Month: September 2021

Backblaze now offers instant disaster recovery Instant Recovery in Any Cloud

The cloud backup provider Backblaze has announced a new instant disaster recovery solution called Instant Recovery in Any Cloud that aims to help businesses get their operations back up and running after falling victim to ransomware. While big ransomware payments like the $5 million paid to attackers by Colonial Pipeline…

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Who is the best James Bond? The seven 007 actors ranked ahead of No Time to Die Daniel Craig in No Time to Die.

Your pick for the best James Bond actor will depend on a few factors: when you were born, what you like in a Bond film, and how your version of 007 is supposed to behave.  Is James Bond meant to be funny, romantic or violent? Does he make amusing remarks…

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PayPal has two decades of…

PayPal has two decades of experience in online payments and manages 403 million user accounts. So, it caused ripples when it announced on 23 August it would allow UK customers to buy and sell four cryptocurrencies: bitcoin prices rose to a three-month high. But will this – and last October’s…

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Why have Elon Musk and Tesla suddenly turned against bitcoin?

Elon Musk has performed a sudden U-turn on bitcoin over concerns about its energy usage, and says his electric car firm Tesla will no longer accept the cryptocurrency as payment – but will his decision have an impact, and could Tesla turn to an alternative currency? Tesla bet big on…

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Here’s everything Amazon announced at its September hardware event

Amazon held its annual fall hardware event on Tuesday. It's too bad the company didn't stream the proceedings to the public because it was jam-packed with announcements. We saw everything from new Echo devices to an Alexa-powered robot. But worry not, we have you covered. Here's everything the company announced…

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LinkedIn wants to sell you tickets for work events linkedin

The professional social network LinkedIn appears to be making a bigger push into the events space after launching its own virtual event platform last year. According to a new report from TechCrunch, the Microsoft-owned company is in the process of testing out bringing paid events to its platform. The news…

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