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ZDNet[^]:

Microsoft's hostility to Linux has softened dramatically in recent years, but the scars from the war against Linux are still visible today.

enterprise.nxt[^]:

Developers and system administrators spend all day at the keyboard. It behooves them to use the best one possible. And by BEST we mean YOU WANT THESE.

IT Pro Portal[^]:

Greater integration and more communication between teams seen as a neccessity.

This is according to Trend Micro’s new survey of 1,310 IT decision makers from enterprise and SMBs all over the world. Almost three quarters (74 per cent) believe that DevOps initiatives had become more important over the past year, and even more believe communication between departments needs to improve.

Tech Xplore[^]:

By analyzing relationships between words the algorithm was able to predict discoveries of new thermoelectric materials years in advance and suggest as-yet unknown materials as candidates for thermoelectric materials.

Tech Xplore[^]:

For researchers at the cutting edge, a certain irony has emerged: New and sophisticated instruments are starting to produce so much data that supercomputers are needed to analyze experimental results. And scientists who try to analyze such huge datasets often struggle to master the complexity of the software needed to program the hardware.

"We wanted to create a programming environment that doesn't require every researcher to be a computer scientist," says Aiken, the Alcatel-Lucent Professor in Communications and Networking.