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IBM drills into the energy industry for cognitive computing advances

A new partnership with Spanish energy company Repsol offers a chance to test new kinds of decision-making applications

Symantec Turns to Fibre Channel to Accommodate Future Data Growth

Google AI project apes memory, programs (sort of) like a human

DeepMind researchers' Neural Turing Machines attempt to emulate the brain's short-term memory

Facebook gives away homebrewed OS monitoring tool

Osquery watches for operating system state changes that might indicate a security issue

Microsoft does a third round of layoffs as part of its plan to cut 18,000 jobs

The series of job eliminations is the company's largest layoff sweep in its history

Movie industry yells ‘Cut!’ on wearables in theaters

Two U.S. movie industry groups, citing piracy concerns, have adopted a zero-tolerance policy on wearables with cameras

Twitter, IBM form partnership around analytic apps

Industry-specific products and tie-ins to IBM's cloud development platform are just some of the companies' plans

Verizon tracks mobile users online, researcher says

Verizon Wireless uses cookie-like tokens that let advertisers track customers on the Web so they can serve targeted ads, according to EEF

Windows 10 (finally) sets conventions for multiple-finger gestures

Microsoft demos several new trackpad gestures with interesting implications for Windows -- a long overdue effort that Apple achieved years ago

Dropbox finds its way into HP, Acer PCs and tablets

The cloud storage company is pursuing partnerships to grow its already massive user base