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Windows 8 on ARM won’t run x86 apps Microsoft admits (Chris Davies/SlashGear)

Chris Davies / SlashGear:
Windows 8 on ARM won’t run x86 apps Microsoft admits  —  Windows 8 ARM PCs will not, in fact, have full app compatibility with software designed for x86 Windows 7 and 8 computers, Microsoft has confirmed, instead demanding that developers port their titles over to the new architecture.

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Lenovo U300s Ultraportable Laptop Revealed (Chris Burns/SlashGear)

Chris Burns / SlashGear:
Lenovo U300s Ultraportable Laptop Revealed  —  This week the folks at Lenovo are revealing a handful of devices for those that love their computers to fly away at a gust of wind – first of all there’s the “spectacularly slim” U300s Ultrabook, a luxury accessory as Lenovo puts it …

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MIT is a national treasure (Chris Dixon/cdixon’s posterous)

Chris Dixon / cdixon’s posterous:
MIT is a national treasure  —  My friend and business partner Tom Pinckney started two companies with me and one company before.  He invented many non-trivial patented inventions and raised many millions of dollars in venture capital, and returned capital to those investors many times over.

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Foursquare revokes mayor editing rights (Chris Thompson/About Foursquare)

Chris Thompson / About Foursquare:
Foursquare revokes mayor editing rights  —  If a venue isn’t offering a mayor special, there are very few advantages to becoming a foursquare mayor.  Yesterday foursquare reduced those benefits even further by taking away the right for mayors to edit their venues, leaving bragging rights as the only positive for becoming a mayor.

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