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Five of the top 12 high performance computing systems in the world are owned by U.S. national labs. But they are beyond reach, financially and technically, for many companies, even larger ones.

Dell is bringing the advantages of its enterprise-level hyperscale rack servers to a wider range of customers.

Like the idea of using Google to vote online for the best airline, steamed dumpling or health app?

Apple may have taken on the fight of its life in standing up to the FBI, which is demanding that it help break into an iPhone used by one of the perpetrators in December's San Bernardino mass shooting.

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Windows 10 usage has increased since Microsoft began serving the operating system as an automatic upgrade to PCs running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, according to an analysis of data from two metrics sources.

Microsoft has been aggressive in embracing open source technology on its Azure cloud platform, and that continued Wednesday with the launch of several new features powered by open source projects.

There's no shortage of warnings about robots taking over our jobs, but often overlooked is the potential for how robots and humans can work together.

IBM has been encouraging developers to build apps using its Watson artificial intelligence system, which it hopes will be a big moneymaker for the company in the future.

Researchers at the University of Southampton have discovered a way to store data in five dimensions on nanostructure glass that can survive for billions of years.

Google announced the general availability of Custom Machine Types for its Compute Engine infrastructure-as-a-service offering, giving developers a chance to design their own compute instances to meet particular performance requirements. 

Hadoop, Spark and Kafka have already had a defining influence on the world of big data, and now there's yet another Apache project with the potential to shape the landscape even further: Apache Arrow.

Early in my career, I worked as a systems programmer for IBM in South Florida. As everyone no doubt knows, IBM invented the acronym. There was always rumored to be an acronym dictionary available, although I was never ever to lay my hands on a copy -- if in fact it really existed. 

Couchbase Server, similar to MongoDB and RethinkDB, is a document-oriented distributed database, but that description sells it a good deal short. Couchbase is what you get when a distributed key-value store and a document database join forces -- literally.

Starting this month, the U.S. Department of Defense will start deploying Windows 10 to about 4M devices within the next year. It’s the largest Windows 10 deployment ever, and involves upgrading every laptop and Surface tablet in use at the federal agency. It’s a vote of confidence for an operating system that is already running on 200M devices worldwide, with plans to reach 1B in the next few years.

The U.S. Department of Defense will standardize 4 million computers on Windows 10, a significant endorsement for Microsoft's latest operating system.

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Though you may not have heard of it, but the Linux dstat command is an especially useful tool. It combines the power and insights of commands like vmstat, iostat and ifstat and is one of the best tools for examining system resources and one of the most versatile.

A new flavor of ransomware, similar in its mode of attack to the notorious banking software Dridex, is causing havoc with some users.

Apple's CEO Tim Cook reacted sharply to a federal court order in the U.S. that would require the company to help the FBI search the contents of an iPhone 5c seized from Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino, California, attack on Dec. 2. that killed 14 people.

Apple forced to unlock iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, a suspect in the December 2 San Bernadino terrorist shootings. However, Tim Cook doesn’t seem to be talking straight—saying his crew can’t assist the FBI any more, and worrying that use of the law behind the court’s action was “unprecedented.”

Apple was ordered Tuesday by a federal judge in California to provide assistance to the FBI to search a locked iPhone 5c that was used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the terrorists said to have been involved in an  attack in San Bernardino, California, on Dec. 2.

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Even as some argue exactly what it is, functional programming keeps attracting developers. And three of the most popular functional languages -- Clojure, F#, and Scala -- are on tap for improvements.

Consultant pilot fish is on the team for an automation project at a steel mill, and the software is going to require a screen handler to manage how information is displayed on the new terminals.