IBM has unveiled a series of new servers, that have been designed to help propel cognitive workloads and drive greater data center efficiency. Featuring a new chip, the three Linux-based servers incorporate innovations from the OpenPOWER community and are a part of the Power Systems LC lineup, that IBM claims, delivers higher levels of performance and greater computing efficiency than the x86-based server. The servers clam to have been co-developed with global technology companies and the new Power Systems are uniquely designed to propel artificial intelligence, deep learning, high performance data analytics and other compute-heavy workloads to help businesses and cloud service providers save data center costs. According to Big Blue, the three new systems are an expansion of its Linux server portfolio comprised of a specialized line of servers co-developed with fellow members of the OpenPOWER Foundation. The new servers join the Power Systems LC lineup that IBM states, is designed to outperform x86-based servers on a variety of data-intensive workloads.

VENICE It was director Lav Diaz' art of exploring human drama at length that tempted Charo Santos-Concio back to the screen after nearly two decades, the actress-turned-media executive said at the Venice film festival on Friday.

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Future buyers of General Motors Co. GM -3.88 % 's semiautonomous driving system will have to be comfortable with Big Brother sitting in the passenger seat. The nation's largest auto maker aims to release its Super Cruise on a Cadillac next year, and will feature eye tracking in the cabin, a first for a U.S. car maker. GM will duel with Volvo Car Corp.'s Pilot Assist and Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA -1.46 % 's Autopilot, both driver-assistance systems that can control a moving vehicle. While Tesla's Autopilot requires periodic handling by the driver, GM's system is expected to go a step further in monitoring the alertness of human drivers. Super Cruise's 2017 launch will come amid heightened scrutiny of systems that use cameras, sensors or radar to let the car do much of the driving at higher speeds.

Apple CEO Tim Cook unveils the new iPhone 7 at the company's event in San Francisco Sept. 7. (Photo: Marco della Cava, USA TODAY) SAN FRANCISCO - Apple may be thinking twice about getting into the car business. The Cupertino iPhone-maker, which has never publicly acknowledged it is working on an automobile, has reportedly laid off employees associated with its so-called Project Titan, according to anonymous sources quoted by The New York Times late Friday. The report cites three employees as saying Apple had fired "dozens of employees" off the automotive team, which just two months ago was taken over by Bob Mansfield, a top executive in the Steve Jobs era who had been coaxed to rejoin the company. Apple declined to comment on the report. The company's shares (AAPL) didn't move much after-hours on the news, but fell during trading 2% to 103.13.

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What better way to demonstrate the capabilities of IBM's artificial intelligence system, Watson, than to show it working its hardest, and when it really matters? For the film IBM partnered with oil and gas company Woodside, and creative agency the Barbarian Group, to create '70 Miles from Shore with Watson: Woodside Energy and IBM'. The result is a two-minute journey that shows IBM's Watson working and learning, on one of the toughest work sites in the world – an oil rig. To produce a film on such an especially challenging scale required an experienced set of hands, and PSN Australia was enlisted for the job through Production Service Network's U.S. Liaison Carolyn Hill. Choosing to shoot on the rig for real as opposed to a studio levied some strict safety regulations on the team that had not been previously encountered.

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