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Wimbledon: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament

reader comments 1 with 1 posters participating Share this story Sebastian Anthony The second room. This one deals more with uploading content to the Web, security, load balancing, etc. Sebastian Anthony IBM’s presence at Wimbledon is entirely transient—they turn up, run things for a couple of weeks, then disappear. As such, the “servers” are all… Read More »

Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says

Enlarge / Insomnia people and mobile-addiction concepts. (credit: Getty Images) Whether you have an iPhone or an Android device, it’s continuously sending data including your location, phone number, and local network details to Apple or Google. Now, a researcher has provided a side-by-side comparison that suggests that, while both iOS and Android collect handset data… Read More »