Shurong Tian tests the air temperature of an International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) supercomputer named Blue Gene at the company's Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, U.S., on Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. At this month's Global Technology Outlook annual brainstorm meeting, IBM executives will make decisions that shape which projects get funded and which companies IBM will buy next year. IBM invested $5.8 billion in research and development last year. Photographer: Chris Ware/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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