The 2021 performance of all three major cryptocurrency media darlings – Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Shiba Inu – was overshadowed by Ether, which surged over 400% this year. While the others were grabbing headlines, Ether was securing market attention, it seems. As of Friday, December 31, it was up 410%, according …
Read More »Residents flee massive ash cloud from erupting volcano (VIDEO)
A clip on social media has captured people, who live at the foot of Semeru volcano, fleeing in fear ahead of a cloud of black ash descending from the 3,676-meter-tall mountain. The author of the footage is heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is great) in face of this truly apocalyptic …
Read More »Google ‘aggressively pursuing’ Pentagon’s cloud-computing contract set to replace scrapped ‘JEDI’ project — media
The tech behemoth has been “aggressively pursuing” the contract, New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing “four people familiar with the matter.” Google sees the issue as a priority, designating it a “code yellow” emergency in internal documents, the report claims. Google has reportedly been working hard behind the scenes …
Read More »Web down: Thousands of sites worldwide go dark after cloud services provider Akamai reports DNS ‘issue’
Google, AT&T, Amazon Web Services, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and GoDaddy domain services were among the companies that started reporting outages on Thursday morning. Gaming platforms Steam and PlayStation Network, travel services Expedia and Airbnb, shipping giants UPS and FedEx, and banking and financial institutions such as Chase, Discover, Capital One, …
Read More »Pentagon cancels $10bn ‘JEDI’ cloud-computing contract with Microsoft amid Amazon dispute over deal
The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract, part of the Pentagon’s modernization drive and worth up to $10 billion, was originally awarded to Microsoft two years ago. However, just a month later, the tech giant was hit by a lawsuit filed in the US Court of Federal Claims by …
Read More »Researchers finally unravel mystery behind Mars’ vast, reappearing cloud (PHOTO)
In 2018, the Mars Express captured a long, distended cloud blowing across the surface of Mars, extending some 1,500 kilometers (930 miles) from a long-extinct volcano. Located in the southern Martian hemisphere, the Arsia Mons Elongated Cloud appears and reappears every spring or summer on the Red Planet. It has …
Read More »WATCH: Mushroom cloud erupts out of UK factory amid series of massive explosions
An enormous blaze broke out at the building in the early hours of Friday morning and locals reported being woken by a series of bangs. The fire strengthened over the course of several hours and by sunrise huge plumes of smoke could be seen for miles around. The local fire …
Read More »Inhabitants of Nikolaev are scared strange “nuclear” cloud
The cloud associated with bad weather. In Nikolaev local residents noticed unusual huge cloud of pink. Pictures published Denis Cicinho in Facebook. The shape of the cloud resembles the so-called “nuclear mushroom”. This phenomenon occurs after a nuclear or thermonuclear explosion, also called a radioactive cloud. Some users even suggested …
Read More »The Russians are not seriously scared of “nuclear” cloud
In Network-ridiculed concerns of the Russians. In the sky above the city of Balakovo, Samara region (Russia) there was a cloud shaped like a “mushroom”, after the explosion of the atomic bomb. Photos of unusual natural phenomena caused panic. Some users admitted that the Third world war. Also remembered about …
Read More »The most unusual cloud in the world caught on video
A cloud of unknown origin were moving along the road, and then rose into the sky. In the Internet appeared the video, shot one motorist. Unfortunately, any information about the shooting location and the operator is not available, therefore, will be confined to the movie, which strikes to the core. …
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