Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset [Mon Jun 21 2021]

Hi {NAME}, Daily Headlines - 21 June 2021 ***************************************************************** Playmobil crosses the final frontier with enormous, metre-long Enterprise playset $500, 136-piece, tribble-laden Star Trek tribute is immense, but clearly illogical ***************************************************************** Off-Prem * UK financial watchdog dithers over £680k refund from Google (in ad credits, mind you) for running anti-fraud ads MPs give FCA a telling-off for wasting taxpayer money * Facebook and Singapore teams looking for ways to get data centres relaxing in moist tropical climes Heat and humidity are horrible, and your server can’t quaff a cocktail to cool off Offbeat * How hot is it right now? 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It’s blocking your entire digital transformation Hear how real-world users have switched to DBaaS with the Nutanix Database Summit on-demand * A hotline to His Billness? Or a guard having a bit of a giggle? Choose Your Own On Call * VMware’s just given its best allies the tool to spread its Tanzu container creed 4000 service provider clouds are based on vSphere — now they’re all capable of running Kubernetes too * Chinese web giant Baidu unveils Level 4 robo-taxi that costs $75k to make Plans to roll 1,000 of 'em off the production line in three years ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This email was sent to {EMAIL} You can update your preferences here: or unsubscribe from this list: Situation Publishing Ltd, 315 Montgomery Street, 9th & 10th Floors, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA The Register and its contents are Copyright © 2021 Situation Publishing. All rights reserved. Find our Privacy Policy here: