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ICYMI: Pegleg cat, X-ray laser sight and recharging tabletop

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Today on In Case You Missed It: A cat born without part of its hindlegs got an upgrade with 3D-printed prosthetics implanted in its bones. A camera that basically gives X-ray vision has been invented, peering around corners with lasers, then recreati...

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Autobiography, Pioneer Girl, Finally Released Monday

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Fifty-seven years after death, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Pioneer Girl: An Annotated Autobiography will hit shelves on Monday, November 17, and the stories may shock audiences. Music Times reports the...

Loretta Lynch to become New US Attorney General

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Loretta Lynch, 55, was born in Greensboro, North Carolina and earned her college and law degrees from Harvard. She has worked in the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office from 1990 to 2001. She held the...

Fire at Illinois Air Traffic Control Center Shuts Down Chicago

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According to USA Today, the Federal Aviation Administration shut down Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports after "a fire at an Illinois air traffic control facility" grounded "more than 1,900 flights...

Microsoft’s ‘Project Mountain’ puts $700 million into data center powering Xbox One and Office 365 cloud

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Microsoft's 'Project Mountain' puts $700 million into data center powering Xbox One and Office 365

Microsoft really, really doesn't want your Xbox One's online services going offline. In a near $700 million investment ($677.6 million), the company's opening a new data center in Iowa specifically aimed at powering Xbox Live and Office 365. Microsoft's Christian Belady told Iowa's Des Moines Register that the data center "supports the growing demand for Microsoft's cloud services" -- a much lauded function of both the Xbox One and Office 365. Alongside the $700 million investment, the company's getting a $6 million tax rebate from the state to move in, effective for five years. As for Microsoft's cloud, we'll assuredly hear more about it -- for both Xbox One and Office 365 -- this week at Build.

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Microsoft to Build Iowa Data Center for $670 Million

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The new plan by Microsoft has been termed Project Mountain. Tax breaks have been already given to this data center. It has been purported to create 29 new jobs. There were other companies looking...

Google bringing extra bytes to Hawkeye State with $300 million data center

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Google bringing extra bytes to Buckeye State with $300 million data center

You're a multinational search company that has just rolled out a new cloud storage offering. You've also just given your millions and millions of email users an extra 2.5GB of storage, free of charge. What do you do next? Build another data center. The big G has announced its intentions to raise a $300 million information barn in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Construction on a 1,000 acre plot will begin immediately and, for its efforts, the Search Sultan will be gifted with a handful of tax incentives totaling over $9 million. Google is no stranger to the mean streets (we're not sure if they're actually mean) of Council Bluffs, though, as the company already operates a $600 million data facility within that city's limits. For those of you keeping track at home, that's a $900 million stimulus for the Hawkeye State.

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