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Google’s Cloud has been blamed for UniSuper’s outage.

Data deleted: UniSuper outage raises lockout fears

Members of one of the nation’s largest superannuation funds have regained access to their funds, but there are new questions about the Australia’s reliance on three US tech giants.

  • David Swan

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Samsung TVs can stream games direct from the Xbox cloud, but other cloud providers and TV-makers are spinning up offerings too.

Why are streamers getting excited about video games?

With Netflix, Sony and others soon to join Microsoft with coherent streaming offerings, here’s how playing from the cloud works today.

  • Tim Biggs
Not even its core business, Amazon has made $US31 billion in advertising revenue last year.

US may curb China access to cloud services like Amazon

Washington is considering requiring cloud providers to seek government permission before serving some Chinese firms, the Wall Street Journal reports.

  • Edwin Chan
Our memories are digital now, but with so much data space available, we have to decide what to throw away.

Do you know where your memories are?

Our digital memories are everywhere, thousands of photos and searches and messages from two decades. The struggle now is knowing what to keep.

  • Kashmir Hill
Illustration: Simon Letch

2022: The year digital creep got too creepy

The less you engage, the more interested they are in your every moment, but the digital revolution has become so monetised, now it’s just losing digits.

  • Malcolm Knox
Amazon’s profits nearly doubled, despite the global supply chain crisis and labour shortages in the pandemic.

Amazon shares jump as cloud success makes up for supply chain woes

Amazon’s profits in the December quarter nearly doubled, calming Wall Street’s concerns that the online behemoth was headed for a slowdown.

  • Anne D'Innocenzio and Spencer Soper
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Donald Trump with Microsoft chief Satya Nadella. Amazon claimed the former US president stepped in to thwart its bid for the lucrative contract.

Pentagon bins $13b JEDI contract with Microsoft amid court battle with Amazon

The US Defence Department has decided not to go forward with the lucrative cloud-computing contract after Amazon claimed it missed out on the project because Donald Trump interfered.

  • Kate Conger and David E. Sanger
A major push to survey a large portion of the Great Barrier Reef is underway

Video from divers, anglers to be used for biggest Barrier Reef snapshot

Scientists have partnered with technology experts to ensure valuable data on the Great Barrier Reef can be collected from thousands of citizen scientists.

  • Stuart Layt
IBM was once worth twice its nearest competitor, the same position Apple is in now.

IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth

IBM is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world's first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on cloud computing.

  • Munsif Vengattil
The pre-digital era practice of putting photos in albums was always a sticky affair.

Are photo albums back in the frame?

Fragmentation and faulty technology is driving some people back to photo albums, or new forms of them.

  • Greg Callaghan

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