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Another Blue Ribbon Supercomputer for IBM
IBM’s Sequoia is now officially the fastest supercomputer in the world, beating down Japan’s Fujitusu-made K Computer into second place by some distance, according to a new list published by Top500. Sequoia, which is installed at the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, sees the US return to the pole position ...
Google Takes the Fight to YouTube Rip-Off Sites
Yet more court action looms large on the horizon, this time from search engine giants Google, who apparently decided enough is enough and threatened legal action against one of the biggest Youtube download websites. According to a report in TorrentFreak, Google wrote a letter to the owners of YouTube-MP3.org, pointing out that it’s in violation ...
Strange Big Data: A World Without the Web
It’s amazing to think, but a little over twenty years ago none of us were connected even remotely like we are now. The internet has changed the way we live beyond all comprehension – it’s changed the way we do business, the way we socialize and make friends, it helps us do our shopping, find ...
Facebook Gets In Your Face.com
Following weeks of speculation, it’s finally been confirmed that Facebook has another takeover in the works. They’re about to acquire the Israel-based startup Face.com, a company that specializes in the development of facial recognition technology for mobile devices. The acquisition of Face.com, a company that has already partnered with Facebook before, is just the latest ...
Sorry Twitter, but Your Expanded Tweets Don’t Fool Us
Time and time again, Twitter protests that they’re not a media organization. But if that’s really the case, what’s up with all of these new, expanded tweets? Check your tweets, click on ‘expand’ and you may just notice something a little bit different. Twitter announced earlier this week that it will be expanding its ‘expanded ...
Will Microsoft’s Tablet Challenge the iPad or the Kindle Fire?
Following months of uncertainty, speculation is rife that Microsoft is about to unveil its own tablet as the company looks to take a chunk out of either Apple’s or Amazon’s pie with its own branded device. It’s been revealed that Microsoft has scheduled an event for next Monday, June 18 at 3.30 pm PST in ...
Amazon Steps Up Cloud Support as Rivals Play Catch Up
Amazon is rapidly embracing its new persona as a tech vendor following the initial success of its Amazon Web Services. Yesterday, the company offered up a whole new host of improved support offerings for its public cloud-based web services, including lower costs for its premium support plans, as well as improved chat functionality, security features ...
Humans Make Poor Spam Filters – LinkedIn Alert Ignored by Thousands
In yet another setback for LinkedIn, it’s been revealed thousands of email alerts sent out by the company in response to last week’s password scandal have been wrongly marked as spam. The news probably doesn’t come as that much of a surprise – following such a glaring security breach, it’s to be expected that many ...
Bored with Apple, Samsung Declares War on Facebook Instead
Samsung getting fed up of copying making phones perhaps? Or do they genuinely believe they can do what the likes of Google and Apple have miserably failed to achieve? Either way, reports from Korea that the electronics and just-about-everything-else giant is planning to launch a social networking service to rival Facebook are sure to raise ...
Flame and Stuxnet Malware were “Parallel Projects”
Security experts have revealed that the creators of the Flame malware and the notorious Stuxnet worm, the two deadliest malicious programs ever discovered, likely collaborated with one another during their development, to the extent that they even used the same source code. The revelation will no doubt lead conspiracy theorists to point the finger of ...