Month: January 2020
What is AWS VPC?
Few of us could have predicted that data breaches would become so common and part of the major news cycle. It almost seems like there are leaks reported on a daily basis, such as compromised accounts on Facebook or credit card account leaks from major companies. With the proliferation of…
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Punxsutawney Phil should be replaced with AI groundhog, says PETA
Since 1887, the residents of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania have maintained the belief that an immortal groundhog name Punxsutawney Phil can — and will — predict the end of winter. As popularized in the film Groundhog Day, each year on February 2nd, Phil is coaxed from his home in a tree stump…
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Huawei 5G cap will cost BT £500 million
BT’s third quarter results included lower-than-expected revenues and one of the first tangible examples of how the government’s cap on the use of Huawei equipment will affect the rollout of 5G in the UK. The company is embarking on major deployments of 5G and full fibre infrastructure, with the former…
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Google Earth just got far more impressive on your mobile
If you’ve never used Google Earth on your mobile – or you tried it long ago, and your phone wasn’t powerful enough – a new update might well bring you back into the fold. An update to the Google Earth app now allows you to zoom 30,000 miles above the…
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Maze raises $2 million and adds Figma support to enable user testing at scale
Maze wants to reinvent usability tests by letting you turn design prototypes into tests in just a few clicks. It could become the equivalent of a developing test suite for developers, but this time for designers — it could be something that you run before shipping an update to make…
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Nintendo Switch overtakes SNES with more than 52 million sold
Nintendo had its strongest Switch quarter ever this holiday season, moving 10.81 million units to reach a total of 52.48 million sold as of the end of 2019. That means it’s now overtaken the SNES to become Nintendo’s third best-selling home console of all time behind the Wii and the…
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