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Military supercomputer surpasses petaflop milestone

An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second. The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supe...

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Power of Thought — June 09 08

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In Japan, cellphones have become too complex to use

Steve Jobs’ new iPhone, expected to be unveiled Monday, is headed to Japan by the end of the year. But the device’s famed ease of use may actually be a put off in Japan, where consumers want features, not simplicity.   Indeed, Japanese handsets have become prime examples of featur...

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Power of Thought — June 06 08

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Movies on iTunes come to the UK

Apple has started offering movies for sale or rent to UK users of iTunes. More than 700 titles will be on offer from the launch date, 100 of which will be available in high-definition. Many of the titles on sale for downloading via iTunes will be going on sale on the same day they are released on...

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Power of Thought — June 04 08

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Mozilla guns for Guinness world record with Firefox 3.0

Mozilla aims to make Firefox 3 a record breaker. It wants the release of the next version of its flagship open source browser to be accompanied by a record for the most software downloads in a single 24-hour period*. Download Day - as Mozilla dubs it - will begin the minute Firefox 3 is generally...

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Power of Thought — May 29 08

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Twitter At scale: Will it work?

Only two days ago the contact messaging application Twitter suffered another bout of downtime, leaving some users frustrated and others asking why the platform continues to suffer problems. Techcrunch recently spoke to an individual who is familiar with the technical problems at Twitter as well a...

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Power of Thought — May 22 08

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Are you ready for Windows 7?

“Hold the line!” That’s the new rallying cry for the core Windows development team. Add new features. Tweak existing ones. But whatever you do, don’t make Windows 7 any slower or fatter than Vista. I have little doubt those are the marching orders for Windows 7, given the ...

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Power of Thought — May 21 08