USA's Clean Networks plan appears to have scuppered Chinese participation in 108Tbit/sec CAP-1 cable Amazon Data Services Inc. and Facebook contractor Edge Cable Holdings USA have applied to operate a submarine cable linking the Philippines to Calif…
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Lees meerAlgorithmWatch ends newsfeed study after 'thinly veiled threat' AlgorithmWatch, a non-profit group based in Germany, said it has been forced to end its efforts to monitor Instagram's newsfeed after parent company Facebook intervened.…
Lees meerLighter lockdowns meant more effective manufacturing and logistics India PC and smartphones shipments grew significantly in Q2 2021 as the world carried on with COVID, a little less rattled by lockdowns and adapting to work and learn-from-home polic…
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Lees meerBTW is that pronounced Jiffy or? The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority wants Facebook to sell Giphy to prevent the Silicon Valley giant from tyrannizing the happiest place on the internet: the land of GIFs.…
Lees meerIt's the Social distancing Network™ Facebook has delayed recalling its workers to their offices in the US and beyond until January next year at the earliest.…
Lees meer5150: Not just a medical emergency, also the beginning of the office brick It is 40 years today since the IBM Model 5150 was unleashed upon the world, creating a tsunami of beige that washed over offices everywhere.…
Lees meerThe idea was to remove central points of failure, not introduce them Systems Approach Anyone who studies internet technology quickly learns about the importance of distributed algorithms to its design and operation. Routing protocols are an obvious…
Lees meerSocial media giant unveils specs for Open Compute Time Appliance Facebook has taken a break from its social media shenanigans to open-source the specifications for its timekeeping device, the Open Compute Time Appliance.…
Lees meerPlus: How the S Pen will work outside the Note – by slipping into a case Samsung has revealed a new pair of foldable smartphones at prices that are no longer outrageous to city traders, but still up there, at $1,799 and $999 respectively.…
Lees meerPotentially putting the squeeze on already constrained supply chains Nine months after Huawei sold off smartphone subsidiary Honor due to "tremendous" supply chain pressure, Republican lawmakers in the US are seeking to put the squeeze back on the l…
Lees meerWho's an open-source boy? The $1500 CyberDog, that's who Chinese consumer electronics upstart Xiaomi has let a robot dog off the leash.…
Lees meerHow much work can you do with eight Arm Cortex-A57 cores? Russia's government and military may be about to find out Russian fabless semiconductor company Baikal is celebrating after local PC-maker IRU started using its silicon in a workstation.…
Lees meerPlus: Google 'contemplated buying some or all of Epic' A freshly unsealed filing [PDF] in the Epic smackdown between the maker of the massively popular Fortnite video game and Google reveals claims that a "senior Google Play" exec had noted users mi…
Lees meerThe pandemic and a tale of two HPs Hewlett Packard Enterprise's UK operation recorded a 20 per cent slide in revenues during pandemic-struck 2020, according to the latest filing at Companies House.…
Lees meerGoing out with a bang Who, Me? The weekend is over and that means time for a nice biscuit, a hot beverage, and another tale from the vaults of Who, Me?…
Lees meerWants less 'vanity hardware', more modular and scalable kit The Open Compute Project has outlined a strategy to take it into its second decade, and will pursue open silicon designs and do more work to enable future innovations in optical networking,…
Lees meerOther Big Tech companies, however, still want workers in this autumn Amazon has delayed staff returning to its offices around the world from September this year to January 2022, as the Delta variant of the novel coronavirus continues to spread.…
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