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What is Multicloud? Benefits, Drawbacks, and Strategies
Discover the benefits of proper multicloud strategy, including flexibility, scalability, and improved availability and disaster recovery.
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Supercloud, multi-cloud, bigly cloud?
When we first heard about supercloud, we assumed it was yet another new cloud hype term with no substance – but we were wrong. (Yes, Silverlinings admits when we are wrong.) | No matter what it's called the concept of enabling architects and developers to treat multiple clouds as if it were one cloud is legit.
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The Supreme Court is about to hear 2 major cases that could transform the internet
Next week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two major cases involving big technology companies, with key aspects of the internet on the line with its rulings later this year. First up, on Feb. 21, is Gonzalez v. Google. The underlying lawsuit was filed by the family of an American woman, Nohemi Gonzalez, who was killed in a 2015 ISIS attack in Paris. The family alleges that Google, which owns YouTube, is liable because its algorithms promoted extremist content to people likely to be susceptible to it.
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Microsoft reveals Bing's Azure OpenAI future
When Microsoft announced it would be spending $10 billion on the next stage of its OpenAI partnership, | Technical details were lacking, but Microsoft sees OpenAI search running on Azure as transforming not only search, but technology's future.
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The 6 best live TV streaming services of 2023
If you're interested in going cable-free, you may want to switch to a live TV streaming service, which you can cancel at any time. There are even packages out there that let you stream sports and news online. That's great for anyone who wants to keep up with post-season NFL action and catch the Super Bowl without an expensive contract.
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Azure Went Dark
One little network configuration foul-up led to one huge Microsoft outage.
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Supreme Court Allows Reddit Mods To Anonymously Defend Section 230
Mods tell SCOTUS that Reddit's special formula depends on Section 230 immunity.
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Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
The internet suffers from a lack of imagination, so I asked my students to redesign it
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Best cloud storage apps in 2022, tested by our editors
Over the course of several weeks, we tested five different cloud storage apps to see which one is the best cloud storage app for you.
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Billions of people still lack high-speed internet. This S.F. company is building satellites to change that
Inside a warehouse at San Francisco’s Pier 70
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Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.
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If Mastodon Existed In The 1980s...
Somewhere in a parallel universe, Mastodon already existed in the 1980s.
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Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.
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Apple silicon supports the ancient Intel 8080 through a secret extension
Apple revealed its first custom processor, the Apple M1, during an event in November 2020. The chip was met with high praise for cramming loads of power into a tiny space. Apple's M1 led people to wonder if SoCs were the future of computing. Due to switching to an ARM architecture, Apple had to figure out a way to allow M1 Macs to use programs that were designed with Intel-based Macs in mind.
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Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed: easily replace Twitter, Instagram and YouTube
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Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables
When underwater cables congregate in one place, things get tricky.
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Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second
The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
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Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023
Full Duplex DOCSIS expected in 2023 but won't be available to everyone at first.
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