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Technology Short Take 135

Scott Lowe

Networking. Arthur Chiao cracks open kube-proxy , a key part of Kubernetes networking, to expose the internals, and along the way exposes readers to a few different technologies. This is a good read if you’re trying to better understand some aspects of Kubernetes networking. Now, on to the content! Servers/Hardware.

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Here’s why Amazon relaxed its marijuana standards, according to industry experts and lawyers

GeekWire

Today, all major American professional sports leagues have relaxed cannabis testing or plan to do so, led by the NHL which now only busts players with “ dangerously” high levels of THC , the drug’s psychoactive compound. Amazon is an online retailer with a vast delivery network, he said.

Industry 144
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Why you can’t write for Bulletin, Facebook’s new Substack clone

Vox

Now it’s Facebook’s turn: The social network is prepping its take on subscription newsletters with something called Bulletin. Instead, the first batch of Bulletin writers will include people covering topics like sports, fashion, and the environment, as well as a group of writers covering local news.

Fashion 138
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TCL’s new phone has ultra-fast 5G for $399, but that’s not enough

The Verge

The most affordable 5G phone lags behind the Pixel 4A 5G’s camera, display, and software The TCL 10 5G UW is the latest 5G phone exclusive to Verizon’s network today, and it’s the most affordable 5G-ready phone yet — for the moment, at least. Sports (We’re almost done with this list.). It costs $399 outright or $16.67 Merge Dragons!

Google 57
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Amazon’s palm reading starts at the grocery store, but it could be so much bigger

The Verge

In the future, it says, Amazon One could not only be used for shopping but as a replacement for tickets at music and sporting events, and as an alternative to your office keycard, letting you scan in with a swipe of your hand. It’s much harder, by comparison, to snap a picture of someone’s hand and use that to spoof their vein patterns.

Data 124
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Google Cloud’s Media CDN lets companies build on the network that keeps YouTube running

The Verge

Companies like Netflix, Disney, and HBO do battle over media streaming of movies and TV shows, but all of their services combined pale in comparison to YouTube, which says it delivers over a billion hours of video streams every single day. billion in 2006. YouTube has the occasional outage.

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Bored Ape Yacht Club members want to build an empire, starting with weed

The Verge

There’s the flex of having something inaccessible to most, a ready-made network of thousands of other ape owners to connect with, invites to exclusive ( or not-so-exclusive ) parties, and, if you play your cards right, the ability to resell your ape for a sum of money that would change the lives of most of us. So let’s go bigger now.”.