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Associated Press Blue Waters project director Bill Kramer (left) and National Center for Supercomputing Applications Director Thom Dunning stand alongside the storage system for the Blue Waters supercomputer Monday at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Ill. The $300 million project was recently completed, less than two years after it looked as if it might not be finished at all.
University of Illinois supercomputer running after project doubts
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Thom Dunning posed Monday in front of one of the dozens of cabinets that house the new Blue Waters supercomputer, a photographer’s lens an uncomfortable couple of feet from his fa...
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Report asserts Twitter is thriving
n Tracking twitter: Twitter’s ad revenue will more than double this year to $583 million as the online messaging service delivers more marketing pitches to its growing audience on mobile devices, p...
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Twitter’s ad revenue said to double
SAN FRANCISCO — Twitter’s ad revenue is believed to be on pace to double this year as the online messaging service delivers more marketing pitches to mobile devices in preparation for a highly anti...
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Monitoring kids’ Facebook is so 2009
WASHINGTON — After Friendster came MySpace. By the time Facebook dominated social media, parents had joined the party, too. But the online scene has changed - dramatically, as it turns out - and th...
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Associated Press Google co-rounder Sergey Brin wears Google Glass glasses at an announcement for the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences at Genentech Hall on UCSF's Mission Bay campus in San Francisco in late February. Google is giving more people a chance to pay $1,500 for a pair of the Internet-connected glasses that the company is touting as the next breakthrough in mobile computing.
Smartphone eyewear carries heavy price
A new poll says 46 percent of consumers surveyed would not spend more than $500 for Google’s smartphone-like eyewear — early versions of which the company is selling for $1,500. Nearly a quarter...
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Tech Q&A
QUESTION: I’m planning a trip to the interior of Alaska, including some remote villages, and I want to be able to send emails and transmit digital photos back to friends and family. I’m told that s...
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Associated Press Volunteers Aaron Schluete (left) and Robert Smith help unload televisions Wednesday from a customer's truck at the free electronics recycling center for the Habitat for Humanity of Sangamon County in Springfield, Ill. State officials say Illinois recycled nearly 39 million pounds of electronics during the first year of a ban on throwing away the materials in landfills.
Reduce, reuse ...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.  — Nearly 39 million pounds of old televisions, computers and other electronics have been recycled during the first year of a statewide ban on throwing away the materials in Illin...
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Tech Q&A
QUESTION: In early February, our Comcast service went out, affecting our TV, phone and computer connections for about five minutes. Since then I can’t send emails from Windows Live Mail. However, I...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Anton Andrews, director office envisioning at Microsoft, stands in the home area of the Envisioning Center where there is a digital whiteboard.
Microsoft helps envision home, office of the future
SEATTLE — Put a skillet on your stove as you prepare to make a stir-fry, and an interactive chef on the big screen in your kitchen tells you a wok would probably work better. Take a sketch of so...
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
News Feed getting a facelift
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Facebook has redesigned its social network to address complaints that the News Feed on its website has turned into a jumble of monotonous musings and random photos. In an at...
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