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A real-life stranger could potentially be listening to anything you tell Alexa by design. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/amazons-human-helpers-are-quietly-listening-in-on-some-alexa-recordings/

To be honest, we’ve heard worse ideas for this platform. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/twitter-and-its-experimental-app-twttr-are-toying-with-some-goofy-changes-to-tweet-replies/

Rise in perception of road dangers blamed. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/were-still-cycling-but-inside-where-its-safer-now/

The key ingredient in these products – hydrogen peroxide – could be capable of damaging dentin. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/teeth-whitening-products-might-be-riskier-than-we-thought/

After an entire season of build up, this is it. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/the-die-is-cast-on-an-emotionally-exhausting-star-trek-discovery/

Roll Richard Hammond up in the tent and throw it in the sea, see if he sinks quicker than a mini submarine. from gizmodo http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2019/04/the-grand-tour-goes-tour-only-for-future-adventures/

On the 2nd of April, at their Data Centric Innovation Day , Intel announced a slew of new products, including brand spanking new ones as well as updates to existing product line-ups. There was some news for everybody – whether your specific interests are in datacenter, or edge, or infrastructures.  Among other things, what impressed me the most was the new Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM , and even more so its implications when coupled with the new (56-core) Intel Xeon Platinium 9200 CPU. Datacenter Optanization! Up until yesterday, Optane was already considered a great technology, although to some extent it was seen as a niche product. Although more and more vendors are adopting it as an adequate substitute of NVDIMMs as a tier 0 or cache for their storage systems,  it was still harder to foresee a broader adoption of the technology. Yes, it is cheaper than RAM and faster than a standard NAND-based device, but that’s about it. Maybe it was part of Intel’s strategy. In fac...