‘Computers & Robotics’ News

Jaguar XT5: The World’s fastest Computer

Friday, November 20, 2009 5:03 By Jaiyant Cavale

Oak Ridge National Laboratory is located in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is owned by the Department of Energy in the US of A and they are in news because they house the superfast computer Jaguar XT5.
With a performance speed of 1.759 petaflops or quadrillions of calculations per second, it is the world’s fastest computer. The laboratory [...]

NextGen: GPS Enabled Navigation Devices Clear The Skies For Safer Flying

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 23:51 By Anna

Travelling by air isn’t that very difficult because all you have to do is buy a ticket and be at the airport on time. The stress upon the pilots and the flight controller, on the other hand, is nearly toxic. To prevent colliding with other planes, and birds, in the air, pilots have to rely [...]

Fedora 12 is ready to be downloaded

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 18:35 By NARUTO

The 12th version of Fedora Linux distribution derived from the old Red Hat Desktop and developed by the community, is now available for download. The system can be downloaded free of charge, either in the form of LiveCDs as a DVD installation.
Among the main features visible to the End User are the instant messaging client [...]

Haptic Cow: Sticking your hand up a cow’s butt just got better!

Tuesday, November 10, 2009 6:39 By Neo

Yup, there is absolutely no exaggeration here as that is exactly what a Haptic Cow promises for all those young and up coming veterinarians who are eager to learn their craft by sticking their hand up a cow’s rectum. Since the procedure is a must to check for pregnancy and health of the cow on [...]

Moblin 2.1 is ready!

Thursday, November 5, 2009 19:46 By NARUTO

The development team of the Moblin project, a Linux distribution optimized for netbooks originally created by Intel and now under the control of the Linux Foundation, announced Wednesday the launch of the first beta version of Moblin 2.1. Despite the small difference in the numbering, this version brings important changes in the question that matters [...]

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 11:01 By NARUTO

ASUS is the first manufacturer to market a motherboard compatible with the new USB 3.0 standard. According to the website The Register, the P7P55D-E is compatible with the new Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 and features two integrated USB 3.0 ports, plus 10 other USB 2.0 ports and a SATA controller can transfer data [...]

VMWare launches new products

Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:53 By NARUTO

VMware delivered new versions of its applications that let you run multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC with Windows or Linux and Macs. Both the Workstation 7, which runs on PC equipment, as the Fusion 3, developed for Mac platforms, come to market with support for Windows 7.
According to the portal InformationWeek, the [...]

Intel and AMD: get ready for the future

Tuesday, October 27, 2009 2:42 By NARUTO

While companies like AMD and Intel are trying to compress 3, 4 or even 6 cores in their processors, the chip maker American Tilera announced today that it plans to manufacture and sell a model with 100 cores called Tile-Gx. The main purpose of these processors, said Anant Agarwal, co-founder and CTO of the company, [...]

It’s Official: Dell’s 22 Inch Touch LCD

Saturday, October 24, 2009 11:31 By Radhika

The news leaked out rather quick. And when Japanese details flowed in, Dell decided to display its newest of offerings. On Friday, the computer major showed its SX2210T for US. The model is a touch-screen LCD.
It is the company’s first dedicated multi-touch display and supports one or two-finger input in operating systems that recognize them, [...]

Japanese Helmet Pulls Your Ears to Help Navigate

Saturday, October 24, 2009 10:59 By Radhika

It looks weird and functions peculiarly too. But a helmet shaped like that of a bicycle and looks more like a robotic crab is grabbing eyeballs. The Japanese gadget when worn, pulls your right ear when you should move right and left ear when you must move left.
In effect, it shows you direction without you [...]


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