Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl hat Facebook tausende Fake-Accounts gelöscht. Anders als in den USA sei von diesen Konten aber keine ausländisch gesteuerte Politwerbung geschaltet worden.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
In Piombino waren die Flug- und Tauchroboter an der Reihe. Manche fanden die Vermissten, andere scheiterten an der Kommunikation. Bei der kommenden Grand Challenge werden Flug-, Tauch- und Bodenroboter zusammenarbeiten müssen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
Beagleboards stellt ein neues Mitglied der Beaglebone-Familie vor. Der kleine Bastelrechner taugt auch als Schlüsselanhänger – allerdings ist er dafür vergleichsweise teuer. (Beagleboard, Roboter)
Quelle: Golem
Das deutsche Erfolgsrezept zum einfachen Wechsel von Telefon- und Internetanbietern hängt am seidenen Faden. Die EU will europaweite Regeln. Eine gute Idee – aber nicht auf Kosten deutscher Standards, fordert Verbraucherschützerin Lina Ehrig.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
US-Militärs und CIA wollen mit ihren Drohnen auch außerhalb von Kriegsgebieten viel öfter Menschen umbringen. Das berichtet die New York Times. Von Obama erlassene Regeln kommen da ungelegen. Trump dürfte sie bald aufweichen.
Quelle: Heise Tech News
As part of our commitment to providing customers with a platform for their most demanding, mission-critical workloads, I’m excited to announce expanded capabilities for Microsoft’s global cloud infrastructure.
Starting today, customers can begin using Azure Availability Zones in preview to build highly available applications. Availability Zones increase Azure’s resiliency capabilities and broaden options for customers to choose the business continuity solution that is right for their organization. We've also designed Availability Zones to give customers great confidence in delivering services and with an industry-leading, financially-backed 99.99% virtual machines uptime SLA when generally available.
Availability Zones are fault-isolated locations within an Azure region, providing redundant power, cooling, and networking. Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with higher availability and fault tolerance to datacenter failures. With 42 announced regions worldwide (more than any other cloud provider) and backed by one of the largest networks on the planet, Azure offers the scale needed to bring applications closer to users and customers around the world. Availability Zones are now in preview in two regions, East US 2 in Virginia and West Europe in the Netherlands, with plans to offer preview to additional regions in the US, Europe, and Asia before the end of the year including our new France Central region in Paris.
With Azure’s geographic expansion, we invest in providing the best cloud experience possible including expanding and upgrading our global network. Today also marks the completion of the MAREA transatlantic subsea cable, the latest addition to our global network. MAREA is a joint project between Microsoft, Facebook and Telxius, and represents our latest infrastructure initiative to support customer demand and service innovation across the globe. MAREA is the highest-capacity cable to ever cross the Atlantic, and the first to connect Virginia and Spain. It will help support the growing demand for high speed, reliable connections to the U.S. and Europe, including our newest Azure regions coming to France, and beyond.
To learn more about Availability Zones and sign up for the Preview, visit: http://aka.ms/az.
Follow these links to find out more about the innovation in Microsoft’s global network and the MAREA transatlantic subsea cable.
Quelle: Azure
Bodega
Corner stores can breathe a bit easier today. Bodega, the startup that uses computer vision to sell everyday items from a cabinet, isn't off to nearly as strong a start as you were led to believe.
Bodega, which debuted to mixed reviews last week when people thought it was attempting to put beloved local corner stores out of business, initially declared it was “currently live” in more than 30 locations in the Bay Area. But the real number is approximately half of that.
BuzzFeed News discovered the discrepancy between Bodega's declared number of units and its actual number of units when trying to arrange a video shoot at one of the locations listed on a map on the company's website.
The Bodega location map
Bodega
People at six locations listed on Bodega's map told BuzzFeed News they did not have a Bodega unit on their property. Some people at listed locations said they were only in preliminary discussions with the company.
After a handful of emails back and forth, Bodega cofounder Paul McDonald told BuzzFeed News 14 Bodega units were live as of this Wednesday, with 21 expected to go live by the end of next week, and approximately 30 in the next two to three weeks.
And in a Medium post last Wednesday, McDonald disputed the notion that Bodega was encroaching on the turf of mom and pop stores. “We want to bring commerce to places where commerce currently doesn’t exist,” he said. Turns out, the public had less to worry about than it thought.
After being contacted by BuzzFeed News, Bodega changed its website copy to indicate some of the 30 locations were not yet live.
Bodega
Sonoma State University, one listed location, has no active relationship with Bodega but is looking into it, Neil Markley, its associate vice president for administration and finance told BuzzFeed News. “We do not have a Bodega unit on our campus, nor do we have a contract with Bodega,” Markley wrote in an email.
Flagship Athletic Perfomance, another of the 30 locations, told BuzzFeed News it doesn't have units in two of its locations listed on the map. “How strange, thank you for bringing that to our attention. We only had preliminary talks with them,” the company said in a Facebook message.
One Bodega location, Avenue 64 Apartments in Emeryville, California, told BuzzFeed News it did have a Bodega unit. And Business Insider found another unit inside Managed by Q, another listed property.
“We wrote the copy for the website a few weeks before launch,” McDonald told BuzzFeed News in an email. “We were going for simple with all the other things we had to do before launch.”
Quelle: <a href="The Case Of The Ever-Mysterious Nonexistent Bodega Units“>BuzzFeed
Earlier this year, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) introduced service-linked roles, which provide you an easy and secure way to delegate permissions to many AWS services. Today, AWS IAM added support for deletion of service-linked roles through the AWS IAM console and API/CLI. This will enable you to revoke permissions from an AWS service to create and manage AWS resources in your account.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
You can now use additional built-in slot types for phone numbers, speed and weight with your Amazon Lex chatbot.
Quelle: aws.amazon.com
Get both the Tiller server and Helm client up and running on OpenShift and install your first Helm Chart with this walkthrough on using Helm with OpenShift.
Quelle: OpenShift
