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Microsoft Wants to Build Data Centers Underwater
“50% of us live near the coast,” Microsoft says. “Why doesn’t our data?” Building huge data centers underwater might sound bizarrely Jules Vernesian, but it’s exactly something Microsoft’s testing. The plan’s called Project Natick, and its website states its purpose: “to understand the benefits and difficulties in deploying subsea data centers worldwide.” Why build data…
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#high technology news | Issue 127
Every Monday in the new issue of “News of high technologies”, we summarize the past week, talking about some of the most important events, key findings and interesting inventions. This time we will focus on the construction of a Hyperloop system in Russia, the registration of drones in our country, the first shop, where they…
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Trump and Sanders get opgelukt breath: snow guard
mon 01 feb 2016, 17:18 Trump escapes: snow comes later Des Moines – If the first primaries in America kicks off tonight in Iowa, will likely still not snowing. Candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders are lucky that the rainfall a few hours wait, because, according to analysts, they must have ’mooiweerstemmers’. The presidential candidates…
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Eight dead sperm whales stranded in the Wadden sea
mon 01 feb 2016, 17:24 Eight dead sperm whales stranded in the Wadden sea KAISER-WILHELM-KOOG – In the German part of the Wadden sea, eight sperm whales stranded. The young sperm whales washed ashore on 2 km of the dike at Kaiser-Wilhelm-Koog, said conservation organisation LKN Monday. Between 9 and 12 metres long, the animals…
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In Crimea, started a second cellular operator
The press service of the Ministry of communications announced the official launch of the second mobile operator in Crimea. Mobile operator created on the basis of the fixed network operator “Krastelecom”. The operator will work on the entire territory of the Crimean Federal district. At the moment the network consists of 128 base stations with…
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Blogger Reacts to the Popular YouTubers Who Want to Trademark the Word ‘React’
The Fine Brothers pissed off a lot whole lot of people when they announced a bold new scheme to trademark the word “react” last week. I’m one of those people, and I don’t even have any aspirations to be a YouTube star. I just hate greedy idiots. You can’t trademark the word “react.” Sure, the…
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More incidents in the Belgian part North sea
mon 01 feb 2016, 16:41 More incidents in the Belgian part North sea OSTEND – In the Belgian part of the North sea, last year 217 incidents with ships registered. In 2014 there were 193, and the year before 198. That is according to figures from the Maritime Rescue and Coordination Centre in Ostend, secretary…
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Meizu is preparing a version of Pro 5 on Ubuntu
Apparently, the company Meizu is preparing to release a version of the smartphone Meizu Pro 5 Ubuntu Edition. In Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter, were published photos of the smartphone Meizu Pro 5-based operating system Ubuntu Touch. Earlier, Meizu released version of Ubuntu Touch for the smartphone Meizu MX4 in 2015. It is expected…
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Browser Samsung for Android have learned to block ads
Samsung has added an ad-blocking feature to their browser that is preinstalled on branded devices based on the Android operating system. This was reported by the Verge. To the browser you can connect blocks ads plugins. The first plug-ins Adblock Fast, previously available for iOS 9, and desktop browsers Chrome and Opera. For this purpose,…
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Jewelry Made From an Actual SR-71 Blackbird Is Cool as Hell
Any old jerk can wear a fancy ring, but how many people can say their bling was made from materials that once flew at mach 3.2+ on the famed Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane? Now that’s some provenance. But before you fly off in a rage over the remaining SR-71 spy planes being sold off…