IBM has launched LinuxOne Emperor II, the second generation of its open source mainframe computer system. The new model has a layer of security and privacy not seen in a Linux-based platform before, the company said. "We saw in our success stories for Emperor that security was a recurring theme attracting new customers to the platform," noted Mark Figley, director of LinuxOne Offerings at IBM.

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The chief executives of Apple Inc, Walmart Inc, IBM Corp and other major companies are joining a Trump administration advisory board that hopes to prepare U.S. workers to deal with job training issues and the worforce shift brought by artificial intelligence and automation, the U.S. Commerce Department said on Wednesday.

Big Blue's AI is getting better at rebutting an opponent's argument, but that wasn't good enough to overcome one of the world's top debaters.

People are great at arguing. But a new project from IBM shows that computers are getting quite good at it, too.

Big Blue is now moving its Project Debate technology on to commercial uses.

IBM's sleek-looking Q System One is its first commercial quantum computer. It will be available for clients to access over the internet