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Submission + - Why Facebook thinks Blu-ray discs are perfect for the data center (blogspot.com)

o meab writes: We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage system that uses 10,000 Blu-ray discs to hold a petabyte of data. After that story posted we were able to talk to Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain operations at Facebook, to find out just why he's so excited about the project.

Submission + - ARM researching novel chip memory (globalspec.com)

An anonymous reader writes: ARM may be best known as processor designer but the company is now working on a non-volatile memory that could scale down to 5nm, according to an Electronics 360 report. The memory is something different called Correlated-electron RAM that was originally developed by a professor at University of Colorado. ARM is joining a research collaboration to try and make the memory an option at ARM-friendly foundries.

Submission + - 17 Foundations Pledge To Divest Their Stocks Of Fossil Fuels (thinkprogress.org) 1

mdsolar writes: Seventeen foundations announced their commitment to divest their stocks of fossil fuel companies Thursday, and pledged to invest in companies working in renewable energy, efficiency and other environmental causes.

The foundations, which together control about $1.8 billion in investments, have joined to form the Divest-Invest Philanthropy, an organization that includes groups such as the Ben and Jerry’s Foundation, the Park Foundation and the Wallace Global Fund.

Ellen Dorsey, Executive Director of the Wallace Global Fund, said on a press call Thursday that foundations face ethical as well as financial imperatives to divest their stocks of fossil fuel companies. The Wallace Global Fund’s main priority is environmental health, and that, coupled with the “readily available” and profitable investment opportunities in clean energy, made divestment a logical choice for the Fund, Dorsey said. The Fund’s portfolio is nearly 100 percent free of fossil fuel companies.

Comment Re:GPU support is the least thing I'd miss in LOff (Score 1) 192

It would never occur to me to do calculations demanding enough to benefit from GPU usage by using a spreadsheet application. And even if a GPU can accelerate the rendering of some 3D graphics in a document, I would rather want the application to do such rendering in the background once and retain the rendered image in a cache while I scroll around in the document - so that rendering speed would not really matter a lot.

Comment Re:I'm somewhat disturbed... (Score 1) 264

The text didn't state that all accounts were active ones. But yes, US citizens seem to have have a strong habit to live on credit. As a non-US citizen I was surprised to learn that permanently being in debt is so popular even amongst well earning people. That is very different where I live (Germany), where credit cards are not quite as popular.

Comment GPU support is the least thing I'd miss in LOffice (Score 1) 192

I use LibreOffice a lot and actually like it, not as much as FrameMaker (before Adobe layed of its creators), but it's still a good software. But if a fairy came by and offered me to realize a wish list with up to a thousand entries regarding Libre Office improvements, I would still not even come close to wishing GPU support for it...

Submission + - IE drops to single digit market share

fplatten writes: I think this is all you need to see to know what legacy Steve Ballmer has left at Microsoft where it's IE browser market share has collapsed from a high of 86% in 2002 to just 9% now. I guess this is just another in a long list of tech companies that failed to maintain it's dominant market share. Also, IE may be the one product that never really deserved it, but just piggybacked on Windows and users left in droves once decent (more secure) alternatives and standards became popular.

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