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Owner of TikTok, an App You're Probably Too Old to Know About, Fined £4.3 Million for Illegally Collecting Kids' Data

Among the information potentially captured by the app were email addresses, phone numbers, first and last names, and photos. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/owner-of-tiktok-an-app-youre-probably-too-old-to-know-about-fined-4-3-million-for-illegally-collecting-kids-data/
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Cloud Storage Is Expensive? Are You Doing it Right?

In my day to day job, I talk to a lot of end users. And when it comes to the cloud, there are still many differences between Europe and the US. The European cloud market is much more fragmented than the American one for several reasons, including the slightly different regulations in each country. Cloud adoption is slower in Europe and many organizations still like to maintain data and infrastructure in their premises. The European approach is quite pragmatic, and many enterprises take somewhat advantage of the experiences made by similar organizations on the other side of the pond. One similarity is cloud storage or, better, cloud storage costs and reactions. The fact that data is growing everywhere at an incredible pace is nothing new, and often faster than predicted in the past years. At first glance, an all-in cloud strategy looks very compelling, low $/GB, less CAPEX and more OPEX, increased agility and more, until of course your cloud bill starts growing out of control. As I wr
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GigaOm Infographic: Connectivity and Customer Experience

How can businesses use connectivity to drive improved CX for their customer? GigaOm asked 350+ strategic enterprise decision-makers from North America and Europe to share their experiences. Check out the infographic below and then read the full Research Byte here. from Gigaom https://gigaom.com/2019/02/25/gigaom-infographic-connectivity-and-customer-experience/
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YouTube's Commenter Controversy Is Putting Creators in a Tricky Position

As YouTube scrambles to tackle a network of child exploitation in the comments section of its platform, some creators have voiced concern about what will happen if their videos are demonetised amid advertiser pull-outs and crackdowns on content from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/youtubes-commenter-controversy-is-putting-creators-in-a-tricky-position/
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The Galaxy S10 5G Will be Launch With EE and Vodafone

Samsung has just announced a number of partners working with it on 5G, and the Galaxy S10 5G smartphone. While we don't know exactly when the phone will arrive (early summer, is what we've been told), but Samsung confirms it will work with EE and Vodafone's 5G networks. It's not clear whether that means those 5G networks will already be available by the time the phone is released, or whether it will work with O2 and Three's networks when they launch. We'll just have to wait and see. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/the-galaxy-s10-5g-will-be-launch-with-ee-and-vodafone/
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Report: More Than 300 Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria, With Pro-Assad Forces Responsible for 98 Per Cent

Most of the incidents involved improvised chlorine munitions in the form of devastating unguided explosives dropped from helicopters or planes. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/report-more-than-300-chemical-weapons-attacks-in-syria-with-pro-assad-forces-responsible-for-98-per-cent/
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Christopher Robin's Pooh & Friends Looked So Real Because Puppeteers Played With Real Stuffed Animals on Set

When you’re bringing characters that millions of kids spent their childhoods with to the big screen, you need to use every trick to make them move as believably as possible. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/christopher-robins-pooh-friends-looked-so-real-because-puppeteers-played-with-real-stuffed-animals-on-set/
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Gizmodo UK is Hiring a News Editor

Do you have an appetite for writing interesting news stories? Think you can handle the random variety of topics we report on each day? Or are you daft brave enough to try and beat Gary Cutlack at his own game? We've been down a News Editor ever since my boss decided to let me take control of Gizmodo UK last year, and now we're looking for a replacement from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/02/gizmodo-uk-is-hiring-a-news-editor/
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Isn’t It Time to Rethink Your Cloud Strategy?

Last year, at Re:invent, Amazon AWS launched Outpost and finally validated the concept of hybrid-cloud. Not that it was really necessary, but still… At the same time, what was once defined as cloud-first strategy (with the idea of starting every new initiative on the cloud often with a single service provider), today is evolving into a multi-cloud strategy. This new strategy is based on a broad spectrum of possibilities that range from deployments on public clouds to on-premises infrastructures. Purchasing everything from a single service provider is very easy and solves numerous issues but, in the end, this means accepting a lock-in that doesn’t pay off in the long run. Last month I was speaking with the IT director of a large manufacturing company in Italy who described how over the last few years his company had enthusiastically embraced one of the major cloud providers for almost every critical company project. He reported that the strategy had resulted in an IT budget out of c
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