Last year, Twitch chat garnered attention for something besides being a stream of consciousness feed of idiocy and memes. Users banded together to use chat to beat the original Pokemon, inputting commands in a lengthy stream, crawling their way through the game one painful step at a time. It took them 16 days, but in the end, they were victorious.
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Employees are most recommending CloudLock, Nutanix, Apprenda, SendGrid, Plex Systems, Cloud Sherpas, FinancialForce.com, Duo Security, Pure Storage and MarkLogic to their friends interested in working at an enterprise cloud computing startup.
43% of the most funded enterprise cloud computing startups are in the Bay Area, 17% in Boston, 5% in New York City and Seattle each and 4% in Los Angeles.
10% are in A-Stage funding, 24% in B-Stage, 21% in C-stage and 45% are in late stage funding.
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Today Google has announced that the Android One program has entered a new continent: Africa. So far, the company’s affordable smartphone initiative has been contained to certain Asian markets.
However, with the Infinix Hot 2 handset, Android One will debut in Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Egypt, and Morocco. These countries have combined populations of 379 million people. Infinix, Google’s partner this time around, is apparently “one of the hottest, fastest growing smartphone brands in Africa”.
The Infinix Hot 2 comes with a 5-inch 720p touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 2 MP selfie snapper, a 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek processor, 16GB of storage, dual-SIM support, an FM radio, and a 2,200 mAh battery. There’s a version with 1GB of RAM, and this is offered in black, white, red, or blue, and another with 2GB of RAM, which is only out in gold.
The smartphone runs Android 5.1.1 Lollipop from the get-go, and it’s also guaranteed to receive an update to Android 6.0 Marshmallow at some point in the future.
The Hot 2 is available today in Nigeria for NGN 17,500 (with 1GB of RAM) or NGN 19,500 (with 2GB of RAM). These prices currently translate into $87 and $97, respectively (or 79 and 88). The device will make its way to the other African countries mentioned above “over the next few weeks”, presumably with similar pricing.
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Google has launched a dedicated website for Hangouts, a communication platform for instant messaging, voice and video calls. This will be handy for active users that were looking for another way to use Hangouts without having to log in to Gmail, Google+ or the Google Chrome Hangouts extension. The URL for the standalone Google Hangouts website is hangouts.google.com.
Through the Google Hangouts website, you can message a friend or start group chats. You can add up to 100 people in a group chat, which also supports photos, maps, stickers, GIFs and emoji. The Hangouts website makes it very easy to set up video calls too. For video calls, you can talk one-on-one or set up a group call with up to 10 people. Your Google Hangouts chats also sync between your mobile devices so you can continue your conversations on the Hangouts Android, iOS and web applications.
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…So you don’t have to.
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Los intrusos vulneran una aplicación de la agencia de recaudación de impuestos del país; otros 281,000 contribuyentes fueron atacados infructuosamente por los piratas, dice la agencia.
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IBM es uno de los gigantes históricos del mundo de la tecnología, y aunque puede que en estos momentos ya no ocupe el lugar que tenía allá por los años ’80 su opinión y sus proyectos siguen teniendo muchísima importancia. Y es justamente por ello que resulta tan significativo para el mundo del gran sistema operativo libre el lanzamiento de LinuxONE, una gama de mainframes basados en Linux y capaces de ofrecer un rendimiento pocas veces visto.
El proyecto ha sido descripto por IBM como uno de esos que cambia el curso del mercado y que abre el potencial de Linux para las empresas, algo que tiene buen fundamento si tenemos en cuenta que el más grande de estos mainframes de la gama LinuxONE, el ‘Emperor’ cuenta con un procesador IBM Z13 gracias al cual puede escalar un total de 8.000 máquinas virtuales o decenas de miles de contenedores -la nueva gran tendencia-, algo que puede permitir a pequeñas y medianas empresas todo un abanico de posibilidades.
Canonical ya se encuentra trabajando junto al gigante azul en el desarrollo de una variante de Ubuntu Server específicamente desarrollada para esta gama de mainframes, y se suma así a RedHat y Suse como proveedores oficiales para este y otros grandes servidores como la línea IBM z, de modo que serán sus distros las que los equiparán mientras que otros grandes proyectos de código abierto como Apache Spark, MariaDB, MongoDB, Node.JS, o PostgreSQL. Pero además se ha aprovechado este lanzamiento y la llegada de Canonical para terminar de dar forma al Open Mainframe Project, una iniciativa en la cual también participa la Linux Foundation y del cual hablamos hace apenas unas horas.
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Last Friday, the Destiny community went a bit crazy because the game’s weekend traveling salesman, Xur, showed up with one particular gun in his arsenal. That would be the Gjallarhorn, a rocket launcher universally regarded as the best weapon in the game, the object of eternal desire for players who don’t have it, and one that’s inseparable from those that do.
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The OnHub router takes all the mystery out of your connectivity.
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SwiftKey knows what your state’s favorite emoji is.
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