Tag: ibm
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monsanto’s control over seed market draws antitrust inquiry
patented seeds are go-to for farmers,who decry their fast-growing price … from washington post: For plants designed in a lab a little more than a decade ago, they’ve come a long way: Today, the vast majority of the nation’s two primary crops grow from seeds genetically altered according to Monsanto company patents. Ninety-three percent of…
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ibm, google & the rebirth of the barcode
google celebrates 57th anniversary of the bar codefrom telegraph: Users of the internet search engine are being greeted with a bar code in place of the usual Google logo, exactly 57 years after United States inventors Norman Woodland and Bernard Silver were granted a patent. It follows recent Google doodles in honour of the ancient…
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Obama Honors IBM’s Blue Gene Supercomputer
President Obama today presented IBM and its Blue Gene family of supercomputers with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. The Medal is the highest honour for technological achievement in America, and was created in 1980 to encourage innovation and competitiveness.
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9/10 newspurge: everything else & after
a year after financial crisis, a new world order emerges // from a porch in montana, low-power radio’s voice rises // s carolina rep wilson shouts ‘you lie’ at obama // mock hijacks play out over canada & US // ground broken on $3.4b homeland security complex
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8/13 newspurge: bio/cyber, econo/health & hitler history
biowars/swine flu: number of people seeking vaccination exemptions rising*fox news cites infowars.com in flu pandemic report*biological warfare & the national security state: a chronology*are new vaccines laced with birth-control drugs?*state asks volunteers to aid flu vaccinations* chief medical officer reveals swine flu vaccination plans*natl guard takes over school in swine flu ‘vaccine riot’ drill*cdc/h1n1 ‘community…
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cyber/spacewar: black holes, false claims & digital warfare
cyber czar position will be announced this week a favorite emerges in obama’s cyberczar searchfrom time: Tom Davis, a moderate Republican from Virginia, has emerged as a leading candidate for the Obama Administration’s newly created position of cybersecurity czar. Sources familiar with the White House’s deliberations on the subject say Obama officials feel a Washington…
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murder/mayhem: voong, poplawski & flight 3407
march madness/april assassinations: the copycat effect, obamanoia & homegrown terror all rolled into one…mass murder memes & psyop sprees gunman kills 13 & himself at ny immigration center from ap: A gunman opened fire on a center where immigrants were taking a citizenship exam Friday in downtown Binghamton, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide.…
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does the united states make anything anymore?
from ap: It may seem like the country that used to make everything is on the brink of making nothing. In January, 207,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs vanished in the largest one-month drop since October 1982. Factory activity is hovering at a 28-year low. Even before the recession, plants were hemorrhaging work to foreign competitors with…
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econocrash: hack n’ slash
goldman, jpmorgan not affected by executive-salary capsfrom bloomberg: Executives at Goldman Sachs Group Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and hundreds of financial institutions receiving federal aid aren’t likely to be affected by pay restrictions announced yesterday by President Barack Obama. The rules, created in response to growing public anger about the record bonuses the financial…
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edwin black’s ‘plan,’ much-needed rational roadmap for oil interruption
from cutting edge news: I was expecting a dark tale of gloom and doom, a post-apocalyptic tableau of a born-again, prehistoric oil-free society. After all, Edwin Black is the author of the chillingly revelatory IBM and the Holocaust, a disheartening exposé of America’s disgusting attraction to the racist pseudo-science of eugenics, War Against The Weak,…
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1child, wall st mafia, fb-spy, mindread, bluebrain & moloch
premier says china will stick with one-child policyfrom afp: China will stick with its strict family planning rules, Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday, in an apparent rebuttal to officials who raised the possibility of changes to the one-child policy. “We will adhere to the current policy of family planning, keep the birthrate low, improve the…
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chicago video surveillance gets smarter
from ap: A car circles a high-rise three times. Someone leaves a backpack in a park. Such things go unnoticed in big cities every day. But that could change in Chicago with a new video surveillance system that would recognize such anomalies and alert authorities to take a closer look. On Thursday, the city and…