The World’s First Supercomputer to Compete at Jeopardy!

Back in the mid-1990s, IBM was a joke in the supercomputing field, and Cray and Silicon Graphics were building the truly innovative and powerful machines and cheap x86-Linux clusters were just starting to get traction. IBM’s Power2 and PowerPC processors were 32-bit chips with nothing much impressive about them and its 64-bit PowerPC 620 and [...]

April 28th, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Toshiba Plans Self-Encrypting Drives for Early 2010

Toshiba Storage Device Division (SDD), the pioneer in small form factor hard disk drives (HDDs), has recently announced that it plans to officially unveil its new self-encrypting drive technology in a demonstration with Wave Systems’ Trusted Drive Manager application at the RSA(R) Conference 2009, April 21-23, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco California.
According to [...]

April 21st, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Robot Fish Detect Pollution

British scientists developed a robot fish that are to be released into the sea off north Spain to detect pollution. The robots were designed, and are being built, by professor Huosheng Hu and his team at the University of Essex, U.K.
If next year’s trial of the first five robotic fish in the northern Spanish port [...]

March 23rd, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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