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The surprising benefits of underwater data centers
September 18, 2020 | NewsWhen Microsoft hauled its experimental data center up from the bottom of the North Sea and conducted some analysis, researchers found the servers were eight time more reliable than those on land.
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Phish Scale: Weighing the threat from email scammers
| NewsThe National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Phish Scale quantifies characteristics of phishing emails that are likely to trick users.
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NYC, DC in top tier of global smart cities
September 17, 2020 | NewsA new smart city ranking measuring health and safety, mobility, activities, opportunities and governance, puts New York 10th and Washington, D.C., 12th among 109 global cities.
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AWS-Microsoft JEDI fight will stretch into 2021
| NewsThe $10 billion cloud project is already two years behind schedule and has yet to be implemented -- three years after the Defense Department first unveiled the project and almost a full year after Microsoft was first awarded the contract.
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6 ways mail-in ballots are protected from fraud
| NewsThe mail-in voting process has several built-in safeguards that together make it hard for one person to vote fraudulently, and even more difficult to commit voter fraud on a scale capable of swinging election outcomes.
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8 data leaders on leveraging data during and after COVID-19
| NewsThe pandemic has demonstrated that data-centered leaders must become a part of the emergency response playbook.
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Single-tenant clouds on tap for Navy, Marines
September 16, 2020 | NewsThe Navy and Marine Corps are moving to individual, dedicated Microsoft 365 environments to improve identity and credentialing efforts, according to a department memo.
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AI-based monitoring spots water meter issues
| NewsGwinnett County, Ga., could recoup about $50,000 per month from 19 commercial water meters that have been incorrectly measuring flow, based on discrepancies discovered by edge technology.
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What the US needs to do to secure election 2020
| NewsDespite more funding and promises from tech companies, only a multifaceted, polycentric approach that makes changes up and down the stack will be up to the task, experts say.
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Meeting the accessibility challenge for static documents
September 15, 2020 | NewsDocument accessibility software can automate the remediation of thousands of web-hosted PDF documents, saving agencies time and money.