China has built a super computer that can perform 1,000 trillion calculations (a petaflop) per second using it’s own microprocessor chips. This advance has surprised industry specialists in the US and abroad. This new super computer will now rank as one of the top 20 fastest computers in the world. The computer is composed of 8,700 ShenWei [...]

[Read more →]

Amazon used it’s EC2 cloud service to build a 10,000-core cluster, which has made the list of the world’s Top 500 supercomputers. This wasn’t a first for the company–Amazon has already built a top supercomputer that lives in the cloud. The new computer runs an HPC-optimized application and a batch scheduling technology. The 10,000 cores [...]

[Read more →]

Youtube Feed is a new Chrome extension invented by an engineer staff member of the company. The extension should be a hit with the API community, as it will fetch the activity of your Youtube account including friends’ actions. This tool will help track videos that your friends upload to Youtube or comments made on [...]

[Read more →]

A United States piracy list pointed to China, Russia, and Canada as the top three worst governments for enforcing copyright policy in the world (in respective order). China’s Foreign Ministry stated that these claims were “groundless” and says that China is doing a lot to combat piracy in copyrighted films, music, video games and other [...]

[Read more →]

The National Ignition Facility in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory performed a successful test of the controlled fusion experiments using all 192 lasers. This test did not utilize the full power of the system. Higher power tests will begin in May. One of the concerns that this test alleviated was that the plasma produced by [...]

[Read more →]

The AMD Radeon HD 5670 will be the first graphics card to support Direct X for under 100 dollars–essentially allowing “next generation” graphics for nearly any budget. The graphics card will be smaller than previous models, and yet it will still support features like DirectCompute 5.0, Eyefinity multi-monitor gaming and DX11, such as tessellation, in [...]

[Read more →]

During Capital Market Day, Nokia unveiled plans to overhaul the user interface design for Symbian smart phone. The chief executive of Nokia, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, stated “Symbian OS is not the problem, the user interface is.” The new user interface will show up in phones in 2010. The goal of the new design will be to [...]

[Read more →]

Barnes & Noble will launch a Google Android powered wireless device that they hope will make them competitive with Amazon.com. The device will have a 6-inch touch screen and virtual keyboard. In July, Barnes & Nobles announced that it would be returning to the e-book market with some type of digital-book store.

[Read more →]

AT&T is now changing it’s mind about VOIP applications. It will now allow applications such as Skype and Vonage to run on it’s 3G wireless network. Consumers will rejoice at this decision, which will tax AT&T’s system resources. Recently the Federal Communications Commission has been investigating both Apple and AT&T on how it treats VoIP [...]

[Read more →]

Time, place and message are three vital components to match a need with a product. Apple may be able apply some innovative thinking and help transform the newspaper, magazine and textbook industry with a new product. Apple is planning on placing a multitouch tablet on the market. With it’s ever popular iTunes store to distribute [...]

[Read more →]