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Access Office now as a cloud service that harnesses innovation enabled by Windows 8. Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office on Monday. The next release features an intuitive design that works beautifully with touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new Windows devices, including tablets. The new Office is social...

After winning top honors as the fastest supercomputer in the world -- for now, anyway -- IBM's Sequoia is getting ready to go to work for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Its duty: help manage the United States supply of nuclear weapons. "Much of the modeling for defense, aerospace, medical research and anticipating natural disasters is done on supercomputers," said...