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The U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation requiring ByteDance, a Chinese technology firm, to sell their popular social media platform TikTok or face a possible ban in the United States.

If it goes into effect, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act will require ByteDance to sell TikTok in six months or risk being banned from American app stores and web-hosting services. The legislation passed in a 352-65 vote, with 197 Republicans and 155 Democrats approving. Fifteen Republicans and 50 Democrats voted against the bill, and one Democrat voted present.

It now…

PHOENIX, AZ – Namecheap, the Phoenix, Arizona-based domain name registrar and web hosting company originally founded in 2000, recently announced that they have given away a total of 500,000 free .me domain names to students in conjunction with their Namecheap for Education program. 

The company originally started the program in 2014, which provides students, teachers, and others involved in academia who are located in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia – and who currently possess a .edu e-mail address – a free .me domain for a full…

PHOENIX, AZ – Namecheap, the Phoenix, Arizona-based domain name registrar and web hosting company originally founded in 2000, recently announced that they have given away a total of 500,000 free .me domain names to students in conjunction with their Namecheap for Education program. 

The company originally started the program in 2014, which provides students, teachers, and others involved in academia who are located in North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia – and who currently possess a .edu e-mail address – a free .me domain for a full…

Getting your A-Level results back is already stressful enough. What no one needs is to then have the UCAS website shut down and your results left devastatingly out of our grasp.

Unfortunately, this is just what has happened to nervous A-Level students who have been left on tenterhooks after the UCAS site was taken down due to high-volume traffic.

Not only did this doubtless leave students a nervous wreck this morning, but it has left wider conversations in its wake over why and how website crashes ought to be prevented. After all, isn’t it important that websites – especially those as crucial as UCAS – should support an unwavering commitment to their customers regardless of any high traffic or other glitches?

UCAS Website Crashes

 
The Universities and Colleges…