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10 min read · May 23, 2022 Authors: Evan Sheng, David Morrison An important part of running Airbnb’s infrastructure is ensuring our cloud spending automatically scales with demand, both up and down. Our traffic fluctuates heavily every day, and our cloud footprint should scale dynamically to support this. To support this scaling, Airbnb utilizes Kubernetes, …

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DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ/Sovah Health Release) – Sovah Health has announced it is contacting patients to reschedule elective and non-urgent surgical cases and procedures that require admission at its Danville campus. No other surgeries or procedures will be affected, according to Sovah. With cases of COVID-19 increasing in Danville and Pittsylvania County and throughout Virginia, hospitals …

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced an additional $47 million in funding for seven projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. These selections bring total SCALEUP program funding to over $70 million, building on $24 …

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CIBO Impact provides a simple and clear process for farmers from enrollment to verification to credit sale. Tweet this CIBO Impact enables new possibilities for scaling and accelerating regenerative agriculture by making it simple for farmers to enroll their land and quantify carbon credits arising from sustainable farming practices. CIBO Impact automates the verification of …

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Brands are creating more content than ever. According to a study conducted by Forrester Consulting, three-quarters of marketers (77%) say they spend more time creating content than what they would prefer. However, with consumers demanding greater variety and relevance in the advertising messages they see online, marketers have little choice but to continue. The Drum …

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At TSMC’s annual Technology Symposium, the Taiwanese semiconductor manufacturer detailed characteristics of its future 3nm process node as well as laying out a roadmap for 5nm successors in the form of N5P and N4 process nodes. Starting off with TSMC’s upcoming N5 process node which represents its 2nd generation deep-ultraviolet (DUV) and extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) process …

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The non-custodial exchange dYdX, which is backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, is partnering with StarkWare to integrate the firm’s Layer-2 scaling technology into its perpetual contract offerings. “Our engineering teams are collaborating on a Layer 2 scaling solution for Perpetual Contracts, based on StarkWare’s StarkEx scalability engine and dYdX’s Perpetual smart contracts. Our Perpetual Contracts will …

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Summary Meeting the goals of the Paris Agreement will require net zero greenhouse emissions by 2050 and substantial reductions before then. It will also require collaboration with China, which has emerged as the global leader in the mass production of low-carbon energy technologies (LCETs). In part because of China’s investments in manufacturing, the LCETs required …