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AWS Is Cutting And Simplifying Its Storage Prices
Computerworld | Amazon Web Services made a series of price cuts on Tuesday and simplified what customers pay for its storage products.
Nov 23, 2016
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Intel and Broad Commit to Five-Year Genomic Data Engineering Partnership
Bio-IT World CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—On Thursday, Intel and the Broad Institute came together to announce a joint endeavor that aims to enable research organizations and their IT departments to keep up with exponentially increasing amounts of genomics data.
Nov 22, 2016
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Oracle Just Bought Dyn the Company That Brought Down the Internet
WIRED | An attack on internet infrastructure company Dyn last month cut off access to some of the world's biggest sites last month. Now Oracle is buying the company.
Nov 21, 2016
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DDN Survey Finds Private Cloud Growth, Mixed Flash Use Among HPC Users
Bio-IT World | Earlier this month, DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced the results of its annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Trends survey. The company queried 143 high performance compute end users responsible for high performance computing, networking and storage systems from financial services, government, higher education, life sciences, manufacturing, national labs, and oil and gas organizations.
Nov 21, 2016
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PM Signals £2bn A Year Science Funding Increase
BBC News | Prime Minister Theresa May announces an additional £2bn a year by 2020 for UK research and innovation. The promised money will be for emerging fields of research in which the UK excels, such as robotics, artificial intelligence, and biotech.
Nov 21, 2016
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Microsoft Spends Big to Build a Computer Out of Science Fiction
The New York Times | The computer giant says it's ready to start planning a prototype quantum computer, a superpowerful device that relies on subatomic particles instead of transistors.
Nov 21, 2016
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Obama Advisers Say CRISPR Is A Bioterror Threat
MIT Technology Review | In a letter to the president, advisers say technologies like CRISPR represent a threat that hasn't been adequately considered.
Nov 18, 2016
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AWS roundup Hybrid deployments with Amazons cloud get a boost Computerworld
Computerworld | October was a big month for Amazon Web Services, which announced a key partnership with VMware, a new service for migrating VMs to the cloud, and more.
Nov 18, 2016
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Sequencing Sprint: Novogene Claims Highest Sequencing Capacity in China
Diagnostics World News | As precision medicine initiatives pop up across the globe, Beijing-based genome sequencing firm Novogene looks to capitalize on efforts to tailor treatments.
Nov 17, 2016
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23andMe President Andy Page Steps Down
Business Insider | Andy Page is stepping down as president at 23andme and will remain on the company's board, according to a letter sent to employees. The news comes only a few weeks after it was reported that the company won't be pursuing next-generation sequencing.
Nov 17, 2016
