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What a bankruptcy ?!

AMD and others quit benchmark group due to 'Intel bias'

"The heart of our complaint is this: the SYSmark benchmark is not only comprised of unrepresentative workloads (workloads that ignore the importance of heterogeneous computing and, frankly, favor our competitor’s designs), but it actually generates misleading results that can lead to very poor purchasing decisions," AMD's chief marketing officer Nigel Dessau wrote in a blog post.

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LinkedIn, for 3 Billion Dollars

Still remember when Ahmed Kilani, invited me to the place ... I, then, expressed my feelings towards this "just another human network" thing. While it truly is, its value is nearly 3 Billion Dollars now. I truly dont understand how those business get to this level of income and hence worth ! Click the title for more on this

A step in mass storage technology

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) has built a solid state storage system that they claim outperforms state-of-the-art flash memory products. The new system, know as Moneta, uses phase change memory, a technology that some predict will replace the NAND flash memory used in nearly every solid state drive (SSD) today. The UCSD prototype will be on display this week at the Design Automation Conference in San Diego

Skype protocol reversed engineered

Efim Bushmanov has decided he wants to open source the Skype protocol. The researcher claims to have already achieved the reverse engineering part.

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Cray's first GPU based Supercomputer

GPU based computing will soon be the trends ..

Strategic Plan Workshop 2011

Visio Via slate

I don't like it, but Natalie Del Conte has become Natalie Morris

Anyway, click the title to see her talking bout the Visio slate on cnet

Google kills the newspaper archiving project

Google kills the project through which it it intended to archive the world news over time, click the title for the full story

Apple & Religion

Neuroscientists in Britian have found that Apple imagery activates the same parts of the brain in Apple fanboys that religious imagery does in followers of that religion. In heated arguments on the Internet, some users sometimes say that Apple is like a cult, and it seems there might be at least some truth to that. And a recent BBC TV documentary, Secrets of the Superbrands, looked at why technology brands have become so popular. The first episode was focused on Apple, but it will move on to other companies, like Twitter, Facebook, and possibly even Microsof

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Slates

What I was think in te early 1990's while in the united states, glad to have lived to see it although had no stake

3D transistor, a real thing now

As the designated enforcer of Moore's Law, Intel has consistently found a way to keep its two-year process shrink cadence on schedule. This time it's with three-dimensional semiconductors, by "re-inventing" the transistor with its new 3D Tri-Gate technology. Intel will begin churning out the Tri-Gate silicon in its upcoming "Ivy Bridge" processors, the 22nm shrink of the current generation 32nm Sandy Bridge processors. Intel maintains the 3D transistor technology will only add 2 to 3 percent to the cost of manufacturing the wafers, so system costs should take only a minor hit.

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iPad anatomy

My new Internet connection @ home, real difference

Basel, Switzerland

From Adiago Hotel in Basel, Switzerland, I walked through the Germany and France and had a nice one hour walk in each; no check points no police no nothing. Great feeling with no borders. The picture is for an old german side check point, empty just like teh Switzerland check point few meters away. Although Switzerlan is not part of the European Union

50 cent & 200 million dollars

50 cent is making a deal that is 400 million times his value, he would have made 400 millions dollars if his name was "buck",

Amazing computing power; 10 PFLOPS

A supercomputer with 80,000 processors to peak 10 PFLOPS, based on the Fujitsu's Sparc64 VIIIfx processor, an eight-core, 2.2GHz chip built on a 45-nanometer manufacturing process. Click the title for full article

Playing ... the wrong way

Click the title to see how a golfer started this fire in Irvine, CA

Mars, what is next ...

The ChemCam will fire a laser from the rover toward rock and soil targets up to 9 meters away, vaporizing materials from a 1 millimeter area and analyzing the atomic composition of the targets' surfaces. The vaporized material, a plasma of hot gas made of free-floating ions and electrons, will be analyzed by the onboard spectrograph.