Microservices are very much in vogue for web software architecture. For most teams though, the monolith should remain the default choice.

Seville, Spain, recently became the first city in the world to launch a heat wave naming and ranking system. This week's blistering temperatures ranked as a Category 3 — the most severe tier.

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A man who has had HIV since the 1980s had a bone marrow transplant from a donor resistant to the virus.

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Alphabet Inc's Google Maps on Wednesday launched its panoramic Street View service in 10 Indian cities in partnership with Tech Mahindra and Genesys, 11 years after a first attempt ran into regulatory troubles.

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