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Ancient Egyptians predicted a baby’s gender with pee and barley – CNET
Papyrus manuscripts from thousands of years ago reveal some very unusual parenting advice. …read more
Source:: CNet
Array with it: Western Digital’s finance arm slings a few million at Excelero
Tech collab could see Excelero support WD’s OpenFlex and Kingfish
NVMe over Fabrics flash array supplier Excelero has received a strategic investment from Western Digital’s capital-investment arm, taking total funding to $35m.…
Source:: TheRegister
Did Apple Secretly Crush An App Store Competitor In Japan?
According to Nikkei, Japan’s Fair Trade Commission is looking into whether Apple improperly pressured Yahoo Japan to shut down a game streaming platform that competed with the iOS App Store. “Yahoo Japan’s Game Plus service allowed people to stream full games made for other platforms and to play HTML5 games on mobile phones, which would have allowed iPhone owners to get games without going through the App Store,” reports The Verge. From the report: Nikkei reports that Yahoo Japan slashed the program’s budget last fall, just months after it launched, and told partners that it was due to pressure from Apple. It’s said to have begun filing complaints with Japan’s FTC around the same time. Developers essentially have no good alternative to the App Store on iOS. Their only other option is the web, which is a wonderful place for websites, but the web is rarely as fast or flashy as a native app. There are a great number of features that only native apps can take advantage of, which requires going through the App Store and giving Apple a 30 percent cut of most sales. Yahoo Japan’s service was meant, in part, to be an alternative to that, offering better terms to developers, according to Nikkei, and fewer restrictions around how games were updated and sold. Final Fantasy creator Square Enix had even signed on and produced an exclusive game for the platform, which has since been pulled.
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Source:: Slashdot
Google shaves half a gig off Android Poundland Edition
Always believe in Go …
Developers targeting volumes globally have a new build target. Google’s “Poundland” Edition of Android – Go – has received an update to 9.0 Pie.…
Source:: TheRegister
Google risks mega-fine in EU over location ‘stalking’
First big test for GDPR looms
Special Report Privacy campaigners say Google’s obsessive collection of location markers violates Europe’s privacy laws – potentially exposing the Californian giant to punitive fines.…
Source:: TheRegister
Brit banks must disclose outages via API, decrees finance watchdog
Perhaps TSB’s total s*itshow wasn’t in vain
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is enforcing new rules that obligate banks to publicly reveal the number and frequency of online outages – including whether these were caused by malicious actors.…
Source:: TheRegister
NASA picks three winners in Freelancer robotic arm contest
The space agency has been crowdsourcing ideas for a floating robot cube that will soon board the International Space Station …read more
Source:: ZDNet
Pyspark, TensorFlow, Python: What’s in your machine learning toolbox?
From data to delivery, and all points between
Events We’ve got four workshops running on October 17, covering different technologies and approaches to getting machine learning to work for your organisation. And places for all of them are filling fast.…
Source:: TheRegister
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