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Back to news homeGoogle shutting down Poly 3D content platform
Google is almost running out of AR/VR projects to kill off. The company announced today in an email to Poly users that they will be shutting down the 3D-object creation […]
AWS launches Glue Elastic Views to make it easier to move data from one purpose-built data store to another
AWS has launched a new tool to let developers move data from one store to another called Glue Elastic Views. At the AWS:Invent keynote CEO Andy Jassy announced Glue Elastic […]
AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud
AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are […]
The Supreme Court will hear its first big CFAA case
The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case that could lead to sweeping changes to America’s controversial computer hacking laws — and affecting how millions use their […]
Amazon Web Services outage takes a portion of the internet down with it
Amazon Web Services is currently having an outage, taking a chunk of the internet down with it. Several AWS services were experiencing problems as of early Wednesday, according to its […]
A bug meant Twitter Fleets could still be seen after they disappeared
Twitter is the latest social media site to allow users to experiment with posting disappearing content. Fleets, as Twitter calls them, allows its mobile users post short stories, like photos […]
Google Pay gets a major redesign with a new emphasis on personal finance
Google is launching a major redesign of its Google Pay app on both Android and iOS today. Like similar phone-based contactless payment services, Google Pay — or Android Pay as […]
Python creator Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
Guido van Rossum, the creator of the Python programming language, today announced that he has unretired and joined Microsoft’s Developer Division. Van Rossum, who was last employed by Dropbox, retired […]
Josh.ai launches a ‘nearly invisible’ Amazon Echo competitor that’s the size of a coin
In the past several weeks we’ve seen refreshes and product expansions from about every facet of the smart home virtual assistant world. Apple launched the HomePod Mini, Google offered a […]