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Published: 19 June 2018

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SIphotography / istock.com Some of you were born before the internet. You, like me, lived through a period of time when analog was real.

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Think back. Do you remember setting an

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Video: Microsoft is building a 'world graph' for geographic data

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Airbnb^[1], Coursera^[2], Docker^[3], GitHub^[4], Twitter^[5], Uber^[6], and, of course,

Read more: GraphQL for databases: A layer for universal database access?

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News briefs for June 19, 2018.

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Red Hat today launched Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7^[1], which is "a comprehensive, cloud-native platform for developing business automation services and process-centric applications across hybrid cloud

Read more: Red Hat Launches Process Automation Manager 7, Brackets Editor Releases Version 1.13, Qt Announces...

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Seven weeks after Iran's conservative-led judiciary banned^[1] the secure communications app Telegram^[2] inside the country, Iranians are still reeling from the change. Though Telegram has critics in the security community, it...

Read more: Iran’s Telegram Ban Has Impacted All Corners of the Country

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Read more: Update on Joomla 4

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What was most striking about the glitzy launch of London's Tech Week^[1] was that the speakers weren't pitching to the venture capitalists or tech entrepreneurs or reporters, although there were plenty of them there.

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Read more: London's startups aim to avoid the mistakes of Silicon Valley

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This past winter, malware ripped through the Pyeongchang Olympics, disrupting Wi-Fi, shutting down the Olympics website, and causing generalized digital havoc. The so-called [Olympic Destroyer attack](https://www.wired.com/story/olympic-destroyer-malware-pyeongchang-opening-ceremony/] gained infamy, too, for using a number of false flags...

Read more: The Olympic Destroyer Hackers May Have Returned For More

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The World Health Organization's move to enter gaming disorder as an addiction worthy of the International Classification of Diseases is going to create ripple effects for the technology industry.

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WHO included gaming disorder in the draft of

Read more: WHO sees gaming addiction as mental condition, opens door for smartphone, social media disorders

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The vast potential to create, interact and educate with augmented reality (AR) is quickly gaining popularity. In the past, AR gained media attention for simply existing, but recently, companies have been applying the strategy to...

Read more: The take-over of augmented and the future possibilities