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SAP offers faster updates, longer maintenance for S/4HANA in private clouds

CIO Business Intelligence

The good news for SAP is that many of the customers adopting its cloud-based S/4HANA offering are net-new, meaning more market share. Customers who subsequently become dissatisfied with Rise will need to buy back their perpetual license if they want to stay on SAP’s platform. ERP Systems, Private Cloud

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Uber continues to hemorrhage cash during the pandemic despite growth in delivery

The Verge

billion over the last three months, with its adjusted net revenues down 29 percent compared to Q2 of 2019. But there was no mistaking the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the company’s core transportation business. It wasn’t as grim a quarter as the first three months, in which Uber’s net loss was $2.9

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Microsoft and Helion want to build the world’s first fusion plant and seize energy’s ‘Holy Grail’

GeekWire

“If commercial fusion energy becomes available by the end of this decade, it could ease all the various possible pathways to [carbon] net-zero by 2050.” The expectation is that any technical difficulties will be overcome and Polaris will produce net electricity, demonstrating the viability of Helion’s commercial product.

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Lynk & Co will make you rethink outdated ideas of car ownership

The Verge

Seats made from recycled fishing nets. The interior surfaces look and feel good to the touch, including the eco-friendly textile coverings on the seats made from recycled fishing nets. At the moment, Lynk & Co only accepts category B drivers licenses from a list of 30 European countries. Photo by Nguyen Tran.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

He has been a proponent of net neutrality, first proposing a bill in 2005. So back in 2009, I was able to include a mandate that the Federal Communications Commission had to lay out a broadband plan for the United States of America and to do it in every single sector: agriculture, transportation, industry, energy, education, health care.

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The battle for the future of “gig” work

Vox

I’m a driver,” Mighetto says, “and that doesn’t give anyone license to treat me like a third-class citizen.”. The minimums were sold as a baseline that increased driver rights, but one study by University of California Berkeley researchers found that the guarantee could actually only be “the equivalent of a wage of $5.64 per hour.”.

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