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The world's biggest tech companies are lending the incredible processing power of their supercomputers to the globe's best scientists in a bid to combat COVID-19. IBMAustralia

The world's biggest tech companies are lending the incredible processing power of their supercomputers to the globe's best scientists in a bid to combat COVID-19. "A phone call from IBM to the White House would unite more than 50 businesses and institutions within a few days," Sky News Business Editor Ticky Fullerton said.

"Even archrivals Google and Microsoft would join IBM to battle mankind's enemy," she said. "Everybody was ready to say yes," said IBM Fellow, Vice President of IBM Europe and Director of the IBM Research Lab in Zurich, Dr Alessandro Curioni. "Many of the IT companies, our competitors, they went together trying to provide, for free in a really unprecedented way, all the computational resources that were available to the scientific community".

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IBMAustralia WOW!!! Another Sky News exclusive! Sheer genius from the bottom of the barrel. Thought Alan said COVID was a hoax!!!

IBMAustralia Shame they never lent their tech to a free and fair election in the US...Oops that’s right they did and stole an election!!

IBMAustralia To battle The Flu. Yeah OK. Great journalism. LOL

IBMAustralia How? By denying it originated in communist occupied china?

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