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Worldwide server market revenue surges, finds IDC

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, vendor revenue in the worldwide server market increased 26.4% year over year to $20.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2017 (4Q17).

Facebook will use postcards to fight foreign meddling In U.S. politics — Fortune

A Facebook executive says the social network will begin using paper postcards to try and stop foreign meddlers, writes David Z. Morris of Fortune. Here is the link: http://fortune.com/2018/02/19/facebook-postcards-russia-propaganda-advertising/

Facebook knows how to track you using the dust on your camera lens — Gizmodo

In 2014, Facebook filed a patent application for a technique that employs smartphone data to figure out if two people might know each other. Kashmir Hill and Surya Mattu of Gizmodo write about some of the things Facebook knows, and deduces, about us. Here is the link - https://gizmodo.com/facebook-knows-how-to-track-you-using-the-dust-on-your-1821030620

The University of Washington launching AR/VR lab funded by Google, Facebook, Huawei

The University of Washington is launching a new augmented and virtual reality research center — funded by Facebook, Google, and Huawei.

Red Hat, Facebook, Google and IBM come together to promote common cure rights commitment

Red Hat, Facebook, Google, and IBM are coming together to promote additional predictability in open source licensing.