Last year, Watson beat humans in a battle of wits. Starting this fall, IBM’s insanely intelligent supercomputer will begin diagnosing patients at New York’s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. More »
If your job is being a mythbuster, well, you’re bound to have awesome stuff in your workshop. Tested visited Adam Savage in his shop and found some ridiculously awesome technology, like a 1981 1GB hard drive that weighed 75 pounds. More »
If you’re hesitant to work with your data stored in this ephemeral location called “the cloud”, you’re not alone – but AT&T and IBM have announced a team-up today that’ll send a shock through the market that’ll have masses of users converting. When you’ve got a new technology – or any technology that people may be hesitant to use in general – your best bet in making people adopt it is to prove to them that it’s reliable at the same time as it is either fun or helpful to use. To do that you need brand power and better yet, cross-brand power like AT&T and IBM are demonstrating this week.
AT&T has announced that they’ll be pushing a global network that users will be able to utilize with cloud-stored data available from anywhere they may roam. IBM is part of this deal with the actual physical data-storage facilities – that data’s gotta be somewhere, after all. These two titans will split revenue from the deal, with Andy Geisse, head of AT&T’s unit for business clients noting simply that this collaboration will be “huge.”
If you’ve got AT&T, one trusted brand, and IBM, another trusted brand, joining in on one cross-branding project, their mutual trust for one another will blossom and grow in the public eye, providing a bit of synergy, as it were. AT&T is one of several of the largest mobile data providers in the United States, each of them competing now with not just a collection of the best of the best devices, but services that work for these devices unique to the carrier as well.
With IBM on AT&T’s side, the other carriers will be forced to move forward with their own “cloud” solution. It’s not going to be easy to match up against IBM, one of the world’s best-known brands both in and out of the data storage universe.
Are you convinced of the security provided by a crossover project like this? Will you use The Cloud now that a team-up of this caliber has been made available?
AT&T’s team up with IBM is exactly the jolt “the cloud” needs is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The ThinkPad is a legendary machine—it’s been in space, it’s displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, and as of today, the classic computer is 20 years old. Happy birthday, old guy. More »
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology.
There was a time — early in my computing career — that your average printer could output better results than any screen could. In the days before WYSIWYG word processors, we would guess what the printed product might look like and then let an Okidata monstrosity scream out ugly 5 x 7 dot matrix results.
When it worked, it worked well, and we were thrilled that our 16KB machines could make something real. A continuous ream of paper was fed into the printer and we’d happily tear the perforated pages apart like birthday gifts from the digital deities.
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This is IBM’s Jeopardy playing robot Watson, not Deep Blue
The story of how computers surpassed human chess players, never to be caught again, goes like this: Kasparov beats IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue in 1996. In 1997, however, Deep Blue beats Kasparov during the six-game rematch. The 44th move during the first game of the rematch, Deep Blue moved a rook in a way that deeply concerned Kasparov. Kasparov didn’t understand the purpose behind the move, and came to the conclusion that Deep Blue was playing at a higher level than him. Surprisingly, the rook move was due to a software glitch, a IBM programmer relates in Nate Silver’s new book “The Signal and the Noise.” (more…)
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IBM’s supercomputer, Mira, happens to be the third-fastest computer in the world. Naturally, it can handle quadrillions of computations per second to accomplish some of the most difficult and complex tasks. Cosmologists are now gearing up Mira to create a simulation of an entire universe, sifting through the 13 billion years since Big Bang.
Such a task would simply be impossible for conventional computers, given the sheer number of computations that are required to be done. Mira is able to do so only because it is juiced up with 768,000 cores which furnish 8 petaflops of processing power for this monstrous computer! (more…)
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Anyone who’s dropped a cellphone in the bath knows that water and microelectronics don’t usually mix well. But at IBM’s Swiss lab in Zurich, marrying the two is becoming almost commonplace: microprocessors with water coursing through microchannels carved deep inside them are already crunching data in SuperMUC, an IBM supercomputer – with the heat that the water carries away used to warm nearby buildings. More »
Watson, the Jeopardy-winning supercomputer developed by IBM, could become a cloud-based service that people can consult on a wide range of issues, the company announced last week. “Watson is going to be an advisor and an assistant to all kinds of professional decision-makers, starting in healthcare and then moving beyond. We’re already looking at a role for Watson in financial services and in other applications,” says John Gordon, Watson Solutions Marketing Manager at IBM in New York. More »
IBM has announced that its scientists have been able to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules for the first time via a technique called non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM). The breakthrough has significant implications for the technology world. According to IBM, the breakthrough will help push the exploration of using molecules and atoms at a smaller scale and can be an important step for studying graphene devices.
Graphene devices are being studied as potential replacements for existing technologies used for microchips. Graphene is predicted to eventually have applications in high-bandwidth wireless communications and electronic displays. Researchers at IBM have been able to image the bond order and length of individual carbon-carbon bonds in C60. C60 is also known as a buckyball thanks to its football shape and to planar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons resembling small flakes of graphene.
IBM notes that individual bonds between carbon atoms in these molecules differ slightly and subtly in length and strength. Those subtle differences in the length and strength of bonds between carbon atoms are responsible for the important chemical, electronic, and optical properties of such molecules. IBM’s breakthrough marks the first time the differences in those individual bonds were detected in both individual molecules and individual bonds.
The IBM scientist’s discovery also shines light on potential new areas of research, including study of the relaxation of bonds around defects in graphene and the changing of bonds in chemical reactions and in excited states. The IBM scientists used an atomic force microscope with a tip that ended with a single carbon monoxide molecule. The tip of that atomic force microscope oscillates with an amplitude above the sample to measure the forces between the tip and sample such as a molecule, and creates an image. The technique made it possible to distinguish individual bonds that differ by only three picometers, which is one-hundredth of an atom’s diameter.
IBM scientists first to differentiate the chemical bonds in individual molecules using AFM is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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