Friday, July 27, 2012

3 Pflops: Europe’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Inaugurated

SuperMUC, the most powerful X86 supercomputer in the world, is inaugurated.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

To Model the Simplest Microbe in the World, You Need 128 Computers

To Model the Simplest Microbe in the World, You Need 128 Computers
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VMware Acquires Once-Secretive Start-Up Nicira for $1.26 Billion

It will pay $1.26 billion for Nicira, a networking start-up that has sought to do to networks what VMware has done to computers.
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Big Brother is watching You !

EFF: Americans May Not Know It, But Many Are In a Face Recognition Database Now
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Whose iPad actually is?

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Philips' from 1999 or Apple's above from 2002 ?
The idea to ditch the keyboard for what Jobs calls a multi-touch display came about in the early 2000s.
The picture left comes from a 1999 slide presentation about a business development activity at Philips labeled the iHome project; a version of it used a special symbol based on the @ sign with a picture of a home was created for this project aimed a devices that combined media content display, user interaction and communications. One of the products was a PDA. Now, who will pay Apple for iPad patent? More pictures on Apple patent claims back to 2002 here.

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Gigabit speeds Wifi 5G

ASUS G75VW is world's first notebook to sport Broadcom 802.11ac WiFi
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Iphone 5 photo


Somewhat bigger, somewhat slimmer.


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Monday, July 16, 2012

Fast Forward Exaflops

The Department of Energy is continuing to dole out cash to pay for some of the basic research that needs to be done if the United States is going to field exascale-class supercomputers by 2020 or so.
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Friday, July 13, 2012

Fifty Years Ago Arthur C. Clarke Accurately Predicted We’d Be Able To Work Online in Our Pajamas

Fifty Years Ago Arthur C. Clarke Accurately Predicted We’d Be Able To Work Online in Our Pajamas__
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Go Dextr

dextr® is a revolution in mobile communications — transforming the way you text and type; taking a tiresome, mistake-prone chore into something fun, fast and easy.
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Is the God's particle actually a womans' band ?

Here is the first photo ever have been posted at web, some 20 years ago. The Cernettes.

For now we have only proved "single resonance" tune? instead of God's particle.
Solomon: It is the glory of God to conceal a matter, and it is the glory of a king to search out a matter.


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99% BAD HARDWARE WEEK: Einstein noted that God is subtle, but being not malicious remained a notorious comedian. Einstein alone is actually malicious, because he originally said He, only to confuse us.

Intel : Power consumption hurdles litter path to exascale computing

Intel : Power consumption hurdles litter path to exascale computing
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Friday, July 06, 2012

Faulty data misled pilot in Brazil-France crash


The Airbus 330 passenger jet flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed on June 1, 2009. 
A pilot facing faulty data and deafening alarms in an oversea thunderstorm pitched his plane sharply up instead of down as it stalled.
"I don't have control of the plane at all," the pilot said, a minute before it crashed 
"It was like a giant pinball machine in there," Goglia said. "You have lights and whistles going off all over the place. Which one do you believe? They have no reference to the sky because it's night and stormy. At the very least, they didn't know what to rely on."

 
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Tuesday, July 03, 2012

Why actually there is more matter than antimatter ?

Ratio of the two densities arises roughly as the ratio of the weak interaction scale to the strong interaction scale
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If there is no God's particle, no God too?

I show how the ordinary fermions can be partially composite, where the constituents participate in SU(2) × U(1) breaking. The mechanism assumes no exotic strong interaction dynamics since the force binding the constituents is entirely QCD-like. A family mass and mixing angle hierarchy can arise automatically in such models, without being put in by hand. Clues to flavor structure would be accessible at SSC energies in such a theory, including technibaryons that decay to ordinary fermions.
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Space is safe: Former astronaut Poindexter dies in watercraft accident

Alan Poindexter, a two-time space shuttle astronaut, has died after a personal watercraft accident in Pensacola, Florida, NASA said on Monday.
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Is it Higgs or not: Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on Wednesday

Fine, there is something there — a resonance
Physicists in Europe will present evidence of an entirely new particle on Wednesday
“Without a doubt, we have a discovery,” says one member of the team working on the ATLAS experiment, who wished to remain anonymous. Physicists have maintained that they will not announce the discovery of the Higgs until the signal surpasses 5 sigma, meaning that it has just a 0.00006% chance of being wrong. The ATLAS and CMS experiments are each seeing signals between 4.5 and 5 sigma, just a whisker away from a solid discovery claim. The results are also consistent with an analysis from the mothballed Tevatron collider, which was presented today at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.
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Who is still the operating systems king ?


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How many unique visitors Google have monthly ?

Blogspot 340M
Google+  250M
Gmail      430M
Youtube   800M
Search  3000M
Total:   4900M
Well most of the users use simulaaneously Search and Gmail. And Blogspot and Youtube. However, again the total is not below 3B. Facebook's  as the second ranked is however still below 1B.
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Morgan Stanley: Mobile > Desktop


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Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbital angular momentum multiplexing

Terabit free-space data transmission employing orbit
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Google launches great small (7-inch), $199 Android tablet

Google launches 7-inch, $199 Android tablet
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How Google+ Has Morphed Over The Past Year & What In 2013

Initially the launch was greeted with the collective cry, "Not another social network!" But over the past year Google+ has cemented its position as one of the Big Three social networks, alongside Facebook and Twitter. Or has it?
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Apple's next gambling: Apple to Build New Data Center in Reno, Could Create $1B Economic Impact in Nevada

Assuming all goes well, Apple hopes to start the construction process in August and complete the data center by the end of 2012
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Clouds fight

Where Google Compute Engine fits in 
At Google I/O, Google made it clear it will go head to head with Amazon. But how do you choose between their clouds?


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