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Sold Out! The $35 Raspberry Pi Mini-Computer.

Lauren Goode in News on February 29 at 8:29 am PT

The $35 Raspberry Pi, a credit-card-sized Linux-based computer originally created for educational purposes, has already sold out after it became available earlier today, following five years of research and development. The surge of traffic to Raspberry Pi’s Web site earlier today forced the company to temporarily put up a static page, where visitors have been directed to Twitter instead. The Verge reports that the $25 model of the mini-computer, which now will have 256 megabytes of RAM, is going into production “immediately.”

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Yahoo Up, But What Brought It Down? [Updated]

Beth Callaghan in News on October 14, 2010 at 2:59 pm PT

Yahoo’s homepage is back up. An update from Yahoo PR: “For a brief period this afternoon, Yahoo.com was inaccessible to some users. We have identified the issue and are working to correct it immediately. We know that this may have caused some inconvenience and we apologize to our users who might have been affected.” No word yet on what caused the outage, although sources close to the situation said it was a crash caused by a routine code push. There were some odd occurrences on Yahoo’s domain name system during the outage, but it appears to be cleared up.