Jobs, Who Built Most Valuable Technology Company, Dies At 56

Oct. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Steve Jobs, who built the world’s most valuable technology company by creating devices that changed how people use electronics and revolutionized the computer, music and mobile-phone industries, died. He was 56.

Jobs, Who Built Most Valuable Technology Company, Dies at 56

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Biggest Data Drive Ever Built By Ibm Can Back Up 60 Copies Of Wayback Machine

A 120 petabyte drive is being built by researchers at IBM's Almaden, California, R&D lab. It will be the largest data repository ever built, and will comprise 200,000 hard disk drives strung together.

The giant data container is expected to store around one trillion files and should provide the space needed to allow more powerful simulations of complex systems, like those used to model weather and climate.

A 120 petabyte drive could hold 24 billion typical five-megabyte MP3 files or comfortably swallow 60 copies of the biggest backup of the Web, the 150 billion pages that make up the Internet Archive's WayBack Machine.

More: Technology Review (via Cliff Pickover).

Biggest data drive ever built by IBM can back up 60 copies of Wayback Machine

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Newly Built Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain

The wreckage of Spain’s once booming construction industry is everywhere, and much of it sits as bad debt on the books of Spain’s banks.

Newly Built Ghost Towns Haunt Banks in Spain

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