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"One of the most fantastic things even in this trip to India that I'm learning about, is not just what's happening in the top cities of the country, but what's happening across all the cities in the country and how digital is playing a role," said Nadella. Nadella said that every knowledge worker is going to be more creative, more expressive and more productive.

"We commit to deliver even more services and features to protect our customers' data. We further commit to expanding on our existing capabilities to provide even more fine-grained data residency controls and transparency. We will also expand data residency controls for operational data, such as identity and billing information," said Matt Garman, SVP of AWS Sales, Marketing and Global Services.

The company's vice president of gaming, Mike Verdu, revealed two pieces of information concerning the streaming giant's entry into games, reports TechCrunch. According to Verdu, the platform is "seriously researching a cloud gaming offering". "It is a value add. We are not asking you to subscribe as a console replacement. It is a completely different business model.

According to 9To5Google, Stadia has offered 1440p streaming for over two years, picking it up as a feature for desktops back in 2020. However, it has been more of a secret feature of the platform. Stadia's new quality setting is listed as "Up to 1440p" and is noted to use as much as 14.4 GB per hour of gameplay, versus 12.6 GB for 1080p or 20 GB for 4K streaming.

The company stated after a rumour began circulating earlier this week that suggested it would sunset the platform later this year, reports Engadget. "Stadia is not shutting down," the official Stadia Twitter account told a concerned fan in a tweet spotted by PC Gamer. "Rest assured, we are always working on bringing more great games to the platform and Stadia Pro," it added.

Cloudflare said it identified the issue and rolled out a fix and several platforms started having normal operations afterwards. "Users may experience errors or timeouts reaching Cloudflare's network or services," the firm had said in an earlier update."Problem with our backbone. We know what. Rollbacks etc. happening," said John Graham-Cumming, CTO of Cloudflare, on a Hacker News thread.

Bucking the trend where Cloud infrastructure offerings are getting cheaper, Google Cloud has announced significant price hikes across its core services like storage, compute and networking that will go into effect from October 1 this year.

Google Cloud and Flipkart on Tuesday entered into a multi-year strategic partnership to help fast-track Flipkart's innovation as well as cloud strategy. This partnership will propel Flipkart into its next phase of growth and advance its vision of onboarding India's next 200 million shoppers and lakhs of sellers, the company claims.