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Supercomputer slays UK's top chess player

News According to the team that developed Hydra, it can calculate 200 million moves per second, and look up to 40 moves ahead. Adams was at a disadvantage, as he was estimate to only be able to calculate 1.4 moves per second, and look up to seven or...

1 July 2005, 16:53

Portable hologram projectors 'by 2010'

News The powerful onboard processor on the Infosys machine would build a series of 2D shots taken, for example, from a digital camera, into 3D holograms using algorithms called 'Fourier' transformations to calculate the extra third dimension.

Tags: handsets, indian, holographic, gaming

20 June 2008, 9:37

Photos: Computers of yesteryear

News A similar machine was later used at Los Alamos to calculate differential equations for the Manhattan Project. A giant disk used for storage on the Xerox Alto computer, as seen at the DigiBarn Computer Museum in Boulder Creek, California.

20 August 2007, 9:45

Microsoft takes a stand on 'virtual' licensing

News Starting in December, the company will calculate the cost of server software products by the number of running instances of that product on any given server, rather than the number of physical processors contained in that server.

11 October 2005, 9:06

Chess grandmaster to battle supercomputer

News According to the team that developed Hydra, it can calculate 200 million moves per second and see up to 40 moves ahead. The UK's top chess player is going head to 'heads' with Hydra, a cluster PC in the United Arab Emirates.

22 June 2005, 9:33

Photos: High tech travel in Ford's taxi

News The touchscreen offers a running tally of the cab fare and the now familiar credit or debit choices, and kindly helps you calculate a tip. Ford Motor has long been a big-time supplier of taxis, from the Crown Victoria, with its generously...

Tags: driver, connect, credit, auto

21 March 2008, 8:00

Google topples Microsoft in brand stakes

News The aim of the ranking is to calculate the value a brand is expected to generate for its owner in the future. Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007.

23 April 2007, 9:11

PS3 owners keen to help health research

News Thanks to the PS3, we have performed simulations in the first few weeks that would normally take us more than a year to calculate. A month after Sony launched a PlayStation 3 update with support for the Folding@home distributed computing project...

26 April 2007, 10:31

Sat-nav for joggers

News Even though Polar and Suunto watches can count a runner's heartbeats and the number of calories burned, they cannot calculate the exact distance travelled. GPS, already indispensable for soldiers, pilots and lorry drivers, is now also useful for...

6 June 2006, 9:29

Plan lets users rate their own vulnerability

News The new scoring system, which uses numbers between 1 and 10, enables organisations to calculate the specific risk to their own environment by adding information related to their IT systems. A plan to make it easier for companies to determine how...

19 September 2005, 9:31

EC to cap roaming rates

News Which is why the way in which we calculate the wholesale average price and the way in which we place the consumer protection tariff and average retail price matters. Holidaymakers and business travellers could soon see a maximum price on their...

28 February 2007, 9:07

Microsoft vs Google: Who's greener?

News Microsoft also has agreed to promote individual carbon dioxide emission reduction among its employees as part of the Cool It campaign and Web site, which allows people to calculate their own carbon dioxide emission amount, Van Velsor said.

7 June 2006, 9:57

Mobile phone crypto aims to baffle eavesdroppers

News Dimension Data's Campbell said that companies thinking about implementing such a solution will need to calculate how much they could lose if their communications were intercepted. An Australian company last week launched a security tool for GSM...

2 June 2005, 9:04

LCD TVs to get carbon nanotube boost?

News The work on those sets has been transferred from the company's lab to Samsung Display, which will try to calculate if FED TVs can be economically mass-manufactured. The Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, the laboratory arm of the South...

8 November 2006, 11:06

Virtual gaming's elusive exchange rates

News But Hunter, who is a co-editor of Terra Nova, the leading Web site about virtual economies, and Ed Castronova, another Terra Nova co-editor and a professor at Indiana University, think the task of figuring out the real exchange rates is currently...

8 August 2005, 9:25