On Dec. 11, 1998, NASA launched the Mars Climate Orbiter to gather data on the Martian climate. On Sept. 23, 1999, the orbiter was lost due to a data error. One piece ...

There’s nothing like the human brain. No nonbiological entity can process massive amounts of different types of data, integrate the data, analyze it, and respond to it in a split second. Yet to hear ...

Oracle has launched a high-end database and storage system that it co-developed with Sun Microsystems, the companies’ first joint product since announcing their plans to merge almost five months ago.

The system is based on server hardware from Sun Microsystems, which Oracle is in the process of acquiring for $7.4 billion. That apparently leaves Hewlett-Packard, which provided the hardware for the ...