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‘It just has to work’: Ahead of Black Friday NFL game, Amazon shows how it’s perfected live sports

GeekWire

While Netflix said the fight was streamed on 65 million devices around the world, and dubbed it a big success, buffering problems were an issue for many viewers who flocked to social media to complain. “The internet gives you the ability to say, ‘Yeah, but I want to drive my own train. “TNF” is averaging 14.31

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The massive Social Security number breach is actually a good thing

Vox

My Social Security number had been compromised in an alleged data breach. As many as 272 million Social Security numbers are floating around hacker forums after someone stole them from a Florida-based background check company called National Public Data , which is owned by an actor and retired sheriff’s deputy named Salvatore “Sal” Verini.

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2017 Expectations: 5 Areas Where Technology Will Continue to Revolutionize Business Processes

CTOvision

Cloud computing allows both small and large companies to share information and access services over the internet. Companies are now getting a constant flow of real-time customer data from websites, social media, and POS terminals that automatically capture clicks, likes, and sales transactions for analysis by business intelligence systems.

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Are data centers obsolete in the age of AI? Not on our watch…

CIO Business Intelligence

Digital Realty first presented publicly on the implications of AI for data centers in 2017, but we were tracking its evolution well before that. IT infrastructure needs are always evolving The internet, the things we use it for, and the infrastructure that supports it are always changing. Visit digitalrealty.com.

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Bezos’ Amazon: from bookstore to backbone of the internet

The Verge

to found an internet-based bookstore. In 1998, Amazon bought the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) for approximately $55 million, in the company’s first major acquisition. AWS was a commercial product that would provide the backbone for companies to run their own internet businesses from the cloud. Shaw & Co.

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How TCS is helping to fight financial crime with AI and Microsoft Cloud

CIO Business Intelligence

billion, a 436% increase over 2017 levels, according to McKinsey. Challenges for fraud risk management Fraud is a big and a worthwhile business for today’s online criminals, who troll the internet and insert data-stealing malware into vulnerable sites and mobile apps. The stakes for financial organizations are growing as well.

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Internet shutdowns by governments have ‘proliferated at a truly alarming pace’

The Verge

The number of government-led internet shutdowns has exploded over the last decade as states seek to stifle dissent and protest by limiting citizens’ access to the web. The first significant internet shutdown took place in Egypt in 2011, as a response to protests against then-president Hosni Mubarak. Photo by James Bareham / The Verge.

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