Yara and IBM try digital farming
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Boost crop yields

Fertiliser maker Yara International and IBM plan to launch digital farming services later this year to help boost crop yields, eventually targeting 100 million hectares, or close to seven per cent of arable land worldwide, they said.

Use spare computer time to help research black holes
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Simulate a black hole in your PC

West Virginia University assistant professor Zachariah Etienne is launching " a volunteer computing effort" analysing gravitational waves from colliding black holes.

Pentagon snubs Oracle
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Rubbish for
Jedi you are

The Pentagon has snubbed Oracle for its $10 billion, decade-long JEDI cloud contract process and chosen Amazon and Microsoft instead.

Complexity could derail cloud
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Microservices network and app management technologies needed

The cloud's complex infrastructure is derailing application platforms and cloud-native services market and there is a need for microservices network and app management technologies.

SAP cloud boss quits
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More exits at SAP

The maker of expensive esoteric business software which no one is sure what it does, SAP, appears to be having trouble keeping senior managers.