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	U.S. Army foresees robots becoming squad members The U.S. Army wants to move from using robots as tools to creating a human-robot cooperative that will make machines trusted members of the military. Read More WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation Enable Faster Backup and More Effective Long-Term Archiving EMC Data Domain Systems respond to the challenges organizations are struggling with as they balance requirements for disk-based backup, long-term backup retention, and cost-effective archiving. The systems support long-term backup retention and provide a foundation for supporting new archiving workloads. Learn more. In this Issue Vacation locations: How to make a story map with photos, text, map Forget the high margins, Apple -- cut iPad Mini prices House votes against reining in NSA records collection JR Raphael: 10 interesting things about Google's new Chromecast media streamer D.C. creates free incubator space, but there's just one catch Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract Apple's developer site overhaul continues following breach John W. Thompson: Is your company still relevant? Will it be tomorrow? Zuckerberg says no ads on Instagram -- at least, not yet Facebook reports a strong Q2 with revenue up 53% Sharp updates 'analog' tablet after surprising success Darlene Storm: Spying to continue, House votes down plan to defund the NSA WHITE PAPER: EMC Corporation EMC Service Assurance Suite Discover how you can get visibility into virtualized environments, the cloud and software-defined date centers, analyze availability and performance, optimize the environment and control costs with end-to-end performance, capacity management and reporting. Learn more. Vacation locations: How to make a story map with photos, text, map Share photos that show just where they were taken and add a narrative with a free ArcGIS Online account. Read More Forget the high margins, Apple -- cut iPad Mini prices Apple sold 14% fewer iPads in the quarter that ended June 30 than in the same quarter last year, while the revenue from those sales plummeted by 27%. The solution? Cut prices, say analysts. Read More House votes against reining in NSA records collection The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly rejected an effort to stop the National Security Agency from collecting millions of U.S. residents' telephone records. Read More JR Raphael: 10 interesting things about Google's new Chromecast media streamer For a simple little device, there's a lot to say about Google's new $35 Chromecast media streamer. Here are 10 interesting things you might not know about the product. Read More D.C. creates free incubator space, but there's just one catch In the downtown of the nation's capital there is a magnificent building of steel and glass that is now home to what may be a remarkable tech experiment. Read More Amazon Web Services files complaint in court over CIA contract Amazon Web Services filed a complaint in federal court after the Government Accountability Office sustained in part a protest by IBM against the award of a contract by the CIA for a cloud computing project. Read More WEBCAST: PC Connection Simplify Your Servers Would you like to simplify your server infrastructure? Learn about the benefits that Cisco UCS and Intel® Xeon® processors bring to data center computing. Discover how to overcome limitations in your existing server infrastructure to deploy more servers in less space at a lower cost and reduce time spent on tactical operational activities. View now. Apple's developer site overhaul continues following breach Apple is incrementally restoring its developer systems following an intrusion last week the company said may have divulged personal information about registered users. Read More John W. Thompson: Is your company still relevant? Will it be tomorrow? As a CEO, people often ask me how I sleep at night knowing that, especially in the IT industry, the competitive landscape can shift almost instantaneously. I tell them the truth: I sleep like a baby. I sleep for two hours and get up and cry for two hours. Read More Zuckerberg says no ads on Instagram -- at least, not yet Instagram users fretting about ads clogging up their image feed can breath easy, at least for now. Facebook said it has no immediate plans to put ads in its photo-sharing app -- though make no mistake, they are coming eventually. Read More Facebook reports a strong Q2 with revenue up 53% Facebook's revenue rose 53 percent during the second quarter amid continued gains in mobile advertising revenue share, the company reported Wednesday. Read More Sharp updates 'analog' tablet after surprising success Japan's Sharp makes multi-hued HD displays for iPhones and TVs, but it has had unexpected success at home with a simple, monochrome device it calls a "digital notepad," a small tablet with a lined screen and stylus for easily scribbling handwritten notes. Read More Darlene Storm: Spying to continue, House votes down plan to defund the NSA The proposal to defund the NSA, to cut the heart of the metadata collection program, was defeated in the House. Meanwhile, the NSA claims it can't search its own email! The NSA chief claimed the reason for the secrecy surrounding all the surveillance was not to hide the collection program from Americans, but from those trying to kill Americans. Lastly, encryption may be a moot point if the NSA and FBI are holding the master encryption keys. Read More
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