Thursday, December 29, 2011
LG's 84 inch 4K Ultra High Definition Display. Soon.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Universal GSM device charger is around the corner
Investors were warned to be wary of buying Intel Corp. stock in the coming months !
Friday, December 23, 2011
Fedex's secure monitor delivery
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Last look inside space shuttle Atlantis
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
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Software Bug Caused Qantas Airbus A330 To Nose-Dive
"According to Stuff.co.nz, the Australian Transport Safety Board found that a software bug was responsible for a Qantas Airbus A330 nose-diving twice while at cruising altitude, injuring 12 people seriously and causing 39 to be taken to the hospital. The event, which happened three years ago, was found to be caused by an airspeed sensor malfunction, linked to a bug in an algorithm which 'translated the sensors' data into actions, where the flight control computer could put the plane into a nosedive using bad data from just one sensor
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer
"The GPS navigation is the weakest point," the Iranian engineer told the Monitor, giving the most detailed description yet published of Iran's "electronic ambush" of the highly classified US drone. "By putting noise [jamming] on the communications, you force the bird into autopilot.
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Thursday, December 15, 2011
16 core Opteron based CAscade XE6 supercomputer.
The XE6 supers, which shipped with AMD's 12-core Opteron 6100s in early 2010 are now shipping in limited quantities with the 16-core Opteron 6200 processors, announced two weeks ago at the SC11 supercomputer conference.
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TI Meta Watch™ Bluetooth® Wearable Watch Development System
Texas Instruments Meta Watch™ Bluetooth® Wearable Watch Development System
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Intel's low overall demand compared to ARM chips
Market research firm Gartner Inc. Wednesday (Dec. 14) forecast that global semiconductor capital spending would decline by 19.5 percent from this year's projected total, largely due to the slowing macroeconomic environment.
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On afterlife
The current cremation figure is 41%, and by 2017, it’s expected that cremation will be the choice in more than half of all deaths in the U.S.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Poor economy to blame. Like in India.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Poor economy to blame. Like in India.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Web Browsers and Their History
F-35 7 years late
The Air Force currently has zero flyable stealth fighters. None.
In addition to costing more, the stealthy F-35 could take longer to complete testing. That could delay the stealthy jet's combat debut to sometime after 2018 - seven years later than originally planned.
Testing uncovered problems the computers did not predict, resulting in 725 design changes while new jets were rolling off the factory floor in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Some of the problems - the electrical bugs, for instance - were becoming clear before the the Quick Look Review; others are brand-new.
In other words, the F-35 might not be as invisible to radar as prime contractor Lockheed Martin said it would be.
Pilots on F-35 video.
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In addition to costing more, the stealthy F-35 could take longer to complete testing. That could delay the stealthy jet's combat debut to sometime after 2018 - seven years later than originally planned.
Testing uncovered problems the computers did not predict, resulting in 725 design changes while new jets were rolling off the factory floor in Ft. Worth, Texas.
Some of the problems - the electrical bugs, for instance - were becoming clear before the the Quick Look Review; others are brand-new.
In other words, the F-35 might not be as invisible to radar as prime contractor Lockheed Martin said it would be.
Pilots on F-35 video.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
President : Iran, will you please return back our super killing drone ?
Video
Please, we have tight budget restrictions, right now !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: The probable answer is: No, we will use your's know how to make our own drone fleet.
Please, we have tight budget restrictions, right now !
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: The probable answer is: No, we will use your's know how to make our own drone fleet.
Monday, December 12, 2011
No One Says Who Took $586B in Fed Swaps
AMD fabs and products, EUVL first !
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Friday, December 09, 2011
Is there a pilot in the plane: What Really Happened in Air France crash ?
What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447
It's quite possible that Bonin had never flown an airplane in alternate law, or understood its lack of restrictions. According to Camilleri, not one of US Airway's 17 Airbus 330s has ever been in alternate law.
Unlike the control yokes of a Boeing jetliner, the side sticks on an Airbus are "asynchronous"—that is, they move independently.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Both pilots couldn't believe computer could be wrong ! Unbelievable, must read, kind of computer based religion.
It's quite possible that Bonin had never flown an airplane in alternate law, or understood its lack of restrictions. According to Camilleri, not one of US Airway's 17 Airbus 330s has ever been in alternate law.
Unlike the control yokes of a Boeing jetliner, the side sticks on an Airbus are "asynchronous"—that is, they move independently.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Both pilots couldn't believe computer could be wrong ! Unbelievable, must read, kind of computer based religion.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
Nvidia: ARM supercomputer to be more efficient than x86
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Windows 8 will be 'largely irrelevant' to traditional PC users
IDC’s top 10 system software predictions for 2012 are out. One of them casts doubt on Microsoft’s potential market for Windows 8 among traditional PC users.
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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
Iran Claims to Have Shot Down U.S. Stealth Drone
Iran said on Sunday that it shot down a U.S. stealth drone near the country's eastern border, but U.S. officials in Afghanistan said the craft could instead be an unmanned reconnaissance plane that veered off course and crashed last week. Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency quoted a military official who said Tehran had downed an RQ-170 Sentinel, the U.S. Air Force's stealth drone.
If the drone that went down is an RQ-170, and if it is largely, or partially, intact, it is possible that the technological secrets of the advanced aircraft could be compromised.
Tehran has focused part of its military strategy on producing drones for reconnaissance and attacking purposes.Iran announced three years ago it had built an unmanned aircraft with a range of more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers), far enough to reach Israel.However, Thompson said that all signs point to the RQ-170 Sentinel as the missing drone. He added that the Sentinel likely malfunctioned and crashed, and was probably not shot down or attacked in any way by Iran. The fact that the drone was lost indicates that there was likely a software problem. Iran disassembled drone, no stealthy cover wrapped around. Where it is now? In Russia, China, who knows?
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All Your (DARPA) Shreds Are Belong To U.S victorious
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Intel leaks
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Did the U.S. Create the Conficker Virus to Wipe Out Iran’s Nukes?
The Conficker worm was one of the more intriguing and potentially destructive pieces of malware in the past decade. Earlier reports have suggested that Stuxnet was created by the U.S. and Israeli governments, and now Reuters has a source telling them Conficker was also used to negate Iran's nuclear program.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Conficker colaterals worldwide was thus only a Stuxnet sting cover !
It took Bumgarner months to conclude that Conficker was created by the authors of Stuxnet.___________________________
First, he noticed that the two pieces of malware were both written with unprecedented sophistication, which caused him to suspect they were related. He also found that infection rates for both were far higher in Iran than the United States and that both spread by exploiting the same vulnerability in Windows.
He did more digging, comparing date and time stamps on different versions of Conficker and Stuxnet, and found a correlation — key dates related to their development and deployment overlapped. That helped him identify April Fool's Day, April 1, 2009, as the launch date for the attack.
Bumgarner believes the attackers picked that date to send a message to Iran's leaders. It marked the 30th anniversary of the declaration of an Islamic republic by Ayatollah Khomeini after a national referendum.
He also identified two other signals hidden in the Stuxnet code, based on the dates when key modules were compiled, or translated from programming text into a piece of software that could run on a computer.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Conficker colaterals worldwide was thus only a Stuxnet sting cover !
Penguin Computing APU cluster
The experimental system, known as Altus 2A00, sports 104 nodes interconnected using QDR Infiniband fabric, purportedly able to reach a peak performance of 59.6 TFLOPs.
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Disk form factors
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Monday, December 05, 2011
North Mexico: Drug cartel had its own cell network !
COres by size and transistors count
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Friday, December 02, 2011
Drop in CO2 triggered polar ice sheet formation !
Drop in CO2 triggered polar ice sheet formation
Matthew Huber, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue, said roughly a 40 percent decrease in CO2 occurred prior to and during the rapid formation of a mile-thick ice sheet over the Antarctic approximately 34 million years ago.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Vice versa question worth of $Billions: What the rise of CO2 will trigger?
Matthew Huber, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Purdue, said roughly a 40 percent decrease in CO2 occurred prior to and during the rapid formation of a mile-thick ice sheet over the Antarctic approximately 34 million years ago.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Vice versa question worth of $Billions: What the rise of CO2 will trigger?
IBM, Micron to build hybrid memory with TSVs
Micron Technology Inc's hybrid memory cube (HMC) will become the first commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employee IBM Corp.'s through-silicon via (TSV) process, the companies said Thursday.
According to IBM (Armonk, N.Y.), the TSVs will enable Micron's HMC devices to achieve speeds 15 times faster than current technology. HMC parts will be manufactured at IBM's advanced semiconductor fab in East Fishkill, N.Y., using the company's 32-nm, high-K metal gate process technology, the companies said.
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According to IBM (Armonk, N.Y.), the TSVs will enable Micron's HMC devices to achieve speeds 15 times faster than current technology. HMC parts will be manufactured at IBM's advanced semiconductor fab in East Fishkill, N.Y., using the company's 32-nm, high-K metal gate process technology, the companies said.
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Thursday, December 01, 2011
iPhone 5 next summer
'It is on track to be introduced in summer of 2012, and is still in the engineering phase, not early production. We suspect that poor battery life doomed the prior prototype version.' The new version, iLounge says, is being built to cope with the increased battery drain of an LTE aerial - ie 4G.
In Britain, there is still no 4G network - offering far faster data transmission than the current 3G network - but there may be networks in place by the time Apple's handset launches next summer.
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In Britain, there is still no 4G network - offering far faster data transmission than the current 3G network - but there may be networks in place by the time Apple's handset launches next summer.
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After crash 2008: Families living in cars
More than 16 million children are now living in poverty and, for many of them, a proper home is elusive. Some cash-strapped families stay with relatives; others move into motels or homeless shelters. But, as Scott Pelley reports, sometimes those options run out, leaving an even more desperate choice: living in their cars. 60 Minutes returns to Florida, home to one third of America's homeless families, to find out what life is like for the epidemic's youngest survivors.Never has unemployment been so high for so long. And as a result, more than 16 million kids are living in poverty - the most since 1962. It's worst where the construction industry collapsed. And one of those places is central Florida.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Now turn to EU to crash ! The great recession began December 2007. Seems actually that it should happen in 2001, because after every 50 years capitalism reboots itself. To be a phoenix from the ashes. Only we need now is a good global war.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Now turn to EU to crash ! The great recession began December 2007. Seems actually that it should happen in 2001, because after every 50 years capitalism reboots itself. To be a phoenix from the ashes. Only we need now is a good global war.
UK intelligence agency GCHQ has launched a code cracking competition to help attract new talent.
Intel's Ivy Bridge collaterals: Tic, toc,tic, toc ... stop
Few months ago, rumors due to process problems appeared that Intel is going to delay the launch of their 22nm Ivy Bridge processors from January to March 2012. Ultimately, even the rumors of that March delay came untrue: Intel pushed the launch into the second quarter of 2012.
Intel marked a billion dollar loss with the recall costs and obviously decided to milk the existing products for as long as possible.
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