How the DoD’s future war-fighting needs are shaping cloud vendors’ products 5 hours ago Cloud vendors are coming up with new ideas to provide access for any location, such as aboard a ship. In this picture, a sailor on the amphibious assault ship USS America troubleshoots a server in 2017. (Mass Communication Spc. Vance Hand/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Defense Department’s expectation that future wars will be fought across dispersed, disconnected environments is driving changes to its cloud needs. Industry is preparing for that reality. With the nascent concept of connecting the best sensor from any location with the best shooter in any service, known as Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the defense industrial base is seeing a shift in the Pentagon’s need for tools that people can access from any location.
Subway confirms no explosion after loud bang heard at Rotorua s Central mall
15 Apr, 2021 12:46 AM
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Fire crews were called to the Rotorua Central Mall today. Photo / Andrew Warner
Rotorua Daily Post
Subway has confirmed an incident that prompted an emergency callout to its store in the Rotorua Central Mall and witness reports of a loud bang was not an explosion.
A Fire and Emergency NZ spokeswoman said two crews were sent to the scene about 12.30pm where they were dealing with a small refrigerator leak .
The callout was initially thought to be an explosion, but it was quickly discovered this was a misinterpretation between the 111 caller and call taker, the spokeswoman said.
Tencent launches first data centre in Indonesia, joins slew of tech companies in Cloud race Details 14 April 2021
Tencent Cloud, a subsidiary of technology conglomerate Tencent, has reportedly launched an internet data centre in Jakarta. According to
The Jakarta Post, this is Tencent Cloud s first centre in Indonesia, as the company looks to capitalise on its growing cloud computing market. The internet data centre is said to allow faster data transfers and speed up various industries’ digital transformations.
The Jakarta Post also cited Tencent Cloud s senior vice president Poshu Yeung, who said Indonesia has a large internet demographic dividend with a fast-growing mobile internet market , and the company looks to maximise the cloud computing potential in the country.
If Planet Nine Is Out There, It May Not Be Where We Think
15 APRIL 2021
If Planet Nine is out there, a large, mysterious planet lurking at the dark edges of the Solar System, it may not be where we thought it might be.
According to astronomers searching for the hypothetical object, new information taken into account could mean that its orbit is significantly more elliptical than most recently predicted.
The hypothetical Planet Nine made a big entrance in 2016, when astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Michael Brown of Caltech published a paper in
The Astronomical Journal. In it, they set out their case for an as-yet undiscovered planet in the outer reaches of the Solar System. The evidence, they said, lay in other objects from far beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Can China’s Huawei transform itself from hardware giant into a leading services provider with cloud?
Huawei began its cloud business in 2010 but the unit only began to grow fast in recent years
The cloud business is less dependent on chips but faces stiff competition from Alibaba and Tencent