Yahoo might be turning into the next AOL, Cyanogen Inc switches to Apps, 3D printing finger prints to login, GPU power on demand & the farming Robot that can heal your garden shame.

Plus Chris gets serious about sleep tech & our Kickstarter of the week!

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• Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.8 billion – YouTube
• Yahoo’s remaining assets to rebrand after sale to Verizon in 2017 | TechCrunch
• Cyanogen Inc. reportedly fires OS development arm, switches to apps
• AMD MxGPU – The World’s First Hardware Virtualized GPU – YouTube
• Michigan police 3-D printing murder victim’s fingers to try to unlock his phone
• This farming robot can automatically grow food in your backyard garden – Tech Insider
• ‘Marijuana Tampon’ Might Be the End of Your Period Cramps – Natural Healing
• Sleep as Android – Android Apps on Google Play
• SleepCloud study – Sleep as Android
• SleepCloud Data
• Chris Fisher on Twitter: “Do any of you use Sleep as Android (with SleepCloud)? Do your REM sleep stats look this bad? I need more data!
• SleepyHead CPAP Review Software

Kickstarter of the Week:

• The Superbook: Turn your smartphone into a laptop for $99 by Andromium Inc. — Kickstarter

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Mike shares his adventures in Ubuntu land this week, after a MacBook disaster. Then we discuss the implications of IBM backing Swift on their cloud.

Plus some feedback, code as speech, and more!

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Linux Adventure pt 1: First Look | dominickm.com

The machine I’m running is Ubuntu 15.10 on a slim Dell tower with no graphics card and 8GB of Ram — it should be noted that it started with 4GB but I found that I had a spare stick lying around, so I went ahead and pushed it to eight. Overall, the performance has been phenomenal and there have been no obvious speed or animation issues in the Unity desktop.

• elementary blog — RE: Geary

Swift on the IBM Cloud

“We are making it easy for developers to start developing their Swift apps in the cloud,” Diaz says.

The Fish of the Show

More “shops” + < projects = Shady
Is the traditional W2 shop in trouble?

Cyanogen Launches A New MOD Platform For Deeper Integration Of Apps In Android — Not To Be Confused With The CyanogenMod Custom ROM

Here is a list of the MODs that will be available on launch and what you should expect them to do:

• Skype: integrates in the native dialer for VOIP calling, call history, and easy switching from voice to video calls.
• Cortana: “hands-free multitasking” including voice-activated selfies.
• Hyperlapse: integrates as a mode in the native camera, allows you to shoot Hyperlapses.
• OneNote: has many entry points in the OS (dialer, browser, email, calendar) to quickly jot down notes, as well as a Quick Settings tile.
• TrueCaller: identifies spam calls and texts right away and lets you block them.
• Social lockscreen: shows relevant posts right on your lockscreen. The promo photo only demonstrates Instagram with the full photo taking up your lockscreen and the caption in the lower part.

You should expect the MOD platform to roll out to users with the Cyanogen OS 13 update

Feedback:

• Dev Laptop Protips

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Chris shares what he’s loving about Android from a users perspective & Mike goes into what is driving him crazy from a developer’s standpoint.

Plus redefining DevOps, starting a multi-user database & more!

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• DevOps what it really should be

• Starting Multi-User Database development…

Hoopla

• Cyanogen said to be hoovering up cash, but NOT from Microsoft • The Register

Bloomberg reported on Friday that Cyanogen is close to an agreement that would see it raise $110m from a group of financiers including PremjiInvest, the investment firm of Wipro chairman Azim Premji.

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Mike is stuck in a train, stuck in the snow. So it’s an open call edition, with some great discussion around Microsoft’s investment in Cyanogen & the pitch for Python.

Plus a robust chat about the new Raspberry Pi 2 & it’s ability to run Windows 10.

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• Appreciating Ruby

• The math of coding

• Is Perl Obsolete?

• Wakatime – Analytics for Programmers

• WakaTime · Analytics for programmers

Analytics for Programmers. Open-source plugins for automatic time tracking & insights into your programming.

• Priyanka Sharma | Women’s Tech Radio 11

Hoopla

Microsoft to Invest in Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen – Digits – WSJ

People familiar with the matter say Microsoft is putting money into Cyanogen, which is building a version of the Android mobile-operating system outside of Google’s auspices.

Microsoft would be a minority investor in a roughly $70 million round of equity financing that values Cyanogen in the high hundreds of millions, one of the people said. The person said the financing round could grow with other strategic investors that have expressed interest in Cyanogen because they’re also eager to diminish Google’s control over Android. The identity of the other potential investors couldn’t be learned.

“We’re going to take Android away from Google,” said Kirt McMaster, Cyanogen’s chief executive, in a brief interview last week. The next day, at an industry event sponsored by tech news service The Information, McMaster said Cyanogen had raised $100 million to date. Previously the company had disclosed that it raised $30 million of funding. The company spokeswoman declined to make McMaster available for this story.

McMaster said more than 50 million people use a version of the Cyanogen Android operating system, most of whom have installed it in place of their phone’s initial operating system.

To spread adoption more quickly, Cyanogen is working on deals with hardware makers to install the software on their devices. It recently signed a deal with Indian smartphone maker Micromax to ship handsets with Cyanogen’s software and is close to announcing more such deals, say people familiar with the matter.

Raspberry Pi 2 on sale now at $35 | Raspberry Pi

Let’s get the good stuff out of the way above the fold. Raspberry Pi 2 is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Model B+), featuring:

• A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU (~6x performance)
• 1GB LPDDR2 SDRAM (2x memory)
• Complete compatibility with Raspberry Pi 1

Because it has an ARMv7 processor, it can run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions, including Snappy Ubuntu Core, as well as Microsoft Windows 10.

For the last six months we’ve been working closely with Microsoft to bring the forthcoming Windows 10 to Raspberry Pi 2. Microsoft will have much more to share over the coming months. The Raspberry Pi 2-compatible version of Windows 10 will be available free of charge to makers.

Visit WindowsOnDevices.com today to join the Windows Developer Program for IoT and receive updates as they become available.

• Snappy Ubuntu Core on Raspberry Pi 2 | Ubuntu Insights

Free the Future of a Radical Price Book Pick

• FREE: The Future of a Radical Price Audiobook

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Special guest Noah is in studio & We look at Android’s huge 2014, and recent Bitcoin volatility. Then, as long time VirtualBox users, we discuss the future of the project.

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Android Shipped 1 Billion Smartphones Worldwide in 2014

According to the latest research from our WSS (Smartphones) service, global smartphone shipments grew 30 percent annually to reach a record 1.3 billion units in 2014. Android accounted for 81 percent of all smartphones last year and shipped over 1 billion units worldwide for the first time ever.

Microsoft to Invest in Rogue Android Startup Cyanogen – Digits – WSJ

People familiar with the matter say Microsoft is putting money into Cyanogen, which is building a version of the Android mobile-operating system outside of Google’s auspices.

Microsoft would be a minority investor in a roughly $70 million round of equity financing that values Cyanogen in the high hundreds of millions, one of the people said. The person said the financing round could grow with other strategic investors that have expressed interest in Cyanogen because they’re also eager to diminish Google’s control over Android. The identity of the other potential investors couldn’t be learned.

Prosecutors Trace $13.4M in Bitcoins From the Silk Road to Ulbricht’s Laptop

In Ulbricht’s trial Thursday, former FBI special agent Ilhwan Yum described how he traced 3,760 bitcoin transactions over 12 months ending in late August 2013 from servers seized in the Silk Road investigation to Ross Ulbricht’s Samsung 700z laptop, which the FBI seized at the time of his arrest in October of that year. In all, he followed more than 700,000 bitcoins along the public ledger of bitcoin transactions, known as the blockchain, from the marketplace to what seemed to be Ulbricht’s personal wallets. Based on exchange rates at the time of each transaction, Yum calculated that the transferred coins were worth a total of $13.4 million.

Does VirtualBox VM Have Much A Future Left? – Phoronix

It’s been a long time since last hearing of any major innovations or improvements to VirtualBox, the VM software managed by Oracle since their acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Is there any hope left for a revitalized VirtualBox?

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