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2 hrs ago | WMUR-TV Manchester

Spectacular tech 'firsts' up for auction

In this era of ever-accelerating technological development, we all tend to be so fixated on the gizmos of the future that we rarely take the time to think about the glorious technology of the past.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Apple, Startups, World News, Germany, Inventions, Jobs

2 hrs ago | Modern Healthcare

Audit: N.C. Medicaid claims system untested, flawed

An audit of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services released Wednesday says it has failed to fully test a new $484 million computer system scheduled to begin processing Medicaid claims on July 1. The report issued by the office of State Auditor Beth Wood raises serious questions about the process used to affirm that the complex ... (more)

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Related Topix: CSC, Computers, IT Services

4 hrs ago | Vallejo News

News Summary: HP's stock rises despite 2Q erosion Mixed Bag:...

Co.'s latest quarterly report showed the company's earnings are holding up better than management and analysts anticipated, even as the world's largest personal computer maker struggled to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.

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Related Topix: PC

8 hrs ago | Scotsman.com

Lights from computers blamed for poor sleep

ELECTRIC lights, including those illuminating laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, often play a key role in causing people to sleep badly, an expert has said.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Reuters

China's Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals

Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades.

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Related Topix: HP, Computers, Dell, IBM

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

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

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

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

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

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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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

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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