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Zuckerberg sees virtual reality as next major computing platform

2014-03-26 13:17:20| InfoWorld: Top News

Mark Zuckerberg has seen the future, and it's inside a virtual-reality headset. Facebook's $2 billion deal to buy Oculus VR, announced on Tuesday, is about a lot more than gaming. The social network's founder and CEO sees virtual reality as one of -- if not the -- next major computing platform, he said, one that will be a vehicle for communication, shopping, education, and more.

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Best- And Worst-Performing Cloud Computing Stocks March 17th To March 21st And Year-to-Date

2014-03-23 10:10:10| Wireless - Topix.net

VMWare's recent acquisition of AirWatch gives the virtualization solutions provider growth opportunities in mobile security and enterprise mobility management.

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Robotics, Wearable Computing Coming in Five Years: Survey

2014-03-19 19:37:00| ENR.com: Headline News

Wearable computers as part of a construction workers gear may be closer than we think, if a recent survey of ENRs readers is any indication.

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'Nobel Prize in Computing' goes to Microsoft Research principal

2014-03-18 17:53:15| InfoWorld: Top News

Leslie Lamport, a Microsoft Research principal, has been named the winner of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award, also known as the "Nobel Prize in Computing." The computer scientist was recognized by the Association for Computing Machinery for "imposing clear, well-defined coherence on the seemingly chaotic behavior of distributed computing systems, in which several autonomous computers communicate with each other by passing messages."

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Quantum rewrites the rules of computing

2014-03-18 13:08:26| InfoWorld: Top News

The CEO of a quantum computing company walked onto a stage at MIT and stood in front of an audience of professors, engineers and computer scientists. Vern Brownell, CEO of D-Wave Systems, looked out at the crowd and said, "I cannot explain how quantum computing works."Was he heckled? Did attendees get up and leave? No. No one in the audience stirred. There was no murmuring. Nobody laughed. No sidelong glances. Nothing. Quantum computing is just that confusing. Some of the world's best physicists don't understand how it works.

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