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Hashtag Trending – Snowden back in the news; Ontario’s $100K bid for new talent; Fortnite hits Apple with Epic ad

Donald Trump says he is considering pardoning whistleblower Edward Snowden, Ontario makes a bid for Silicon Valley talent, and Fortnite throws a counterpunch at Apple.

Hashtag Trending – Bill Gates sits down with Bloomberg; Alexa bug draws concerns; Sidewalk Labs and Toronto’s proposed smart city in retrospect

Bill Gates sits down for a one-on-one with Bloomberg, it turns out Alexa’s web services had bugs that a hacker could have exploited to grab a target's entire voice history, and a story looking back at the rise and fall of Sidewalk Labs’ proposed smart city project in Toronto goes viral.

Hashtag Trending – Reddit gets hacked; Facebook doubles down on WFH; Holograms over Zoom

A massive hack hits Reddit, Facebook doubles down on its work from home policy, and Zoom’s old news - it’s all about holograms now.

Persistent memory – reshaping advanced analytics to improve customer experiences

Keeping hot data closer to the CPU has become increasingly difficult in these capacity-limited situations.

Hashtag Trending – Google ends Pixel 4; cell service outage in eastern Canada; Excel dates human genes

Google discontinues its flagship smartphones, residents in eastern Canada were hit with a cell service outage yesterday, scientists renamed 27 human genes to appease Excel.

Hashtag Trending – Microsoft confirms interest in scooping up TikTok; Big tech CEOs get richer during COVID; NASA astronauts return home

Microsoft confirms its interest to buy TikTok, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos added billions to their bank accounts during the height of the pandemic, and NASA astronauts return home after a critical SpaceX mission.

How IT decision makers can deliver best-in-class digital experiences

Requests for home deliveries and curbside pickups in Canada have boomed as consumers look to reduce in-person contact with others, and digital apps and ecommerce platforms are undergoing a major stress test of constant usage.

Hashtag Trending – iPhone 11s in India; Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft; Siemens doubles down on WFH

Apple shifts some of its manufacturing to India, a new mod allows players to run Windows 95 PC inside Minecraft, and multinational conglomerate Siemens is doubling down on its work from home policies.

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