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How Nvidia became a trillion-dollar company

CIO Business Intelligence

Its founders spotted that generating 3D graphics in video games—then a fast-growing market—placed highly repetitive, math-intensive demands on PC central processing units (CPUs). Although Nvidia’s first chips were used to enhance 3D gaming, the manufacturing industry is also interested in 3D simulations, and its pockets are deeper.

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Amazon’s Halo disappears: Tech giant discontinues health devices and service, promises refunds

GeekWire

The company today also started notifying employees impacted by its latest round of job cuts in Amazon Web Services, HR, Twitch and Amazon Advertising. An earlier round of Amazon layoffs impacted some other parts of Amazon’s Devices & Services division. The subscription was $3.99/month,

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Amazon Web Services gets set to ignite space accelerator program’s third stage

GeekWire

Startups in this year’s AWS Space Accelerator program include, from left, Lunasonde, which is developing a space-based radar sounding system; Raven Space Systems, which is building 3D-printed re-entry capsules; and Rogue Space Systems, which focuses of space robotic systems.

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Cloud, Mobile, Social and Cyber: 2015 Predictions That Will Rock The World (AGAIN!)

Cloud Musings

Cloud Service Broker ) - Traditional system integrators will finally realize that their current product and labor based business model is about to go the way of the dinosaurs. They will insist on the use of more agile commodity IT services in the development of their custom systems of record.

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Amazon EC2 Cluster GPU Instances - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Today Amazon Web Services takes another step on the continuous innovation path by announcing a new Amazon EC2 instance type: The Cluster GPU Instance. We believe that making these GPU resources available for everyone to use at low cost will drive new innovation in the application of highly parallel programming models.