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The Verge[^]:

Last year, Mozilla quietly announced it was giving up on trying to build a viable smartphone operating system that could compete with Android and iOS.

Ars Technica[^]:

Now Sourceforge and other sites must find a less-annoying way of making revenue.

"The search company on Wednesday named John Giannandrea, an expert in machine learning, to run the engineering group that devises its ranking algorithms, the core technology for making sense of the deluge of information on the internet.

He replaces Amit Singhal, an Indian engineer who oversaw a rewrite of Google’s ranking technology after joining 15 years ago.

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Mr Singhal has long used the fictional intelligent computer on Star Trek as the model for the perfect search engine. In a post on Google+ announcing he was leaving the company, he said he had first dreamt of the idea when growing up in the Himalayas. "My dream Star Trek computer is becoming a reality, and it is far better than what I ever imagined," he added."

Business Insider[^]:

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been called the next Industrial Revolution — it will change the way all businesses, governments, and consumers interact with the physical world.

The Guardian[^]:

European nation to back research aimed at space race to open first commercial mine of valuable metals off planet Earth

CIO[^]:

Microsoft's business strategy for the cloud appears to amount to this: ‘Be more like Apple.’ Here’s why that approach works.

Network world[^]:

The Dos and Don’ts of enterprise DevOps

Venture Beat[^]:

Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content-blocking plugins to the browser preinstalled on its Android phones. The first plugin available for Samsung’s browser was Adblock Fast, a free and open source solution available on Google Play. Yesterday, Google removed the Android plugin from its app store.

ZDNet[^]:

You might be amazed at how accessible hacking tools have become. Your site can be p0wn3d and an entire library of hacking tools downloaded and installed in just a few short minutes. Read this article and be prepared.

Visual Studio blog[^]:

In November, we introduced the Visual Studio Dev Essentials Program to give developers everything they need to get started building and deploying apps on any platform, for free.

Azure blog[^]:

As we enter February, it's a good time to remember that 2016 is a leap year. For most people, this may just be an interesting oddity; an extra day to work or play. But for software developers, the leap year can cause significant pain.