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Starburst Galaxy brings fully managed Trino deployment to AWS

Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Starburst, a company that targets enterprises with a commercial version of the open source Presto-based SQL query engine Trino, has launched a new fully managed cloud product for Amazon Web Services (AWS). Trino can be traced back to Facebook in 2012, when a trio of engineers developed Presto to help the company’s data…
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MobileNews

Google Chrome adds speedy ‘back-forward cache’ on desktop with instant page loading

Chrome gets a bad rap for eating up your RAM, but when given proper resources, it’s still an extremely quick web browser. Now, it’s adding another feature that should make it feel even faster with the “back-forward cache” coming to desktop versions of Chrome. Windows Latest found that the latest version of Chrome on Windows, macOS, and Linux all now support the “back-forward cache”…
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MobileNews

Alphabet Scoop 122: Previewing Google I/O 2021

This week 9to5Google’s Abner Li, Ben Schoon, and Kyle Bradshaw discuss more details in the Google and Roku YouTube TV disagreements and what they all expect from Google I/O next week. Sponsored by NVIDIA GeForce NOW: Real-time gameplay straight from the cloud to any device you own. Check back every  for the latest games, added every week.  New episodes of Alphabet Scoop are published every…
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DefenseNews

Britain buys 14 new Chinook helos, but it’ll take a decade for full delivery

LONDON — Britain has confirmed it will acquire 14 Boeing-made Chinook helicopters, but the government has prolonged the delivery schedule over the next decade years due to budget issues. The deal was made through the U.S. Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales process and will see Britain pay £1.4 billion (U.S. $2 billion) for the helicopters and associated equipment. Deliveries are…
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