"Players of the virtual reality game Star Trek Bridge Crew will be able to control the Starship Enterprise using voice commands, following a collaboration with IBM's supercomputer." - BBC News

The new tool is part of IBM's ongoing effort to assist and encourage developers who are creating and managing apps built with microservices.

IBM Watson is being used in a Star Trek virtual reality video game to decipher players' audio commands.

DAILY VIDEO: Google outlines four measures to remove and prevent terror content online; the average global cost of a data breach is now $3.6 million, IBM reports; Windows Server is moving to a semi-annual feature update schedule; and there's more.

The Weather Company, an IBM business, is collaborating with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to develop sophisticated forecasting models

Lenovo is taking on Dell EMC and HPE with its biggest portfolio refresh since it acquired IBM's x86 server business three years ago, offering a lineup of servers, switches, SAN arrays and converged systems intended to show that it's a serious contender in the data center and software-defined infrastructure market.
The product launch, staged in New York Tuesday, was the first major event for Lenovo's Data Center Group, in business since April. Lenovo wants to be a global player not only for the enterprise data center but also in hyperscale computing.
Lenovo is tied for third in server market share with Cisco and IBM, well behind HPE and Dell EMC, , and has a particularly steep uphill battle ahead in North America.

The IBM-sponsored Ponemon Institute Cost of a Data Breach Study reports its first ever decline in the global average cost of a breach.

A report from Big Blue has said the total average cost spent by a company in Australia as a result of a data breach is AU$2.51 million.

DAILY VIDEO: Microsoft previews space-saving OneDrive feature on Windows 10; How Box plans to disrupt the era of conventional storage; IBM to link Watson, Bluemix cloud to BMW CarData platform; and there's more.

Awkwardly named zIT Consulting makes software that helps administrators optimize the workloads on IBM System z data center mainframes.