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Microsoft HoloLens <\/p>\n
Box debuts on NYSE Friday <\/p>\n
Shares in cloud storage provider Box start trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday; its IPO has been priced at $14 per share, topping the expected $12-$13 share, Reuters reports, and valuing the company at about $1.67 billion. Analysts are waiting to see if Box can continue to grow its customer base in a competitive space, and increase revenue per seat. <\/p>\n
Snowden will make an appearance at Harvard <\/p>\n
The world's best-known former NSA analyst, Edward Snowden, is on tap for a live video chat during a symposium on privacy at Harvard on Friday. The man who revealed to the world the extent of U.S. government surveillance of its own citizens remains in Moscow, and will be interviewed by security guru Bruce Schneier. <\/p>\n
EU counter-terror lead wants tech firms' encryption keys <\/p>\n
Just as more Internet companies have added end-to-end encryption in the outcry that followed revelations of widespread government surveillance of online communications, now the EU's counter-terrorism coordinator wants them to hand over the keys. Gilles de Kerchove says that the EU should consider adding new rules that would apply to companies operating in the region. <\/p>\n
Not-yet-public Intel Atom chip powers Microsoft's HoloLens <\/p>\n
There's an unreleased Intel Atom chip code-named Cherry Trail sitting inside Microsoft's stunning HoloLens holographic computer, which stole the show at this week's Windows 10 event. The HoloLens computer isn't yet commercially available, but sources say the CPU and GPU are based on Cherry Trail, which will also be used in tablets later this year. <\/p>\n
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