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A look at Facebook’s massive new five acre data center near the Arctic circle

Servers inside data centers are the backbone of Internet services such as Facebook. The servers store and transmit billions of status updates, links, photos and all the outside apps used by Facebook’s members.

FaceBook Artic circle data center

Facebook’s new server farm in the northern Swedish city of Lulea is the firm’s first outside the U.S. – in a location chosen because the fierce cold will help to keep the company’s racks of high-performance computers cool.

Facebook looked at several sites across Europe, and picked Lulea for its cold climate. The move will see Facebook become faster for users across Europe.

You can read more about it at the Daily Mail.

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Facebook Gunning For Gmail With Project Titan?

Facebook this week sent invites to an event slated for Monday at the St. Regis Yerba Buena Terrace in San Francisco. While the invitation does not specify the focus of the event, it features a graphic of two conversation bubbles, leading some industry watchers to think that Facebook’s rumored Project Titan, a web-based email client being billed as a “Gmail killer,” may officially take flight.

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If You Must Check Your Facebook While Robbing A House, Make Sure You Log Off When You Are Done

What’s that old saw about criminals not being very bright? We have all heard a variation on it. So it should come as no surprise when they do dumb things, right? I mean you could probably fill a blog up every day with the stupid things criminals do. But every once in a while, their stupidity rises to another level.

Consider the case of one Jonathan Parker, a 19 year old man from Pennsylvania, who while robbing a house, saw a computer, and rather than steal it, thought to himself that it would be a perfect time to check his Facebook page.

The problems started for Mr. Parker, or maybe concluded, when he failed to log off his Facebook page. The victim of the robbery later came home, realized she had been robbed, and then saw Mr. Parker’s profile still up on her computer screen.

The police connected the few remaining dots and now Mr. Parker faces a 10 year prison term if found guilty, and who is thinking he won’t be at this point?

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