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Now that’s multicloud: CIA awards multibillion-dollar contract to AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle and IBM

The CIA has awarded a multibillion-dollar contract, to the five major U.S. public cloud providers: Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google LLC, Oracle Corp. and IBM Corp.

The contract calls for the companies to compete for specific “task orders” issued by the CIA for itself and also 16 other agencies making up the intelligence community.

the CIA will enable the five cloud providers to compete for task orders at different security classification levels, up to top secret.

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DeepMind AI makes a science-shaking protein breakthrough

Alphabet’s DeepMind has used its AI system to figure out a five decade old mystery in biology, the company has announced today, using AlphaFold to help understand protein behaviors.

While it sounds esoteric, understanding how amino acids operate is believed to be key to a number of challenges in biology. That includes everything from addressing diseases in humans, through to broader applications such as enzymes that break down plastics or other waste.

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Sprawling 8-mile-long 'canvas' of ice age beasts discovered hidden in Amazon rainforest
Ice age people painted these animals 12,600 years ago.

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'sistine chapel of the ancients' rock art discovered in colombian amazon

a massive collection of paintings dating back to the ice age has been revealed, stretching across a cliff in colombia. dubbed the sistine chapel of the ancients, the discovery was made last year by a british-colombian team, founded by the european research council. the impressive finding consists of tens of thousands of animals

and humans created up to 12,500 years ago and will be presented for the first time on channel 4 on a documentary series noscriptd
Jungle mystery: lost kingdoms of the Amazon.

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