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    Nvidia acquires Cumulus to bolster networking software capabilities

    Nvidia on Monday announced its plans to acquire Cumulus Networks, an open networking software company founded in 2010. The purchase comes on the heels of Nvidia’s $7 billion acquisition of Mellanox, an interconnection vendor that’s shipped combined offerings with Cumulus since 2016.  Featured stories The terms of the Cumulus deal were not disclosed.  “Nvidias’s approach […] More

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    Pluggable UD-CA1A USB-C dock

    Apple 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro with Magic Keyboard 10th-generation Intel processors, 16GB of faster 3733MHz memory standard, 13-inch Retina display, Touch Bar and Touch ID, immersive stereo speakers, an an all-day battery life. … More

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    How to easily move your photos from Facebook to Google Photos

    Sharing isn’t easy. It’s difficult to move photos from one social network to another or storage. Now, Facebook and Google have made it simple to copy your Facebook photos to Google Photos. This is the first fruit of an open-source project, the Data Transfer Project, to make it much easier to trade photos and other […] More

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    The home networks we need today are coming tomorrow

    Due to the global pandemic, many people familiar with a managed office Wi-Fi network have been acclimating the vagaries of using bandwidth-intensive applications that contend with other network traffic generated by other people and devices on the home network. Depending on the state of your router and internet access, there may be several levers you […] More

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    ICANN: We reject $1.1bn sale of .org registry to private equity firm

    ICANN, the non-profit in charge of web addresses, has rejected the proposed $1.1bn sale of the non-profit registry that controls .org domain names to private equity firm Ethos Capital.  The Internet Society, which operates the non-profit Public Interest Registry (PIR) for .org domains, announced plans in November to sell the registry to Ethos Capital.  Networking There […] More

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    Only 3% of tower outages during bushfire peak due to fire damage

    Bushfires taking out electricity transmission infrastructure was far more responsible for telecommunication outages than direct fire damage, a report prepared by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found. Looking at the period from 19 December 2019 to 31 January 2020, the peak of Australia’s recent black summer of fires, ACMA said only 3% […] More