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Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’

The Verge

Windows 365 lets you rent a cloud PC — with a variety of CPU, RAM, and storage options — and then stream Windows 10 or Windows 11 via a web browser. There are a variety of configurations for Windows 365, including one at the top end that includes eight vCPUs, 32GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage for $158 per month. Image: Microsoft.

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3 powerful lessons of using data governance frameworks

CIO Business Intelligence

In addition to the data it collects and generates from public sources, the DOC also buys or licenses data from the private sector and uses it for things like economic analysis. The challenge is that when you take data from outside sources, you have to normalize the data to make sense of it,” says Wise.

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Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

The Verge

And ideas like, “All I need to do is OCR the local traffic manual — that a 15-year-old kid has to learn to get their driver’s license — and tell a computer to do it, and we’re off and running” turned into “Oh, there’s a bunch of norms in various cities that we need to encode in a semantic way, into the actual maps of the car.”.

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