IBM, which has been putting a lot of emphasis on its cloud services and infrastructure lately, today announced that it is opening four new data centers in the United States. These new facilities — two in Dallas, Texas and two in Washington, DC — bring IBM’s total number of data centers for its cloud to 55. In the U.S., IBM not operates 22 data centers.
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A ‘lunar base’ is a phrase previously used mostly by Bond villains, but the Chinese and European space agencies are discussing creating exactly that in a new collaborative effort. The discussions were confirmed by the ESA’s Pal Hvistendahl, speaking to Bloomberg on Wednesday, and involve working together to build a human-occupied “moon village” from which both… Read More
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Commentary: Dual-cameras on smartphones are officially a thing. But will phone makers stop at just two?
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Reolink’s Argus security camera takes a lot of the best parts from Netgear’s Arlo, but costs a lot less.
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CNET got a first look at the Guardians Mission Breakout ride at Disney California Adventure Park, seeing what happens when Marvel and Disney Imagineering join forces.
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Twitter delivered a surprising and much-needed positive quarterly earnings report this morning — and its finally seeing some positive moves in its stock price. That’s going to be important going forward, as the company needs to convince Wall Street it can stay independent and also attract talent. Twitter, as we’ve seen time and again, reports a huge stock-based… Read More
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Marvel’s intergalactic adventure is bursting with fun stuff, but here are the five things you should keep your eyes peeled for.
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A new map charts Northeast Syrtis—a promising potential landing site for NASA’s next Mars rover—in unprecedented detail. The post The Best Map Yet of What Could Be NASA’s Next Mars Landing Site appeared first on WIRED.
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Google’s Pixel already boasts a formidable camera, among the best in smartphone photography. A Google Daydream engineer Florian Kainz revealed how much more incredible it could be specifically in the area of night photography, when he set himself the task of reproducing DLSR-style nighttime picture quality using both a Pixel and a Nexus 6P. The experiment, detailed on the Google… Read More
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Search result snippets have made Google an arbiter of facts. Now it wants to outsource the job. The post Google Wants You to Help Fix the Fake-Fact Problem It Created appeared first on WIRED.
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