A Facebook post shared over 20,000 times shows a photo of a hearse being impounded during a funeral, with the caption “Car impounding gone mad”. However, the scene was staged for a fictional TV comedy.

The picture, which first appeared on Facebook in 2016 and recirculated in 2020 before being shared again earlier this month, shows a hearse being impounded while pallbearers carry a coffin out of a church in the background. 

As Reuters previously reported, the photo was taken during the filming for Big Talk Productions’ show Rev., which aired on the BBC between 2010 and 2014. It shows actors, rather than genuine mourners, carry a coffin out of a church at the same moment a hearse is being loaded onto a lorry to be towed away. 

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Web3 infrastructure provider Ankr announced a partnership with Microsoft to offer a node hosting service for enterprises and organizations needing access to blockchain data.

According to the official press release shared with CryptoPotato, the deal will see an integration of technology of Ankr’s innovations in blockchain infrastructure with the software giant’s cloud solutions. The service seeks to offer “global, low-latency blockchain connections for any Web3 project or developer” to help them focus on innovating and scaling their applications.

Ankr-Microsoft Partnership

Ankr’s Co-Founder & CEO, Chandler Song, believes the move to bring the two parties together is a critical step in getting blockchain infrastructure to a growing sector of the digital…

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New monitoring suite supports remote performance for today’s distributed work environment.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 21, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Apica Systems, the leader in digital performance monitoring and observability, announced the rollout of its Microsoft 365 monitoring suite availability and quality solution. The first phase of the Microsoft 365 Monitoring Suite includes base, standard, and enterprise packages to meet the individual needs of any organization.

The new monitoring suite is baked into the Apica Ascent platform, providing customers with detailed reports and visualizations that allow them to quickly identify the root cause of any performance problems with Outlook, Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Teams. The Microsoft 365 monitoring suite is…