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Inside Facebook’s massive center storing your personal information

In a vast, dark room, the lights glow a steady green, blue, yellow. I’m not inside the Matrix, but it’s not far off. With every step, I walk past thousands upon thousands of virtual interactions between real people happening through the world’s largest social network, Facebook. I’m inside the company’s newest European data center in Clonee, Ireland, a small town …

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Google’s new Wear OS watch update is here, and it’s surprisingly good

Google’s big fall hardware event is coming on October 9, but there’s no new Google Pixel Watch on the horizon. Instead, a flurry of new Google Wear OS watches are arriving to try to capture more of the wearable market. There’s also a WearOS software update, available Friday, that changes the interface: mostly, for the better. I’ve been using it …

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