After much speculation and rumor, it looks like Apple is finally ready to tell public what the iPad 2 will be all about. Will we get that rumored iPad Retina display upgrade? We'll find out, come March 2nd.
I recently posted an interesting video of a seemingly infinite waterfall, but I'd like to bring it up again. Why? Because an endeavoring BoingBoing user has taken the time to present a possible solution to the problem.
The solution he presents is actually quite close to what I speculated in my earlier post. The only real difference between his solution and mine, is, I believe it could be done in one take, while he says it took two. However, until the author of the original video says otherwise, it will still remain a mystery.
Mike Good and Kevin Collins from IBM, posed in front of what will be the housing for Mira.
According to a recent post on StarTribune.com, IBM has drawn up plans to build what will be, the world's fastest supercomputer, with a processing capacity 4 times that of the closest competitor, the Tianhe-1A in China.
The "Mira", as it will be called, will be built in Rochester Minnesota, at an expected cost of 50 million dollars, with well over 750,000 individual processors. When Mira is finally operational, IBM plans to use it to develop things such as, new batteries for electric cars, new drugs, or even nuclear weapons.
Due to a bug in their latest P67 chipsets, Intel has issued a recall on many of it's "Cougar Point" motherboards, and also some of it's "Sandy Bridge" CPUs. The bug apparently relates to SATA speed degradation over time, a bug they say exists at a hardware level, so any kind of patch is out of the question. For more details about the recall, see the link below.
[UPDATE] Apparently the recall only affects the "Cougar Point" motherboards, and the CPUs shouldn't be affected by the recall. Here's a quote from AnandTech:
"Intel maintains that Sandy Bridge CPUs are not affected, and current users are highly unlikely to encounter the issue even under heavy loads."
Sometime a news story is so good you just have to post it, this is one of those times. Apparently during a recent Chinese news broadcast, the Chinese government aired an alleged weapons demonstration, but instead of airing real footage, they actually aired footage from movie Top Gun. As you can see in the picture above, we have the news footage on the left, and a screenshot of the movie on the right. Oh China, when will you learn?
Just this morning, for reasons currently unknown, Eygyt has been cut off from the outside world, as they are now under a communications blackout, meaning, no internet or cell communcations can enter or leave the country.
The above video was reportedly filmed on the 27, and if the film is to be believed, there seems to be massive civil unrest in the country right now. I'll post more on the situation as it unfolds, in the meantime, I've added a few links below with further information on the blackout.
UPDATE: It seems the events in the above video are real, and are an attempt by citizens to protest their President Hosni Mubarak's totalitarian rule. The internet shutdown seems to have been an effort by the government to prevent the protesters from organizing their resistance, as the first round of protests was organized almost entirely on social networking sites like Facebook.
There also seems to be a concerted effort to crackdown on all media coverage of the events, with CNN reporting that several of their cameras have been seized by local police, and/or destroyed.
