Category: News
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Gaming in the cloud
We cannot use cloud only for storing massive amounts of data or hosting new applications. Since some time, we can also do gaming in the cloud. There are several services, some have also been already shut down. But some have been around for quite some time and also deliver a good service. I will introduce…
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State of AI for cloud
This is a review on the report of state of AI that is published once a year. Since it is time of year reviews, this fits perfectly. I want to discuss a little about the developments in this report about cloud. First, we see the emergence of new cloud providers that focus on GPU-based cloud.…
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Large computers – small computers – no computers?
Our computers are getting smaller and smaller. I lately observed a discussion where people discussed whether they still needed a notebook or tablet because their phone was all they needed for their digital life. I think this is really interesting. When I started with computers, they were heavy machines split up into tower, monitor, keyboard…
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WikidataShow
Some of you might know our project about school archives. This catalogues historical sources about schools and helps researchers to find these sources easier. One big problem we came across when building this platform was the effort to collect basic information about a school. This is very time-consuming (there are more than 1000 schools in…
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Apple
I am not what you would consider a fanboy of apple. I only have one apple device, but I am not planning in buying more and I also do not buy stuff because it says that certain brand. Still, I want to write about apple today because I think they have archived some interesting stuff…