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After blackouts left 1.7 million residents without electricity, Elon Musk famously guaranteed that Tesla could supply 100 megawatts of battery storage in 100 days. The company has announced it will do just that, supplying a Powerpack battery storage system that can run over 30,000 homes. The 100-megawatt project "will be the highest power battery system in the world by a factor of three," tweeted CEO Elon Musk. It will back up the 315 megawatt Hornsdale Wind Farm, charging during low energy usage and providing electricity for peak hours.

Though the company seemed destined to get the job, the South Australian government picked it after a "competitive bidding process," Tesla said. It added that the size of the system will be enough to cover the 30,000 or so homes in the region that were affected by blackouts.

Those power outages set off a political conflagration that culminated in a very testy press conference with South Australia’s Premier and the Federal Environment Minister. Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull unveiled a $1.5 billion plan to expand the power grid to run an additional 500,000 homes, including backup battery storage.

That was when Tesla Energy head Lyndon Rive stepped in and made his "100 megawatts in 100 days" pledge, and (his cousin) Musk upping the ante by promising the system would be free if they didn’t achieve the goal.

Musk confirmed that he’d keep the promise, telling Australia’s ABC News that "if South Australia is willing to take a big risk, then so are we." The 100 day pledge reportedly begins once the grid interconnection agreement is inked, and Musk estimates that it will cost him "probably $50 million or more" if the installation isn’t completed in time.

This will be the highest power battery system in the world by a factor of 3. Australia rocks!! http://bit.ly/2uWiwgL

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 7, 2017

Via: Elon Musk (Twitter)

Source: Tesla

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Analysis The Slovakian internet community is pressuring its government to block the sale of the country’s .sk internet registry, asking for it to “be returned to the people of Slovakia.”

Having run the top-level domain (TLD) for over a decade, registry operator SK-NIC announced earlier this year that it was planning to sell .sk and was in talks with London-based Centralnic, which also operates a number of other general and country-specific top-level domains.

The registry has a healthy 360,000 registered domains and charges €10 wholesale to registrars (who then sell the domains onto internet users with a markup). But its systems are outdated and the domain name market has moved rapidly in recent years with the creation of more than 1,000 new generic TLDs.

That makes .sk a poor investment for SK-NIC – which is owned by one of Slovakia’s largest telcos, DanubiaTel – and a good acquisition for Centralnic, which already has the modern systems and infrastructure to sell domain names.

However when the news broke that a foreign company was looking to buy the .sk registry, protests were launched claiming, among other things, that the registry had been “stolen” and was now being sold off for profit to a foreign company.

One group has set up a petition that has attracted just under 10,000 signatures and aims to “create public pressure on decision-makers and return .SK back to the community and people.”

A number of talks and blog posts have also emerged arguing that a new non-profit organization needs to be set up to run .sk for the people, rather than a publicly listed company.

Those efforts criticize any move away from the current (outdated) registration system, named FRED, any effort to open up registration of .sk domains to people living outside Slovakia, and are increasingly critical of a small number of government officials that seemingly approve of and are pushing the sale.

Huh

And if those last few complaints seem unusually industry specific and political, that’s because of who is behind the campaign: a new breed of internet entrepreneurs who have recently set up their own political party, Progressive Slovakia, and are hoping to steal seats from the mainstream parties.

The people in the party behind the push also happen to be in charge of or employed by the exact same registrars that would profit most from a new non-profit organization running .sk over which they had significant influence.

As for squaring complaints about the .sk registration systems being out of date with insisting that the old FRED registration system be retained: that is almost certainly because it would cost those companies time and money to shift to a new registration system.

And the concerns about making .sk domains available outside Slovakia? It has become common practice for country-code top-level domains to be opened up to anyone worldwide interested in a specific ending. In most cases, it has led to a positive situation where companies use country-specific domains for that market and everyone benefits from a larger registry.

However, if Slovakia’s market is opened up and the registration system is moved to an industry standard, it means that large global domain registrars – like GoDaddy, for example – will bring serious competition overnight.

In addition, the main claim that the Slovakian top-level domain was “stolen” from a university and given to telco company by government officials doesn’t hold much water.

It was extremely common in the early days of the internet for country-code top-level domains to be run by universities and then, as demand grew and national governments became interested, most countries moved to a model exactly like SK-NIC’s: a new non-profit run by a company with technical expertise and with a board structure that included government, business and internet community voices.

The exact same approach was introduced in the UK and .uk domain names with Nominet.

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We’re pleased to announce the following services which are now available in the UK!

Azure Container Service –  Azure Container Service is the fastest way to realize the benefits of running containers in production. It uses customers’ preferred choice of open source technology, tools, and skills, combined with the confidence of solid support and a thriving community ecosystem. Simplified configurations of proven open source container orchestration technology, optimized to run in the Azure cloud, are provided. In just a few clicks, customers can deploy in production container-based applications, and on a framework designed to help manage the complexity of containers deployed at scale. Unlike other container services, Azure Container Service is built on 100% open source software and offer a choice between open source orchestrators Kubernetes, DC/OS, or Docker Swarm with Swarm mode.
The UK region is the first Azure region featuring Docker Swarm mode instead of legacy Swarm.

Learn more about Container Service.

Log Analytics – Azure Log Analytics is a service in the Operations Management Suite (OMS) offering that monitors your cloud and on-premises environments to maintain their availability and performance. It collects data generated by resources in your hybrid cloud environments and from other monitoring tools to provide insights and analysis and help you detect and respond to issues quickly.
With the availability of Log Analytics in the UK, you can now access a full set of operations management and security services (Log Analytics, Automation, Security Center, Backup and Site Recovery) in the UK.

Learn more about Log Analytics.

Logic Apps –  Logic Apps provide a way to simplify and implement scalable integrations and workflows in the cloud. It provides a visual designer to model and automate your process as a series of steps known as a workflow. Logic Apps is a fully managed iPaaS (integration Platform as a Service) allowing developers not to have to worry about building, hosting, scalability, availability and management. Logic Apps scale up automatically to meet demand.

Learn more about Logic Apps.

Azure Stream Analytics –  Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed, cost effective real-time event processing engine that helps to unlock deep insights from data. Stream Analytics makes it easy to set up real-time analytic computations on data streaming from devices, sensors, web sites, social media, applications, infrastructure systems, and more.

With a few clicks in the Azure portal, you can author a Stream Analytics job specifying the input source of the streaming data, the output sink for the results of your job, and a data transformation expressed in a SQL-like language. You can monitor and adjust the scale/speed of your job in the Azure portal to scale from a few kilobytes to a gigabyte or more of events processed per second.
Stream Analytics leverages years of Microsoft Research work in developing highly tuned streaming engines for time-sensitive processing, as well as language integrations for intuitive specifications of such.

Learn more about Stream Analytics.

SQL Threat Detection –  SQL Threat Detection provides a new layer of security, which enables customers to detect and respond to potential threats as they occur by providing security alerts on anomalous activities. Users will receive an alert upon suspicious database activities, potential vulnerabilities, and SQL injection attacks, as well as anomalous database access patterns. SQL Threat Detection alerts provide details of suspicious activity and recommend action on how to investigate and mitigate the threat. Users can explore the suspicious events using SQL Database Auditing to determine if they are caused by an attempt to access, breach, or exploit data in the database. Threat Detection makes it simple to address potential threats to the database without the need to be a security expert or manage advanced security monitoring systems.

Learn more about SQL Threat Detection.

SQL Data Sync Public Preview –  SQL Data Sync (Preview) is a service of SQL Database that enables you to synchronize the data you select across multiple SQL Server and SQL Database instances. To synchronize your data, you create sync groups which define the databases, tables and columns to synchronize as well as the synchronization schedule. Each sync group must have at least one SQL Database instance which serves as the sync group hub in a hub-and-spoke topology.

Learn more about Azure SQL Data Sync.

Managed Disks SSE (Storage Service Encryption) –  Azure Storage Service Encryption (SSE) is now supported for Managed Disks. SSE provides encryption-at-rest and safeguards your data to meet your organizational security and compliance commitments.
Starting June 10th, 2017, all new managed disks, snapshots, images and new data written to existing managed disks are automatically encrypted-at-rest with keys managed by Microsoft.

Learn more about Storage Service Encryption for Azure Managed Disks.

We are excited about these additions, and invite customers using the UK Azure region to try them today!

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Einride has just revealed the prototype of the T-pod, its autonomous electric truck. The Swedish company’s self-driving vehicle can transport 15 standard pallets and can travel 124 miles on one charge. And because there’s no need for a person to sit inside of it, the T-pod also has no cab space and no windows — giving it a very futuristically odd look.

The truck uses a hybrid driverless system. While on highways, the T-pod drives itself, but on main roads, a human will remotely manage the driving system. People will also monitor T-pods as they drive on highways in case a situation arises that necessitates human control. Einride is currently working on charging stations for the trucks.

Einride isn’t the only company working on driverless shipping trucks. Waymo, Uber and Daimler are among the companies also developing similar vehicles. For shipping at larger scales, self-navigating and remote-controlled ships as well as massive drones are also in the works.

The T-pod prototype isn’t fully developed quite yet, but Einride expects to have its first completed truck available to customers in the fall. By 2020, the company plans to have a fleet of 200 goofy-looking trucks that will travel between Swedish cities Gothenburg and Helsingborg, carrying an expected two million pallets per year.

Source: VentureBeat

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It’s hard to stress how much MusicBrainz depends on the community behind it. In 2016 alone 20.989 editors made a total of 5.935.653 edits at a continuously increasing rate.

But while MusicBrainz does collect data on a lot of different entities, its users are not one of them, and the privacy policy is pretty lean.
Unfortunately this does make it fairly difficult to find out who you are, how you use MB and why you do it.

Seeing as this kind of information is fairly important for the upcoming project of improving our user experience, I volunteered to create a survey to allow you to tell us how you use MB, what you like about it and what you don’t like quite as much.

So without further ado, click on the banner to get to the survey: (It shouldn’t take more than 15 minutes of your time.)

Now if you’re still reading this blog post, that hopefully means you’ve already completed the survey! I’d like to thank Quesito who joined this project earlier this year and has been a great deal of help, our former GCI student Caroline Gschwend who helped with the UX part of the survey, CatQuest who has been around to give great feedback since the first draft and of course also all the other people who helped bring this survey to the point of release.

If you’ve got any feedback on or questions about the survey itself, please reply to the Discourse forum topic.

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By Terrence Ryan, Developer Advocate and Adam Glick, Product Marketing Manager

When you start a new project on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), one of earliest decisions you make is which computing service to use: Google Compute Engine, Google Container Engine, App Engine or even Google Cloud Functions and Firebase.

GCP offers a range of compute services that go from giving users full control (i.e., Compute Engine) to highly-abstracted (i.e., Firebase and Cloud Functions), letting Google take care of more and more of the management and operations along the way.

Here’s how many long-time readers of our blog think about GCP compute options. If you’re
used to managing VMs and want a similar experience in the cloud, pick Compute Engine. If you use containers and Kubernetes, you can abstract away some of the necessary management overhead by using Container Engine. If you want to focus on your code and avoid the infrastructure pieces entirely, use App Engine. Finally, if you want to focus purely on code and build microservices that expose API endpoints for your applications, use Firebase and Cloud Functions.

Over the years, you’ve told us that this model works great if you have no constraints, but can be challenging if you do. We’ve heard your feedback and propose another way to choose your compute options using a constraint-based set of questions. (It should go without saying that we’re considering very small aspects of your project.)

1. Are you building a mobile or HTML application that does its heavy lifting, processing-wise, on the client? If you’re building a thick client that only relies on a backend for synchronization and/or storage, Firebase is a great option. Firebase allows you to store complex NoSQL documents (or objects if that’s how you think of them) and files using a very easy-to-use API and client available for iOS, Android and Javascript. There’s also a REST API for access from other platforms.

2. Are you building a system based more on events than user interaction? In other words, are you building an app that responds to uploaded files, or maybe logins to other applications? Are you already looking at “serverless” or “Functions as a Service” solutions? Look no further than Cloud Functions. Cloud Functions allows you to write Javascript functions that run on Node.js and that can call any one of our APIs including Cloud Vision, Translate, Cloud Storage or over 100 others. With Cloud Functions, you can build complex individual functions that get exposed as microservices to take advantage of all our services without having to maintain systems and glue them all together.

3. Does your solution already exist somewhere else? Does it include licensed software? Does it require anything other than HTTP/S? If you answered “no,” App Engine is worth a look. App Engine is a serverless solution that runs your code on our infrastructure and charges you only for what you use. We scale it up or down for you depending on demand. In addition, App Engine has access to all the Google SDKs available so you can take advantage of the full Google Cloud ecosystem.

4. Are you looking to build a container-based system built on Kubernetes? If you’re already using Kubernetes on GCP, you should really consider Container Engine. (You should think about it wherever you’re going to run Kubernetes actually.) Container Engine reduces building a Kubernetes solutions to a single click. Additionally, it auto-scales Kubernetes cluster members, allowing you to build Kubernetes solutions that grow and contract based on demand.

5. Are you building a stateful system? Are you looking to use GPUs in your solution? Are you building a non-Kubernetes container-based solution? Are you migrating an existing on-prem solution to the cloud? Are you using licensed software? Are using protocols other than HTTP/S? Have you not found another solution to meet your needs? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’re probably going to need to run your solution on virtual machines on Compute Engine. Compute Engine is our most flexible computing product, and allows you the most freedom to configure and manage your VMs however you like.

Put all of these questions together and you get the following flowchart:

This is by no means a comprehensive decision tree, and each one of our products supports a wider range of use cases than is presented here. But this should be a good guide to get you started.

To find out more about or computing solutions please check out Computing on Google Cloud Platform and then try it out for yourself today with $300 in free credits when you sign up.

Happy building!

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Just two months after Amazon announced it was "doubling down" on its Echo ecosystem, the company has confirmed that its Alexa voice platform has passed 15,000 skills. Impressive, especially in comparison to Google Assistant’s 378 voice apps and Cortana‘s meager 65 — but what’s more impressive is the rate at which Alexa is gaining these skills.

Alexa reached 15,000 skills in June — during this month alone new skill introductions increased by 23 percent. The milestone also represents a 50-percent increase in skills since February, when Amazon officially announced it had hit 10,000 — and even that figure was triple what it was the previous September.

Alexa is gaining skills rapidly, which is no doubt part of Amazon’s plan to maintain its dominance in the voice-powered device landscape — it’s on track to control 70 percent of the market this year. Of course, its acceleration in June may well have been spurred on by Apple’s announcement that a similar product, the Siri-powered HomePod, will be on the market come December.

Does the HomePod represent serious competition to Amazon? Not yet. For a start, the HomePod’s unique selling point seems to be the quality of its speakers, rather than the assistant that comes with it, and no-one knows yet whether third-party developers will be able to create HomePod-compatible apps.

And yet Amazon is expanding its Alexa ecosystem at a dizzying rate, and throwing up some red flags as it does. Developers creating popular game skills are being given cash rewards, but there’s no overarching tool to allow creators to make money from their apps, nor is there a team dedicated to monitoring app service violations.

This focus on ecosystem expansion, instead of refinement, could well cause problems for Amazon down the line, but certainly at this stage the company needn’t worry about the competition. Anyway, no doubt there will soon be a skill that lets Alexa do the worrying instead.

Via: TechCrunch

Source: Voicebot

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