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Oracle has expanded its hybrid cloud portfolio with a new offering called Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure that allows organizations to run cloud workloads from anywhere.

The tech giant's new offering brings core infrastructure services to the edge through ruggedized, portable and scalable server nodes called Roving Edge Devices (REDs). By using Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure, organizations can run their cloud workloads from anywhere in the world including the back of a plane, a polar observatory or even an oil tanker in the mid-Atlantic.

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The new service is part of Oracle's hybrid cloud portfolio which provides customers with more flexibility and control over their cloud deployments to help cut costs.

Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure

Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure is priced per day and organizations that want to use the company's new devices will have to commit to a minimum lease term of 30 days.

Renting an Oracle Roving Edge Device costs $160 per node per day while renting a Roving Edge Cluster Kit, which includes a network switch and cabling for clusters, costs $40 per kit per day. For the price though, customers can use the Oracle RED nodes and clusters in their possession as they see fit without any limitations.

Executive vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Clay Magouryk explained how the new service essentially delivers a cloud region wherever a customer needs it in a press release, saying:

“Customers want choice when it comes to running workloads in the cloud. Each customer has different requirements based on data sovereignty, scale, or wanting the full experience of a public cloud on-premises with all of Oracle’s cloud services. Oracle Roving Edge Infrastructure is the latest example, delivering core infrastructure services to remote locations. Oracle’s hybrid cloud portfolio essentially delivers a cloud region wherever and however a customer needs it.”

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It's been a long time coming but the Apple Watch's irregular heart rhythm notifications have finally been approved for use Down Under by Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), as first reported by EFTM.

This feature allows a user's heart rate to be monitored in the background and a push notification sent automatically when the Apple Watch detects an irregular heart beat. It's an important health-monitoring feature that could help an estimated 475,000 Australians suffering from atrial fibrillation (Afib) in preventing a heart attack or stroke.

Every Apple Watch model is capable of keeping tabs on your heart rate and sending these newly-approved irregular rhythm notifications, so even Aussie owners of the earliest models can make use of this feature.

With that said, the popular ECG (electrocardiogram) sensor and corresponding app are only available from the Apple Watch 4 and newer models, and are yet to be approved for use in Australia. The ECG app is still awaiting the green light from the TGA (an organisation run by the government's Department of Health), but this latest approval gets us one step closer to in-depth heart monitoring for Apple Watch users.

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Hearty approval

There's no clear indication as to why this approval process has taken so long. Speaking to Gizmodo in 2020, the TGA said Apple hadn't submitted any devices or the accompanying paperwork for approval.

There's also no precise timeline from either Apple or the TGA on when the ECG app will be available for use Down Under. The TGA is currently overhauling its medical device software regulations for wearable manufacturers that will "commence on 25 February 2021 for new applications for inclusion in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG)" .

So, at the very least, we'll need to wait till the end of the month for the Apple Watch's ECG app to become available for use in Australia.

In the meantime, though, Withings beat every other major brand to the punch, getting clinical approval for its ScanWatch in November 2020 – the only TGA-approved ECG-enabled wearable available in Australia.

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The world's most popular CMS continues to grow and new data from W3Techs has revealed that 40 percent of the web or two out of every five websites now use WordPress.

While there are plenty of WordPress alternatives including Shopify and Squarespace, WordPress is still in a league of its own. 

This is because in addition to the sites powered by WordPress, an ecosystem has been built up around the CMS which includes more than 58,000 WordPress plugins and more than 8,000 WordPress themes. 

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At the same time though, many companies and organizations make a living creating WordPress sites or helping users do so. These include both WordPress hosting and managed WordPress hosting providers like Bluehost, Dreamhost and even the company behind WordPress, Automattic. However, the biggest one is still WP Engine which is known for its WordPress expertise.

Growing market share

To come up with its latest statistics on WordPress usage, W3Techs used data from the Alexa top 10 million websites as well as Tranco's top one million list to avoid counting parked domains, spam sites and those with little to no content.

According to the data, WordPress has grown from being used on over 10m sites in 2011 to 40m sites today. It also controls 64.3 percent of the CMS market.

Of the sites that use WordPress, the .blog top level domain has the highest market share at 92.2 percent followed by the .news domain at 87.1 percent. The .mil top level domain on the other hand has the lowest WordPress usage as the military prefers to use DotNetNuke instead.

When it came to the countries with the highest WordPress usage, South Africa leads the way followed by Iran, Israel and Spain. China, South Korea and Russia though are the countries with the lowest WordPress usage.

One of the biggest drivers of WordPress' recent growth is likely due to the fact that many consumers and businesses created new websites during the pandemic.

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Pei Yu or Carl Pei, as he is popularly known outside China, left OnePlus almost a year back. Since then he's constantly been making news -  initially doing nothing and later announcing Nothing as his new company.

The company has already raised $22 million in investment out of which $15 million came from Google Ventures. Interestingly all he has revealed till now is that after his amicable departure from the Chinese smartphone brand OnePlus, he will train his focus on audio products, primarily. Though details have been murky till now.

In a bid to keep this curiosity around Nothing, a trait that we can relate to from his OnePlus days, now Pei has provided a few hints around the company’s plans. In an interview with Bloomberg, Pei said that the company plans to start with simpler products like wireless earbuds.

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Affordable audio accessories and connected devices

The London-based startup has bigger plans with Pei stating that “We’re building an ecosystem of smart devices.” He further added, “We’re going to have multiple products throughout the year, not just audio products, and eventually we want to build it so these devices talk to each other.”

Interestingly, Google is very keen on creating an ecosystem of connected smart home devices. It already has a range of such devices that help automate your daily routine. These smart devices form a major share of Google’s hardware business that has not seen much success with the Pixel branded phones.

On the other hand, with True Wireless earbuds as its first product, Nothing may just be playing it safe at this early stage. The market of these audio accessories appears to have grown multifold especially after the pandemic brought the world to a halt. The new normal that includes remote work, remote education and remote entertainment has been the reason behind almost every tech brand we know is trying its hands in these fast-selling tech gadgets.

The OnePlus connection?

OnePlus, the company that Pei founded, is one such company that announced similar products and has been betting big on them. Though Pei had earlier in a candid discussion with The Verge said that “Nothing won't just re-label somebody else's products.” He also added, “There's a reason why a lot of products on the market look quite similar. It's because they share a lot of the same components and the same building blocks”.

These could well be perceived as remarks about his ex-employers, though there is also a parallel perception that Carl Pei could continue the OnePlus connection. And the latest reports of him going after the high-demand hearing accessories could well reinforce this thought. 

Of course, the one thing we know for sure is that Carl Pei has a knack of creating the curiosity around products and then revealing things in a manner that keeps the interest levels high over a long period. So, watch this space as Nothing unveils. 

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