We extensively covered the battles over how video traffic should travel over the internet backbone in our last iteration, and more and more video providers are taking control of how their content makes it onto your laptop.
Quartz has a nice overview of how companies like Google, Facebook, and Netflix are investing in core networking technology to control their own distribution, which sounds like something traditional media companies should have done 15 years ago.
TRANSISTOR WITH A 1NM GATE SIZE IS THE WORLD'S SMALLEST We're fast approaching some fundamental materials science problems in semiconductor manufacturing, but
Ars Technica reports that scientists have found a way to make a stable 1-nanometer wide gate with materials other than silicon. Who knows if anybody will be able to replicate their technique at scale, but somebody will spend a lot of money trying to keep Moore's Law afloat with more-or-less conventional transistors.
HOW DIANE GREENE IS REINVENTING GOOGLE CLOUD There have been an awful lot of "Google's getting serious about the cloud" reports this year, right? While Google is obviously striving to get out in front of potential cloud customers, The Information (subscription required)
has a good report on how things are going so far, which Urs can back up at Structure 2016.
HPE, IBM, ARM, SAMSUNG, AND PALS IN PLOT TO WEAVE 'MEMORY FABRIC' The process of developing new standards for memory is extremely important and a enormous minefield at the same time.
The Register reports on the efforts of a consortium of tech companies to develop new standards for the connections between memory and processors that lacks a rather prominent player in this world: Intel.
HOW TO WIN THE CYBER WAR AGAINST RUSSIA. One good thing about this crazy election year is the canon of great spy movies that will be inspired by true events. Security experts I've talked to are divided on exactly how the U.S. should respond to this year's Russian cyber offensive, but
Foreign Policy lays out a pretty hawkish case for fighting back.
WORKPLACE BY FACEBOOK OPENS TO SELL ENTERPRISE SOCIAL NETWORKING TO THE MASSES Given that a lot of people spend half their workday on Facebook anyway, it's not surprising that the company has tried to get folks to use Facebook for actual work as well. Those efforts have not caught on, but Facebook is trying again with Workplace, which is clearly targeting Slack and Workday,
according to Techcrunch.
