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IBM Reveals its Next-Gen 7nm POWER10 Processor
IBM has today revealed the next generation of its IBM POWER central processing unit (CPU) family: IBM POWER10. Designed to offer a platform to meet the unique needs of enterprise hybrid cloud computing, the IBM POWER10 processor uses a design focused on energy efficiency and performance in a 7 nm…
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IBM Chooses Samsung 7nm For POWER and z CPUs
IBM Will Use Custom Samsung 7nm Process Despite all the focus on ARM and x86, there are other alternate CPU architectures. One of the biggest ones is IBM’s POWER and z series processors. While you won’t find them in Apple devices anymore, they are used quite a bit in the…
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Chinese ‘State Backed’ Hackers Charged In The US
Hackers Charged With Attacks On US Companies There is little doubt that many countries apply what is known as ‘state-backed’ hacking groups. For those of you unaware of the term, this is quite literally an organisation that receives funding from a state with the sole purpose of looking to conduct…
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US Beats China To The Top Of The Supercomputer List
US Beats China To The Top Of The Supercomputer List Over the last 5 years, there has been something of a back-and-forth between China and the US over who has the most powerful computer. The term ‘supercomputer’ means exactly that, it is a system which has been designed to produce…
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IBM Acquires Red Hat for $34 Billion (£27B)
Largest Acquisition Yet by IBM It is now official. Open source specialists Red Hat is now part of IBM. This is IBM’s largest ever acquisition worth $34 billion USD (£27B). IBM offered $190 per issued and outstanding share, which is a 62% premium over Friday’s closing share price. Red hat…
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IBM Launches Tool To Detect Bias In AI Programs
IBM Launches Tool To Detect AI Bias The amount of AI or algorithm programs around at the moment is probably a lot higher than you realise. When you consider that nearly every search engine, social media or video hosting site employs a form of this (even on a basic level)…
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Classic PC Collection Goes Up For Sale On Twitter
Classic PC Collection As far as classic PC’s are concerned, I’m not entirely sure what qualifies for that bracket. While an IBM-2 is clearly a classic PC, is an Amiga or Atari ST a classic PC? Anyway, I digress. If you are going to collect something, it’s generally beneficial if…
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Bill Gates Once Wrote A Game That Apple Thought Was Awful
Bill Gates When you think of Bill Gates it certainly brings a lot of things to mind. I daresay, however, that one of those things was not ‘game developer’. If it didn’t, don’t worry, I don’t think he would consider it a big part of his resume. Despite that, Bill…
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Bill Gates Discusses the One Thing He Regrets About Windows – And it Isn’t Vista!
Personally, I would have picked Vista The Founder of Microsoft Bill Gates has revealed he has one major regret about his operating system Windows. Surprisingly as well, it was not Vista. I do, however, suspect that like Rumplestiltskin, just uttering the word Vista might make Bill Gates disappear. No, Bill Gates…
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IBM Creates Cassette Tape with 330TB Storage
Just as vinyl is making a comeback after being usurped by digital media, cassette tapes could be set for a data storage resurgence. Remarkably, IBM and Sony developed a new magnetic tape capable of storing up to 330 terabytes worth of data. In fact, the tape can contain a record-breaking…
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IBM Model F Keyboard is Back And Eye-Wateringly Expensive
If you had looked around any office in the 1980’s which had a computer (there wasn’t that many) you would have almost certainly have seen an IBM Model F keyboard. They were so popular in fact that the design was used well into the 90’s. Well, fans of nostalgia rejoice and…
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IBM Reveals Worlds First 5nm Chip
Every year, the death of silicon chips draws closer, with more and more warnings. Despite that, semiconductor foundries continue to push the limits of what is possible. In the past, Intel has largely kept the lead in process nodes but this advantage is slipping away. IBM, in partnership with Samsung and…
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IBM Brings Voice Commands to Star Trek: Bridge Crew
Ubisoft’s much-anticipated Star Trek VR game is getting voice commands, thanks to IBM.Star Trek: Bridge Crew will utilise IBM’s VR Speech Sandbox, which combines the Watson Speech to Text service with Unity. In the game, Speech Sandbox uses Watson’s language processing capabilities. This allows would-be captains to bark commands at…
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IBM Shipped USB Sticks Containing Malware to Customers
IBM has admitted that it accidentally sent some of its customers USB sticks containing malware. The offending drives were mistakenly included with shipments of its Storewize storage systems, and the company has urged anyone who has received one to destroy it immediately. “IBM has identified a malicious file distributed on…
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IBM Says The State of Network Security is Abysmal
The state of online security is at a new low according to IBM Security’s 2017 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index. Cyber criminals are starting to grab unstructured data, spam has rebloomed 400%, and ransomware has gone nuts too. With the rise in pure numbers of available connected devices along with…
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