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He invented DRAM, the technology that allowed for the faster and higher-capacity memory storage that is the basis for modern computing.

Technical failures blocked thousands of students who tried to log on to school during a snowstorm. At a City Council hearing on Wednesday, an IBM official said it wasn’t the company’s fault.

The chancellor said the “school system is more than prepared.” But when it was time to log on, many students could not.

The move is aimed at drawing $9 billion in corporate investment, as New York jockeys to host a new national semiconductor technology center.

As the downsides of 401(k)-style plans become apparent, workers and some companies, including IBM, are showing new interest in defined benefit plans.

Disney, Apple, Paramount and Lionsgate halted marketing on X, formerly Twitter, as Elon Musk faced a furor over antisemitic abuse on his social media platform.

Companies, celebrities and influencers have taken TikTok and X — and Elon Musk himself — to task for the rise of hate speech on their platforms since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.

IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

In “The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived,” Ralph Watson McElvenny and Marc Wortman show how Oedipal battles fueled the company’s technological triumphs in the 1960s and beyond.

“I knew at some point in time the patent office would recognize” computer software, he said. It happened in 1968, helping to ignite the software market.