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Smart Home Plugs - Power Measurements

Smart Home Plugs – Power Measurements

Have you ever wondered how much electricity your smart plugs are using up in your house just sitting there idly waiting for a command to turn on and off? Thankfully, Michael Ritter from the Home Assistant community took the time to test out a bunch of popular plugs using a power meter in between to get the values for us.

Michael used a standard off the shelf Power Monitor for these tests…

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Close Encounters: Onyx Station (SFRPG)

Close Encounters: Onyx Station (SFRPG)

Close Encounters: Onyx Station (SFRPG)

This installment of the Close Encounters-series clocks in at 26 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page ToC, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 21 pages of content, so let’s take a look!

  This review was moved up in my reviewing queue as a prioritized review at the request of my patreon supporters.

  Okay, so we have essentially an…

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Starjammer: Medical Marvels

Starjammer: Medical Marvels This supplement for Starjammer clocks in at 32 pages, 1 page front cover, 1 page editorial, 1 page advertisement, 1 page SRD, 1 page back cover, leaving us with 27 pages of content, so let’s take a look!   This pdf is framed by the audio logs of Dr. Karer, which adds a nice touch to the crunch-centric focus of the supplement and serves to liven up the material. The pdf…

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Maple Media raises $30 million to found a new mobile gaming empire

Maple Media has raised $30 million in private equity to acquire and operate mobile apps and games. The Los Angeles company hopes to make each acquired property more profitable and gain advantages of scale in marketing to mobile audiences. Shamrock Capital invested the money in Maple Media, which is led by game and tech veterans […] https://goo.gl/oXGi7C #Playistic

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Gaming and Ad Tech Vets Launch Mobile App Management Company Maple Media

Gaming and Ad Tech Vets Launch Mobile App Management Company Maple Media

Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store are full of once-hot-but-still-useful apps with substantial user bases, but whose founders may have moved on leaving a product that could use a little sprucing up. Enter Maple Media, a startup that just raised $30 million from private equity firm Shamrock Capital and aims to scoop up a bunch of apps that aren’t getting enough love, manage them — and…

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In 2015, several high-profile data breaches made cybersecurity a major talking point. As the companies involved still try to repair the damage to their businesses, the key question is what lies ahead in 2016. Cybercriminals aren’t going anywhere and, with more and more data moving to the cloud, network security will continue to be a key concern. Here are some thoughts on what security trends we can expect to see next year: 1. Cybercriminals Will Be Just as Busy - Unfortunately, communication networks are an increasingly attractive hunting ground for criminals, activists and terrorists motivated to make money, get noticed, or even bring down corporations and governments through online disruption. Several high-profile hacking incidents made the news in 2015. We should brace ourselves for more cyberattacks in the new year. 2. There’ll Be More Data Protection Regulation ...

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What do Home Depot and Ashley Madison have in common? At first glance there seems to be very little that links the American retailer of home improvement products with the Canada-based portal to infidelities. The answer is that the principle "indiscretion is a matter of honor" applies for both. Data thieves stole 56 million credit card details from the do-it-yourself chain last year. More recently, the site for cheaters was hacked by cybercriminals, leaving 32 million customers trembling in fear of blackmailers. For both businesses it was a crushing blow. Home Depot estimated the cost of correcting the problem at 62 million US dollars. And that doesn’t even include the fallout from the massive loss of confidence. Ashley Madison and Home Depot represent a ...

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There were a lot of interesting presentations at last week's Datacenter Forum in Stockholm. It was fascinating to hear insights from some of the industry's leading experts and the discussions following the talks were often equally revealing. Dieter Will explained why bigger isn't always better when it comes to cloud service providers. He highlighted the ways that a smaller data center might have an advantage over the international giants in terms of overheads and agility. He also made some important points about security and how local cloud services could offer a more complete data protection package. In fact this proved to be the topic most people wanted to debate afterwards. There was a lot of interest in how more and more enterprises are migrating their legacy IT services into the cloud, putting data centers operators who can guarantee total data protection at a big advantage. Most people at the conference seemed to agree that ultimate security means encrypting data. But that's only part of the story ...

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