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$199 Gizmo Board is High-Powered Raspberry Pi Alternative – EdSurge (blog)

$199 Gizmo Board is High-Powered Raspberry Pi Alternative EdSurge (blog) At $199, it's a steep price to pay, especially considering that the most expensive version of the Raspberry Pi is only $35. However, the Gizmo boasts more raw horsepower, SATA connectivity, uses the OpenCL API for GPU processing–all while retaining …

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Google Partners With Raspberry Pi To Bring 15000 Mini PCs To Schools – Geeky gadgets

Geeky gadgets Google Partners With Raspberry Pi To Bring 15000 Mini PCs To Schools Geeky gadgets Google and Raspberry Pi have this week announced that they will be joining forces to bring 15,000 Raspberry Pi mini PCs to schools, thorough the UK. The announcement was made at Chesterton Community College in Cambridge, where Google's chairman …

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Google Donates 15000 Raspberry Pi Computers to UK Schools – Wall Street Journal (blog)

Wall Street Journal (blog) Google Donates 15000 Raspberry Pi Computers to UK Schools Wall Street Journal (blog) Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt was in the Raspberry Pi's home town of Cambridge, U.K. Tuesday with the co-founder of the Foundation that developed the cut-price computer, Eben Upton, to teach some coding to schoolkids and to make an …

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Google donates 15000 Raspberry Pi units to UK schools – Digital Trends

Google donates 15000 Raspberry Pi units to UK schools Digital Trends The credit-card-sized Raspberry Pi computer became such a hit that the team behind it launched an app store back in December. Earlier this month, the team revealed that it was close to selling a million units

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15000 Raspberry Pi computers donated to UK schools by Google – Android Authority

15000 Raspberry Pi computers donated to UK schools by Google Android Authority It's not every day that we talk about the ultra-affordable Raspberry Pi Model B computer and schools, but it's not every day that Google gives 15,000 Raspberry Pi Model B units to UK schools. A generous move from Google Giving – although it will hardly …

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Google Drops 15000 Raspberry Pis On UK School Kids – Wired

Wired Google Drops 15000 Raspberry Pis On UK School Kids Wired We know the Raspberry Pi is popular with computer hobbyists. But Google wants to take it even further. On Tuesday, the web giant announced it will be donating 15,000 of these cheap, credit card-sized computers to schools in the U.K., hoping to spawn a ..

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Google Giving helps bring 15000 Raspberry Pi units to UK school children – Engadget

Google Giving helps bring 15000 Raspberry Pi units to UK school children Engadget It's not every day your class gets a visit from a tech bigwig like Eric Schmidt. Google's executive chairman paid a visit to a UK school, alongside Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton.

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Today’s grant from Google  (if you have’t read the post about it yet, go and have a look before you continue with this one) has also enabled us to pick up our newest hire, Clive Beale. If you’ve been visiting this website regularly over the last 18 months or so, you may recognise Clive as one of our volunteers.

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Google U.K., Raspberry Pi Donate School PCs – InformationWeek

Telegraph.co.uk Google U.K., Raspberry Pi Donate School PCs InformationWeek As part of ongoing U.K. government ambitions to deepen its young people's tech skill base, British schoolchildren are going to get their very own skeleton computers, called the Raspberry Pi . The Pi is a credit-card shaped device that holds the basic …

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