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HTC’s Mobile World Congress press invite remains clue

A raspberry, pointing fingers, flowers, and a cat? Sometimes companies plant exciting clues in their press conference invitations. And other times, you’re better off putting the puzzle out of your mind. Of this I am certain: HTC is throwing a press conference the night before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off (February 26), and I’m going. Thankfully, there are enough …

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Relive computing’s green

If you’re old enough to remember green-screen monitors, bulletin-board systems, and the 1983 movie classic “War Games,” you need to check out The Hacker for iOS. It’s a game, yes, but also a kind of love letter to fans of DOS, text adventures, ASCII games, and old-school hacking. The app “installs” the Glider Operating System, in all its green CRT …

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