...enter building #7 (WTC7). The report states that a crucial column (number 79) failed due to uncontrolled fires burning on several floors which produced "an extraordinary event." Once column 79 failed,...
Friday, November 21, 2008 09:48
NASA's Aqua satellite captured powerful images of the California wildfires yesterday using their Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). These images show a clear trail of smoke extend
Monday, November 17, 2008 14:59
...th GPU design knowledge and put those without this knowledge at a certain disadvantage. AMD updated its Fires tream product line with the new 4870 GPU-based Fires tream 9270 card. Priced at $1499, it i...
Thursday, November 13, 2008 07:00
... enough to keep you busy figuring out each message for hours, each Apple ad focuses on one key topic and fires away. Microsoft seems to be struggling to find a compelling angle with its ads. The cur...
Monday, October 20, 2008 14:33
Apple CEO Steve Jobs today introduced the new MacBook Pro notebook at
the Apple Town Hall event held at Apple's Cupertino campus. As
expected, the new notebook comes with more graphics horsep
Tuesday, October 14, 2008 13:40
Big acquisitions are rarely good news for employees, especially when companies are starting to use words such as “streamlining” or “restructuring”. 24,600 HP and EDS employees will have to sacrifice
Monday, September 15, 2008 17:13
...ous helicopters to search for land mines in war-torn areas or to map out the hot spots of California wildfires in real time, allowing firefighters to quickly move toward or away from them. "In order f...
Tuesday, September 02, 2008 17:13
...ows Vista is not a particularly difficult task these days. The SP1 update extinguished dozens of burning fires , but did not change the fact Vista remains below the expectations of many users – low eno...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008 13:45
A new 17” mobile workstation will join Lenovo’s Thinkpad family in
September: The W700 is Lenovo’s first 17” workstation notebook, the
first with a palm rest digitizer and one of the first no
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:23
Hitachi renovated its 3.5” hard drive family and now offers the
second-generation 1 TB drive, which does not offer more capacity or
speed, but comes with effective power saving features that
Wednesday, July 09, 2008 15:51
...sea ice decreasing every summer. According to a Scientific America article, soot from cars, forest fires and factories could be causing the snow and ice to melt faster. Pure ice and snow i...
Friday, June 27, 2008 17:52
...he infrastructure over time in order to build a strong economy and prepare for disasters such as floods, fires or earthquakes (not to mention SimCity’s monsters). MAEviz could be considered a very s...
Friday, June 20, 2008 18:00
... its predecessor and while the
device does not have the same peak performance as Nvidia’s Tesla or AMD
Fires tream cards, it is an extremely power efficient supercomputing
board that manages to prov...
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 00:00
...rise computing,
but some in fact have mainstream appeal. AMD’s ATI division, for
example, unveiled its Fires tream 9250 card, based on the upcoming RV770
GPU, which will be part of the 4800 series o...
Monday, June 16, 2008 00:36
...hotter than 210 degrees Fahrenheit during a fire, as 98% of radiant heat can be deflected. Typical house fires reach a heat of about 1100 degrees Fahrenheit with 3 to 5 minutes. There was no detailed ...
Monday, June 09, 2008 11:15
Lawrence (KS) – TJ Maxx employee Nick Benson thought he was doing a good deed by posting his work’s security horror stories on a popular web forum, but those posts recently got him fired. 23-ye
Thursday, May 29, 2008 05:12
...rdware future and we are looking forward to products surrounding GeForce, Tesla, Quadro, Radeon, FireGL, FireS tream and Larrabee. ...
Friday, May 23, 2008 12:22
...ny took a completely different direction and it simply expanded its GPGPU capabilities from professional FireS tream cards to the desktop. The Radeon 4800 series also includes 7.1 channel-via-HDMI sup...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 17:48
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) announced that it
has taken delivery of its “Bluefire” supercomputer, a new system that
is powered by 4.7 GHz IBM Power6 processors to prov
Thursday, May 08, 2008 11:43
...rt of this program – which, in its very basic concept, may be similar to AMD’s interests surrounding its Fires tream stream processor cards. But AMD may have a different idea how its x86 CPUs can be ex...
Friday, May 02, 2008 00:01
...and it certainly is a missed chance for AMD to get into a deeper agreement with Cray to position its own Fires tream stream processor products. ...
Monday, April 28, 2008 15:30
...t the answer he was looking for he would reprimand the employee and their managers. Steve Jobs evidently fires the employee. The end result however is that Steve does not have the level of...
Friday, April 25, 2008 11:24
...sktop and mobile (M88) graphics parts. RV770 will launch as Radeon 4800 and will make its way into the FireS tream stream processor and FireGL workstation cards. Both GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory will be s...
Monday, April 21, 2008 01:30
...cessor will be. If you have followed our coverage of Atom, especially our in-depth article “Intel fires up Atom processor”, then you already know all the details and specs of this processor. Th...
Friday, April 04, 2008 14:18
TG Daily In-Depth – Intel officially launched its new Atom processor,
previously code-named Silverthorne (for Mobile Internet Devices) and
Diamondville (for Netbooks and Nettops), which carri
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 22:30
There is lots of confusion about AMD cutting its workforce these days. And even if AMD has publicly stated that there won’t be any reductions in its workforce, we have received word that that two ma
Tuesday, April 01, 2008 15:57
...ion game? Such a game would start out with a fixed budget and some other resources. It would have forest fires , earthquakes, floods, and massive storms. It would have crops and transportation issues, ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 13:21
...ny is actually deeply involved in GPGPU applications. Companies like British Petrol (BP) have been using FireS tream cards based on X1900XTX chips for GPGPU purposes ever since ATI’s GPGPU platform was...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 01:00
...will crank out more than a Teraflop. This puts the card head to head with Nvidia’s Tesla cards and AMD’s Fires tream stream processor cards, but Intel believes it will have the decisive edge: Since the...
Monday, March 17, 2008 16:20
...s” and represent Intel’s first “many-core” product”.Like Nvidia’s Tesla cards and AMD’s stream processor Fires tream cards, Larrabee is expected to focus on visualization applications with supercompute...
Thursday, March 06, 2008 16:14
...massive floating point horsepower of graphics chips. AMD and Nvidia have begun pitching their Tesla and FireS tream stream processor cards as integral parts of deskside supercomputers, which offer ab...
Tuesday, March 04, 2008 18:29
...uter in your graphics card for a while and now that AMD offers double-precision capability in its latest Fires tream card we get a first taste how powerful these cards really are. The result may be dis...
Friday, February 01, 2008 10:05
Washington DC – 41 Washington DC workers have been fired or suspended after they accessed thousands of porn sites on city computers. Nine employees were fired while the other 32 were suspe
Thursday, January 24, 2008 15:50
...lems with them. In about a year's time, AT&T said it experiences two explosions and two full-on fires as a result of the faulty batteries. The batteries were mostly used as back-up powe...
Thursday, January 17, 2008 11:02
If you have well more than $2500 to burn on a performance notebook, then there’s a new option at Alienware. Miami (FL) – If you have well more than $2500 to burn on a performance noteboo
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:21
...h checked and carry-on luggage. The Transportation Department says the new rules will prevent accidental fires in both the cargo hold and passenger compartments. Fires in the cargo hold will gen...
Monday, December 31, 2007 16:01
...is giving some insight in its most unusual data recovery cases. The top 10 list includes everything from fires , hard drives that are run over by a truck, damages caused by fluids to hard drives that a...
Monday, December 17, 2007 12:27
ClearSpeed demonstrated teraflop performance in a 1U server space yesterday at Supercomputing '07, dubbed CATS. Comprised of approximatley ten e620 boards in a box, sustainable teraflop lev
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 08:31
...pgrade next year will include direct support for heterogeneous processing using their recently announced FireS tream 64-bit stream processor. The refresh brings ACML up to version 4.0. The libr...
Sunday, November 11, 2007 23:01
...GPU (GPGPU) application development. AMD's new 64-bit product is a stream processing engine called FireS tream 9170. It's built atop AMD's CTM technology with something called CAL, ...
Thursday, November 08, 2007 09:45
...es of two of his laser systems interfering with each other are incredibly slim because the Velodyne only fires four of its 64 lasers at a time. When the four lasers fire, four corresponding lase...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007 15:35
Microsoft confirmed Tuesday that the company has fired its chief information officer Stuart Scott for "violating company policies". The company said that Scott was let go last Friday, but de
Tuesday, November 06, 2007 17:25
...bsp; But the big advantage to scanning your documents, and this brings us back to the California fires , is you can better protect a digital file from a disaster than you can a physical object....
Thursday, November 01, 2007 11:36
... business collaboration software of the same name to any company affected by the Southern California wildfires . Rockville (MD) - HyperOffice has announced it will give a free 90-day subscription to it...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 08:50
... of cigarettes. The DARPA Urban Challenge qualification round has kicked off amid a host of raging fires burning around Southern California. Despite the horrible air quality, several hundr...
Friday, October 26, 2007 09:52
...eporting that Sony and Kyocera have been forced into shutting down their local operations due to the wildfires which are raging in southern California. Sony closed both a headquarters office and...
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 14:55
In response to Intel's recent attempts to favorably compare its processor architecture with that of leading handset IP provider ARM, Philip Lu, president of ARM Taiwan, highlighted the advantages
Friday, October 12, 2007 10:09
...(September 1997) - Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun (August 1999) - Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun Fires torm (February 2000) - Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 (October 2000) - Command & Co...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 15:17
... to “Why Linux Isn’t Ready for the Enterprise”. Read on the next page: A fires torm develops, seeing the ugly side of people and the purpose of the SCO keynote &...
Monday, September 24, 2007 13:41
...ave been very concerned about how to invest in the United States without producing [a] kind of political fires torm," said University of Michigan political professor Ken Lieberthal. America could...
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:32
Overclocking:
Electric Motorcycle inventor crashes at NextFest 