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Chip shortages push hyperscalers to build their own

Network World

The first to market in 2015, Google continues to steam ahead with plans to develop specialized chips meant to accelerate machine learning applications from its tensor processing unit, Valle told Network World. Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, also now is in the AI-focused processor game.

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Twitter is opening applications to test Ticketed Spaces and Super Follows

The Verge

Twitter is opening applications for a limited test of its Super Follows and Ticketed Spaces features. Ticketed Spaces lets them charge between $1 and $999 for access to one of Twitter’s social audio rooms , and it offers extra features like setting a room size cap. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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5 big challenges facing CIOs and IT leaders in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

As we talk about technology needs moving forward, this is a key area of focus for 2018.”. The biggest challenge for CIOs and IT leaders in 2018 is the strategic protection of PII and data for their enterprises,” says Ray McKenzie, Founder and Principal of Red Beach Advisors. Enabling consistent innovation. Merging old and new.

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The Linux Migration: December 2018 Progress Report

Scott Lowe

Although I stopped the migration in August 2017, I restarted it in April 2018 when I left VMware to join Heptio. In this post, I’d like to recap where things stand as of December 2018, after 8 months of full-time use of Linux as my primary laptop OS. Applications. So what’s working well with this configuration?

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3 lessons that CIOs learned in 2018

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

What are the most important lessons that IT leaders and CIOs learned (or should have learned) in 2018? What lessons can you pull from 2018 that will help you succeed in 2019? A recent study found that the average cost of a data breach in 2018 was $3.86 We answer those questions (and more) in this article. What can we learn?

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Amazon-backed Seattle startup Bamboo Learning brings voice education app to Google devices

GeekWire

Ian Freed , a former Amazon exec who led Kindle and Alexa development teams, launched Bamboo in 2018 with co-founder Irina Fine , a 30-year veteran of elementary education curriculum development and teaching. Bamboo Luminaries is a social studies trivia-style game designed to teach students about history. ” Bamboo raised $1.4

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YouTube has terminated five Myanmar military-run channels as political unrest continues

The Verge

We have terminated a number of channels and removed several videos from YouTube in accordance with our community guidelines and applicable laws,” a YouTube spokesperson tells The Verge. Prior to the coup, the company also terminated 34 channels used as “influence operations” during Myanmar’s election in 2020, according to Reuters.