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    • Amazon announces AWS Global Accelerator to boost performance across regions and AWS Transit Gateway, a tool to simplify network architecture and reduce overhead (Asha McLean/ZDNet)

    Asha McLean / ZDNet: Amazon announces AWS Global Accelerator to boost performance across regions and AWS Transit Gateway, a tool to simplify network architecture and reduce overhead  —  The AWS Global Accelerator is expected to boost performance of global workloads and the AWS Transit Gateway is aimed at simplifying network architecture. Amazon announces AWS Global

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    • AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, claims 45% lower costs for some workloads (Tom Krazit/GeekWire)

    Tom Krazit / GeekWire: AWS introduces its own custom-designed Arm server processor, AWS Graviton Processor, claims 45% lower costs for some workloads  —  After years of waiting for someone to design a Arm server processor that could work at scale on the cloud, Amazon Web Services just went ahead and designed its own. AWS introduces

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    • Lime launches in the UK, starting with dockless electric bikes in Milton Keynes, says it plans to expand into more UK cities in the next few weeks (Catherine Shu/TechCrunch)

    Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: Lime launches in the UK, starting with dockless electric bikes in Milton Keynes, says it plans to expand into more UK cities in the next few weeks  —  Lime launched in the United Kingdom today, starting with a group of dockless electric-assist bikes in a Milton Keynes shopping center. Lime launches

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    • Facebook Messenger bug resurfaces chats from years ago (Update: it’s fixed)

    Update (10:08 AM, 27 November 2018): A Facebook spokesperson told TNW it’s fixed the bug: Earlier today, some people may have experienced Facebook resending older messages. The issue, caused by software updates, has been fully resolved. We’re sorry for any inconvenience. Our original story follows. Facebook’s Messenger service is acting up in the weirdest way

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    • Microsoft details three independent root causes behind last week's worldwide MFA outage that affected Azure, Office 365, Dynamics, and other Microsoft users (Mary Jo Foley/ZDNet)

    Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: Microsoft details three independent root causes behind last week’s worldwide MFA outage that affected Azure, Office 365, Dynamics, and other Microsoft users  —  Microsoft has posted a root cause analysis of the multifactor authentication issue which hit a number of its customers worldwide last week. Microsoft details three independent root

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    • Tencent partners with Line to offer payment services via WeChat Pay to small businesses in Japan, starting in 2019 with processing fees waived through July 2021 (Yoichiro Hiroi/Nikkei Asian Review)

    Yoichiro Hiroi / Nikkei Asian Review: Tencent partners with Line to offer payment services via WeChat Pay to small businesses in Japan, starting in 2019 with processing fees waived through July 2021  —  Tie-up targets Chinese tourists, but faces competition from Yahoo-Alibaba service  —  TOKYO — Tencent Holdings will team … Tencent partners with Line

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    • Facebook confirms that older messages are resurfacing as new and unread in the Messenger tab on Facebook.com for some users, says it is working on a fix (Nick Statt/The Verge)

    Nick Statt / The Verge: Facebook confirms that older messages are resurfacing as new and unread in the Messenger tab on Facebook.com for some users, says it is working on a fix  —  The company is investigating the issue  —  Facebook users are reporting one of the stranger bugs to plague the platform of late

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    • WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company (Margi Murphy/Telegraph)

    Margi Murphy / Telegraph: WhatsApp’s chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces he is leaving after seven years at the company  —  WhatsApp’s chief business officer is leaving the company, the latest executive to flee since the messaging service was bought by Facebook.  —  Neeraj Arora, once tipped … WhatsApp's chief business officer Neeraj Arora announces

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    • Amazon says it's making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

    Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Amazon says it’s making the same machine learning courses it uses to teach its own engineers available for free to all developers through AWS  —  It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has a one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected.  The company just announced that it has made available …

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    • How data tagging firms in China are using cheap labor to apply labels to troves of images and surveillance footage to help train AI systems across the country (Li Yuan/New York Times)

    Li Yuan / New York Times: How data tagging firms in China are using cheap labor to apply labels to troves of images and surveillance footage to help train AI systems across the country  —  Some of the most critical work in advancing China’s technology goals takes place in a former cement factory in the

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    A Sub-$1000, Non-X86 Motherboard

    If you’re building a computer, your options are nearly limitless. You can get a motherboard with red LEDs, with blue LEDs, green LEDs, or if you’re feeling spendy, RGB LEDs. You can get custom-milled heat spreaders in any shape you want, as long as it’s angular and screams ‘gamer’. If you want a motherboard that doesn’t

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