We Are Social and Hootsuite’s latest collection of Global Digital reports reveals that internet users are growing by an average of more than one million new users every day, with all of the original ‘Next Billion Users’ now online. We just launched Plugged It’s our cool new gadget site. Take me The number of people using the internet has surged over the past year, with more than one million people coming online for the first time each day since January 2018. It’s not just internet users that have been growing either, as the extensive new collection of Digital 2019 reports from Hootsuite and We Are Social reveals. We’ll explore all of the key trends and insights from this year’s reports in detail in this article, but here are the essential headlines you need in order to understand ‘Digital in 2019’: There are 5.11 billion unique mobile users in the world today, up 100 million (2 percent) in the past year. There are 4.39 … [Read more...] about Digital trends 2019: Every single stat you need to know about the internet
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Grimes and Elon Musk seem to have reconnected — here’s what you need to know about the Canadian singer and producer who is spending time with Tesla’s CEO
At the Met Gala in early May, a surprising new couple showed up on the red carpet: billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk and Canadian musician and producer Grimes. While Musk has long been known to date successful and high-profile women, the two made a seemingly unlikely pairing. Shortly before they walked the red carpet together, Page Six announced their relationship and explained how they met – over Twitter, thanks to a shared sense of humor and a fascination with artificial intelligence. Since they made their relationship public in May, the couple has continued to make headlines: Grimes for publicly defending Musk and speaking out about Tesla, and Musk for tweeting that he wants to take Tesla private, sparking an SEC investigation. But shortly after Musk’s run-in with the SEC, Grimes and Musk unfollowed each other on social media, igniting rumors that the pair had broken up. Now, it appears that the couple is spending time together again: they were … [Read more...] about Grimes and Elon Musk seem to have reconnected — here’s what you need to know about the Canadian singer and producer who is spending time with Tesla’s CEO
Network Attached Storage: Everything you need to know about NAS
Network Attached Storage (NAS) is a popular option for not only small and medium businesses, but also homeowners for storing data and taking advantage of smart connected services. It's an inexpensive way to add capacity to a network, only requiring an initial purchase for the hardware and available network and power outlets. Multiple users can access and use the centralized storage. There are various pre-built NAS units available for purchase, ranging in capacity and price, which are ready to go as soon as you finish unboxing, as well as the option to go all out and build one yourself if you've experience with building PCs. There's a lot to take in for someone looking at a NAS for the first time. The basics The NAS in its most basic form is a mini-PC running an OS with the main function to store and manage access to files. Depending on hard drives, these units can have a capacity as low as a few hundred GBs, all the way up to 100TB and beyond. Depending on the OS you opt to go with … [Read more...] about Network Attached Storage: Everything you need to know about NAS
Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part I
An in-depth breakdown of the technologies involved in making up the cloud and a survey of cloud-service providers. The cloud has become synonymous with all things data storage. It additionally equates to the many web-centric services accessing that same back-end data storage. But the term also has evolved to mean so much more. Cloud computing provides more simplified access to server, storage, database and application resources, with users provisioning and using the minimum set of requirements they see fit to host their application needs. In the past decade alone, the paradigm shift toward a wider and more accessible network has forced both hardware vendors and service providers to rethink their strategies and cater to a new model of storing information and serving application resources. As time continues to pass, more individuals and businesses are connecting themselves to this greater world of computing. What Is the Cloud? Far too often, the idea of the "cloud" is confused with … [Read more...] about Everything You Need to Know about the Cloud and Cloud Computing, Part I
What is the IoT? Everything you need to know about the Internet of Things right now
Video: Everything you need to know about the Internet of Things What is the Internet of Things? The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, collecting and sharing data. Thanks to cheap processors and wireless networks, it's possible to turn anything, from a pill to an aeroplane, into part of the IoT. This adds a level of digital intelligence to devices that would be otherwise dumb, enabling them to communicate without a human being involved, and merging the digital and physical worlds. What is an example of an Internet of Things device? Pretty much any physical object can be transformed into an IoT device if it can be connected to the internet and controlled that way. A lightbulb that can be switched on using a smartphone app is an IoT device, as is a motion sensor or a smart thermostat in your office or a connected streetlight. An IoT device could be as fluffy as a child's toy or as … [Read more...] about What is the IoT? Everything you need to know about the Internet of Things right now