Hardware
At CES 2019, the Tuesday keynote by IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, walked attendees through the IBM lens of core areas of computing: and one of the four was quantum computing—which comes as no surprise for those who have been following ...
Jan 09, 2019 weblog
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Guzzling, devouring, the words fail to reflect the enormity of it all. Data storage eats up cities' worth of power. Back in March, 3M ran a presentation about data, reminding us there was not going to be anything like a slowing ...
Oct 04, 2018 weblog
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Security
Tiny chips inserted in US computer equipment manufactured in China were used as part of a vast effort by Beijing to steal US technology secrets, a published report said Thursday.
Oct 04, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Back in March, 3M ran a presentation about data, reminding us there was not going to be anything like a slowing down of data, and then posed the question, ok, so how do we swallow that and at the same time envision a sustainable ...
Aug 20, 2018 weblog
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Computer Sciences
Anyone who has ever cursed a computer network as it slowed to a crawl will appreciate the remedy offered by scientists at Rice University.
Aug 16, 2018
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Business
Entering the data center that occupies the former Chicago Sun-Times' printing facility is like walking through the set of a James Bond film.
Jul 23, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Every time you save a photo to the cloud, buy something on Amazon, open a Google doc or stream a movie, you're probably pulling electricity from a wind turbine in Texas or a solar farm in Virginia.
Apr 23, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Most modern websites store data in databases, and since database queries are relatively slow, most sites also maintain so-called cache servers, which list the results of common queries for faster access. A data center for ...
Aug 31, 2017
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Computer Sciences
In today's data networks, traffic analysis—determining which links are getting congested and why—is usually done by computers at the network's edge, which try to infer the state of the network from the times at which ...
Aug 24, 2017
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Computer Sciences
A webpage today is often the sum of many different components. A user's home page on a social-networking site, for instance, might display the latest posts from the users' friends; the associated images, links, and comments; ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Energy & Green Tech
In different parts of the country, people discuss gray-water recycling and rainwater capture to minimize the millions of gallons of groundwater required to cool large data centers. But the simple answer in many climates, ...
Aug 31, 2016
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Computer Sciences
Princeton University researchers have built a new computer chip that promises to boost performance of data centers that lie at the core of online services from email to social media.
Aug 23, 2016
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Security
Organizations looking for and concerned about optimal security protection are the targets of a new service announced by San Francisco-based CloudFlare. The offering is called Keyless SSL. CloudFlare explained that "An SSL ...
Sep 19, 2014 weblog
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