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From Cyberdog to dataless files: a brief history of iCloud

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From Cyberdog in 1996, through iTools in 2000,Mac in 2002, the dreaded MobileMe in 2008, to iCloud in 2012 – a long and sometimes painful journey.

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Iconic Torrent Site RARBG Shuts Down, All Content Releases Stop

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Founded in 2008, RARBG evolved to become a key player in the torrent ecosystem. These high quality releases which, aside from the early days never included CAMs, are among the most downloaded in history. Today’s shutdown is one of the largest in the history of torrent sites.

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What’s Behind the Evolution of Neanderthal Portraits

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Using the same fossil material, curators and paleoanthropologists commissioned this bust , “The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,” for the American Museum of Natural History in 1915. Keith’s nearly European Neanderthal figured into human history. Boule’s ape-like man met an evolutionary dead end.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

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md , a website launched in 2008 that chronicled the history of a 1990 armed conflict in Moldova known as the Transnistria War and the Moldo-Russian war. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 shows this email address is tied to the username “ dfyz ” on more than a half-dozen Russian language cybercrime forums since 2008.

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The Future of Digital Marketing: AI and Automation (6 Tips)

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In just two months, it has amassed 100 million active users , making it the fastest-growing consumer platform in history. In 2008 I observed people’s online activity with social media and I sensed a game changing technology. ChatGPT, a generative A.I. tool, has accomplished something unprecedented.

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Through Knowledge Sharing to Singularity, Accelerated By LLMs

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I’ll briefly outline some knowledge-sharing history milestones, the effects open-source had on knowledge accumulation, and the way it brought us to LLMs. Fast forward to 2008, and we see the Github launch, providing developers with a platform to collaborate on their projects online.

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How Big Data Has Impacted The Real Estate Industry

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As it is, companies are already offering historical, which allow them to see: The history of the prior occupants. The history of improvements made to the property. We saw a decline in real estate agents after the financial crisis of 2008, but the crisis wasn’t the only factor that drove agents to leave the business.