Thousands of new “smart” streetlights to be rolled out across the city of San Diego will be connected to a city-wide network, allowing officials to adjust their brightness and detect outages from afar.
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Linux started its life in the data center as a cheaper alternative to UNIX. At the time, UNIX operating systems ruled the industry and for good reason. They were performant, fault tolerant and extremely stable. They also were very expensive and ran on very proprietary hardware.
Messaging applications, such as WhatsApp and Snapchat, will grow their user base from 2.3 billion unique users in 2016 to 4.2 billion by 2021 according to a study from Juniper. This represents growth of more than 12 per cent.
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First CI forum on “Fakers, Haters and Sharers : The Urgency of Social Media Literacy.
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Everyone who uses Linux has heard of the big names like Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, and Mint. Few people know about smaller distros like Manjaro. Those people don’t know what they are missing. Let me explain why I use Manjaro and you should too.
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Let’s be honest here — most of us don’t read the privacy policies for smart televisions. And even if we try to, it’s often difficult to read them, particularly on a television screen. Some televisions even display the massive policies five lines at a time.
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Raspberry Pi has floored the tech community yet again, with the launch of the Raspberry Pi Zero. With similar specs to the Raspberry Pi B+, the latest iteration of the hobby computing line will allow users to make their microcomputing projects even more micro without sacrificing performance.
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iXsystems’ Kris Moore announced the general availability of a first Release Candidate (RC) milestone of the upcoming FreeNAS 11.0 open-source storage operating system. It appears that this Release Candidate is also the first public development build of FreeNAS 11.
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Only 5% of us see social media posts that differ from our world view. See how you can use The KIND Foundation’s social experiment to pop your filter bubble.
The European Union is in the process of reforming copyright laws that date back to 2001, as part of a wider strategy to establish a Digital Single Market across the 28 Member States of the bloc, aiming to break down regional barriers to ecommerce.
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