Tesla announced an electric ‘Cybertruck‘, at a low price, that has a long range. Meanwhile, the 2017 announced Semi Truck, starts production with ‘limited volumes‘.
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Celonis Series C
Celonis, a Munich and NY based AI Startup in process mining, raised $290M in Series C financing. The company is now valued at $2.5 Billion.
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Former Munich Mayor Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux
Christian Ude speaks in a new interview about what Microsoft did in Munich and elsewhere in Europe in order to undermine GNU/Linux and impose Microsoft Windows on everybody, together with all the spyware Microsoft provides for it (likely violation of privacy laws)
Techrights.orgSource: Former Mayor of Munich Explains How Microsoft Hates Linux | Techrights
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How big is the cloud?
It sound’s odd and definitely wrong. At 43.000 participants in 2018 at a registration fee of $1.799, that’d be $77.357.000 of revenue, which is hard to believe Oracle and IBM together cannot top. Still, it’s s still a totally fascinating thought about size of cloud and how dominant AWS is in that business.
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Iraq Internet outage
All too often, Governments use this to cut population off communication ahead of measures against civilians. Stay safe, Iraq people.
— NetBlocks (@netblocks) November 4, 2019
Alert: Internet shut down across most of #Iraq as of 00:00 5 November with loss of life reported as protests intensify; national connectivity down to 19% of ordinary levels; incident ongoing #iraq_protests #KeepItOn 
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Facebook News Tab Aims to ‘Strengthen Democracy’
“What could go wrong?” is exactly the right question one would ask over the feature Facebook announced. Facebook has been facing criticism not only recently over enabling filter bubbles and fueling extremist echo chambers. “Strengthen Democracy” is a clear attempt to whitewash from accusations to actually hurt the same. Digital Trends has more details.
Facebook News Tab Facebook is launching a dedicated news tab amid growing criticism for the social network. Facebook News uses articles from a list of publishers meeting a set of standards and includes a section curated by journalists. But is that enough for a platform criticized for fake news?
Source: Digital Trends
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Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars
Rats can relax better while driving tiny cars, Scientists Discover. It’d make a good tag line for a few car manufacturers.
Rats driving tiny cars. A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food.
Source: Hacker News.
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AWS hit by major DDoS attack
DDoS is an annoyance not even the biggest Cloud is safe from. Apparently AWS’s Route 53 was affected and failed to resolve multiple DNS names over several hours.
Distributed of Denial Service Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours
Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.
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Former SAP CEO Bill McDermott now ServiceNow CEO
That was quick.
Bill McDermott When Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down as CEO at SAP a couple of weeks ago, it certainly felt like a curious move — but he landed on his feet pretty quickly. ServiceNow announced he would be taking over as CEO there. The transition will take place at year-end.
Source: TechCrunch
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Gmail Free Storage Thing of Past
Nobody could see THAT coming!
Gmail When people hit those caps, they realize they have little choice but to start paying, or risk losing access to emails, photos and personal documents.
Source: Bloomberg