Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Drone nation
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Win 8 tablet is too little too late?
After 60 years: How a chain of tea shops kickstarted the computer age
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A gathering at the Science Museum tomorrow will celebrate the 60th birthday of LEO, the world’s first business computer, which crunched its first numbers on November 17, 1951. Today computing breakthroughs are made by highly-specialised technology firms, but LEO was created by J Lyons and Co, operator of tea shops, manufacturer of biscuits and founder of the Wimpy burger chain.
The British businessmen, along with the rest of the world, were unaware that their countrymen had invented the world’s first programmable computer in 1943 to crack German codes at Bletchley Park.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Apple has been started in garage, right? 25 years later. Not an April fools, on a April the 1st.
A gathering at the Science Museum tomorrow will celebrate the 60th birthday of LEO, the world’s first business computer, which crunched its first numbers on November 17, 1951. Today computing breakthroughs are made by highly-specialised technology firms, but LEO was created by J Lyons and Co, operator of tea shops, manufacturer of biscuits and founder of the Wimpy burger chain.
The British businessmen, along with the rest of the world, were unaware that their countrymen had invented the world’s first programmable computer in 1943 to crack German codes at Bletchley Park.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Apple has been started in garage, right? 25 years later. Not an April fools, on a April the 1st.
iPad 3 ‘found’ in new Apple iOS code
The forthcoming iPad 3 is referred to in a new release of the Apple tablet’s iOS operating system, Apple blogs have reported.
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The Personal Computer Is Dead
Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don't merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we're seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Nothing will left open in the software of future.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Nothing will left open in the software of future.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
American Airlines files for bankruptcy protection
American Airlines 'parent company is seeking Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it seeks to unload massive debt built up by years of accelerating jet fuel prices and labor struggles.
American was founded in 1930 from the combination of more than 80 smaller carriers. It now flies about 240,000 passengers per day and has about 78,000 employees.
About That Jet Plane Bubble.
$40 billion of Boeing jet orders at the mercy of a U.S. bankruptcy court, lawyers and bankruptcy experts
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK:What use of Airplane when you have Internet and Google?
American was founded in 1930 from the combination of more than 80 smaller carriers. It now flies about 240,000 passengers per day and has about 78,000 employees.
About That Jet Plane Bubble.
$40 billion of Boeing jet orders at the mercy of a U.S. bankruptcy court, lawyers and bankruptcy experts
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK:What use of Airplane when you have Internet and Google?
Siri, open that bloody doors, pleaaaaaaaaase !
A recent video footage reveals that it is possible to request Siri to process basic automobile functions such as unlocking the car, starting the engine, and opening the trunk after some major modification on the iPhone 4S.
“The “Siri Proxy” plugin I wrote handles interaction with a PHP script that runs on my web server. The PHP script, which I developed months ago for personal use, allows me to send commands to my car which has a Viper SmartStart module installed … Current commands accepted are: “Vehicle Arm”, “Vehicle Disarm”, “Vehicle Start”, “Vehicle Stop”, “Vehicle Pop Trunk”, and “Vehicle Panic”.”
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“The “Siri Proxy” plugin I wrote handles interaction with a PHP script that runs on my web server. The PHP script, which I developed months ago for personal use, allows me to send commands to my car which has a Viper SmartStart module installed … Current commands accepted are: “Vehicle Arm”, “Vehicle Disarm”, “Vehicle Start”, “Vehicle Stop”, “Vehicle Pop Trunk”, and “Vehicle Panic”.”
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Wimm Labs launches Android watch
The device packs a lot of features in its small size, including two processors (one to keep the watch and pedometer ticking over and a more powerful one for more advanced functions), Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, an accelerometer, a magnetometer and a microSd card able to hold up to 32Gb of storage.Tablets and smartphones might rule the present, but if you ask the folks at WIMM Labs, the future of data consumption is a one-inch by one-inch square. The Los Altos startup just revealed its new, wearable computing platform.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK:Sibir?: Russian President Threatens to Punish Officials for Space Failures
Meanwhile, a retired Russian general believes that the glitch which prevented Phobos-Grunt from carrying out its space mission was caused by American radar sites in Alaska.
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ARM vs AMD vs Intel core size
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
AMD postponed ABu Dhabi fab
We will not be engaging in any ground breaking in Abu Dhabi in 2012," said Ibrahim Ajami, the chief executive of Atic.
Markets on euro death watch
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Why only we desperately need a war to prosper
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A century ago, more automobiles were powered by electricity than by gas
Today, IBM researchers have successfully demonstrated the fundamental chemistry of the charge-and-recharge process for lithium-air batteries.
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China Becomes World's Biggest Smartphone Buyer
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: I have a dream !
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Send+Me+More+Money: NASA Commercial Crew Flights Delayed 2 Years
NASA will test the system without a crew in 2017, and test the system with a crew in 2021.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: After some 50 years ? What about Apollo anniversary? Who cares ! 7 days is needed to Moon trip and back itself. 14 days remains for Moon walks. After the year 2021. Wouldn't be cheaper to pay Chinese for that ride?
Monday, November 21, 2011
Entire Computer Built Into USB Thumb Drive
Friday, November 18, 2011
Windows 7 made easy: Home networking
With the proliferation of digital content and the increasing number of computing devices in our lives, most users are likely to have their media scattered across different devices and platforms. Even the way we use our computers has also evolved. It's possible to start watching a video on a desktop PC and finish it on a tablet.
This requires devices to communicate with each other and to do so, you'll need to set up a homenetwork and allow the sharing of content among your computers. Here's how to go about it.
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1% whealthy representatives occupied half of the Congress !!
Half the members of Congress enjoys “1 percent” status as millionaires, according to a new study by the Center for Responsive Politics.
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The University of Toledo fires up microturbines in the data center
The University of Toledo is implementing a new power system that leverages gas-fueled microturbines in a green data center project.
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time
DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg had some exciting news for the desktop computer at Techonomy Monday. According to the head of the animation company, new collaboration with chip-maker Intel is leading to rendering that is 50 to 70 times faster than anything being used today.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011
GPU technology key to exascale says Nvidia
“Supercomputing is now power limited, just like the notebook, the tablet and the cell phone,” said Huang, asking what would happen if supercomputing centers capped their power usage at 20MW. By Huang’s estimates, such capping would mean being unable to achieve exascale before 2035, though Intel Corp. disagrees with that prediction.
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Stanford's ultrafast LED emits 10 Gbps signals at room temperature
"Our device is some 2,000 times more energy efficient than best devices in use today," said Vuckovic.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: That means hundreds of them could fit in LED array at affordable power consumption.
Here are Intel's Silicon photonics efforts. But, when they will make laser modulators temeperature stable?
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Aliens puzzled: What the hell on planet Earth is this !?
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: First picture is unknown structure in desert part of China. The second one is high road in Romania by night. Both we can call land art.
Monday, November 14, 2011
AMD's 16-core Opteron Chips Arrive After Wait
| 6282 | 16 | 2.6GHz | 3.3GHz | 140W | |
| 6276 | 16 | 2.3GHz | 3.2GHz | 115W | |
| 6274 | 16 | 2.2GHz | 3.1GHz | 115W | |
| 6272 | 16 | 2.1GHz | 3GHz | 115W |
AMD's 16-core Opteron Chips Arrive After WaitThe five 6200 chips -- 6262 HE, 6272, 6274, 6276 and 6282 SE -- run at clock speeds between 1.6GHz and 2.6GHz, and are priced between US$523 and $1,019. The chips draw between 85 watts and 140 watts of power and will plug into existing server sockets to replace older 12-core chips.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: The supercomputer Blue Waters project. will be powered by new 16-core AMD Opteron 6200 Series processors (formerly code-named 'Interlagos') a next-generation GPU from NVIDIA, called 'Kepler,' and a new integrated storage solution from Cray.
Bad Internet !
Statistics dictate that the vastly greater number of transactions among computers in a world 100 times faster than today will lead to a greater number of unpredictable accidents, with less time in between them.
We think of the Internet as always there. Just because we’ve become dependent on it, that doesn’t mean it’s true,” Mr. Cheriton says. Mr. Bechtolsheim says that because of the Internet’s complexity, the global network is impossible to design without bugs. Very dangerous bugs, as they describe them, capable of halting commerce, destroying financial information or enabling hostile attacks by foreign powers.
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We think of the Internet as always there. Just because we’ve become dependent on it, that doesn’t mean it’s true,” Mr. Cheriton says. Mr. Bechtolsheim says that because of the Internet’s complexity, the global network is impossible to design without bugs. Very dangerous bugs, as they describe them, capable of halting commerce, destroying financial information or enabling hostile attacks by foreign powers.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: A sister site in sight?
5 Tiny Computer Glitches That Caused Huge Disasters
5 Tiny Computer Glitches That Caused Huge Disasters
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SSD lifetime
Between 300 and 25 000 TB written. IDC predicts that while MLC accounted for only 27% of the enterprise SSD revenue in 2010, MLC revenue will rise to 52% next year and will hit 60% in 2013
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 25 PB however is not a small amount of data.
From hardware manufacturing golden age
You have been waiting for it. Million times less capacity than today. 10 times lower price. Ratio price/performance was 10 million times worse than today !!.___________________________
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Take in account that this is 5 inch unit. Compared with today's 3,5 inch standard. That means 3-4 times less capacity.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Vatican: Heavenly gates keepers
Saint Peter Basilica in Vatican as Heaven unlocking mechanism in a keyhole.
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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: From Janus we got month January. But in Rome first month was March. Long time before January. St Peter keyhole shaped cathedral we got only in 16th century. Thus, hardware is everywhere. Even in the most unexpected places. Holy See should be renamed as a Holy Keyhole?
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Running CUDA Code Natively on x86 Processors
Feds: Cyber Criminals Hijacked 4 Million Computers
An Eastern European pack of cyber thieves known as the Rove group hijacked at least four million computers in over 100 countries, including at least half a million computers in the U.S., to make off with $14 million in "illegitimate income" before they were caught, federal officials announced today.
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Bad Computer halted Mars moon Probe
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Anonymous talks about Anonymous
Climate doomsday in 5 years !
World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will 'lose for ever' the chance to avoid dangerous climate change. "The door is closing," Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, said. "I am very worried – if we don't change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for safety]. The door will be closed forever."
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If fossil fuel infrastructure is not rapidly changed, the world will 'lose for ever' the chance to avoid dangerous climate change. "The door is closing," Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, said. "I am very worried – if we don't change direction now on how we use energy, we will end up beyond what scientists tell us is the minimum [for safety]. The door will be closed forever."
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Haswell Roadmap
Wednesday, November 09, 2011
USC To Establish First Operational Quantum Computing System at an Academic Institution
APOS-EU and APOS-RU are striving to ensure science and industry get more from next-generation supercomputers
The future of high-performance computing means two things: massive parallelism and heterogeneity. Processor manufacturers are adding more and more computational cores onto their CPUs, and HPC vendors are looking to augment these many-core chips with GPU-like accelerators to achieve the next level in number-crunching power. While such developments give scientists the potential to run bigger, faster, and more detailed simulations, there are significant challenges to be overcome before current application codes can exploit these hardware advances.
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Sandia Installs HPC Cluster with AMD Fusion Chips
Penguin Computing, experts in high performance computing (HPC) solutions, today announced that the company has successfully installed the world's first HPC cluster powered by AMD Accelerated Processing Units (APUs) at Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The system comprises 104 servers that are interconnected through a QDR InfiniBand fabric.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: AMD has plans in the works for an "HPC APU that would utilize even a larger GPU and fewer x86 core" than the current desktop chips. He thinks the company can build HPC APUs that run about 150 watts and would be powerful enough to power an exaflop computer that consumes no more than 20 MW. 128 000 chips for Exaflops? 8 TFLOPS GPU per chip. Hmm. It is now able for 1 TFlops. In 2018 might crunch 8 TFlops. Thus, we solved the secret of Exaflops supercomputer design.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: AMD has plans in the works for an "HPC APU that would utilize even a larger GPU and fewer x86 core" than the current desktop chips. He thinks the company can build HPC APUs that run about 150 watts and would be powerful enough to power an exaflop computer that consumes no more than 20 MW. 128 000 chips for Exaflops? 8 TFLOPS GPU per chip. Hmm. It is now able for 1 TFlops. In 2018 might crunch 8 TFlops. Thus, we solved the secret of Exaflops supercomputer design.
AMD 28nm nex gen GPU in January 2012
AMD's long awaited next-gen 28nm GPU is finally set to release in January 2012
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Fujitsu readies 23 petaflops Sparc FX10 super beast
A fully loaded 1,024-rack FX10 will have 6.1PB of main memory across its 98,304 nodes and deliver a peak performance of 23.25 petaflops. So now Fujitsu, IBM, and Cray have all set their sights on breaking the 20 petaflops barrier on their way to the exascale heavens.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 1024 racks? Not likely in practice. Ever.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: 1024 racks? Not likely in practice. Ever.
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Darpa Begs Hackers: Secure Our Networks
Users are furious over Iphone 4S static bug
Apple's Iphone 4S has yet another problem, this time with an irritating static sound being heard by users while making calls.
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3D DRAM
DDR4
Great article: Ham radio in the 21st century
Ham radio today differs greatly from that of past years, but it still offers a fascinating way to explore electronics. Here’s a look at how it has changed and what it has to offer both old hands and newcomers alike.
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Friday, November 04, 2011
CIA following Twitter, Facebook
In an anonymous industrial park in Virginia, in an unassuming brick building, the CIA is following tweets — up to 5 million a day.
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AI scientists want to make gods. Should that worry us?
Singularitarians believe artificial intelligence will be humanity's saviour. But they also assume AI entities will be benevolent
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NSA ordered Exaflops super computer for year 2018
The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America, page 340
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Cascade supercomputer will suffice to NSA for now. Your desktop is able to crunch few GFlops per second. Exaflops could billion times more. Thus comparison, Exaflops in crunching speed vs desktop is like desktop vs your paper and pencil in number crunching speed. Thus, for some applications it might difference in productivity when pencil and paper calculations substitute with desktop use.
A lot of difference, isn't it? Beware of Big Brother.
99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Cascade supercomputer will suffice to NSA for now. Your desktop is able to crunch few GFlops per second. Exaflops could billion times more. Thus comparison, Exaflops in crunching speed vs desktop is like desktop vs your paper and pencil in number crunching speed. Thus, for some applications it might difference in productivity when pencil and paper calculations substitute with desktop use.
A lot of difference, isn't it? Beware of Big Brother.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Japan Pushes World’s Fastest Computer Past 10 Petaflop Barrier
GPUs, low-power pave path to exascale supercomputing
Internet Explorer Finally Falls Below 50% of Web Browser Use
But, will be bounded to Win8 ! Every fail is a road to the next Microsoft monopoly ! Windows are more than 98% OS's of choice among BAD HARDWARE WEEK visitors!
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Samsung is now a number one in the smart phone business
That's four times what Samsung sold last year and it's 65 percent more smartphone units than arch-rival Apple
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AMD Video Cards Now Support 16000x16000 Resolution
Fujifilm releases FinePix REAL 3D V3 viewer
