cloud storage
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Is Your TV Still Playing Ads When It’s Turned Off?
As struggling streaming services race to expose more viewers to ads, advertisers are seeing some pretty expensive hiccups start to happen. Case in point: on Monday, GroupM — one of the biggest ad-buying brands around — published a new study that found that about $US1 ($1.44) billion worth of streaming ads every year are playing after…
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Data Centres Are Pushing Ireland’s Electric Grid to the Brink
Behind every TikTok, Zoom call, and cat meme is a data centre that stores, processes, or reroutes that data around the world. The more we do online, the bigger these data centres and their energy footprint get.
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How to Decide What Happens to Your Data When You Die
It’s not always comfortable to talk about, but the statistics don’t lie: 100% of people are still, eventually, one way or another, dying. That inevitability raises some tough questions: Who gets your material possessions? Who will take care of the loved ones you leave behind? And who will have access to your digital life, with…
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Everything You Need to Know About Google Drive’s Big Changes
Big changes are coming to Google Drive, and they affect the way that you share, back up, and manage files from your computer. If you use Google’s cloud file storage system, here’s everything you need to know about the most recent upgrades — and what you need to do about them.