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Revolutionizing Data Centers: The AI and Cloud Computing Boom

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Over the past decade, data centers have become the topic of conversation in the’investment world and a massive source of revenue for tech giants. Amazon Web Services  generates today's nearly  20% of the e-commerce giant's revenue. At the same time, however,  Nvidia , the leading supplier of components for data centers, has become the third-largest technology company in the world. The increasing use of technologies from’artificial intelligence, which require significant computing power and storage, is only powering the’s rise of data centers, which is expected to further increase in the years to come. According to the data presented by  Stocklytics.com,   the global data center market is expected to grow by 30% and reach   a value of more than 430 billion dollars by 2028’ . Cloud computing and AI are exploding the data market. The widespread adoption of cloud computing has dramatically transformed the landscape of data centers. While it has reduced the numb...

Instagram's Geolocation Innovation: Testing a Snap Map Feature

Instagram is developing a Snap Map clone.

Instagram is currently working on the development of Friend Map, a feature that shares conceptual similarities with Snap Map, deployed by its competitor Snapchat since 2017. The option allows, in the same way as on the app renowned for its ephemeral content, to find out the geolocation of your contacts in real time. Any posts or stories that include a geographic location will be able to be displayed on the map, depending on your privacy settings.

Instagram's Geolocation Innovation: Testing a Snap Map Feature

The information was revealed by mobile developer and engineer Alessandro Paluzzi, who is usually up to date with the company's internal news and who had already spotted an embryonic version of this Snap Map clone back in November. The development of the feature has since been confirmed by an Instagram spokesperson. For the moment, this is an internal prototype that has not yet been tested by users. At this stage, no roll-out date has been communicated by the Meta group.

How does the friend map work?

According to the screenshots released by Alessandro Paluzzi, it will be possible to filter the content you wish to share on Friends Map, as well as the contacts who can view your geographical location. The feature also features a ghost mode, which, once activated, hides your last location recorded by the app. "Your location will be end-to-end encrypted,"  adds the social network on the option's presentation page.

In parallel, Instagram is developing an option dedicated to notes on the friend map. This will offer the possibility "to share what's happening wherever you are" via a brief 60-character message that will be displayed on the map, as the screenshot shows. A process that is therefore similar to that of a classic Note, which is currently only displayed at the top of the messaging system.

Instagram keeps working on "Friend Map": your friends on a map.

ℹ️ Your location is end-to-end encrypted.

Let's see how it works. 👇 https://t.co/iBeR0nec61 pic.twitter.com/5dxTZN0OUB

Alessandro Paluzzi (@alex193a) February 24, 2024

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