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New material could lead to longer-lasting batteries

Researchers have stabilized the higher-density lithium-air batteries with new material

Azure, Office 365 drive Microsoft revenues, while mobile lags

Microsoft reported solid Q1 gains with Azure and Office 365, but the payoff from its mobile efforts may still be a long way off

Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M

Execs under CEO Tim Cook receive uniform stock grants, part of Apple's 'internal equity' compensation philosophy

Google teams with Oxford on artificial intelligence

AI technology could be a boost to Google search, robotics, Maps, and Google+

Microsoft Q1 sales jump, but Nokia drags down earnings

The company exceeded Wall Street expectations for both sales and earnings in the first quarter of fiscal 2015

Nginx has big plans for JavaScript

The company plans to let you use JavaScript as an application language in its eponymous Web server

Clueless FBI sabotages its own anti-encryption campaign

FBI Director Comey says smartphone encryption puts law enforcement in peril. Too bad he doesn't seem to understand technology

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BB-6 Fibre Channel Standard Improves Data Center Storage Networks

FC-BB-6 based converged storage area networks will result in more efficient network designs for converged Fibre Channel and Ethernet networks thereby resulting in higher performance and lower cost networks.

HP gives Moonshot server its first Xeon chip

The Moonshot ProLiant m710 uses a novel design to reduce energy and space requirements