Intel’s unveiling of their new Broadwell-EP based Xeon E5 v4 server and HPC processors made a splash today in the enterprise markets, as the new multicore chips that range all the way up to monster 22-core variants and built on Intel’s 14nm process technology, offer better efficiency and higher compute throughput along with new features and optimizations. Specifically, improvements in AVX instruction optimization, for example, which are critical for floating point operations that are vital to multimedia, scientific and financial processing workloads, afford the chip performance boosts in excess of 50 percent in certain mission-critical applications.

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It’s more than three decades since The Buggles sang Video Killed The Radio Star”. Actually, the band’s forecast proved wrong and disc jockeys are arguably more popular than ever. Yet the true time of video – or at least the latest incarnation of it – may be yet to come and this time it is business, rather than the mythical dying DJ, that may be at threat.

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Scientists recently found remains of an ancient creature, the “Siberian Unicorn,” hundreds of thousands of years after they were believed to be extinct.

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3 billion years ago the moon tilted. Find out why.

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Also not to be missed this week: a pile of movie classics including ‘2001,’ ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and ‘The Shawshank Redemption,’ and new Netflix Originals including ‘The Ranch’ and ‘Lost and Found Music Studio.’

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Africa seems to be the only continent today that is regularly referred to as a country.  It bristles me every time I hear it said.  It’s reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s chatter with the press aboard Air Force One in late 1982 on his way back to the US from a Presidential visit to Latin America: “I learned a lot down there…You’d be surprised, because, you know, they’re all individual countries.”  As a relatively freshly minted PhD in international business economics at the time, I thought a statement like that coming from the President of the United States was more than odd.  Just as such an utterance was, of course, grossly naïve, if not insulting, to Latin Americans, so too is the expression of the same sort to Africans.

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Reports were swirling around the tech-based parts of the Internet the last couple of days when word hit that the next version of Microsoft’s Edge browser would come with an ad-blocker built in. Some saw the news as a harbinger of browser things-to-come; as a sign that even giant corporations have recognized that users are tired with intrusive and annoying online ads.

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