Reality Bites
Incoming Secretary of Defense, Leon Panetta, said that the next Pearl Harbor could be a cyber-attack. Since our government is obviously inept when it comes to cybersecurity, we should probably stick to what we’re good at: launching missiles. More »
U.S. President Barack Obama will announce the next steps in America’s decade-long war in Afghanistan on Wednesday.
Random excerpts from the Boston Bruins tab:
126 Bud Lights
2 Bottles of Ace of Spade Champagne ($2,000 each)
1 bottle of Ace of Spades Midas Champagne ($100,000)
Tip: $24,869
Submitted by: Unknown
The NHL Players’ Association has decided to trigger the growth factor in the salary cap for next season, pushing the upper limit to roughly $64 million US.
We knew the update was coming for SkyDrive eventually, but it wasn’t clear what had been added to the new “Wave 5” release, nor was when it was going to be released. According to a blog post over on The Windows Team Blog today, Microsoft has released the massive update…
Most fitness apps for iOS will teach you to stretch and exercise through specific demonstrations, but iMuscle takes it a step further by actually showing you the muscles in action. It works by providing a ton of animated diagrams that are accessible with just a touch. When you launch the app, you just grope the part of the muscular body you want to work on and it’ll stick a few pins in it. Each pin corresponds to a muscle (or muscle group) and its associated exercises and stretches. Touching any of the exercises or stretches will provide you with an animated demonstration, written instructions, and pictures of the affected muscles. More »
Police said that around 5 a.m. RCMP received a report of a male with serious injuries at a retail business at 7th Street and Smith in Yorkton.
Noah Bordner is a veteran game animator who has worked with such companies as EA, LucasArts, and Bungie. His indie app gaming venture, Mika Mobile, has already found success in the Apple App Store. Bordner recently ported the popular RPG Battleheart over to Android. There, he found the experience to be a little trickier. More »
If you’re stuck on an office computer and forced to use Internet Explorer because your system is locked down, Google has your back. The new version of Chrome Frame brings the features of Google Chrome to IE and doesn’t need administrative rights to your PC to install. More »
Thanks to one of our tipsters for letting us know that Bell will finally be able to activate HSPA devices in Saskatchewan. Employees have started training and the go live date is expected to be on June 27th. We’ve also been informed that Bell will have “have 98% coverage” and all HPSA devices will be available. We’re getting more info soon and will report back.
Update: A press release just went out that noted they will launch “its 4G wireless broadband network to Saskatchewan customers next week” and have “mobile download speeds up to 21 megabits per second (Mbps) and typical speeds of 7 to 14 Mbps”. In addition, you’ll be able to score a Bell 4G device at over 50 locations including Bell authorized dealers and at The Source locations.
(Thanks tipster!)
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4K display technology, a.k.a. 2160p, a.k.a. 4096 x 2160 resolution, is primarily found in movie theater projectors right now. But Japanese display maker Eizo thinks it also belongs on your desktop. For 36,000 dollars. More »
Everyone knows how to open the task manager: press Control+Alt+Delete and click “Task Manager,” right? For a faster way, press Control+Shift+Escape to launch the task manager directly, bypassing the menu and the mouse entirely. More »
TELUS recently offered up the option for customers to unlocked their phone, recently lowered roaming rates but increased pay-per-use text rates… however, today announced they are axing the cancellation fees for those who want to upgrade to a new device (this has always been a sore spot for customers pay). Telus noted that “When TELUS consumers and business customers want to end their agreement early to upgrade to a new TELUS device they only need to pay their device balance displayed on their monthly bill – the remaining portion of the device credit they received when they purchased their previous device.”
This gives customers the option to upgrade at anytime, without a charge. In addition, TELUS also notes that if you want to leave and go to another carrier you don’t have to pay a cancellation fee, but pay the balance plus a “small administrative account closure charge of $50″.
Thoughts?
Source: CNW
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Internet minders voted Monday to allow virtually unlimited new domain names based on themes as varied as company brands, entertainment and political causes, in the system’s biggest shake-up since it started 26 years ago.
Remember the K — the Fujitsu supercomputer that promised to do a whopping ten petaflops by the year 2012? Well, it hasn’t reached that threshold just yet, but according to the latest Top 500 supercomputer list, it’s still faster than any other machine on Earth. In fact, the top-ranked beast is more powerful than the next five supercomputers combined, consumes enough electricity to power about 10,000 homes for a full year, and is capable of churning out about 8.2 quadrillion calculations per second — three times as many as what runner-up (and former number-one) Tianhe-1A can process. Today’s announcement marks the first time since 2004 that a Japanese creation sits atop Top500.org’s rankings, but Fujitsu isn’t exactly resting on its laurels. Before deploying it next year, engineers at the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science are aiming to add about 100,000 cores to the K’s collection of 548,352, which would provide it with even more computational muscle, and likely spell doom for all of humanity. Find out more in the PR after the break.
Fujitsu K supercomputer now ranked fastest in the world, dethrones China’s Tianhe-1A originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
