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IBM moves molecules to make world’s smallest movie

You've heard of Big Data and blockbuster movies. Now IBM is going in a completely opposite direction, creating the world's smallest movie. Dubbed "A Boy and His Atom," the film depicts a Read More →

Bloom Energy’s Mexican worker scandal echoes earlier Silicon Valley problems

This Bloom Energy story -- the one where the Department of Labor busted the buzzy green tech company for importing Mexican workers at substandard wages -- is just weird. There is bound to be more coming, and I can't wait Read More →

What’s next for a private Dell?

In another sign of the post-PC world's arrival, Dell, once the world's largest computer maker and worth more than $100 billion, is selling itself for $24.4 billion and going private. Here's a roundup of key points and questions: The Read More →

Quoted: on the evolution of computers — and the workplace

"You don’t even know what a miracle you’re living in." — Eleanor Kolchin, a former "computer" for IBM, on the advances in technology since she worked as a programmer at the Watson Scientific Computing Lab starting in the 1940s. Read More →

Quoted: Inventor of the bar code dies

"He knew the technology didn't exist at the moment, but that it would exist." — Susan Woodland, daughter of Joseph Woodland, who invented the bar code on the beach, by running four fingers through the sand, as he attempted Read More →

Quoted: ‘Most powerful woman’ Ginni Rometty looks back

"He just looked at me, and he said, 'Do you think a man would have ever answered that question that way?'" — Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, recounts a conversation she had with her husband the first time she Read More →
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