More than 47,000 records of slave trade voyages — from maps, itineraries and mortality rates to accounts of insurrections on ships and stories of enslaved people — are now entrusted to Rice University ...

Firebase started out as a database backend service for real-time apps, but today it’s taking a step in another direction. The company is expanding its platform with a hosting service for web apps.

Choosing among the best cloud platforms has become less about picking a market leader and more about matching real workloads to the right strengths. Storage costs, hosting flexibility, and scaling ...