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T-Mobile ZTE ZMAX gets November security updates… but it still runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat – Android Police


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T-Mobile ZTE ZMAX gets November security updates… but it still runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat
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I'm honestly conflicted. When I spotted this new software on T-Mobile's support pages, I had to do a double take. How come a phone that's still stuck on Android 4.4.2 KitKat is getting the November 2016 security updates? It's ridiculous and awesome to

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Hack: User pulls off ROM hack, runs Mac OS 6.0.1 on Amiga 500 computer

This is one of the cooler old-school projects out there. And it seems to have worked. Apparently, Reddit and imgur user “wowbobwow” was able to get Mac OS 6.0.1 running on an Amiga 500 computer. This was achieved by using an emulator called “A-Max …
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Hack runs Android apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers

The official Android Twitter app running on Mac OS. Ron Amadeo If you remember, about a week ago, Google gave Chrome OS the ability to run Android apps through the “App Runtime for Chrome.” The release came with a lot of limitations—it only worked with …
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Bitcoin startup runs your miner for less than you might pay for electricity

HashPlex will give your miner a home and feed it cheap power.
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There are at least a couple of problems for anybody who wants to run a Bitcoin miner in their home, especially if you buy hardware that’s powerful enough to make some money.

“Miners don’t make very good roommates,” said George Schnurle, VP of engineering for miner hosting startup HashPlex. It’s easy for the most powerful miners to “piss off all your roommates because this noisy hot box is running in your living room.”

Schnurle’s co-founder, CEO and former Microsoft employee Bernie Rihn, was running miners in his apartment, and “he had an extension cord going all the way across the living room because he needed to connect to one of his circuits that didn’t already have a bunch of equipment loaded to it,” Schnurle told Ars. “The one upside of that is he didn’t have to pay a heating bill during the winter here in Seattle because he had these space heaters running in his living room 24/7.”

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