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Bits Blog: Facebook’s 5% Solution in Data Centers

Facebook, one of the world’s biggest buyers of computers, designs and builds its own systems, then gives other manufacturers a price target to hit.Read...

Bits Blog: I.B.M. Chief on Watson, Cognitive Computing and Her Tenure

Virginia M. Rometty, chief executive and chairman of I.B.M., says the company’s new mission, teaching machines to learn, is the third wave of computing...

64-bit ARM Support Merged Into Linux Kernel

Linux 3.7 will support the AArch64 architecture and allow kernel images which are able to run on multiple ARM platforms to be built. There...

Bits Blog: The China-U.S. Smartphone Gap Grows Larger

In China, smartphones are poised to become even more widespread than they are in the United States. The reason: a host of cheaper phones...

Big Data Bites Back: How to Handle Those Unwieldy Digits

When you can't just cram it into tablesData is easy. It comes in tables that store facts and figures about particular items – say,...

Bits Blog: Boundary: Keeping Cloud Software in Shape

Boundary, a start-up, monitors the performance of applications in the cloud, which can show where slowdowns might be occurring, or where operational savings might...

GNOME’s Ambitious OS Adventure

With all the ongoing debate over desktop environments here in the Linux blogosphere, there's never any shortage of discussion of the GNOME project,...

GNOME Developers Set Ambitious Goals at GUADEC

Two GNOME developers have set ambitious goals for the project at the annual GUADEC conference, including a release of the next version of the...

Raspberry Pi in Space: Putting the Linux PC Into Orbit

A thriving home-brew community is already putting the credit card-sized PC to use in drones and robots. The device's designer, Eben Upton, wants to...

Bits Stored on a Single Molecule Could Lead to Petabyte SSDs

If there's one fact of computing life, it's that there's never enough damn storage, and if you think it's bad now, just wait 'til...