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Overwatch League cancels its in-person playoff events

The Verge

Regular season play and the playoffs were sequestered within the regions , with each sending their top team to Korea to play in an online broadcast LAN grand final. Last season, the League split into two regions: North America and Asia Pacific, or APAC.

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New opportunities as homes become smart lifespaces

TM Forum

While it’s been criticised for exposing people to poor working practices, it and other new forms of work such as the Social Economy, Influencer Economy and microretailing are increasingly relied upon by many workers. The Gig Economy was born largely out of the 2008/9 financial crisis.

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How to Prevent ISP Spying with a VPN Service

Galido

Most household and business users are connected through a Local Area Network (LAN) where all the systems are connected to a central ISP. What is an ISP? An ISP or Internet Service Provider is the local service that handles your network connection. Invasion of privacy.

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GeoGuessr made figuring out where on Earth you are the hottest new esport

The Verge

It became one of those enduring social media curios — something you showed your mom on winter break. Does that rule out a timeline full of LAN events, cash prizes, and all the pageantry we associate with the modern esports industry? (“Was fiddling around with backbone and Google maps API v3 and decided to make a small application.

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Fountainhead: Infrastructure Orchestration in use within SPs.

Fountainhead

Infrastructure Orchestration abstracts and defines/configures the infrastructure world (I/O, NIC cards, HBA cards, storage connectivity, LANs, switches, etc.). In the way virtualization abstracts & configures the software world (O/S, applications, etc.), IT Financial Management. (4). IT Transformation. (13). Marketing. (3). Mobile Work.

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SeanDaniel.com [tech]: Sean's Top 10 Recommended iOS apps for.

Sean Daniel

It isn’t anything other than a Wake-On-LAN client, I picked it over the other ones because it’s free. That’s 2TB of videos and music that I can just use anywhere on my LAN. Social Media. Plus with it being free, how are they making money? what are they selling? My Home Server is the always on PC. Office 2010.

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Fountainhead: Where the Server Industry Went Amiss

Fountainhead

Usually the local network had state too – ensuring that the IP and MAC address of the motherboard were attached to switches and LANs in a particular way. Add to this the fact that with critical applications, all of these components (plus naming/addressing) were frequently duplicated for redundancy. IT Financial Management. (4).

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