Month: July 2020
Microsoft used hydrogen fuel cells to power a data center for two days straight
Microsoft announced Monday that hydrogen fuel cells powered a row of its datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, bringing the company one step closer toward its goal of becoming “carbon negative” by 2030. Microsoft is exploring how the clean tec… Source
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Years before big hack, Twitter contractors reportedly spied on celebs, including Beyoncé
Years before the July 15th attack on Twitter that let hackers compromise some of the social network’s most high-profile accounts to tweet Bitcoin scams, Twitter contractors apparently were able to use Twitter’s internal tools to spy on some celebrities, including Beyoncé, according to a report from Bloomberg chronicling longtime security…
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SAP might be taking Qualtrics public null
SAP has announced its plan to take the Experience Management (XM) software company Qualtrics public through a US IPO just two years after purchasing the firm for $8bn. Back in 2018, the German software giant agreed to acquire the company just four days before Qualtrics was set to go public…
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Suikoden spiritual successor ‘Eiyuden Chronicle’ hits crowdfunding goal
Mere hours after it started raising money for Eiyuden Chronicle on Kickstarter, developer Rabbit & Bear has successfully funded the project. The game is the spiritual successor to the Japanese role-playing game (JRPG) series Suikoden. Some of the… Source
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Want to get 200GB free cloud storage? Buy a Chromebook null
In a bid to boost sales and increase adoption of Chrome OS, Google and its partners have quietly started to sell Chromebooks with a bunch of additional incentives. Among the perks that the search giant offers are free Disney+ subscriptions, free games, discounts, and perhaps most intriguingly, 200GB of cloud…
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The MTA’s got porn in its Google search results
On the list of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s most-pressing problems right now, porn is nowhere near the top. But that doesn’t mean the agency, which operates New York City’s subway and bus systems as well as its commuter rail systems, isn’t irked that obscene language keeps showing up in its…
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