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Modernizing the mainframe for the digital era

CIO Business Intelligence

According to IDC, IBM sold more than 4,300 IBM Z systems in 2020, for approximately $3.5 The program enables customers to pay only for what they use of Z system hardware and software. Z upgrades and open source. IBM’s hardware timetable calls for CPU upgrades approximately every two and a half years. “We

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Cloud PC preps Grant Thornton for hybrid future

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK-based accounting and tax consulting firm was one of few accountants in the UK that weathered the 2020 tax season without a hitch, thanks to its early bet on SaaS, Microsoft Azure, and software-defined networking. We increased our resources by a couple hundred people, and we couldn’t have done it without the Virtual Desktop.”.

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Facebook is giving up on brain-typing as an AR glasses interface

The Verge

The Chang Lab published earlier Project Steno research in 2019 and 2020, showing that electrode arrays and predictive models can create comparatively fast and sophisticated thought-typing systems. On the hardware side, we need to build systems that have higher data resolution to record more information from the brain, and more quickly.

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Meet the Seattle-area startups that just graduated — remotely — from Y Combinator

GeekWire

Silicon Valley-based YC accepted a record 350 new companies for its winter program, which participated in a virtual Demo Day March 23. Investors have so far channeled $350 million into YC’s 2020 summer cohort, Amos said, showing they’re comfortable working with startups even without the face-to-face interaction. across 41 countries.

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Technology Short Take 123

Scott Lowe

Welcome to Technology Short Take #123, the first of 2020! Servers/Hardware. dll , a core Windows cryptographic component) that was rumored to be fixed the next day (January 14) on the first “Patch Tuesday” of 2020. Now I really want to see hardware security key support in the desktop and mobile apps!

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Technology Short Take 134

Scott Lowe

Open source has become so critical to so many aspects of our computing infrastructure. Uh oh… more hardware exploits. I recently stumbled across Ricardo Sueiras’ “AWS open source news and updates” posts. Here’s number 43 , from 9 November 2020. Virtualization.

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Computer vision is primed for business value

CIO Business Intelligence

But hardware shortages and labor disruptions in the pandemic’s wake are challenging companies’ ability to make good on the promise of computer vision, even as the pandemic itself has accelerated the potential of its use cases. “And, The other two areas, virtual patient care and medical diagnosis, are also ripe for computer vision.