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Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. As of August this year, Windows XP still maintained a greater market share than its successor, Windows Vista. When mainstream support for XP ended in April 2009, it was running on a huge75% of Windows computersand about 19% of people were still using XP whenextended security supportfinished in 2014....

Winklevoss comes out of meditation to witness Bitcoin’s record high Bitcoin finally broke $20,000 Bitcoin pumps when Winklevoss meditates? The new record highs sent Bitcoin to the top of Twitter’s trending topics as BTC fans rushed to hit publish on fire tweets they’ve been keeping for the occasion (who can blame them?). Indeed, the last time Bitcoin was worth this much was in December 2017. But after trading as low as $3,200 a year later — more than 80% below its record highs — it’sback....

Yesterday, it was widely reported that the Winklevoss twins, in deciding to drop the Supreme Court case, were done with the Facebook legal battle for good. But that’s not the case. They’re now looking to have a judge investigate whether any information or evidence was suppressed by Facebook during earlier encounters in a Boston court. Specifically, they’re referring to instant messages the plaintiffs believe Facebook lawyers had hidden. The conflict stems from the Winklevosses claims that Zuckerberg, when hired to build ConnectU, sabotaged the project he was being paid to build while building Facebook in secret....

On top of having probably the most unfortunate names sinceRobbie Van Winkle, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss just can’t seem to get a leg up on Facebook. A judge in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the initial settlement between the Winklevii and Facebook must remain, effectively blocking the twins from adjusting to the $160 million claim that they now want. The Winklevoss collective had initially agreed to a settlement in 2008, but have since been arguing that they should be released from it and allowed to re-settle, given the growth of Facebook over the years....

If you thought the Winklevoss twins were done going after Facebook and its CEO (seriously?!), you couldn’t be more wrong. Wonderful Pistachiosjust released an ad featuring the brothers, where they sneak in a not-so-subtle jab at archenemy Mark Zuckerberg. The Winklevoss twinsaccused Mark Zuckerberg of having broken a contractual agreement and stolen source code from their ConnectU social network to create Facebook. They first sued Facebook in 2004 for $140 million andhave since filedseveral lawsuitsagainst the company, even having briefly consideredfiling a petition with the supreme courtearlier this year....