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  Yahoo Seeks Hadoop Boost With Release of Internal Version by PC World: Yahoo! Tech

  To advance the adoption of the Hadoop technology for processing massive data sets, Yahoo will release a version of the software it has perfected to power many of its key sites and services. The announcement was on Wednesday at the second annual Hadoop Summit, organized by Yahoo and sponsored by ...

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  Web cubed – the network of everything

  Handsets, laptops, cars and even clothes: they are all part of the ‘network of things’, an incarnation of the future internet, and European researchers are working hard to create that future now. The future internet promises to be a lot bigger than Web 2.0. Call it Web cubed, if you will, but ...

  JDP added 7 months ago

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  IBM to build massive supercomputer for U.S. government

  The U.S. government has hired IBM to build a supercomputer with more power than all the supercomputers on the Top500 supercomputer list combined. It's an ambitious claim by IBM in a business where jumbo-size claims are the norm. The planned Sequoia system, capable of 20 petaflops, will be used ...

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  Future Watch: A.I. comes of age

  After decades of limited application, artificial intelligence is everywhere. And it really works this time - "Stair, please fetch the stapler from the lab," says the man seated at a conference room table. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, standing nearby, replies in a nasal monotone, ...

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  The generation gap: Windows on multicore | InfoWorld | Analysis | 2009-01-22 | By Randall C. Kennedy

  Only in scalability percentage improvements (when moving to quad-core processing) do Vista and Windows 7 outperform Windows XP. Consequently, Windows XP is the OS that simply will not die, and for good reason: It's mature, stable, and - - most important -- fast as the wind on today's hardware. ...

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