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  • Facebook News Tab Aims to ‘Strengthen Democracy’ 

    Facebook News Tab Aims to ‘Strengthen Democracy’ 

  • Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars

    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. A bunch of rats have learned how to drive tiny vehicles around to pick up food.  Source: Hacker News.

  • 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. Parts of AWS were taken offline for hours Source: TechRadar. The newspage also has a reference of 2019’s best DDoS Protection.

  • Former SAP CEO Bill McDermott now ServiceNow CEO

    That was quick. 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

  • Gmail Free Storage Thing of Past

    Nobody could see THAT coming! 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

  • Google introduced AR navigation.

    Apparently it’s not just a cool new feature but a controversial discussion.

  • Google chief: I’d disclose smart speakers

    “Does the owner of a home need to disclose to a guest? I would and do when someone enters into my home, and it’s probably something that the products themselves should try to indicate.” Well, d’uh. If Rick Osterloh, SVP of Devices and Services, says so. At least the BBC writes.

  • Alphabet’s first drone delivery.

    Alphabet’s daughter company Wing makes it’s first automated drone delivery in Virginia, US, writes TechCrunch. The content of the package will be a “cough and cold pack”.

  • Mark Hurd passed away

    Mark Hurd was a giant in the industry. My thoughts are with his family, friends and everyone at Oracle. His passing away marks a very sad day for the entire industry.

  • Floppy Disks coordinate missile launches.

    Good News: US military will no longer use floppy disks to coordinate nuke launches. You’ll probably think this technology is around for many years, since the 70ies or even longer. The article confirms these 8-inch floppy disks have been in use since the 1970ies. You’ll probably also expect this is proven and well tested, and…