{"id":2781,"date":"2015-01-09T11:18:26","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2015-01-09T11:18:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:18:26","slug":"at-news-wrap-up-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"AT News Wrap-up, 1\/9\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were some holidays happening the past few weeks, causing us to miss a couple of our Friday news wrap-ups. But\u00a0 we&#8217;re back and brining you the coolest technology news of the week, like we do. 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