There is a lot of hype around distributed data systems, some of it justified. It's true that the internet has centralized a lot of computation onto services like Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn...

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For the first time, researchers have created a scale model of the twisting loops of the sun’s magnetic field.

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