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Great technology links - Great learning at zero cost - October 2023

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Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 Complete Course   Type: Course   https://marczak.io/az-900/ The Microsoft Azure AZ-900 is the first step towards a career in Microsoft Azure. This website contains the entire course, including video tutorials, cheat sheets, study aids, and practise tests. The first seven episodes are excellent as a general introduction to Cloud concepts. Following that, the focus shifts more towards Microsoft's own Cloud solution. This course is ideal for anyone interested in learning about the cloud, learning about Microsoft Azure, or comparing Azure options to AWS services. This course is three years old. Anyone planning to take the AZ-900 examinations should be informed that the course curriculum has changed. TechDirt   Type:  Podcast    https://www.techdirt.com/edition/podcast/ This podcast is for you if you're interested in legislative technology policy and politics surrounding issues like the US's 26-word Sec...

Electric Scooters need to be regulated

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Why the big-5 tech companies need to be split up

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Many are questioning whether Alphabet (owner of Google), Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon have become so big they are impacting functional competition in the markets they dominate. Another question is whether these organizations have simply become so big that they now constitute a hazard to society. These companies have such a massive number of people on their platforms and generate so much revenue, that their actions impact entire groups of people. They have a revenue stream that is bigger than that of many countries. Complimenting this is their unprecedented dominance in so many aspects of our technological existence; that they control what we see, how we feel and what we (think we) want. As individuals and societies we are now completely reliant on technology; and the future promises much more tech some obvious but a lot more of the subtle type. The big-5 collect data about every miniscule action we perform. They consolidate information from multiple sources they own, combini...