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Technology Personal clouds let you take control of your own data A startup that lets you have your own cloud servers at home is part of a movement that is turning its back on conventional cloud computing News
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Enigma Number 1751 Rainbow square My granddaughter has been given a set of 36 square tiles, six of each of the colours red (R), orange (O), yellow (Y), green (G), blue (B) and violet (V). In playing with these, she has arranged them into a square pattern in which each row, column and main diagonal contains each colour … Regulars
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