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AWS has announced a major upgrade to its Elastic File System (EFS), achieving sub-millisecond speeds. EFS is at the heart of the AWS platform, and is used in a wide array of applications. As a result, any increase in performance can result in significant quality-of-life improvements for AWS customers. The latest announcement should be welcome to the company’s customers, with EFS now boasting sub-millisecond read latency. “Up until today, EFS latency for read operations (both data and metadata) was typically in the low single-digit milliseconds,” writes Jeff Barr, Chief Evangelist for…

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Signal has added a major new feature, allowing people to change their phone number without losing their chats. Signal is one of the most secure messaging platforms on the market, but that level of security sometimes comes with convenience compromises. Until now, one such compromise meant that changing one’s phone number would result in a loss of all previous chats. The company has now addressed that issue, providing a way to change numbers, while still keeping old messages. If you’re getting a new phone, but keeping your old number, you can use our end-to-end…

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GM CEO Mary Barra is throwing down the gauntlet, claiming her company will top Tesla in the EV market. Tesla is the current reigning champion of the EV market. The company was synonymous with EVs for years, with traditional automakers only recently beginning to pivot to EVs en masse. GM is one such company, and is investing heavily in the transition, recently announcing a $7 billion investment in several Michigan plants, in an effort to convert half of its North America productions to EVs by 2030. Barra, however, has her sights set…

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The American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bipartisan bill aimed at reigning in Big Tech, is receiving criticism from an unlikely source. The American Innovation and Choice Online Act was introduced by Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Chuck Grassley, and John Kennedy as an effort to reign in Big Tech’s influence. In particular, the bill would prevent Big Tech companies from favoring their own services and products. “As dominant digital platforms—some of the biggest companies our world has ever seen—increasingly give preference to their own products and services, we must put…

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Germany is looking to address hate speech on the Telegram messaging platform, even leaving open the possibility of banning the service. Telegram is a messaging service that offers end-to-end encryption (E2EE), making it a prime competitor to WhatsApp and Signal. In addition to E2EE, the app has strong support for groups, making it as much a chat as messaging platform. As with all E2EE services, some use Telegram for illegal and unwanted behavior. Germany has been struggling with far-right groups, something the country is especially sensitive to, given its past.…

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The International Space Station (ISS) has earned another lease on life, with the Biden-Harris administration committed to funding it through 2030. The ISS has a long history of scientific advancement, but its retirement is drawing near. The station was first launched in 1998, making it over 30 years old. According to NASA, the Biden-Harris administration has authorized funding it through 2030, buying more time toward a replacement. “The International Space Station is a beacon of peaceful international scientific collaboration and for more than 20 years has returned enormous scientific, educational,…

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AT&T has agreed to sell its ad marketplace, Xandr, to Microsoft as the ad industry tries to adapt to a post-cookie world. The ad industry has been working to cope with changes to online advertising, including initiatives to replace the web browser cookies that have formed the backbone of the industry for years. AT&T says Xandr compliments Microsoft’s current efforts in the context of the open web. “Microsoft’s shared vision of empowering a free and open web and championing an open industry alternative via a global advertising marketplace makes it…

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Toyota has revealed that customers will need to pay a subscription fee to use the remote start functionality of their key fobs. Remote start is a popular add-on feature for many vehicles, and can be a life-saver in cold or extremely hot weather. Unfortunately, Toyota customers who thought their vehicles came with remote start are in for a bit of a surprise: They’ll need to pay a subscription fee to continue using it. Subscription-based services have become incredibly popular in the tech industry, with everyone from enterprise software providers to…

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The US Space Force is calling out China as a “tremendous threat” in space, saying the country is advancing rapidly. US Space Force became the sixth branch of the US military in late 2019, tasked with protecting US interests in space. US Space Force vice chief of space operations, Gen. David Thompson, said the US is still the leader in space, but China is rapidly catching up. “China is a tremendous threat…I don’t think it’s a foregone conclusion they will be the leader in space at the end of the decade, but…

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Apple’s new augmented reality (AR) headsets will offer M1 Mac-level performance, and is expected to hit the market in late 2022. Apple has been rumored to be working on an AR headset for some time, but it appears they’re finally close to hitting the market. Even better, the headsets are expected to offer performance on par with the M1 Mac. Noted Apple analysts Ming-Chi Kuo wrote a research report, seen by MacRumors, that details the new device. We predict that Apple’s AR headset to be launched in 4Q22 will be equipped…

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