Why The Chronological Facebook Feed is Never Coming Back

There are many, many legitimate criticisms you can make of Facebook. The death of the chronological news feed isn’t one of them.

Elon Musk Is Sleeping at the Tesla Factory to Personally Oversee Your New Car

If you’re in the market for a Tesla Model 3–the most affordable Tesla model around&#821…

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Don’t Want the Spring Creators Update Yet? Here’s How to Pause It

Microsoft is set to release the Spring Creators Update, also known as Redstone 4, at some point in April. You can pause the update to avoid receiving it immediately—as long as you’re using Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise, or Education.

Why Your Third Party Instagram Client Just Broke

Instagram broke many third party apps over the weekend as it massively reduced the number of API calls clients can make, from 5,000 an hour down to 200.

Building a Modern Cybersecurity System to Meet GDPR Compliance

For things that are dearest, most important and valuable to us, we come up with ways to protect them. Insurance policies, laws, to even safe deposit boxes and the hiring of security guards are all means to safeguard whatever deemed precious to us. The introduction of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protects valuable personal information of […]

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Prynt Pocket Review: A Retro Instant Photo Printer for Your iPhone

If you’re looking for a fun photo accessory for your iPhone that brings back the feel of an instant camera with a modern twist, the Pryn…

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How to Make Sure a Chrome Extension is Safe Before Installing It

Much of Chrome’s power and flexibility comes from its huge ecosystem of extensions. The problem is that these extensions can also steal data, watch your every move, or worse. Here’s how to make sure an extension is safe before installing it.

Can You Use a Fake Name On Facebook?

Facebook has always had a real names policy, where you agree that your profile name is “the name [you] go by in everyday life.” Obviously, you can type in a fake name, and you may get away with it for a while. But it isn’t allowed, and it can cause you trouble.

How to Create an Encrypted Disk Image to Securely Store Sensitive Files on a Mac

You don’t need third-party utilities like VeraCrypt to create a secure, encrypted container for your sensitive files on your Mac. You can create an encrypted disk image using the built-in Disk Utility.

Introducing Data Brick™: The Building Block of DataBricks’ Unified Analytics Platform

As a digital society built around data and devices, we have reached a pivotal juncture where data and Artificial Intelligence must be accessible to everyone. Riding this trend, many homes now contain smart devices such as the Amazon Echo or Google Home.

Yet these devices only offer limited computational power and AI capabilities. To remedy this problem, Databricks is proud to present the Data Brick™, a new all-in-one smart device that delivers the full power of Artificial Intelligence to every home.

The Data Brick is built to deliver exceptional sound. It excels at holding notebooks on a bookshelf or a workspace. It interconnects with all your home smart devices through a unified management console. And its language assistant Bricky is a polyglot, understanding verbal command in both natural and programming languages.

Massive Scalability

The Data Brick runs Apache Spark™, a powerful technology that seamlessly distributes AI computations across a network of other Data Bricks. The unique form factor of the Data Brick means that multiple Data Bricks can be stacked on top of each other, forming a rack of bricks like servers in a data center, and communicate with each other to execute workloads. However, even a single Data Brick contains multiple cores and up to 1 TB of memory, so most users will find that a few Data Bricks, placed at convenient locations throughout their home, are sufficient for their AI needs.

Voice Communication and Computation

Current smart speakers are limited to pre-programmed queries. In contrast, the Data Brick can support arbitrarily complex computations through Apache Spark. Bricky, its language assistant, supports spoken SQL, Scala, Python, and R. Users can simply speak queries to the Data Brick anywhere, and Bricky will deliver the answers. She will read from all your data sources and generate reports for the busy analysts or CTO.

The Future: Enabling A Next-Generation Cloud

The Data Brick can perform arbitrary computations because of its unique form factor and networking capability. We plan to release a new version of the DataBricks Unified Analytics Platform on a public cloud of Data Bricks, called the Brick Cloud, which represents the latest advance in modular datacenter design. The Brick Cloud will offer tremendous computing power in a small volume to answer questions faster than ever.

An artist’s vision of the future Brick Cloud™. Credit: Nina Aldin Thune

At Databricks, we strive to make big data simple, and what is simpler than a Data Brick? The future is here and it is concrete. Try DataBricks today.

Have a wonderful April Fool’s Day!

Contributed by Tim Hunter, Nick Lee, Joy Xie, Jules Damji, and Reynold Xin, with special appearances from Alexandra Cong, Haoyi Li, Prakash Chockalingam, and Matei Zaharia.

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Virgin Hyperloop One revamps board; director arrested

A fourth board member, Russian billionaire Ziyavudin Magomedov, was arrested in Moscow on charges of fraud and embezzlement unrelated to Hyperloop.

Chrome Will Remove Scammy Cryptocurrency Mining Extensions, But Not Until June

The Chrome Web Store is full of scammy crypto-currency miners, and Google doesn’t plan to remove them until June.

Apple Might Ditch Intel, Design Own Mac Processors

Apple might be ditching Intel and designing its own processors for the Mac, possibly as early as 2020.

How to Set Static IP Addresses on Your Eero Router

Most of the time, having your router assign dynamic IP addresses to your devices is fine. Sometimes, you want the additional control of assigning a static IP address that doesn’t change. Here’s how to do it on the Eero router.

The April Fool’s Day 2018 Prank Roundup

This year, April Fool’s day fell on a Sunday coincided with Easter, so you might’ve missed all the super on-brand pranks companies…

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4 Great Phone Grip and Kickstands for Your Smartphone

The back of your phone is prime real estate for accessories.

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Geek Trivia: The Earliest Evidence Of Domesticated Goats Indicates They Were Originally From Modern Day?

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Transportation Industry Use Cases, Challenges, and Strategies for Dealing with Huge Data Volumes

At a recent Manufacturing and Transportation Customer Community call we discussed connected products and assets in the field. These calls occur a couple times per quarter and act as an opportunity for leaders in both the manufacturing and transportation industries to have a roundtable discussion regarding use cases, business challenges, and best practices. Industry communities […]

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It’s Really Hard To Grab Mark Zuckerberg’s Trash

Facebook is a trade. You give up some privacy and in return you get access to a “free” social network where you can talk to your friends and family.

Valve Quietly Removes Steam Machines Section From Steam

Here’s liamdawe, writing on the Gaming On Linux forum:

How to Install Any Chrome Extension in Firefox

Firefox is a great browser, but if you’ve ever eyed all those great Chrome extensions, you may have been tempted to switch. You don’t have to. Chrome Store Foxified is a Firefox extension that lets you install extensions from the Chrome Web Store.

Six Ways to Make the Galaxy S9 Better Right Out of the Box

The Galaxy S9 is here, and it’s better than the S8 (even if only marginally). It’s not perfect, though, and there are a handful of things you can do right out of the box to make it better.

The 5 Most Awesome Smart Fridges You Could Buy (Instead of a Used Car)

When it comes to smart home gadgets and appliances there’s nothing quite as over the top as the smart fridge… where you’ll fi…

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How to Listen to Audible Audiobooks on Your Sonos

Audible, Amazon’s subscription audiobook service, was conspicuously absent from Sonos for the last few years. Thankfully, it’s now back. Here’s how to use it.

How to Disable Notifications Everywhere

Some notifications are helpful, but notification overload is a real problem. Apps on your phone, tablet, and computer all want your attention, but that constant buzz of alerts can be a distracting waste of your time. Here’s how to tame them.

How China can help India take a giant leap in artificial intelligence

China's State Council has reportedly issued an ambitious policy blueprint, calling for the country to become "the world's primary AI innovation centre" by 2030.

Cloudflare Launches a New Privacy-Focused DNS Server, But Should You Use It?

It wasn’t too many years ago that geeks would always use a custom DNS server to speed up their web browsing. Now Cloudflare has one too, but should you use it?

Geek Trivia: In The 1920s, Which One Of These Industrial Titans Built An Entire City In South America?

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How to Buy Bitcoin the Easy Way

Rise or fall, people just can’t stop talking about Bitcoin. Let’s be clear: We’re not recommending you purchase Bitcoin. But, if you have your heart set on it, here’s how to do it easily—without getting scammed.

Geek Trivia: Long Before Modern In-Car GPS Systems, Motorists Used Automated Directions Provided By?

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