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Elon Musk's Boring New Idea Could Kill Traffic Forever
May 2, 2017Never short of a wacky idea, tech mogul Elon Musk has developed a revolutionary new way of skirting traffic. Musk’s latest brainwave involves building a network of underground tunnels that could be used to reduce congestion on the ...
Tags: Elon Musk, skirting traffic
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Alphabet Tests Drones as US Considers New Rules
Aug 4, 2016Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google Inc, is joining tests for drone deliveries, US officials announced on Tuesday, as the White House unveiled accelerated rule-making for commercial unmanned aircraft operations. The announcement at ...
Tags: drone, aircraft operations, Google
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Tech Industry Needs "Safe Places Where We Can Try out New Things" Without Interference
Mar 13, 2014In a rare public speech, Google Inc. CEO Larry Page once suggested the tech industry needs "safe places where we can try out new things" without rules or interference. Some people thought he was describing a futuristic fantasy, perhaps a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Google X, Google
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Brian Otis Gingerly Holds What Looks Like a Typical Contact Lens on His Index Finger
Jan 17, 2014Brian Otis gingerly holds what looks like a typical contact lens on his index finger. Look closer. Sandwiched in this lens are two twinkling glitter-specks loaded with tens of thousands of miniaturized transistors. It's ringed with a ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
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Hewlett-Packard Reported Results for The Last Quarter of Its Fiscal Year on Tuesday
Nov 28, 2013Hewlett-Packard reported results for the last quarter of its fiscal year on Tuesday, and although sales were down from a year earlier there were some much-needed signs of improvement. HP's enterprise division, which sells servers, storage ...
Tags: Hp, Improvement, sales growth
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Dell Will Give Its First Public Demonstration of a 64-Bit ARM Server This Week
Oct 30, 2013Dell will give its first public demonstration of a 64-bit ARM server this week, the latest step in an industrywide effort to build servers based on low-power chips like those used in smartphones. Dell will show a server based on a 64-bit ...
Tags: DELL, software, Computer Products
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A Chevrolet Impala Sedan for Retail and Fleet Customers Will Be Built by General Motors
Oct 18, 2013General Motors will build a Chevrolet Impala sedan for retail and fleet customers that operates on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson announced today. It is the only manufacturer-produced ...
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HP Confirmed Wednesday That Its Revenue Will Decline Slightly Next Year
Oct 11, 2013It doesn’t take much to please Hewlett-Packard’s investors these days. HP confirmed Wednesday that its revenue will decline slightly next year, but the mention of “pockets of growth” sent hearts aflutter. HP is ...
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HP Aims to Showcase an Enormous Range of Enterprise Solutions at GITEX Technology Week
Oct 10, 2013Eyad Shihabi, Managing Director, HP Middle East HP aims to showcase an enormous range of enterprise solutions at GITEX Technology Week 2013, with cloud, security, Big Data and mobility forming the crux of the vendor’s ...
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IBM Is Working to Develop Microservers Based on Low-power Processors
Sep 12, 2013IBM is working to develop microservers based on low-power processors but isn’t sure yet when the systems will be introduced. The company has already built a prototype board that could function as microserver but has yet to determine ...
Tags: IBM, Microservers
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Intel Is Expected to Announce Availability of a Low-power Atom Server Chip Avoton
Aug 28, 2013Intel is expected to announce availability next week of a low-power Atom server chip code-named Avoton, which is likely to appear soon in systems such as Hewlett-Packard's Moonshot. Avoton chips will become part of Intel's Atom C2000 ...
Tags: Computer Products, chip
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HP Launched an OS Designed Specifically for Cloud Computing
Jun 12, 2013On the second day of its annual HP Discover user conference in Las Vegas, Hewlett-Packard launched an operating system (OS) designed specifically for cloud computing, called the HP Cloud OS. Initially, however, the software can only be ...
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Smartphone Chips Could One Day Replace The More Expensive and Power-Hungry X86 Processors
May 30, 2013Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top ...
Tags: Smartphone Chips, Computer Products, Consumer Electronics
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Advanced Micro Devices Had No Plans to Release Low-Power X86 Server Chips
May 29, 2013Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction. The company is introducing two low-power ...
Tags: AMD, Server Chip
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HP Created a Business Unit That Will Deal in Purpose-Built Systems
May 2, 2013Hewlett-Packard on Monday said it has created a business unit that will deal in purpose-built systems based on specific applications and usage models, and also announced the reorganisation of its server unit. The HP Converged Systems ...
Tags: Hewlett-Packard, Server Divisions