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Not exactly a computer you can pick up at your local Circuit City, but we’ll make an exception for something that can break the petaflop barrier. IBM’s Roadrunner can fathom in excess of 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, which makes it twice as fast as the company’s previous machine, Blue Gene/L, that topped out at [...]
You know all those jokes you used to poke at the Internet illiterate about downloading the Internet, because you thought that you knew it was impossible? Yeah, well, that’s come back to bite you in the ass because the one company with the power to do so, IBM, looks to be making plans to do [...]
Now that wireless USB is a certified standard, people couldn’t wait to put it into something other than a USB device (kind of defeats the purpose, no?). Now it appears a couple of PC manufacturers have taken that leap.
If, like me, you enjoyed Tablet PC Review’s examination of the Lenovo X60 Tablet PC (y’know, the one with the multi-touch display that works with an active stylus and your finger), you might care to take a look at GottaBeMobile’s videos of the award-winning notebook. The first is a general review; the second looks more closely [...]
After the furore that Britain is turning into a CCTV nation, with one camera for every fourteen people, what excellent timing for IBM to reveal its Smart Surveillance System (S3) which is capable of analysing data from multiple sources, whether they be audio, video, radar or data from chemical detection sensors, in real-time, highlighting potential security threats.
“The [...]
