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The Intel 8088 processor was launched on June 1, 1979, and a few years later IBM picked this CPU to be inside its first personal computer. 44 years later, the influence of the 8088 is still felt.

The IBM employee Ian Clifford, who hasn't worked since 2008 but is still being paid, has disclosed that he's suffering from leukaemia. He said his court actions for a pay rise are for his family.

An inactive IBM employee in the UK sought to get a pay rise to help overcome inflation earlier this year. The employee, Ian Clifford, gets paid via a company health plan but hasn't worked since 2008.

IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, in an interview with Bloomberg, said that the company is no longer planning to hire jobs that can be automated using artificial intelligence tools, impacting around 7,800 jobs.

The IBM PC-XT had a lot more expansion slots compared to the first IBM PC that launched in 1981, but it was not as big of a leap in other hardware specs. It also had a rival PC in the Compaq Portable.

IBM will lay off about 3,900 of its employees, equivalent to about 1.5% of the company's workforce. The tech firm will spend about $300 million to pay for the severance of eliminated staff.

IBM India managing director Sandip Patel addressed moonlighting in an email to employees saying that workers can pursue their passions as long as there's no conflict with IBM's interests.

In this panel discussion, Fast Company and IBM explores the latest developments within hybrid cloud computing, data use, insights, and how to integrate these technologies on your own terms.

Canonical has revealed that it saw 240% growth year-over-year in its channel partner program. It said it has been working more closely with existing partners and building bridges with new partners.

Representatives from Google, Microsoft, Mastercard, IBM, and more are meeting with the UK government today to advise on how to remove international data transfer barriers following Brexit.

LG has joined the IBM Quantum Network to find ways that quantum computing can be applied to its services. LG will also benefit from the partnership as new quantum computing milestones are reached.

IBM has announced that it is open-sourcing ModelMesh, its model-serving management layer powering Watson products. ModelMesh will enable the deployment of AI models at "extreme scale" on Kubernetes.

U.S. President Joe Biden has reportedly invited multiple big tech companies to the White House, purportedly to discuss cybersecurity matters. The meeting will apparently take place tomorrow.

IBM has introduced its new Telum processor at the annual Hot Chips conference. The processor is IBM's first one that can do on-chip acceleration for AI inferencing during a transaction.

IBM has released a study that suggests that gender equity in the workplace is not a top priority for 70% of businesses around the world. It provided several measures to address this.

Amazon has announced that 20 more firms, including IBM, have signed up to its The Climate Pledge programme which encourages signatories to meet their net-zero goals by 2040 rather than 2050.

IBM detailed its plans for realizing full-scale quantum computers by 2030. Latest updates promise 100x faster circuit execution, greater algorithmic complexities, and a tamed barrier to entry for QC.

IBM is reportedly laying off 10,000 employees, mostly from the European region. The cuts come as part of a plan to spin off the legacy IT services unit to streamline the company and cut costs.

The two giants have agreed to collaborate on Confidential Computing whereby they will be enhancing and extending the security of AI and HPC workloads on their hybrid cloud offerings.

Microsoft has collaborated with over 10 organizations from around to globe to release the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix framework for protection against malicious actors which target ML systems.

At QCE20, Intel will be presenting four papers highlighting its efforts in developing commercial-grade quantum computers. Here's an all-encompassing guide describing what you can expect.

Orquestra, a software platform for designing and running quantum algorithms, is out of Early Access. Support for Honeywell's System Model HØ and quantum hardware from Amazon and IBM has been added.

IBM outs its latest POWER10 chips designed to drive hybrid cloud computing solutions. The company promises up to 20x improvement in select workloads, while also being more efficient.

IBM has announced that the company will no longer be selling facial recognition services and has called for a national dialogue on whether the systems should be employed by authorities at all.

According to a new report, technology giant IBM has adopted Slack as the internal communication tool, adding a whopping 350,000 employees to its userbase and becoming its largest customer.

At CES 2020, the expansion of the IBM Q Network was announced to now include over 100 leading organizations and institutions like Goldman Sachs, Anthem, and Stanford University, among others.

This free to download report evaluated the most significant conversational computing platforms, diving into each vendor's current offering and strategy and including customer feedback.

The new 53-qubit system will boast a larger lattice allowing more complex entanglement and connectivity experiments to run. The NYC data center will have 14 quantum computers by the end of next month.