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A new Portland cloud computing startup, Orchestrate.io , has raised $3 million in venture capital to help launch its technology.

He calls upon entrepreneurs to work hard, innovate, be bold, and take risks. He is fascinated at the prospect of education meeting neuroscience.

Google's announcement last week that it plans to launch a new quantum computing laboratory with NASA may have boosted a highly specialized and slightly obscure field of study into a more mainstream light.

Big data is big news in today's digitized world. With the explosion of Internet usage and social media networks, there's a massive cloud of data being generated about people all over the world, and it's growing at an exponential rate.

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.

U.S. Navy ship USS Freedom berths at the Changi Naval Base on Thursday April 18, 2013 in Singapore.

Professor Bell says women are under-represented in computer science and it is estimated that in New Zealand women make up less than 30 percent of technical roles in the computing industry.

Artificial intelligence expert Mark Bishop says a ban on weapons that can deploy and destroy without human intervention is vital What is the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots? It is a confederation of non-governmental organisations and pressure groups lobbying for a ban on producing and deploying fully autonomous weapon systems - where the ability of ... (more)

The latest "virtual therapist" -- charged with helping diagnose depression -- comes from psychologist Albert Rizzo and computer scientist Louis-Philippe Morency at the University of Southern California .

Contegix is donating $120,000 worth of cloud computing services to the 2013 Arch Grants Global Startup Competition finalists and winners.

China is the largest market for smartphones as a whole, and the Asia-Pacific region will account for more than half of smartphone shipments in 2013.

A group of researchers from Columbia and Stanford have created a method for turning complex cellular datasets into visualizations that map the similarities between tens of thousands of cells within a tissue sample.

Deep inside the House of Mouse researchers are solving computer science and mechanical engineering problems - like how to build a robot that can hand you a drink without creeping you out.

United Airlines is launching the MileagePlus Small Business Network, the first U.S. travel loyalty program that enables businesses to earn and redeem miles.

Google has made its IaaS platform, Google Compute Engine, generally available to any developer or business.

Many great minds at companies like Google and Tesla have been laboring towards creating a self-driving car system.

HP and SAP AG today announced advancements to a joint initiative, codenamed "Project Kraken," to improve business processes and mitigate risks for customers.

Ericssonlast week participated in 'Girls in ICT Day' at Prince Sultan University in an effort to expand its engagement with future industry leaders and empower young women to consider careers in the expanding and exciting ICT - Information Communication and Technology - industry.

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