The world’s fastest open-science supercomputer has finished its NVIDIA Kepler-based upgrade. The newly-rebranded Titan at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory now contains 18,688 Tesla K20 GPU accelerators that helps it achieve a peak performance of more than 20 petaflops. Previously known as Jaguar, the 200-cabinet supercomputer now runs 10 times faster […]
Penguin and Random House have announced they will merge to become the world’s biggest English-language book publisher – about 25% of all consumer books written in English. This is likely a result of the ever-growing and competing e-book market, though neither admits it. Under the terms, Random House will own 53 percent of Penguin Random […]
Philips revealed a new product on Monday with the Hue LED lightbulb system. It will be sold exclusively at Apple stores starting on October 30, with a kit that includes three bulbs and a Wi-Fi bridge that connects to a router or as individual bulbs. Users can then control the color of the LED bulb […]
Google has updated its Crisis Map to cover Hurricane Sandy, with a view to helping people survive the weather event. The map can be used to track the storm, as well as provide regional alerts and other information that would be useful in such an emergency, and is similar to the Crisis Map used by […]
The trailer for Dustin Hoffman’s directorial debut, Quartet, is now here! The movie will hit the big screen on December 28. Quartet tells the story of Reggie (Courtenay), Wilf (Connolly) and Cissy (Collins) who reside in Beecham House, a home for retired opera singers. Each year they stage a concert to celebrate Verdi’s birthday, which […]
Lionsgate has released a new still from Kim Jee-Woon’s upcoming The Last Stand. Overview Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Sheriff Owens, a man who has resigned himself to a life of fighting what little crime takes place in sleepy border town Sommerton Junction after leaving his LAPD post following a bungled operation that left him wracked […]
Adam Sandler is going to be moving to Paramount Pictures for his next feature film, which will start shooting in April 2013. Deadline has now revealed that the title of the project, known to be a comedy western, is Ridiculous 6. The film is rumored to be a parody of John Sturges’ The Magnificent Seven. […]
Yahoo has purchased social startup Stamped, a company that developed apps to allow consumers to share favorite restaurants, video, and music on smartphones. A blog entry on the Stamped website states that Yahoo would discontinue the product by the end of the year, and that the existing team would be working on something “big, mobile […]
Clearwire indicated that it has significantly cut down plans to deploy TDD-LTE cell sites during 2013. The company originally intended to activate about 5,000 TDD-LTE sites around the country by the middle of 2013. Clearwire has reduced that number by 60%, down to just 2,000 sites. “We want to make sure our LTE network is […]
Amazon reported lower-than-expected quarterly results on Thursday. The e-tailer cites the European debt crisis and recession for reduced consumer demand, and heavy spending on distribution warehouses and cloud-computing data centers for the loss. Prior to this quarter, Amazon had generated 18 straight quarters of gains. The company said the third-quarter net loss was $274 million, […]
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