Latest from James Sanders
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How IBM uses Fortran and POWER9 in GRAF, the first "high-resolution, hourly forecast model"
IBM's new weather model is the first high-resolution global forecast model, bringing insights to weather forecasting previously limited to the US, Western Europe, and Japan.
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Why Microsoft is building Cortana for business interactions
Andrew Shuman, corporate vice president for Cortana discusses how the smart assistant has pivoted since it was originally introduced five years ago.
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Microsoft relaunches Edge and Bing as "the browser and search engine for business"
Microsoft is focusing on privacy protection and ease of discoverability for business information, with the addition of corporate intranet results in Microsoft Search on Bing.
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WordPress website building platform Elementor now on 3 million sites
The design building platform added 1 million sites in the last six months, and now ranks ninth on WordPress.org's list of the most popular plugins.
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Fedora 31 release brings massive improvements to update install speed
Fedora 31 brings the usual mix of performance improvements and new packages, with changes to the build process bringing smaller RPMs and faster decompression.
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Slack expands app capabilities, adding granular permissions for better security
The addition of App Home screens create a central location for data at a glance, while granular permissions provide tighter controls for accessing information.
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Ubuntu 19.10 brings Linux kernel 5.3, improvements for Raspberry Pi 4
Canonical is celebrating 15 years of Ubuntu with the release of Ubuntu 19.10, though the open source company's focus is on cloud and edge computing.
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Fedora at 15: Why Matthew Miller sees a bright future for the Linux distribution
Fedora project leader Matthew Miller discusses lessons learned from the past, future architectural changes, as well as hot-button topics, including systemd.
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Adobe Acrobat update allows for mobile PDF editing, better file compression
Adobe is rolling out updates to Acrobat and Adobe Scan for easier mobile productivity.
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Cameyo's new app virtualization platform allows 8-10 users per GPU
With workable GPU-accelerated application virtualization, running racks full of servers with GPUs at low utilization to fulfill Citrix 1:1 requirements can become a thing of the past.