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The world’s fastest supercomputer introducing by IBM
IBM will release a radical new chip which may become the world’s fastest supercomputer named Blue Waters. It will be able to do massively complex calculations in an instant and it is being housed in a special building on the Urbana-Champaign campus in a water-cooled rack to pull the heat out. It’ll be capable of achieving 10 petaflops (Petaflop is the key indicator of supercomputer performance, A petaflop = 1 quadrillion floating point operations per second) about 10 times as fast as the fastest supercomputer today. IBM is going to turn on the supercomputer in 2011.

The Supercomputer uses Power7 fuses, the flagship Power chip design with key technology from a separate “Cell” processor that was part of IBM’s Roadrunner system at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. It integrates eight processing cores in one chip package and each core can execute four tasks makes the Power7 chip special. These threads can turn an individual chip into a virtual 32-core processor. As a yardstick, Intel’s high-end Xeon processors typically have two threads per processing core. It is also using novel memory technology. In this super computer IBM has avoided ballooning and costly chip counts and elected to use a technology called E-DRAM, keeping the total number of transistors to 1.2 billion. IBM said E-DRAM will help to get the performance up of the computer. Most of the crash tests are now done on these machines. Now it’s ready to unveil.

Embalmed biker sits astride his motorcycle in funeral home

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He looks as though he is about to take his powerful motorbike for a speedy race along the streets. But this motorcyclist is going nowhere - he's dead.

Worst parking ever-Merecedes left dangling seven storeys up

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A motorist had a narrow escape after he reversed his car through a brick wall on the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park.The 67-year-old driver got his foot stuck between the brake pedal and the accelerator as he tried to reverse into a spot in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

His white Mercedes C-class immediately shot backwards, picking up enough speed to smash through the external wall of the Bank of America multi-storey.

9 Extraordinary Human Abilities

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9 Extraordinary Human Abilities

This list of extraordinary human abilities was inspired The Top 10 Tips to Improve Your Memory when I began thinking about how some people are blessed (or cursed, depending on your point of view) with the ability to recall a scene as if they were looking at a photograph. And how other people can recreate music from memory, such as Mozart's famed reproduction of Gregorio Allegri's Miserere after one hearing. What other extraordinary abilities might humans have? I've listed nine of the most well understood (i.e. not paranormal or 'fringe science') and interesting abilities rated from most common to most interesting and rare. Bear in mind that most of these unusual abilities are genetic and cannot be controlled by the person affected but are an inherent quality of their physical self.
9 Supertasters
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People who experience taste with greater intensity than the rest of the population are called supertasters. Having extra fungiform papillae (the mushroom shaped bumps on the tongue that are covered in taste buds) is thought to be the reason why these people have a stronger response to the sensation of taste. Of the five types of taste, sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and umami, a supertaster generally finds bitterness to be the most perceptible.
Scientists first noticed the differing abilities of people to taste a known compound when a DuPont chemist called Arthur Fox asked people to taste Phenylthiocarbamide (PTC). Some people could taste its bitterness; some couldn't – whether people could depended on their genetic make-up (a variant of this test is now one of the most common genetic tests on humans). While about

Fighter jets chasing 'UFO' captured on video

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Fighter jets chasing 'UFO' captured on video

London, Apr 10 (ANI): A mystery cameraman has filmed two fighter jets whizzing over the M5, chasing, what looked like a UFO.

The 30-second clip is believed to have been taken from a West Midlands service station car park.

"This is one of the best videos I've seen. It could be a new drone - that might explain the military jets," the Sun quoted expert Nick Pope, who probed UFO sightings for the MoD.

"But you don't normally test-fly secret projects in daylight. Alternatively, this could be the real thing - a UFO in our

T 10 Corrupt Countries in the World

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This list is taken from the Transparency International Corruption Index of 2006. The scoring is from 1 – 10 with the lower score being the most corrupt. The source of the index is polls and surveys from 21 independent institutions. Only verifiable data is accepted for inclusion. The index includes 163 nations.
10. Equatorial Guinea – 2.1 [Wikipedia]
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Equatorial Guinea is one of the smallest countries in continental Africa. The current president of Equatorial Guinea is Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo. The 1982 constitution of Equatorial Guinea gives Obiang extensive powers, including naming and dismissing members of the cabinet, making laws by decree, dissolving the Chamber of Representatives, negotiating and ratifying treaties and calling legislative elections.

Apple iPad unearthed

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Apple iPad unearthed: Samsung, Broadcom, TI appear

Luke Soules, co-founder of a company called iFixit, waits in line to pick up his...  Luke Soules, co-founder of a company called iFixit, waits in line to pick up his...
Luke Soules was one of the first on the planet to get his hands on an iPad. And he wasted no time taking it apart.
After staking out three locations in the Eastern United States, Soules -- co-founder of teardown firm iFixit -- cracked the device open on Saturday to unearth NAND flash memory by Samsung Electronics, and microchips from Broadcom Corp and Texas Instruments Inc.
Soules and his outfit provide and advise on components in Apple gadgets -- and also identifies them. The work of teardown firms such as iFixit may prove crucial in identifying which manufacturer gets its parts into a device expected to sell upwards of 5 million units in 2010 alone.
Soules had slept overnight in the parking lot outside an Apple mall store in Richmond, Virginia. He was the first to walk out of the store, moments after the outlet opened at 9 a.m., iPad in hand.
Store employees clapped and gave him high-fives. He grinned, but moved quickly. There was work to do.
Without a second's dawdling, Soules hopped in a waiting car and raced a few short miles to the house of a friend, where he had his tools of destruction ready to go. He barely paused to admire the iPad out of the box. He didn't even turn it on.
The secretive Apple is famous for designing sealed-up devices intended to discourage nosy gadget

Right to Education is now a Fundamental Right

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India launches children's right to education

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Millions of Indian children remain out of school
A landmark law which makes education a fundamental right for children has come into effect in India.
It is now legally enforceable for every child to demand free and elementary education between the ages of six and 14 years.
Indian PM Manmohan Singh said enough funds would be made available to ensure that children had access to education.
An estimated eight million children aged between six and 14 do not currently attend school in India.
Mr Singh said that the government was committed "to ensuring that all children irrespective of gender and social category have access to education".
Recalling his own childhood, Mr Singh, a qualified economist, said: "I read under the dim light of a kerosene lamp. I am what I am totally because of education."
"So I want that the light of education should reach to all," Mr Singh added.
'Building block'
Analysts say the law marks a historic moment for India's children.
"It serves as a building block to ensure that every child has the right to

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