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The fastest Android gaming tablets
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on April 27, 2013
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Sony ISP launches world's fastest home Internet, 2Gbps
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on April 15, 2013
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A Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world's fastest for home use.
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Soyuz takes off on fastest flight to space station
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on March 28, 2013
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An American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts blasted off on what is expected to be the fastest trip to the International Space Station in the history of space flight.
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Too Much Gold Delays World’s Fastest Supercomputer
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on March 14, 2013
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Nerval’s Lobster writes “The fastest supercomputer in the world, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s ‘Titan,’ has been delayed because an excess of gold on its motherboard connectors has prevented it from working properly. Titan was originally turned on last October and climbed to the top of the Top500 list of the fastest supercomputers shortly thereafter. Problems with Titan were first discovered in February, when the supercomputer just missed its stability requirement. At that time, the problems with the connectors were isolated as the culprit, and ORNL decided to take some of Titan’s 200 cabinets offline and ship their motherboards back to the manufacturer, Cray, for repairs. The connectors affected the ability of the GPUs in the system to talk to the main processors. Oak Ridge Today’s John Huotari noted the problem was due to too much gold mixed in with the solder.
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Netflix introduces ISP Speed Index, shows the fastest and slowest ISPs
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on March 12, 2013
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Have you ever wondered how your Netflix experience stacks up compared to that of other users? Netflix mas made it easy to satisfy that curiosity by introducing its ISP Speed Index, which lists the fastest and slowest ISP for different countries based on information gleaned from its users, as well as the overall average speed
Ferrari Unveils World’s Fastest (and Most Expensive) Hybrid
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on March 11, 2013
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Hugh Pickens writes writes “Fred Meier reports that Ferrari has unveiled its fastest car ever, a nearly 1000 hp. gas-electric hybrid dubbed LaFerrari that does 0-62 mph in less than 3 seconds, 0-124 in less than 7 seconds, 0-186 mph in 15 seconds. “We chose to call this model LaFerrari,” says Ferrari’s President, Luca di Montezemolo, “because it is the maximum expression of what defines our company – excellence. …Aimed at our collectors, this is a truly extraordinary car which encompasses advanced solutions that, in the future, will find their way onto the rest of the range.” LaFerrari is the company’s first hybrid and has a system that incorporates technology developed for the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One race car’s KERS (kinetic energy recovery system) setup. In LaFerrari, the hybrid (HY-KERS) version uses a 6.26-liter, non-turbo, V-12 gas engine rated at 800 hp coupled with a 163 hp. electric motor for a combined rating of 963 hp. A second, separate electric motor drives the power accessories.”
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The world’s fastest microscopic 3D printer
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on February 21, 2013
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Buffalo sets Feb. launch date for ‘world’s fastest’ external PC hard drive
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on February 15, 2013
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Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache to achieve what Buffalo says is the world’s fastest transfer speed.
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Jaguar XFR-S teased: Fastest and most powerful big cat sedan yet
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on November 21, 2012
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Oak Ridge’s new Titan supercomputer is the fastest in the world
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on November 13, 2012
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U.S. city gets one of the world’s fastest networks… for a week
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on November 10, 2012
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Lucky Salt Lake. The annual conference of Super Computing is bringing 800Gbps of bandwidth with it to the mid-size Utah city. [Read more]
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Intel, HP offer fastest ever chips for high-end servers
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on November 10, 2012
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The other fastest selling smartphone in the world
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on November 5, 2012
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The fastest way to close all running programs in Windows
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on October 27, 2012
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With just a handful of keystrokes you can shut down all active apps on your system via Task Manager’s Programs tab. Plus: power off your PC by pressing three keys. [Read more]
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The Fastest ISPs In the US
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on October 1, 2012
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adeelarshad82 writes “For a second year in a row PCMag partnered with Speedtest to find out the fastest ISPs in the U.S. The results were a product of 110,000 tests ran between January 1, 2012 and September 19, 2012. Collecting data for both download and upload speeds for each test, Speednet was able to calculate an index score for a better one-to-one comparison, where downloads counted for 80 percent and uploads 20 percent. Moreover, rather than testing the upload and download speed of a single file, the tests used multiple broadband threads to measure the total capacity of the “pipe.” While the results at the nationwide level were fairly obvious with Verizon FiOS crushing its opposition, the results at regional level were a lot more interesting and competitive.”
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Texas Opens Fastest US Highway With 85 MPH Limit
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on September 7, 2012
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Hugh Pickens writes “Most highways in the U.S. top out at 75 mph, while some highways in rural West Texas and Utah have 80 mph speed limits. All that is about to change as Texas opens a stretch of highway with the highest speed limit in the country, giving eager drivers a chance to rip through a trip between two of the state’s largest metropolitan areas at 85 mph for a 41-mile toll road between Austin and San Antonio. While some drivers will want to test their horsepower and radar detectors, others are asking if safety is taking a backseat. A 2009 report in the American Journal of Public Health found that more than 12,500 deaths were attributable to increases in speed limits on all kinds of roads and that rural highways showed a 9.1 percent increase in fatalities on roads where speed limits were raised. ‘If you’re looking at an 85 mph speed limit, we could possibly see drivers going 95 up to 100 miles per hour,’ says Sandra Helin, president of the Southwestern Insurance Information Service. ‘When you get to those speeds, your accidents are going to be a lot worse. You’re going to have a lot more fatalities.’”
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IBM Mainframe Running World’s Fastest Commercial Processor
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on August 28, 2012
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dcblogs writes “IBM’s new mainframe includes a 5.5-GHz processor, which may be the world’s fastest commercial processor, say analysts. This new system, the zEnterprise EC12, can also support more than 6-TB of flash memory to help speed data processing. The latest chip has six cores, up from four in the prior generation two years ago. But Jeff Frey, the CTO of the System Z platform, says they aren’t trading off single-thread performance in the mainframe with the additional cores. There are still many customers who have applications that execute processes serially, such as batch applications, he said. This latest chip was produced at 32 nanometers, versus 45 nanometers in the earlier system. This smaller size allows more cache on the chip, in this case 33% more Level-2 cache. The system has doubled the L3 and L4 cache over the prior generation.”
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U.K. aims for the fastest broadband in Europe by 2015
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on August 21, 2012
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The U.K.’s culture secretary has repeated his ambition of Britain having the fastest broadband on the continent by 2015.
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UK aims for the fastest broadband in Europe by 2015
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on August 21, 2012
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The U.K.’s culture secretary has repeated his ambition of Britain having the fastest broadband on the continent by 2015.
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Twilio Says It Is The Fastest Growing Short Code Provider In The U.S.
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on August 11, 2012
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A little over a year ago, cloud communications company Twilio launched Short Codes, dedicated 5 or 6 digit numbers for sending and receiving text messages at volume. Since then, Twilio has become the fastest-growing short code provider and has found surprisingly differing uses for its product.
“People have started using our Short Code product in ways we didn’t ever expect,” Patrick Malatack, the product manager in charge of Short Codes, tells me.
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MemSQL Makers Say They’ve Created the Fastest Database On the Planet
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on June 25, 2012
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mikejuk writes “Two former Facebook developers have created a new database that they say is the world’s fastest and it is MySQL compatible. According to Eric Frenkiel and Nikita Shamgunov, MemSQL, the database they have developed over the past year, is thirty times faster than conventional disk-based databases. MemSQL has put together a video showing MySQL versus MemSQL carrying out a sequence of queries, in which MySQL performs at around 3,500 queries per second, while MemSQL achieves around 80,000 queries per second. The documentation says that MemSQL writes back to disk/SSD as soon as the transaction is acknowledged in memory, and that using a combination of write-ahead logging and snapshotting ensures your data is secure. There is a free version but so far how much a full version will cost isn’t given.” (See also this article at SlashBI.)
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Bentley shows fastest Continental yet
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on June 20, 2012
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Bentley released details of its 2013 Continental GT Speed, which can hit 205 mph.
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US takes back supercomputing crown with world’s fastest computer
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on June 19, 2012
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IBM Sequoia Supercomputer grabs World’s Fastest crown
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on June 18, 2012
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IBM has reclaimed the World’s Fastest Supercomputer crown, with a 16.32 sustained petaflop monster called Sequoia installed at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Based on a 96-rack IBM Blue Gene/Q system, NNSA’s new toy will be used to model nuclear weapons management, including artificial testing so as to avoid the need for underground performance tests. The
Ecommerce Study Finds Mobile Safari To Be Fastest Growing Web Browser
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on June 1, 2012
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Much of the time when you talk about browser market share, it’s in the context of IE vs. Chrome vs. all the rest. But new data released from e-commerce technology company Monetate today has thrown the mobile version of Safari into the mix. The result? The firm found Mobile Safari to be the most rapidly growing web browser over the past year on its sites, going from 5.84% in Q1 2011 to 11.12% in Q1 2012. That’s not to say it’s the top browser – Internet Explorer still holds that crown – but it’s impact is being felt.
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Star Trek Luminaries Behind the Fastest Funded Film Project On Kickstarter
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on May 27, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Legendary sci-fi writer Marc Zicree (Star Trek, Babylon 5, Sliders) and special effects wizard Doug Drexler (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica) are behind the fastest funded film project on Kickstarter. They’re using crowd-funding website kickstarter to directly communicate with and enlist the support of fans for their latest project Space Command. Maybe with direct communication, sci-fi fans can rest easy and not have to worry about their favorite shows being cancelled like FireFly.”
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Intel vs. AMD: Who’s got the fastest chip now?
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on May 22, 2012
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Has AMD finally got Intel beat? Overall, the answer is no.
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Blog – The Fastest Tablet Ever (For Now)
Posted by Gsurface
on November 29, 2011
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The quad-core tablets are coming. First up: the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime.
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime–let’s call it the Transformer Prime, for “short”–can now be pre-ordered online, report several sources. It may not be the most eagerly awaited gadget of all time, and it may not be the most elegantly named, but it marks a new era: the Transformer Prime is the first tablet that comes with a quad-core processor built in.
Wikets: Fastest review site in the West
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on November 8, 2011
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Here’s a new way to make quick recommendations for the products and services you like. And maybe make a few pennies for doing so.
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Fujitsu’s 10.51 petaflop K supercomputer is fastest in the world
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on November 4, 2011
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Fujitsu, sweaty palmed from the construction of the K supercomputer, swore the colossal machine would manage a speed of ten petaflops by the year 2012. The effort has paid off handsomely: the hangar-sized machine has a top speed of 10.51. If you wanted to duplicate that setup at home, you’d only need 864 racks, 88,128 processors and enough cash in your back pocket to front an annual electricity bill of $ 10 million a year. The company will be spilling all at November’s SC11 conference in Seattle, where the K will cement its position as the fastest computer in the world. One last thing — we have a hunch that this machine can just about play Crysis.
Fujitsu’s 10.51 petaflop K supercomputer is fastest in the world originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Klip is fastest iPhone video app to 100,000 downloads
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on October 3, 2011
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New app from serial entrepreneur Alain Rossmann hit six figures in just a week after its release. The app relies on all-new adaptive streaming technology to allow continuous playback, regardless of bandwidth quality.
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