Seymour Cray, Super Computers and Inspirational Elves

April 21st, 2006 An interesting episode of how Vegita became super saiyan. This highlights something common with any big achievement.

June 23rd, 2009 New mafia game hits up Twitter players for moneySAN FRANCISCO — Twitter Inc.'s founders still haven't decided how to cash in on their popular Internet messaging service — to the delight of a rapidly growing audience. But the deliberate approach may not prevent a gold rush among opportunistic outsiders.

January 20th, 2008 I am just back from a Bengali wedding and I am writing this post after gulping some super strong antacid. I had a bad experience.

June 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Australian scientists have developed a new method for transmitting data with light that may lead to the development of teleportation technology and super-fast quantum computers. According to a report in www.news.com.au, the research team, from the Australian National University, developed a new approach to generating quantum entanglement in beams of light using only two parts.

June 24th, 2009 World's major computer manufacturers have been battling it out to build the most powerful computer on Earth. Any guesses for the world's fastest computer? Well, the Big Blue virtuosos have made it again.

January 11th, 2006 According to Steve Jobs keynote address at Macworld, 14 million iPods were sold in the holiday quarter (compared to 4.5 million a year earlier); 8 million videos sold through iTunes since October 12, when videos were first offered. Apple's retail stores also had their first billion-dollar quarter! Jobs introduced a super cool new accessory for the iPod.

January 6th, 2007 What does Paul Ellen (Fo-Founder of Microsoft) and Larry Ellision (Founder & CEO of Oracle) have in common with the crown prince of Dubai and Russian oilman Roman Abromavich (other than being super rich)? They are all proud owners of gargantum Yatchs. Paul's 416 feet vessel, named Octopus, comes with a remote controlled undersea rover, a 12-man submersible and a personal crew of 60, including several former Navy Seals and a recording studio.

June 30th, 2009 Texas man accused of hacking into clinic computersDALLAS — A security guard is accused of hacking into computers at a Dallas medical clinic where he worked in hopes of launching a massive computer attack before or on July 4. Jesse William McGraw is being detained following his arrest Friday on a charge of downloading malicious code into a computer without authorization.

September 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - University of Michigan physicists have created the first atomic-scale maps of quantum dots, a major step toward the goal of producing "designer dots" that can be tailored for specific applications like a quantum computer. Quantum dots-often called artificial atoms or nanoparticles-are tiny semiconductor crystals with wide-ranging potential applications in computing, photovoltaic cells, light-emitting devices and other technologies.

May 19th, 2006 Dell Computers (DELL) announced that it will start using AMD's processors, breaking its long-standing, single-source relationship with Intel (INTC) and giving AMD yet another victory over Intel. AMD shares surged 12% to $35.10 in late trading, while Intel shares dropped 5% to $17.80.

May 27th, 2007 Cartoon Network, stupidly as before, plans to stop DragonBall Z before Goku goes Super-Saiyan! As a commenter (Karthik) on my blog pointed out DragonBall Z isn't on display on June 30th (Saturday). In short this is plain stupid and ridiculous.

July 31st, 2009 WASHINGTON - A Tel Aviv University researcher has claimed that the first quantum computer could overnight threaten our security and our data. Dr. Julia Kempe, of Tel Aviv University's Blavatnik School of Computer Science, says that these new computers, still in the theoretical stage, will be many times more powerful than the computers that protect our data now.

February 17th, 2006 Why do we use "virus" to describe malicious replicating computer programs? Most of these programs are very complicated and intelligent (comparatively), which resembles more like a bacteria than a virus. Viruses are very simple organisms, very unlike todays "computer viruses".

April 7th, 2005 US has again achieved the dubious distinction of being responsible for maximum amount of spam (35%) with South Korea (25%) at second place. What is more interesting is: According to Sophos more than 50% of all spam is sent from "zombie" PCs, computers that have been take over by hackers or virus writers.

March 10th, 2006 The company said the new chip for server computers, called Woodcrest, would offer an 80 percent performance improvement and require 35 percent less power; the Conroe chip for desktop computers, which will be released later in the year, will offer 40 percent performance improvement and require 40 percent less power. The foundation for the chips is derived from the company's popular Pentium M chip for notebook computers, the company said.