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37 min ago | Monterey County Herald

Congressional panel grills CEO Tim Cook on Apple's tax practices

Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies at a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US Senate, John McCain, Republican

37 min ago | PC World

Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery

Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.

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Related Topix: Startups, NVidia, CPU, Science / Technology, Marketing, Advanced Micro Devices

4 hrs ago | Bellingham Herald

HP's slumps deepens in 2Q as earnings fall 32 pct

The latest evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s continuing downfall came in a quarterly earnings report released Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, PC, US Governors, Meg Whitman, California, California Government

7 hrs ago | Machine Design

Record simulation on a National Lab supercomputer

So what do you do with a computer than can carry out 16.3 quadrillion floating-point operations per second? At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you simulate the interactions between ultrapowerful lasers and dense plasmas in a quest to unlock fusion energy.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing

12 hrs ago | Bradenton.com

Ahead of the Bell: HP's 2Q results likely to sag

Revenue is expected to fall, which would make it the seventh consecutive quarter of comparable declines.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, HP, Computers, PC, Dell

12 hrs ago | AdelaideNow...

Judiciary's aging computers in 'high risk of failure'

CUTTING services may be the only way to finance an urgently-needed upgrade of the justice system's archaic computer network, the state's top judge has warned.

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16 hrs ago | Mirror.co.uk

Superman computer comp: Exclusive Toshiba 'Man of Steel' laptop up for grabs

"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a brand new Man of Steel -themed Toshiba laptop and it could be yours!" - in conjunction with Man of Steel from Warner Bros.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks

20 hrs ago | National Public Radio

Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else

It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, NASA, Science, Computer Science, CPU

Tue May 21, 2013

KTIV-TV Sioux City

Computer technician pleads guilty to defrauding Apple of $334,934

A North Sioux City, South Dakota, computer technician has pleaded guilty to scheme that prosecutors say cost Apple more than $330,000. In federal court, Tuesday, Darin Moran, agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud.

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Related Topix: Sioux City, IA, Woodbury County, IA

EurekAlert!

Iowa VP for Research addresses next-generation supercomputers at congressional hearing

The University of Iowa's vice president for research and economic development will urge congressional lawmakers to support exascale computing, the next generation of supercomputers designed to tackle complex societal questions, from climate change to the human mind.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, High Performance Computing, Iowa, Science, Computer Science, University of Iowa

CBS Local

Priest Removed In 2009 Faces New Porn Charge

A Roman Catholic priest who was removed from public ministry in 2009 after an allegation of past child sex abuse later deemed "credible" by his bishop has now been indicted on a federal charge of possessing child pornography.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion

Search Engine Watch

Google, NASA Join Forces to Research Machine Learning

Google and NASA have joined forces to launch the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab that will allow researchers at the two organizations and a number of universities to research artificial intelligence using quantum computers.

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Related Topix: Startups, AdMob, Science / Technology, NASA, Science, Computer Science

KMIZ

Make $30 an hour, no bachelor's degree required

The job is growing quickly, offers a median salary around $30 an hour, or $62,500 a year, and does not necessarily require a bachelor's degree.

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Related Topix: Marketing

ITworld

40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids

Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Startups, Facebook, Social Software, Printers, Stanford University

KFMB-am

The Datel Computer Talk Show

Show Info: Larry co-founded Datel Systems Incorporated in 1983 as a reseller of computer products and services geared towards tech-savvy users.

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Mon May 20, 2013

FOX23

Apple going through foreign firms to avoid paying taxes

Computer giant Apple employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.

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Related Topix: US News, Ireland, World News, US Politics, US Senate, Carl Levin, Democrat, John McCain, Republican

My Mother Lode

Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?

It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

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Related Topix: Bill Gates, Tumblr, Family, Kids, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Teenagers

Al Bawaba

Royal Jordanian, Amadeus IT Group donate 100 computers to support education in Jordan

Royal Jordanian and Amadeus IT Group SA, a leading technology partner for the global travel industry, reached an agreement by which Amadeus donated around 100 pre-owned desktop and laptop computers that were uplifted by Royal Jordanian free of charge from Amadeus headquarters in Madrid to Amman.

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Related Topix: Jordan, World News, Middle East, Jordan, NY,

KEPR CBS 19

Earnings preview: PC slump hangs over HP's 2nd quarter

Hewlett-Packard's latest quarterly results will show how badly the deteriorating personal computer market damaged the company while CEO Meg Whitman tries to expand into more profitable areas of technology.

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Related Topix: Laptops/Notebooks, Hewlett Packard, PC, HP, Computers

Patch.com

2013 Hurricane Season: Potential Flooding, Power Outages On Tap This Summer

Hurricanes and severe storms are a part of summertime in Northern Virginia and experts are predicting a number of Hurricane experts predict that this year's hurricane season could yield four major hurricanes this year in the Atlantic in the 2013 season.

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Related Topix: Hurricane, Natural Disasters, Virginia, Virginia Government, Weather, Social Security, Personal Finance