Month: January 2020
Google Cloud gets a Secret Manager
Google Cloud today announced Secret Manager, a new tool that helps its users securely store their API keys, passwords, certificates and other data. With this, Google Cloud is giving its users a single tool to manage this kind of data and a centralized source of truth, something that even sophisticated…
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Microsoft customer support database exposed online
Microsoft has disclosed a security breach where an internal customer support database was exposed online last month. The software giant provided further details on the security breach in a blog post in which it said that the database was storing anonymized user analytics and was accidentally exposed online between December…
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Netflix has been looking for franchises, and The Witcher may be its answer
Netflix wants people to know The Witcher is just as big, if not bigger, than Disney’s Mandalorian around the world. Franchise plays like The Witcher and movies like 6 Underground are key to Netflix growing internationally, and they could represent a big part of Netflix’s future in a year where…
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How an experimental story about gender and warfare shook the sci-fi community
In early January, the influential science fiction and fantasy (SFF) magazine Clarkesworld published a story by an unknown author named Isabel Fall. The story was titled “I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter,” which describes the premise: it’s about a woman who becomes a weapon of war. But it’s also…
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IBM snaps out of revenue doldrums, breaking a five-quarter losing streak in Q4
International Business Machines is living a case study of a large, established company vying to transform. Over the last decade, the technology elder has struggled to move into areas like cloud and AI. IBM has leaned on a combination of its own R&D abilities and deep pockets to push into…
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Best PlayStation VR games: the best PSVR games around
Developer: Bethesda Game Studios Price: £49.99/$49.99 Does it require Move controllers? No. DualShock controllers give a more comfortable, familiar control system for what’s quite a complex game, but Move motion controllers let you swing a sword, and there’s no arguing that that’s not cool. You’ve played Skyrim, right? The benchmark…
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