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Sky high success for Raspberry Pi computer

A Raspberry Pi computer has boldly gone where no other Pi has gone before.
High-altitude ballooning enthusiast Dave Akerman tethered one, complete with a webcam to photograph its progress, to a helium balloon.
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First Raspberry Pi computers to be delivered

The first batch of Raspberry Pi computers are being issued to users.
A group of schoolchildren in Leeds are the first to get their hands on production models of the bare-bones computer.
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Work is ongoing here on a new Debian "squeeze" build, which, among other things, contains the firmware update we needed to pass EMC testing, enables the system-level L2 cache and comes with new ALSA drivers (they're alpha-quality at the moment). Well be releasing that before April 16.
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The Raspberry Pi computer goes on general sale

A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today.
The Raspberry Pi is a bare-bones, low-cost computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry.
Sold uncased without keyboard or monitor, the Pi has drawn interest from educators and enthusiasts.
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A test version of the Raspberry Pi computer has attracted bids of more than £3,000 in a fund-raising auction on eBay. With the machine about to start its first major production run, could it be the right tool to revitalise computer science in schools?
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Bare bones Raspberry Pi PC gets ready to launch

The eagerly anticipated Raspberry Pi home computer is about to go into production.
The $25 (£16) machine is being created in the hope that it will inspire a new generation of technology whizz kids.
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IBM scientists unveil Racetrack memory chip prototype

Details of the first real-world test of a new memory chip technology have been revealed by IBM scientists.
The demonstration involved Racetrack memory - a system which stores information as magnetic patterns on tiny wires.
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The Raspberry Pi USB computer is tiny, and the man who made it intends to manufacture it so cheaply he says it could be given away to school children.
Created by UK game developer David Braben, the computer is about the size of a typical USB stick and will cost $25. With its USB port on one side and HDMI port on the other, it can function as a real PC.
What sorts of components can you fit on such a limited piece of real estate? Surprisingly, theres enough room for a 700 MHz ARM11 processor, 128 MB of RAM and OpenGL graphics with enough power to display 1080p video.
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Raspberry Pi - the £15 computer



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Cult of less: Living out of a hard drive

Many have begun trading in CD, DVD, and book collections for digital music, movies, and e-books. But this trend in digital technology is now influencing some to get rid of nearly all of their physical possessions - from photographs to furniture to homes altogether.
Let's face it - digital files, applications and web services are replacing the need for of many of the physical goods that pepper our homes, crowd our desks and fill our closets.
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