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Microsoft's Surface Hub 2 puts Teams collaboration at its core

Microsoft has unveiled its updated Surface Hub digital whiteboard, improving collaboration capabilities with software and hardware features.

The Surface Hub 2 - set to launch in 2019 - features a 4K, 50.5-in. multi-touch display and contains 4K cameras that rotate with the devices, integrated speakers and far-field microphones. The modular design allows for up to four Surface Hub 2 screens to be connected in portrait or landscape view, while rolling stands allow individual screens to be moved around office spaces.

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How AppleiPad, Swift and VoiceOver teach the blind to code

ItGlobal Accessibility Awareness Day, which felt like a good day to explain how the accessibility features inside Swift Playgrounds and Apple solutions are enabling visually impaired people to code.

Think about that

It has been just 63 days since we lost the genius of Professor Stephen Hawking.

His life and his achievements show us the huge potential locked inside people who live with physical, visual, or motor skill challenges.

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Request comes to pilot fish to provide employee data for the company-wide address book. That's no big deal.

"Time to code: 60 minutes," fish reports. "Affected employees: 8,000."

Flash forward two years: Senior executives get new cell phones that should be able to import the company-wide address book. Problem: The phone numbers are formatted for human beings to use, not cell phones.

New request: Change address book format so cell phones can dial the phone numbers automatically.

"Time to code: 10 minutes to comment out old code and add new code," says fish. "Affected employees: 8,000. Employees who actually need this data: 10."

Now it's another eight months later: Senior execs decide they're bored with having the entire company directory on their cell phones.

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Solving a blockchain conundrum: Biometrics could recover lost encryption keys

Blockchain could one day solvethe online privacy problem by encrypting or scrambling personally identifiable information and issuing each person a random string of bits & a private key & created explicitly for unscrambling their data.

The person holding the blockchain private key could issue various public keys controlling who has access to the personal data on the blockchain. So, for instance, if a car rental agency needed to verify you have a driver's license, you could use a public key to give them access to that information. You could later revoke access to that information.

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Cambridge Analytica Files For Chapter 7 Bankruptcy After Facebook Privacy Row
The firm at the center of the Facebook data hack made the decision after suffering a sharp drop in business.
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Why Isn't There A Birth Control Emoji
Two women decided it was time to have one.
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