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Obama Admits to Never Using Twitter

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Despite having over 2.6 million followers on his Twitter account, @BarackObama admitted to a Chinese audience that he has never used the service.

“I have never used Twitter, but I’m an advocate of technology and not restricting Internet access," Obama told an audience of Shanghai youth on Sunday.

"My thumbs are too clumsy to type in things on the phone," the president added.

Then what the heck is he doing on that Blackberry all the time? Playing tetris?

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U.S. Department of Energy to Invest $32 Million in Cloud Computing

3910053842_7dc4a9171e The United States Department of Energy announced Wednesday that it will spend $32 million on cloud computing test beds.

Cloud computing is the technology behind many popular web services, such as Gmail and Twitter. As opposed to traditional server technologies that only use one server, a cloud uses many, both real and virtualized, as one unit. The advantage is that it is scalable, meaning that a user only uses as much as he needs, and that it is (usually) redundant, meaning that

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