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Mirantis Flow is a cloud-native datacenter-as-a-service. It’s meant for two audiences. First, there are the businesses already using public cloud infrastructure technology, which discovered just how hard it is actually to put together a working system from cloud-native components. Mirantis Flow is also designed to make it easy for businesses just beginning their cloud journey to get onboard. This isn’t just to get you started on a cloud. Endless products and services promise that....

Google’s director of government affairs and public policy Lucinda Longcroft was repeatedly asked by the committee about YouTube displaying Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party (UAP) ads containing COVID-19 misinformation. At least nine UAP ads presented incomplete extracts of a Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) report on vaccinations to convey misleading COVID-19 information, according to committee deputy chair and Labor representative Tim Watts. Conceding the existence of these ads on YouTube, Longcroft told the committee that the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policies are “robust, rapid, and effectively enforced” as it had issued one strike to the UAP for these ads, which removed the political party’s YouTube privileges for a week....

If this concerns you, it’s time to dump all of your Google Web History before the new policy is implemented. Here’s how to do it. Sign into your Google account or accounts if you have more than one. Then in the address bar type http://google.com/history. Here you’ll see the complete history – including dates – of sites you’ve visited, searches, YouTube videos, images and anything else you’ve done on Google’s sites and services....

Following the launch of an all new Google Wallet app for Android that brought the service to all Android devices in the US and customers on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, today Google has launched an official Google Wallet app for iOS devices. Since in-store payments are still limited to a handful of Android devices in the U.S. with NFC, the new app, available on the App Store now, includes many of the new features that Google announced in its latest Android update....

Get Out smartly balances its tones to provide viewers with an entertaining and clever satire that is equal parts funny and terrifying. Chris Washington (Daniel Kaluuya) and Rose Armitage (Allison Williams) are an interracial couple planning on visiting Rose’s parents for a weekend stay at their countryside home. Chris feels awkward about the situation because Rose’s family does not know he is black, but Rose assures him there is nothing to worry about....

The new “integrated view” for Gmail is intended to make it “easy to move between critical applications like Gmail, Chat and Meet in one unified location”, according to Google. The redesigned layout adds a slim application column on the left-hand side of the screen with shortcut icons to switch between Mail, Chat, Spaces, and Meet. It’s topped by an expandable hamburger menu. To the right of the new column is the standard Gmail labels menu for access to Inbox, Starred, Snoozed and so forth....

In the official update announcement, Google stated this new change to their ranking algorithm would effect 11.8% of their overall searches. When they say 11.8%, it doesn’t sound like a big number –but in Google’s case, that 11.8% comes out to around 200 million of all searches performed daily that will be effected by the new algorithm. You remember the Chrome extension we talked about last week for blocking unwanted search results?...

The Xbox Game Pass is adding some heavy-hitters in Gears 5 and Metal Gear Solid HD Edition: 2 & 3 this month, according to a new announcement that revealed the games coming to the console and PC versions of the subscription service during September. Xbox Game Pass has been praised as the best subscription-based offering among current-gen consoles, and it’s not difficult to see why - the Xbox offering has been consistently adding top-tier titles....

Combining frivolous drama with scintillating moments of suspense and medical challenges, the team behind General Hospital seem to have the recipe just right, in terms of creating engaging content with a wide reach. At the same time, they have created a soap opera which appears to have stood the test of time, being America’s longest-standing soapie. The popular series has kept viewers enthralled for over a half a century and while it has endless ardent fans, there are certain things that even those most dedicated to the show don’t know....

After finishing the initial set-up process, the app shows you the Smart Forecast. There is a lot to see here but it is broken down very easily, and it is very straightforward to understand. In the center of the screen there is a percentage, which represents how much of your data plan you have actually used. It also shows how long you have left in your billing period and the range of dates that make up that billing period....

Google announced this morning they would be acquiring reCAPTCHA. This interesting acquisition makes a lot of sense. One of the original reasons (if not the original reason) for developing CAPTCHA was to ensure the person on your website or application was in fact human. BOTS would crawl through the internet and create posts and forum topics etc., to distribute SPAM and BOTS across sites. CAPTCHA would step in by displaying an image which only a human could decipher/respond to (usually), and then ask them to type in a word or several words to ensure they were HUMAN....

It doesn’t matter what type of gadget you use. It may be a PC, smartphone, or tablet but it’s important to keep the device secure. With the use of numerous apps, it is imperative that you should see that usage happens in a secure way. For that, the best option is to use two-factor authentication. 2FA works great with Google Authenticator. This app generates OTP based on timestamps. Along with login details the user has to put the 6-digit code....

It’s standard practice for developers to pause app updates over the December holidays and resume in early January. That was the case for Google this year, but the lack of new iOS releases oddly continued for almost the entire month until app updates resumed yesterday and today. The lack of updates comes in the context of speculation at the start of the year that Google was not updating its iOS apps to avoid Apple’s App Privacy label....

Google-owned VirusTotal today released a version of the VirusTotal uploader application (via The Next Web) compatible with Mac OS X. Previously the software was only available for Windows-based machines. VirusTotal Uploader works in conjunction with the VirusTotal web service to check files and links for malware. Google hopes that the release of the software for the Mac will help users more easily detect attacks on Apple’s platform. From the VirusTotal blog:...

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone giant, has just released the latest version of MIUI which is the customized skin of Android which comes with all of the devices which are shipped by the business. The latest update to MIUI is that the MIUI 9 and also the most recent version of the ROM was declared by the company last month. The organization also announced that the MIUI 9 update would come to the majority of those devices which have been released this year from Xiaomi in addition to the devices released by the business in the past....

While you’re around the people you love, why not take the time to take care of their tech? These are the ones who call you when their computer is slow, or their phone is freezing. This will spare you the trouble of solving their problems over the phone. Show your loved ones how much you care by doing a few things to keep their devices running smoothly. Wi-Fi problems Update their router....

There have been a few reports recently about an installation failure of Windows Updates or Windows Store Updates. They are encountering the error code 0x80D05001, which notifies the user that there are some issues with the installation of the recently download Windows update files. The reasons behind this particular error can be many, and we will take a look at all of them here. We will also guide you through the process of fixing these specific errors in this article....

Warrior star Andrew Koji will play Storm Shadow in Paramount and Allspark’s G.I. Joe spinoff Snake Eyes. Based on the popular toy line and Marvel comic book series adapted from same, 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra marked the beginning of what was to be an entire action movie franchise. After the first film grossed $302 million worldwide on a reported $175 million budget, Paramount indeed went ahead with the 2013 sequel G....

Google parent company Alphabet has once again surpassed Apple in terms of value based on market capitalization. CNBC points out that Alphabet (GOOG) saw its market cap around $498.56 billion during trading today, while Apple (AAPL) saw its market cap down around $496.69 billion. Apple is often prided with the title of most valuable company in the world, but its stock has taken a hit over the last few weeks after reporting its first ever year-over-year decline in iPhone sales....

Google announced this week that Drive now fully integrates with Apple’s new Files app on iOS 11. Files allows you to access documents and media from multiple cloud providers including iCloud Drive and Dropbox in a single interface. iOS 11 Files integration comes with the latest update to Google Drive for iPhone and iPad, version 4.2017.37510. After installing the latest version of Google Drive on an iPhone or iPad running iOS 11, look for the ‘More Locations’ section of the Files app which should have a red badge that signals a new provider is available....