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BGP: What is border gateway protocol, and how does it work?

Network World

One comparison likens BGP to GPS applications on mobile phones. BGP routers at the edge of AS networks advertise to their peers the prefixes of IP addresses that they can deliver traffic to. These advertisements are made regularly through network-prefix announcements that are used to update each router’s routing table.

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Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Vox

The saying implies that you, the user, aren’t paying for apps like Instagram and Twitter because you’re giving away something else: your attention (and sometimes your content), which is sold to advertisers. But now, this free model of social media — subsidized by advertising — is under pressure. The service launched in November.)

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Threads vs. Twitter: The ultimate battle has begun

Dataconomy

Here is a deeper comparison of Threads vs. Twitter! It is not a mystery that most ads are unnecessary; in this part of the Threads vs. Twitter comparison, Meta’s new app is in the lead. Safety is also an important thing to consider in this Threads vs. Twitter comparison. Twitter also includes advertising.

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Where Web 3.0 is taking the software industry

CIO Business Intelligence

BAT is part of a proposed solution to the inadequacies of digital advertising. It is used as the medium of exchange between users and advertisers in the Brave browser. If so, the current approach to authentication will look a bit medieval by comparison. Can wallets replace passwords, for example?

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Data mining for B2B churn and loyalty management in India and South Asia

TM Forum

Upon searching for authentic data for churn and reasons contributing to churn, we went to the TRAI website and found TRAI call drop data, which is by operator, but not to the granularity of circle level. Then find how much is addressable advertising already doing it. We need to define OTT (Over the top) that is not on-demand.

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Bringing the Magic of Amazon AI and Alexa to Apps on AWS.

All Things Distributed

Businesses can use this metadata to create searchable indexes for social sharing and printing apps, categorization for news and media image archives, or filters for targeted advertisement. Also, these attributes can be stored in Amazon Redshift to generate deeper insights of their customers. Face recognition.

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Sen. Ed Markey on the politics of technology

The Verge

MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? It’s taking our information and selling it to advertisers. I never did master calculus, but free throw shooting, three-point shooting, yeah I did. I never had the vertical or the horizontal game to go with it. But if I was open with my shot, it was going to go in.

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