Podcast #66: Dan Williams, Roblox

Roblox is one of the most popular game development platforms in the world. They enable developers to create games or experiences that are often easily approachable, making Roblox games perfect for families. In fact, any household with kids likely either knows the Roblox name or has been asked by a kid to re-up their Robux stash. Like many gaming platforms, Roblox saw a surge in traffic as lockdown hit across the globe. Before COVID their most popular day was Saturday. After COVID, every day was Saturday. In fact, they've seen record numbers of participation, including 5.2 million concurrent users and over 3 billion hours of engagement a month on the platform. (more…)
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LaCie 1big Dock Review

The LaCie 1big Dock is a desktop storage solution specifically designed for creative professionals and prosumers who need to streamline and optimize their workflows and perhaps their workspaces as well. Available in 4TB, 8TB, and 16TB HDD capacities, the LaCie 1big Dock is highlighted by its ability to store and back up large amounts of footage and other data, charge phones and USB devices, connect to 4K monitors, daisy-chain additional drives, and even power laptops. It is able to do all of this using Thunderbolt 3 connectivity via a single cable. (more…)
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Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB Released

Today Seagate Technology plc announced yet another high capacity HDD in the Seagate SkyHawk AI 18TB. Like the earlier entries in the line, the latest is also purpose-built hard drive for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled Surveillance solutions, enabling quicker and smarter decisions. The newer drive is all about the expanded capacity and is shipping today. (more…)
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Amazon S3 On Outposts Hit GA

This week AWS made yet another announcement surrounding their AWS Outposts, this time granting the ability to use Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) APIs. Now users of Outposts will be able to store and retrieve their object data the same way they would in a normal AWS Region. All the tools, apps, scripts, or utilities leveraged through the cloud can now be configured the same way locally. (more…)
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HPE Made-In-USA Servers Announced

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a new supply chain security for U.S. federal and public sector customers that prefer U.S. sourced products. This new end-to-end security for the supply chain is done through manufacturing made-in-USA industry-standard servers. This lowers risks of some sort of security compromise along the chain of the server being built. The servers will be built in highly secure U.S. facilities as part of the HPE Trusted Supply Chain initiative launched today. (more…)
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