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Intel shows off its Knights Corner one teraflops chip |
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Written by Urszula
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Friday, 18 November 2011 09:56 |
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Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.
The firm showed off the chip, dubbed Knights Corner, on a test machine at a supercomputing conference in Seattle.
Computer power on this scale is used to solve a range of problems in fields such as weather forecasting, molecular modelling and car crash simulations.
The chip pits Intel against rival add-on processors from Nvidia and AMD.
Intel's Rajeeb Hazra showed off the new super-chip in a basement of a cafe in Seattle
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Last Updated on Friday, 18 November 2011 10:38 |
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Police arrest 'hackers' in US, UK, Netherlands |
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Written by Urszula
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Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:35 |
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Police in the US, Britain and the Netherlands have detained more than 20 people as part of an investigation into major cyber attacks.
Most of the arrests were in the US, where the FBI said 16 people had been held for alleged computer hacking.
Fourteen of them were suspected of an online attack on PayPal, claimed by hacking group Anonymous, said the FBI.
In Britain, a teenager was arrested in London, while four other suspects were detained by police in the Netherlands.
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International Children's Day |
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Written by Urszula
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 13:00 |
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On this special day
the staff of laptopsdirect.net would like to wish all of you
everything that you can dream off.
We all have a bit of child inside - let it out today!
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Last Updated on Thursday, 02 June 2011 08:48 |
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Americans face piracy website blocking |
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Written by Urszula
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Saturday, 14 May 2011 14:35 |
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Websites that link to pirated music and movies or sell counterfeit goods could soon be blocked in America
US politicians are about to consider legislation which includes a raft of measures to clamp down on such sites.
The Protect IP bill gives government and copyright holders tools to stop Americans reaching illegal material.
Digital rights groups said they were "dismayed" by the proposals and feared the effect the final law would have on the internet.
The proposed law aims to limit web access to counterfeit goods sold online
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How close were the Terminator films to the reality of 2011? |
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Written by Urszula
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Friday, 22 April 2011 13:49 |
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The date 21 April 2011 has been prophesied in the Terminator series as Judgement Day, when the machines rise up and bring about the end of human society as we know it.
Artificial intelligence clearly has not developed in quite the way James Cameron's science-fiction franchise predicted, but how close are we to the technologies he depicted?
Central to the Terminator series is the idea of Skynet, the United States's "Global Digital Defense Network", which develops self-awareness and begins a nuclear war.
Western military forces have long relied on networks to distribute information, such as the US Department of Defense's system for sharing top-secret information - the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.
Yet despite the vast amounts of confidential data stored on such networks, the greatest military disaster to have occurred to date is probably Wikileaks's release of diplomatic cables.
Will he be back? - Could the dystopian future of Terminator still come true?
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