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Amazon Private Cloud

{ August 30th, 2009 }

Information Week reports that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has unveiled their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud service. It is essentially going to be an isolated portion of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud that is only accessibly via virtual private network. This new service...Continue Reading

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An AI of pure evil?

{ August 14th, 2009 }

So I was reading through Scientific American when I came across an interesting artcile. In Troy, NY Selmer Bringsjord is trying to discover the root of all evil (which I always thought was the love of money). He is a...Continue Reading

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Microsoft Acknowledge Linux as a Threat?

{ August 8th, 2009 }

A few days ago I was on Slashdot and came across an interesting article about our friends at Microsoft. Microsoft has listed Red Hat, Inc. and Canonical, Inc. as competitors to their Windows client application while they performed their annual...Continue Reading

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