China’s Tianhe-1A supercomputer just turned in the fastest performance score in the world: 2.507 petaflops. That’s “more than 40% higher” than the score set by the “Jaguar” supercomputer housed here in the U.S. at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Part of the reason behind Tianhe-1A’s speed comes …
Your car is a big computer of sorts, your cell phone is a small computer of sorts; why not connect the two? That’s the promise of AutoBot, a $300 device that hooks into your vehicle’s OBD-II connector and relays diagnostic information to your cell phone, integrates with mapping functions, and lets you start and unlock your car …
T-Mobile: Wednesday, November 10th
Price: $399.99 with a two-year contract
Data plans: $25/month for 200MB, $40/month for 5GB
Verizon: Thursday, November 11th
Price: $599.99 with no contract
Data plans: $20/month for 1GB, $35/month for 3GB, $50/month for 5GB
Sprint: Sunday, November 14th
Price: $399.99 with a two-year …
Engadget swears up and down that “the picture above is in fact the PlayStation Phone you’ve long been waiting for.”
If it’s real, the Sony Ericsson-made phone is said to likely run the next major version of Android (3.0), sport a 1GHz processor, multitouch touchpad, and feature direct downloads of PSP games just like the PSP Go …
Long overdue for a graphical overhaul, MySpace will be rolling out a new design to members between now and the end of November.
According to MySpace CEO Mike Jones:
“The new Myspace is cleaner, with a new design that puts content center stage. It’s also smarter, providing you with a personalized experience by recommending content
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When Apple unveiled the iPhone 4 in June, it was first available in black with the promise of a white version to follow in July. That ship date got pushed off until “later this year,” according to Apple. The company said, “White models of Apple’s new iPhone 4 have continued to be more challenging to manufacture than we originally …
Barnes and Noble has just announced a new Nook e-book reader with a full color touchscreen. The reader is called NOOKcolor, thereby adhering to gadget-naming guidelines that dictate gratuitous letter capitalization, smashing two words together without spacing or, preferably, both. It’ll ship November 19th for $249.
The reader …
My TIME.com Technologizer column this week is about the new direction that Apple is taking Macs–which is about bringing some of the simplicity of the iPhone and iPad to the 27-year-old Mac platform. The first chapter in that story is last week’s introduction of all-new 11.6″ and 13.3″ MacBook Air models–and the most striking thing …
It may sound unbelievable that a Facebook group for young mothers would have a near constant volley of messages careening through the popular social network’s series of interconnected tubes, but it’s true! Apparently they like to chat with one another on the order of “35 to 40 messages within a 1.5- to 2-hour period,” according to PC …
Research in Motion (RIM) CEO Mike Lazaridis showed off his company’s upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet at a conference for Adobe developers yesterday. The real-time demo features a look at the tablet’s multitasking abilities as well as how it handles browser-based Flash video …
Comcast subscribers now have access to the company’s XfinityTV.com website, which boasts “nearly 150,000 video choices,” according to the press release. The service has been available in test markets for a while, but is now available everywhere.
You sign in with your Comcast user name and password, the site cross-references your …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Apple 11.6-inch MacBook Air: $979 (MacMall)
If you’ve been drooling over the recently-released 11.6-inch MacBook Air but insist on waiting for its $999 price to drop, it already has. Not a whole lot, but $20 is $20, and it features free shipping and no tax, which could actually be a
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