Despite creating security headaches for IT departments around the world as the password manager of choice for boomers, the Post-it Note is one of the most clever and ubiquitous office accessories ever created, and this past weekend the world, unfortunately, said goodbye to their creator, Spencer Silver, who passed away at 80 years old.
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Most don’t give a second thought to the tiny sheets of yellow paper as they struggle to squeeze another important thing to remember onto their crowded computer screens, but like many world-changing technologies, the Post-it Note was a product born from failure that went on to become more successful than what its creator was originally trying to perfect.
We remember one of the inventors of the Post-it Note. Spencer Silver died last weekend at the age of 80. An adhesive he created was a total failure for
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A prime 5G core role for Oracle at Dish Network and a landmark green power deal for TIM top today’s news charts.
Oracle has landed something of a plum 5G core functions deal at
Dish Network, which is building an Open RAN-based 5G network in the US. Oracle is supplying a number of key elements for Service Based Architecture (SBA) in the 5G core, namely its containerized Policy Control Function (PCF), Network Repository Function (NRF) and Network Exposure Function (NEF) elements, plus its 5G Service Communications Proxy (SCP), Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF), Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP) and Binding Selection Function (BSF). You can find out more about these functions in this Ebook. “Oracle’s capabilities will essentially serve as the control tower of our network core, enabling our customers to consume software on demand and facilitating the advanced core functions required to power a truly a