
“Ten thousand units of the device, about the size of a money clip, were being given away free in the U.K., packaged up with the December issue of The MagPie, Raspberry Pi’s magazine, which hit newsstands Thursday. The other 20,000 units produced by Sony Corp. in a factory in south Wales were all sold out Thursday by distributors in the U.K. and the U.S. The computer can be used to play games, such as Minecraft and Scratch, a coding tutorial program. It can also be used for many other basic processing purposes, including operating as music players and running robots, as well as having home automation uses, and even for sending tweets from space.”
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/11/26/raspberry-pi-rolls-out-5-computer/
Related posts:
FINTRAC collecting too much info on innocent Canadians: privacy watchdog
3,000 officers, 2,000 cameras are watching Super Bowl spectators
Why Bitcoin is the banking industry’s newest, biggest threat
China Shows How to Destroy a Market
French and Russian warships 'head for Syria'
Uruguay bans all cash payments over US$5,000 as of next year
Students say they will continue protesting ‘war criminal’ David Petraeus
U.S. to provide ‘direct military support’ to Syrian rebels
IMF: infrastructure spending spree last chance to revive growth
IRS to Protect Computer System Modernization From Budget Cuts [2011]
Local TSA workers headed to East Coast
Egypt's Tamarod protest movement
Iranian-Canadians fume as TD closes accounts
Asian economies most at risk for natural disaster crisis
Secret NSA loophole allows data gathering on U.S. citizens without a warrant