In Warmup Match, Jeopardy All-Stars Defeated By IBM's Supercomputer Watson
• popsci.comCan a computer beat a human in the most challenging trivia game on TV? Today, at IBM's headquarters in New York, we learned that the answer is yes
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Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now
• TED TalksTechnology is evolving us, says Amber Case, as we become a screen-staring, button-clicking new version of homo sapiens. We now rely on "external brains" (cell phones and computers) to communicate, remember, even live out secondary lives.
British Company Using E-Ink to Make Tanks Invisible
• Daily TelegraphArmoured vehicles will use a new technology known as "e-camouflage" which deploys a form "electronic ink" to render a vehicle "invisible". Highly sophisticated electronic sensors attached to the tank's hull will project images of the surrounding e
Rumour Points to "Extreme" Performance of AMD's Bulldozer Microprocessors.
• Anton ShilovAMD Reportedly Wants to Revive "FX" Moniker for Desktop Chips
AMD promises all day battery life with Fusion chips
• C ShantiWhen the Llano (A-Series) comes out, it will deliver 500 GFLOPs. AMD claims that’s 33 times more than a single CPU had two years ago. The Intel P6000 only provides 6h24m, while AMD’s E-350 will give 10h40m of battery life. Ontario, the C-Series, w
Passware Warns of Microsoft Encryption Hole
• PC MagazinePassword-recovery experts at Passware warned the security of Microsoft's Bitlocker whole-disk encryption is seriously compromised on a computer configured to use sleep mode. The same is true of the open-source TrueCrypt whole-disk encryption tool.
Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s
• Clay Dillow via PopSci.comThe holidays may be driving console sales, but so is the military. The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has strung together 1,760 PlayStation 3 gaming systems calling itthe fastest interactive computer system in the entire DoD
The Cloud – One Big Single Point of Failure
Brock LorberWhy Wikileaks and Amazon should be the topic de jure at every boardroom table.
3D Printer Prints its Own Upgrades
• PC WorldThe 3D printing scene is just getting weirder and weirder as more and more 3D printers get out into the wild. Today’s 3D printing development is a series of extendable clamps that allows the MakerBot 3D printer to print larger objects. This is no
Firm Offers $2K Bounty for Open-Source Kinect Drivers
• PC MagazineAdafruit Industries is offering a $2,000 bounty to anyone who can develop an open-source driver for Microsoft's newly released Kinect, a single piece of hardware that lets players control XBox games via their bodies, without a controller.
Tired of Repetitive Arguing About Climate Change, Scientist Makes a Bot to Argue For Him
• popsci.comGetting into a climate change debate on Twitter could be even more exhausting than it sounds now that a software developer named Nigel Leck has automated the process.
New Google Tool Makes Websites Twice as Fast
• technologyreview.comThe optimization tool is the latest result of Google's speed obsession and could add to the company's bottom line.
Supercomputer in China super fast: U.S. computers feel inadequate
• Washington Post blogChina unveiled the Tianhe-1A, out-powering the previous supercomputer record holder, the Cray XT5 Jaguar, by computing at a rate 43% higher. The computer is "another sign of the country's growing technological prowess that is likely to set off alarms
Twenty Dying Technologies
• Business WeekVery interesting list. At least 2 of these have barely got off the ground and Businessweek has already pronounced them dead.
Chinese Chip Closes In on Intel, AMD
• technologyreview.comChina may finally have a processor to power a homegrown supercomputer.
Nano-Gyroscopes Will Let Cell Phones Navigate Indoors, Underground
• Julie Beck via PopSci.comIsraeli researchers have created the tiniest-ever optical gyroscopes, as small as a grain of sand, but still maintaining the keen accuracy of their counterparts hundreds of times larger.
How Close Is a Workable Brain-Computer Interface?
• Technology ReviewNoninvasive communication between brains and computers just came a step closer.
New computers will ‘boot up in seconds’
• Claudine Beaumont via Telegraph.co.ukWave goodbye to BIOS, say hello to UEFI, a new technology that will drastically reduce start-up times.
Stuxnet Analysis Supports Iran-Israel Connections
• ThreatPost (hattip Shawn Dow)He programmed the pump to run for 3 seconds, gently inflating a balloon attached to the pump. O'Murchu then demonstrated how a Stuxnet infected PLC would instruct the pump to run, instead, for 140 seconds, quickly bursting the balloon.
Credit Card with a Computer Inside
•A smarter credit card could mean new security features and other functionality.
Sony Shows Prototypes of a Planned 3-D VAIO Laptop
• NewsfactorSony showed prototypes of an upcoming VAIO 3-D laptop at the IFA consumer electronics show that requires active-shutter glasses. Sony also plans to launch a 3-D TV channel. Sony is moving to add 3-D across its product line, including updates to Blu-r
Pentagon: 2008 Cyber Breach, Considered the Biggest Ever, Was Caused By a Simple Flash Drive
Ernest HancockA simple flash drive inserted into a military laptop at a location in the Middle East allowed malicious code to install and conceal itself on both classified and unclassified servers, opening them to foreign control.
Android Phones Can Substitute for Supercomputers
• Priya Ganapati via WIREDThere’s an app for almost everything. Now add one that can run calculations from a supercomputer on a Nexus One phone in real time and without the need for internet connectivity.
Wi-Fi hurting children
• godlikeproductions.comTORONTO — A group of central Ontario parents is demanding their children's schools turn off wireless Internet before they head back to school next month, fearing the technology is making the kids sick. Some parents in the Barrie, Ont., area say t
OLPC’s Negroponte Offers To Help India Realize $35 Tablet
• Ryan Paul via WIREDIn an open letter to the government of India, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project founder Nicholas Negroponte expressed enthusiasm for the country’s recently announced $35 tablet effort and offered to assist by making his organization’s technology an
Gorilla Glass thinner, lighter, stronger, and scratch resistant!
Andrew StrmicGlass manufacture Corning Inc. dust's off invention from 1960 that was shelved until it was re-discovered in 2005. This new glass is revolutionizing the industry with limitless possibilities!
Goodbye mouse: Apple's 'Magic Trackpad' goes on sale
• AFPApple on Tuesday unveiled the "Magic Trackpad," a touchpad which allows a user to operate a desktop computer with finger gestures, eliminating the need for a mouse. The Magic Trackpad costs 69 US dollars in the online Apple Store.
Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
• Tan Le via TEDTan Le's astonishing new computer interface reads its user's brainwaves, making it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with mere thoughts (and a little concentration). She demos the headset, and talks about its far-rea
Custom Proteins Drawn from Genetically Engineered Trees Expand Silicon Chips Memory Capacity
• Rebecca Boyle via PopSci.comIn the future, we won't need rare-earth elements to make powerful computers. We can use poplar trees. Engineers in Israel have figured out how to use protein molecules from poplars to improve computer memory. The technique uses silica nanoparticles c
It's a Trap! Atom Corral Is a Major Step Toward Quantum Computing
• Alessandra Calderin via PopSciThis maze of electrodes, known as a surface-electrode ion trap, brings us closer to building quantum computers—that is, computers that could manipulate the quantum-mechanical states of atoms to process data millions of times as fast as today’s most p
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