Apple has confirmed that it will build a data center in Prineville, Oregon — next door to the massive computing facility Facebook opened last year — and according to the Prineville city engineer, Apple is planning to build a facility that’s “similar” to Facebook’s energy-conscious creation, making use of designs the social giant “open sourced” to the rest of the world.
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Apple Mimics Facebook With High Desert Data Center
In civilian life, the iPad is the clear tablet leader. But in the military, the Pentagon likes its Android devices, and has shunned Apple products. But that may be about to change, as an Air Force office buys 18,000 (mostly) iPads, giving Cupertino a new chance to win the military’s OS and tablet wars
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iBattle: Apple May Finally Storm the Pentagon
A robotic fish has sailed across an aquatic uncanny valley by tricking real fish into following it upstream.
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Real Fish Welcome Robotic Overlord Into Their School
Just like a camera, the best store is the one you have with you. And most of us carry our smartphones with us everywhere we go and buy things all day long.
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The Smartphone In Your Pocket Is A Multifunction Buying Machine
Even geeks who got picked last in gynm class are caught up in the story of Jeremy Lin, the unlikely NBA star who seems to come from nowhere. Sure, performing well in the country?s media capital on what had been a losing team helps. And of course, an easily pun-able surname helps spread the word.
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Wired Opinion: The Geek Shall Lin-herit The Earth (Or At Least The NBA)
The Sony PlayStation Vita officially launches today, bringing with it over two dozen games and a host of promises. Without a new version of the PlayStation console announced, Sony is clearly counting on the PS Vita to restore some of the prestige lost in the gaming world with the troubles dogging their PlayStation Network.
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PlayStation Vita Review: Finally, Console-Level Gaming in a Handheld Device
Wired diagrams the mad Mad world of bed-hopping on AMC’s Madison Avenue.
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Illustrated Guide to Mad Men Bed-Hopping
Robert Pershing Wadlow is born and will soon astound the world as the tallest man who ever lived.
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Feb. 22, 1918: A Really Big Kid From Alton, Illinois
From Audubon?s The Birds of America , a first edition of which sold last month at auction for $7.9 million, to Copernicus?
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Priceless Science: Striking Finds From a Rare-Book Fair