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  New Earth-sized planet found in habitable sweet-spot orbit around a distant star Researchers have  discovered a new Earth-sized planet   orbiting a star outside our solar system. The planet, called Kepler-1649c, is only around 1.06 times larger than Earth, making it very similar to our own planet in terms of physical dimensions. It’s also quite close to its star, orbiting at a distance that means it gets around 75% of the light we do from the Sun. The planet’s star is a red dwarf, which is more prone to the kind of flares that might make it difficult for life to have evolved on its rocky satellite’s surface, unlike here in our own neighborhood. It orbits so closely to its star, too, that one year is just 19.5 of our days — but the star puts out significantly less heat than the Sun, so that’s actually right in the proper region to allow for the presence of liquid water. Kepler-1649c was found by scientists digging into existing observations gathered by the Kepler space telescope befor

  Understanding the basics of cloud computing Cloud computing is taking the world by storm. In fact, 94% of workloads and compute instances will be  processed through cloud data centers  by 2021, compared to only 6% by traditional data centers, according to research by Cisco. The principle of the cloud isn’t new, but as more and more companies and businesses switch to cloud-based services, it’s important to understand the nuances of cloud computing terminology and concepts. What is the cloud? For non-techies out there, the cloud might be an intimidating and nebulous concept. We hear about cloud computing all the time, but what exactly does it mean? The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) describes the  basics of cloud computing  this way: Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisio