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RIP, Xbox Live (2002-2021)

Gizmodo

The name “Xbox Live” is dead. You’ll still be able to play Xbox games online, but the suite of Xbox’s online services will now be known as “Xbox network,” Microsoft confirmed today to The Verge. Read more.

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A GPS-Based Bug Could Roll Back Your Devices to 2002

Gizmodo

No one needs low-rise jeans to come back. Or capri trousers. And though they were supremely comfortable for their time, the Juicy Couture tracksuit can stay in the vault we put it in. Time has to stay synced precisely to the second, to prevent there from making a comeback. But a bug in the time rollback checking code… Read more.

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Older Honda and Acura models hit by Y2K22 bug that resets clocks 20 years in the past

The Verge

My @Honda 2007 CR-V clock now useless in 2022; resets to 2:00 MST on 1/1/2002 after every startup. This is time-critical. ;-) Thousands of us need a software update! Instead of seamlessly transitioning to the year 2022, cars’ clocks jumped 20 years back in time, and Honda says a fix could be months away. Would unsigned int fix it?

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

spf13 AKA Steve Francia 16+ years building the internet Father, husband, skateboarder Chief Evangelist @responsible for drivers,integrations, web & writing. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 1998 Google won the search race through custom software & infrastructure. For over a decade BIG Data = custom software.

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

SPF13

spf13 AKA Steve Francia 16+ years building the internet Father, husband, skateboarder Chief Evangelist @responsible for drivers,integrations, web & writing. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 1998 Google won the search race through custom software & infrastructure. For over a decade BIG Data = custom software.

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Netflix is justing giving DVDs away now

Vox

Netflix founder Reed Hastings holds up a few dozen DVDs headed to eager households in 2002, when the company had 500,000 subscribers. Back then, [Hastings] said that postage rates were going to keep going up and the internet was going to get twice as fast at half the price every 18 months,” Sarandos told Variety in 2018. “At

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Lawyer who helped Netscape in Microsoft antitrust lawsuit is representing Epic in its battle with Apple

GeekWire

The Microsoft case ended with an initial judgment to break up the Redmond-based software giant, a decision which later was walked back under a 2002 settlement agreement. On the legal team for Epic Games is Christine Varney , the lawyer who represented Netscape in its antitrust suit against Microsoft in 2001. Christine Varney.

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