Where All Your Facebook Photos Really Go

Facebook has built one of the world's largest and most efficient data centers at the edge of the world. Here's the engineering behind its massive cloud system in Lulea.

Apr 28th, 2016

Facebook has built one of the world's largest and most efficient data centers at the edge of the world. Here's the engineering behind its massive cloud system in Lulea.

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

How to Ease the Pain of Physical Inventory Counts

While physical inventory counts are a necessary evil, they don't need to be such a significant burden.

5 Keys to Ensuring Edge Computing Success

Ways to ensure smoother deployment that delivers on the promise of edge computing while keeping your project on time and on budget.

David Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services at Amazon, displays a new Echo, left, and an Echo Plus during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Seattle. On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Amazon launched a program that forces users of many Echo smart speakers and Ring security cameras to automatically share a small portion of their wireless bandwidth with neighbors. The only way to stop it is to turn it off yourself.

Amazon May Be Helping Itself to your Bandwidth

Some experts warn that the technology is so new that privacy and security risks remain unclear.

Apple store employee in New York, Feb. 5, 2021.

Apple Previews New Software for iPhone, Other Gadgets

The latest renovations in Apple’s $2 trillion empire come at a pivotal time for the company.

Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announces the recovery of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from the Colonial Pipeline Co. ransomware attacks as she speaks during a news conference with FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate and acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California Stephanie Hinds at the Justice Department in Washington, Monday, June 7, 2021.

US Recovers Most of Ransom Paid After Colonial Pipeline Hack

Colonial officials had paid ransom in bitcoin valued at $4.4 million.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, Nov. 10, 2020.

Supreme Court Limits Use of Anti-Hacking Law

Lawyers argued the case could make using a computer for virtually any unauthorized purpose a federal crime.

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Walmart Rolls Out New App for Workers

The retail giant plans to offer new smartphones to nearly half of its U.S. workforce by year's end.

Apple CEO Tim Cook leaves the Ronald V. Dellums building, Oakland, Calif., May 21, 2021.

Cook Faces Tough Questions on App Monopoly

A video game developer is trying to topple the so-called “walled garden" for iPhone and iPad apps.

The Pentagon seen from the air in Washington, March 27, 2008.

Pentagon Reconsiders Huge Cloud-Computing Contract

The $10 billion JEDI contract was awarded to Microsoft but is mired in legal challenges.

Norristown Area High School student Katie Griffin during a virtual Spanish class at her home in Norristown, Pa., Sept. 3, 2020.

Judge Orders State Officials to Provide Fast Internet

The ruling requires the state to provide computers and high-speed internet to students who still don’t have them.

Yahoo and AOL Sold, Again, for $5B

At the end of last century, Yahoo was the face of the internet and AOL was the portal.

Microsoft headquarters in Paris, Jan. 8, 2021.

Microsoft Profits Soar as Cloud Demand Continues in Pandemic

Its cloud computing business segment grew 23%.