly mainstream. Indeed, the future of IT is the cloud. As cloud computing continues its triumphant spread, one issue that has continued to get undeservedly little attention, though, is…

Tweet For anyone paying attention, the fact that Chinese hackers apparently accessed key U.S. weapons designs may be unsettling but hardly surprising. Previously undisclosed findings by the Defense Science Board, show that more than two dozen major weapons designs were breached, according to a Washington Post report on Tuesday. Affected projects range from U.S. missile defenses to combat aircraft — including the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — and ships. (The Post compiled a list…

Tweet The really surprising thing about a conversation with some of the blogging world’s most celebrated names is how little they actually have in common — in terms of their motivations, strategies and business models. At paidContent Live on Wednesday, Brain Picking’s Maria Popova, New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin, The Dish’s Andrew Ross Sorkin, and web marketing guru Tim Ferriss, discussed the various reasons why they blog, and…

Tweet Massachusetts education authorities have their eyes trained on Twitter this week, searching for signs of students who are cheating on the state-wide MCAS exams. According to the Boston Globe Friday: staffers “scour” for MCAS hashtags during the tests. The practice kicked off last June during the science tests. Out of 76,000 students, 10 were caught tweeting and their tests were spiked. So according to the news kids are cheating on MCAS…