Hardware
An amazing success for the Kickstarter fund raising of project Kano, a computer you can assemble on your own
The Kano project is having a great success raising funds for the project on Kickstarter. It’s a kit that allows you to build a computer based on the famous Raspberry Pi thanks to a series of components and two manuals. Started on November 19 with the goal of reaching $100,000, the pledges exceeded that figure in little time. At this moment, the amount of the pledges is $868.049 but there’s time until December 19 to make an offer.
Michael Dell bought back his company for $24.9 billion
When in February the news arrived that Michael Dell (photo ©mikeandryan ), founder and CEO of Dell Inc., wanted to buy back his company, it seemed just a matter of time before the deal could be formalized. Instead, it took months of offers and counter-offers before he could see the end of it. Now the transaction has been completed and under the terms of the agreement Dell’s shareholders will receive $13.75 in cash per share plus a special dividend, again in cash, of $0.13 per share. The total transaction amount is $24.9 billion.
A posthumous award for Alan Turing and a biopic about his life
The great mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing received a posthumous award, the Icon Award for Outstanding Achievement, one of the Attitude Awards, accepted by two of his nieces. Recently the production of a biopic about the scientist started starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Turing and Keira Knightley as his friend and colleague Joan Clarke.
