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IBM’s new computer chips will obliterate everything else on the market

What’s the fastest computer chip you can think of? Now, forget about it, because IBM announced it has created the fastest computer chips ever made. The firm’s new chips are four times faster than today’s top-of-the-line silicon, and they’re also significantly more efficient. DON’T MISS: How have you used Netflix this long without knowing these 10 tips and tricks? IBM is investing $3 billion in a private-public partnership with GlobalFoundries to make the new

Meet the first astronauts for NASA’s commercial space flight program

NASA has named the four astronauts who will embark on the first test flights of SpaceX and Boeing’s commercial crew spacecraft. Astronauts Bob Behnken, Eric Boe, Doug Hurley and Sunita (“Suni”) Williams will train with the companies’ own test pilots for the maiden voyages of the Dragon crew capsule and the CST-100. All four astronauts have prior spaceflight experience, having flown on the Space Shuttle to the International Space Station.

CEO, chairwoman offer to take E-Commerce China private

(Reuters) – Chinese online book and media retailer E-Commerce China Dangdang Inc’s chief executive, Guoqing Li, and Chairwoman Peggy Yu Yu offered to take the company private. The all-cash offer of $7.812 per American Depositary Share represents a 20 percent premium to the stock’s Wednesday closing price of $6.51, the company said on Thursday. (The story adds dropped word “percent” in second paragraph and media packaging code) (Reporting By Arathy