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McAfee Talks DeepSAFE, Intros Channel Initiatives

McAfee used its SecurityAlliance Partner Summit to showcase its first product co-developed with Intel -- DeepSAFE -- and to provide details about some new channel initiatives.

This week at the McAfee SecurityAlliance Partner Summit, the company finally rolled out its first product co-developed by its acquirer of nine months, Intel, and announced that it would be launching some new channel initiatives for partners while at the same time culling a number of inactive partners to better support the consistent producers.

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Artificial Leaf Turns Water Into Fuel

As free as a water lily floating on a lake, solar-panels coated with a new catalytic material can harvest hydrogen fuel from ordinary water with no wires attached.

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A flat panel module generates electricity with no wires attached, by virtue of built-in solar cells that split water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen.

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Herschel Finds Oceans of Water in Disk of Nearby Star

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This artist's concept illustrates an icy planet-forming disk around a young star called TW Hydrae, located about 175 light-years away in the Hydra, or Sea Serpent, constellation.

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Symantec Launches FileStore N8300 Network Attached Storage Appliance

With FileStore N8300, organizations can manage from within VMware vCenter Server or with a VMware View plug-in.

Storage management and backup solutions specialist Symantec announced enhancements to the FileStore N8300, the latest version of its clustered, network attached storage appliance, designed to help small to medium-size businesses (SMBs) build virtual environments and cloud storage, manage large volumes of data and control the costs of associated storage. Certified for VMware environments, FileStore N8300 is integrated with VMware vCenter Server. FileStore N8300 helps enable businesses to optimize storage costs associated with virtual machine sprawl and provision servers and virtual desktops through cloning and de-duplication of virtual machine images. FileStore N8300 5.7 is now available with prices starting at $50,000.

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GPUs Play Central Role in Next-Gen Supercomputer

Plans to upgrade the world’s third-most powerful supercomputer, the Oak Ridge Lab Jaguar system, were announced this week. The new system will rely on GPUs (paired with traditional CPUs) to enable an energy-efficient boost in performance. It is expected to be completed by 2013 and could deliver 20 petaflops of processing power.

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The newly proposed Titan system will extend the range of work that is currently carried out on Oak Ridge’s Jaguar supercomputer.

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Analytics Used to Tackle Commuter Pain

Traffic congestion is increasing in many cities around the globe. And as more people are expected to move into urban areas in the next few decades, some cities have started to look for smart solutions to help address the problem.

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The 2011 IBM Commuter Pain Survey ranked the emotional and economic toll of commuting in cities around the world.

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Revolutionary Oil Skimmer Nets $1 Million X Prize

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In the winning oil-removal design, spinning grooved discs pull oily water upward, where metal skimmers strain the oil away.

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Interest in Mobile WiFi Hotspots Fuels New Solutions

The next-generation WiFi hotspot initiative will provide multiple-gigabit transmissions, allow roaming like cellular, and provide automatic authentication and log-on.

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Connectify offers a software mobile hotspot for Windows laptops and Android devices that requires no additional hardware.

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Homeland Security cyber protection office's fate is up in the air

The House is poised to vote on a measure that would not create a permanent Homeland Security Department cybersecurity office, after a committee on Thursday passed authorization legislation that does not mention the program. The move represents a departure from the Senate's version of the bill, which would retain and rename the office to better reflect a new focus on safeguarding critical commercial

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Pentagon cancels $15.9 billion battlefield radio program

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