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This Week I Learned - * With SQL Server Stretch Database, you can dynamically stretch warm and cold transactional data from  Microsoft SQL Server 2016 to Azure. Customers can also use Stretch Database with new Always Encrypted technology, which helps protect your data at rest and in motion * Azure Service Fabric helps developers build, deploy, and operate microservice architecture applications, reliably and at scale. *  Twitter recently reported that Avicoder, security researcher, discovered a security flaw within Twitter's Vine code that allowed for the download of Vine's entire source code. At the heart of the vulnerability is the Docker setup Twitter used to manage the Vine account. *  LanguageCourse.net  has a biased but useful comparison of the leading language learning apps out there * Google for Education has several useful resources for educators and students *  PCmover  software can  automatically transfers files, s...

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This Week I Learned - *  Microsoft Graph is a unified API endpoint, for accessing data, intelligence, and insights coming from the Microsoft cloud. * Pokémon Go, the " digitally enhanced bird-watching " game, has almost as many users as Twitter *  Catchpoint API monitor can mimic API calls made by mobile devices * What is Digital, anyway? - Digital means exploiting emerging technologies to create user- and customer-centric interfaces and data-driven decisions, leading to more agile, responsive, and competitive business models. * 52% of companies from the Fortune 500 list of 2000 no longer exist * The two-year old New Media Wing under the Information and Broadcasting Ministry mines data from Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube to collect sentiments on current affairs and provide insight to senior Government officials on the mood in the social media on a daily basis. The analysis is done using Oracle's Social Relationship Manager  & Meltwater * ...