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News Summary: HP's stock rises despite 2Q erosion Mixed Bag:...
Co.'s latest quarterly report showed the company's earnings are holding up better than management and analysts anticipated, even as the world's largest personal computer maker struggled to meet the growing demand for more versatile and less expensive mobile devices.
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Lights from computers blamed for poor sleep
ELECTRIC lights, including those illuminating laptop computers, smartphones and tablets, often play a key role in causing people to sleep badly, an expert has said.
China's Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
Lenovo Group Ltd's bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall in decades.
Congressional panel grills CEO Tim Cook on Apple's tax practices
Apple CEO Tim Cook testifies at a Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013.
Nvidia, Citrix crank up virtual desktop delivery
Improvements to Nvidia's virtualization technology are aimed at turning graphics processors into a more important resource in data centers and could speed deployment of virtual desktops and delivery of data over the cloud.
HP's slumps deepens in 2Q as earnings fall 32 pct
The latest evidence of Hewlett-Packard Co.'s continuing downfall came in a quarterly earnings report released Wednesday.
Record simulation on a National Lab supercomputer
So what do you do with a computer than can carry out 16.3 quadrillion floating-point operations per second? At Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, you simulate the interactions between ultrapowerful lasers and dense plasmas in a quest to unlock fusion energy.
Ahead of the Bell: HP's 2Q results likely to sag
Revenue is expected to fall, which would make it the seventh consecutive quarter of comparable declines.
Judiciary's aging computers in 'high risk of failure'
CUTTING services may be the only way to finance an urgently-needed upgrade of the justice system's archaic computer network, the state's top judge has warned.
Superman computer comp: Exclusive Toshiba 'Man of Steel' laptop up for grabs
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a brand new Man of Steel -themed Toshiba laptop and it could be yours!" - in conjunction with Man of Steel from Warner Bros.
Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else
It's exactly the sort of futuristic thinking you'd expect from Google and NASA: Late last week, the organizations announced a partnership to build a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Computer technician pleads guilty to defrauding Apple of $334,934
A North Sioux City, South Dakota, computer technician has pleaded guilty to scheme that prosecutors say cost Apple more than $330,000. In federal court, Tuesday, Darin Moran, agreed to plead guilty to one count of mail fraud.
Iowa VP for Research addresses next-generation supercomputers at congressional hearing
The University of Iowa's vice president for research and economic development will urge congressional lawmakers to support exascale computing, the next generation of supercomputers designed to tackle complex societal questions, from climate change to the human mind.
Priest Removed In 2009 Faces New Porn Charge
A Roman Catholic priest who was removed from public ministry in 2009 after an allegation of past child sex abuse later deemed "credible" by his bishop has now been indicted on a federal charge of possessing child pornography.
Google, NASA Join Forces to Research Machine Learning
Google and NASA have joined forces to launch the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab that will allow researchers at the two organizations and a number of universities to research artificial intelligence using quantum computers.
Make $30 an hour, no bachelor's degree required
The job is growing quickly, offers a median salary around $30 an hour, or $62,500 a year, and does not necessarily require a bachelor's degree.
40 years ago, Ethernet's fathers were the startup kids
Bob Metcalfe, Dave Boggs and the rest of the scientists at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in 1973 were a lot like young developers at a Silicon Valley startup today.
Show Info: Larry co-founded Datel Systems Incorporated in 1983 as a reseller of computer products and services geared towards tech-savvy users.
Apple going through foreign firms to avoid paying taxes
Computer giant Apple employs a group of affiliate companies located outside the United States to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. income taxes, a Senate investigation has found.
Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.