The world's first personal supercomputer, which is 250 times faster than the average PC, has been unveiled
David Kirk, chief scientist at NVIDIA, the American company which has designed the new technology, said: "Pretty much anything that you do on your PC that takes a lot of time can be accelerated with this".
Tesla personal supercomputers will cost between £4,000 and £8,000 and look much like an ordinary PC. These supercomputers can improve the time it takes to process information by 1,000 times.
3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late: (For once, there is a good thing about sleeping late :-)
1 You may need more sleep than you think.
Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were "well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the light bulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
2 Night owls are more creative.
Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, "evening people" almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.
3 Rising early is stressful.
The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! (I personally find this to be true)
(source http://www.wired.com/science/
Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain
Researchers at Japan's ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed a system that can "reconstruct the images inside a person's mind and display them on a computer monitor."
According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make it possible to view other people's dreams while they sleep.
ATR chief researcher Yukiyasu Kamitani says, "This technology can also be applied to senses other than vision. In the future, it may also become possible to read feelings and complicated emotional states."
May be in future you could use this technology to understand why your kid is crying? ;-)
(source http://www.techpark.net/2008/
How to Win a 'Fifth-Generation' War:
The next generation of war -- the so-called "fifth-generation" -- won't feature armies or clear ideas. It will be what U.S. Army Major Shannon Beebe, the top intel officer for Africa, calls a "vortex of violence," (http://warisboring.com/?p=
5GW is what happens when the world's disaffected direct their desperation at the most obvious symbol of everything they lack, taking advantage of the tactics and battlefields pioneered by more highly organized fourth-gen warriors. The symbol is the United States, the world's sole super-power. And the fifth-gen fighters' weapon of choice is political "stalemate," contends Marine Lt. Col. Stanton Coer, in a new piece in Marine Corps Gazette. "5GW fighters will win by ... point[ing] out the impotence of secular military might. ... These fighters win by not losing, while we lose by not winning."
(also see
http://www.marinecorpsgazette-
http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/
http://www.defenselink.mil/
Siva, this is great work.
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Scientists Extract Images Directly From Brain: does this mean we can record our dreams on DVD and replay them? (I won't do that, my dreams are all pretty awful.)
Not only did your Supercomputer get personal, check this: New Scientist says LHC might be replaced by desktops!
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