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Enhancing Reliability Using Service-Level Prioritized Load Shedding at Netflix

The speakers discuss Netflix’s architecture for surviving extreme traffic spikes. They explain the mechanics of prioritized ...
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I put my computer’s internet traffic on a map, and I didn’t expect what I found

I expected neat lines pointing to websites, but TapMap showed me the infrastructure my laptop was really talking to ...

MapTap, a daily geography game, is my new Wordle

Every day, MapTap has five questions, each one presenting you with a city (or, occasionally, the site of a historic event or battle) to tap on the map. You get a score between 0 and 100 on each clue, ...
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Surviving while locked inside a single Minecraft world map chunk

Minecraft master Craftee is trapped inside a single chunk and must survive with extremely limited space. Live updates: Trump called FIFA chief over USA player’s red card; Johnson warns of more ...
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New quantum code cuts error rates by 1,000x while using up to 8x fewer qubits

IQM Quantum Computers has developed a new quantum error-correcting code that it says can reduce logical error rates by up to 1,000 times compared with the widely used ...