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Hardware
It Takes 147,456 PowerPC Processors To Out-Think A Cat
4:01AM John Herrman | Also on IBM’s cat-sized-brain-simulation materials list: 143 terabytes of RAM, miles and miles of cabling, a million watts of electricity, 6675 tons of air-conditioning equipment and an acre of floor space. More »
Computers
New Fastest Supercomputer Also Has The Largest, Tackiest Case Mod
6:00AM Jesus Diaz | This is Jaguar, the new King of the Petaputerpower Hill, running at 1.75 petaflops-per-second. The Cray XT5 supercomputer was behind IBM’s Roadrunnner for more than a year, until some clever scientist decided to paint a running Jaguar all over it. More »
Business
IBM And Intel Executives Arrested For Insider Trading
8:55AM Chris Jacob | Six people in total were arrested today for making too much money too easily, among them executives from IBM and Intel. These guys made $US20 million in profits between January and July 2007 by passing insider info regarding Google, Hilton Hotels and Polycom onto a trader. Now they’re all facing multiple counts of conspiracy and securities fraud. More »
Business
Why IBM Is In Trouble With The Antitrust Police
6:19AM Fake Steve Jobs | Of course Microsoft is behind this government inquiry into IBM over antitrust issues. Ballmer is going nuts because he wants to own the glass house and for years he’s tried and failed to pry customers away from those fugly old mainframes. [FakeSteveJobs]
Computers
ThinkPad’s $US100/Year Warranty Service Is Actually Pretty Good
12:20PM Jason Chen | Boing Boing Cory relates this tale using his $US100/year global support service for his Lenovo laptop and actually liking what eventually happened. Wha?? More »
Science
Battery 500 Project Wants To Make An 800km Range Battery
4:40AM Jason Chen | IBM, Berkeley and five US National Labs are collaborating in a consortium to make an electric vehicle battery that goes all the way up to 800km per charge. More »
Phones
Videophones As Imagined In 1910 Still Had Dancing Webcam Girls
6:20AM Jack Loftus | I’m ashamed to admit I was surprised someone had the videophone figured out as early as 1910. I also need to apologise to that old crazy guy in the park—your Prohibition-era webcam stories may have been true after all! More »
Computers
Lenovo Goes All Multitouch On Us With The X200 Tablet, T400s
2:01PM John Herrman | The most important thing to remember about the multitouch Apple tablet is that it doesn’t exist. So how about two multitouch laptops that do, from another hardware manufacturer that people actually like? Enter the Lenovo X200 tablet and T400s laptop. More »
Science
Nanowires Making Gadgets Smaller And Faster
9:20AM Joanna Stern | Computers have been getting shrinking for years, yet they cram the same amount of power if not more. Essentially that is Moore’s Law, or the theory that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubles a year. More »
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