Alibaba Acquires Majority Stake in Chinese Supermarket Chain Sun Art

The Alibaba Group said it will invest $3.6 billion to boost its stake in hypermarket operator Sun Art Retail Group, gaining further ground in China's retail market. Alibaba, which already owned 21 percent of Sun Art through a unit, will raise its stake to around 72 percent through the acquisition of a similar stake in A-RT Retail Holdings, who owns 51 percent of Sun A...
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News Bits: Cohesity, Lenovo, Privacera, AMD, Login VSI, and TEAMGROUP

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cohesity and AWS to deliver Data Management as a Service (DMaaS). Lenovo releases ThinkIoT Smarter Store Solution. Privacera releases Platform 4.0. AMD EPYC processors power Microsoft Azure Data Explorer. Login VSI releases Login Enterprise 4.3. TEAMGROUP releases Gaming A2 CARD and magnetic SSD adaptor. (more…)
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QNAP QTS 4.5.1 Released

Today QNAP Systems, Inc officially released the latest update to their NAS operating system, QNAP QTS 4.5.1. QNAP is continuing to innovate their NAS OS with enhancements to virtualization, networking, and management functionalities. While QNAP has made several updates and enhancements key ones include VM live migration, Wi-Fi 6 support, Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS), and centralized log management. (more…)
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LaCie 1big Dock SSD Pro Review

Creative professionals looking to streamline their workflow with a big capacity bump should look into the LaCie 1big Dock, it goes up to 16TB. On the other hand, if you happen to be a professional that needs extra speed, the company offers the LaCie 1big Dock SSD Pro. This dock comes with dual Thunderbolt 3 ports and an internal NVMe SSD to hit speeds up to 2.8GB/s. (more…)
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Podcast #68: Andrew Pratt, Ducks Unlimited Canada

Ducks Unlimited Canada is all about the preservation of wetlands and the wildlife that rely on them. Maybe with the exception of beavers, who have their own plans when it comes to routing waterways. Okay, that's not true, Ducks Unlimited doesn't hate beavers. All of this preservation work requires a surprising amount of data. This includes what you'd expect, like aerial photography. But it also includes a vast array of extremely remote edge computing nodes with a bevy of sensors for measuring things like water levels, temperatures, and other environmental aspects. Every so often, they send a small payload of data back to the data center. When we think about IoT at the edge, there are few devices more edge than the
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Dell G5 15 SE (5505) Review

The Dell G5 15 SE (5505) is one of the rare gaming laptops out there to feature an AMD Ryzen CPU and Radeon GPU. Is this something you should consider buying? Read our review to find out.
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Google to Move Users From Hangouts to Google Chat Early Next Year

Google has announced that it will transition its users from Google Hangouts to Google Chat under the re-branded Google Workspace (previously G Suite) in the first half of next year. Google Workspace brings Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, and now Chat, within an integrated, unified space.
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