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Ernie Smith / Motherboard:

A look at the community of hobbyists of the Silicon Graphics Inc supercomputers like the Onyx, which cost up to $250K on release and weighed 250 pounds — Nearly 30 years after Silicon Graphics ruled the high-performance computing roost, its supercomputers have found themselves a new home …

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Groupon settles with IBM, for alleged infringement on e-commerce patents, for $57M, lower than the $83M that IBM was initially awarded in July — A patent suit between IBM and Groupon that has been underway for over two years has finally been settled. Today, the two companies announced …

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Caavo unveils $99 Caavo Control Center, a universal remote that uses machine vision, supports Atmos, HDR10, available with a $1.99/month or $20/year service fee — It also adds HDR and Atmos support — When I reviewed the unique Caavo universal remote system earlier this year …

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Grubhub has agreed to acquire Tapingo, a San Francisco-based food ordering service that operates on 150 college campuses, for $150M — Grubhub has agreed to acquire San Francisco's college-campus food ordering service Tapingo for $150 million. — The deal will allow the Chicago company …

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EU's privacy watchdog says Facebook notified them about breach on Thursday evening; experts say that seems to comply with GDPR and may limit exposure to fines — Privacy watchdog looks into whether social network violated European's Union new privacy law — A European Union privacy watchdog …

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