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Seems like it’s Take Out The Trash Day in the land of mediocre tech. Presto is dead, Meerkat is dead, and now it looks like Microsoft is killing off its unloved activity tracker as well. Listings for the Microsoft Band 2 in the company’s Aussie online store — recently discounted by a pretty fair margin […]