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Ars Archivum: Top cloud backup services worth your money

reader comments 121 with 0 posters participating Share this story We tested iDrive with its free Basic tier, which offers 10GB of storage. Jim Salter Carbonite is probably the most well-known cloud backup service, thanks to a years-long advertising blitz. It offers “unlimited” backup storage for a single PC. Jim Salter We’d never heard of… Read More »

GlobalComix Announces Open-enrollment for App Beta Testing

Join the next generation of making comics global—from anywhere, at any time. Be the first to experience the forthcoming GlobalComix App! The team is excited to announce a limited open-enrollment for the GlobalComix App Closed Beta Test, including phases for feedback, fixing issues, and optimizing performance for a wide variety of mobile devices for the comics community… Read More »

Massive Yandex code leak reveals Russian search engine’s ranking factors

Enlarge / The Russian logo of Yandex, the country’s largest search engine and a tech company with many divisions, inside the company’s headquarters. SOPA Images / Getty Images reader comments 34 with 0 posters participating Share this story Nearly 45GB of source code files, allegedly stolen by a former employee, have revealed the underpinnings of… Read More »

Global Entertainment Leader Skybound Entertainment Announces Public Investment Opportunity on Investment Platform Republic

Skybound Entertainment, the entity behind award-winning entertainment franchises The Walking Dead, Invincible, Impact Winter, and more than 150 other intellectual properties, is pleased  to announce its first-ever Regulation A+ campaign. This campaign is an opportunity for the public to invest in a fast-growing company with a proven track record and competitive business model. Public adoption… Read More »

Pioneering Apple Lisa goes “open source” thanks to Computer History Museum

Enlarge / The Apple Lisa 1, released in 1983. Apple, Inc. reader comments 54 with 0 posters participating Share this story As part of the Apple Lisa’s 40th birthday celebrations, the Computer History Museum has released the source code for Lisa OS version 3.1 under an Apple Academic License Agreement. With Apple’s blessing, the Pascal… Read More »

Microsoft to lay off 10,000 workers, blames decelerated customer spending

reader comments 89 with 0 posters participating Share this story Microsoft is laying off about 10,000 employees by the end of Q3 of its 2023 fiscal year, the company confirmed today. Microsoft’s Securities and Exchange Commission filing (PDF) described the move as a “response to macroeconomic conditions and changing customer priorities.” Microsoft says it has… Read More »

Indigenous tech group asks Apache Foundation to change its name

Enlarge / A 2015 photo by Zaheda Bhorat (shared by Rich Bowen) showing many of the original Apache Software Foundation’s creators, with co-founder Jim Jagielski holding aloft the Foundation’s feather logo. The photo is part of a set aiming to recreate a similar image taken around the time of the foundation’s launch. reader comments 157… Read More »