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Small firm creates supercomputer Thunder

News Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet -- and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real-estate office.

11 May 2004, 9:30

Supercomputing: Small firms making a big impact

News Thunder, a supercomputer recently installed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is possibly the second-most powerful computing machine on the planet -- and it was built by a company with about as many employees as a real estate office.

18 May 2004, 10:35

LCD giants offer better phone displays

News There's nothing that gets corporations going like a group of potential customers that will soon include half the people on the planet. Mobile phone shipments long ago passed PC shipments, but most mobile phones displays have yet to approach the...

23 March 2006, 10:13

Microsoft vs Google: Who's greener?

News As Google and Microsoft battle for the hearts and minds of Internet users, a new question has cropped up: which one is doing more to save planet Earth? Being portals and search engines, the companies are likely to be among the worst energy users...

7 June 2006, 9:57

Photos: NASA tests robot moon trucks

News Based on the success of Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which have been exploring the planet for more than four years, NASA engineers decided to use six wheels per vehicle as a standard. NASA is planning development of a fleet of robotic...

Tags: surface, moon, vehicle, apollo

29 February 2008, 9:41

Computing grid unlocks secrets of space

News The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) being constructed at CERN, near Geneva, will be the largest scientific instrument on the planet and will need the hugely powerful computing to process the 15 petabytes of data that it will produce each year.

25 November 2005, 9:48

Images: New visions from Google Earth

News Think of it as a browser to fly around the planet and discover things about the Earth," said John Hanke, director of Google Earth and Maps. Google announced on Wednesday that new partners will directly overlay Google Earth maps with video, photo...

14 September 2006, 10:51

Rich 3D imagery enhances Google Earth

News It's just one more step on the path of creating a life-like 3D model of the whole planet," said Google in a statement on Monday. Users of Google's latest edition of its mapping application are now able to build and share rich 3D content.

11 January 2007, 10:28

BitTorrenter convicted of sharing Sandra Bullock

News The unemployed 38-year-old used the software to distribute the copyrighted films Miss Congeniality, Daredevil and Red Planet. A Hong Kong man has been convicted of copyright infringement using the BitTorrent service, in what is believed to be the...

26 October 2005, 8:52

Will Wright: the origins of 'Spore'

News And the new game's conceit -- to let players take a microscopic spore and grow it into a larger organism, which then spawns a colony of small creatures that evolve into the population of a city and a planet before emerging into space colonies that...

24 March 2006, 12:29

News.blog: ARM extends to Android

News Barcelona at the Mobile World Congress.ARM's technology is found at the heart of almost every mobile phone on the planet. ARM plans to demonstrate prototype phones based on ARM processors and Google's Android operating system next week, possibly...

Tags: companies, handset, google, mobile phone

7 February 2008, 9:45

Perspective: Goodbye Apple security?

News The Windows platform (along with Internet Explorer) is clearly the most targeted and exploited operating system on the planet -- and it's now crashing the relatively virus-free Mac party. Apple last month dropped the bombshell that its new Boot...

4 May 2006, 8:44

Dell to cut PC power by 25 per cent

News Our customers are inspiring us to address the environmental challenges facing our planet," said Albert Esser, vice president of power and infrastructure solutions, Dell Product Group. Dell has committed to improving the energy efficiency of its...

Tags: technologies, dell, energy, roi

19 May 2008, 9:19

News.blog: ARM demos Google Android handset

News ARM's technology is found at the heart of almost every mobile phone on the planet. Prototypes of the first mobile handsets using Google's Android software debuted at the GSMA's Mobile World Congress here on Monday, and I got a sneak peek at a...

Tags: mobile phone, handset, linux, platform

12 February 2008, 9:24

PC Gaming Alliance formed to fight consoles

News Rounding out the list are developer Epic Games and the biggest third-party publisher on the planet, Activision. With consoles now increasingly intruding on such hallowed ground as the real-time strategy genre, many PC gamers have adopted something...

Tags: board, developers, companies, market

21 February 2008, 9:00