Scottish scientists have sucessfully built a 1,000-core processor, said that it will run 20 times faster than today’s chips while using less power.
A research team at University of Glasgow lead by Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede created the futuristic processor using a programmable chip called a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Instead of the built-in circuitry of conventional desktop computer chips, these processors can be customized. So with some extremely clever programming, the research team was able to divide the processor into 1,000 cores, each capable of its own computation. According to the Daily Mail, the 1,000-core processor processes 5 gigabytes data per second, and that’s “20 times faster than modern computers.” Each one of the cores has its own dedicated memory to speeding it up even more. Remarkably, they were able to leverage all this extra speed and power without using more energy.
Will this processors be popular in anytime soon ? the team leader Vanderbauwhede said , “I believe these kinds of processors will only become more common and help to speed up computers even further over the next few years.”
A research team at University of Glasgow lead by Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede created the futuristic processor using a programmable chip called a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
Instead of the built-in circuitry of conventional desktop computer chips, these processors can be customized. So with some extremely clever programming, the research team was able to divide the processor into 1,000 cores, each capable of its own computation. According to the Daily Mail, the 1,000-core processor processes 5 gigabytes data per second, and that’s “20 times faster than modern computers.” Each one of the cores has its own dedicated memory to speeding it up even more. Remarkably, they were able to leverage all this extra speed and power without using more energy.
Will this processors be popular in anytime soon ? the team leader Vanderbauwhede said , “I believe these kinds of processors will only become more common and help to speed up computers even further over the next few years.”
In September ,fb.com domain has been sold to an undisclosed buyer by the American Farm Bureau .However, Domain Name Wire has revealed that the domain’s whois has been updated to reflect that Facebook (Facebook) is the domain’s administrator.
It is said this domain using in Facebook internally ,but doesn't know what facebook gonna do with it .
Most likely, Fb.com will become the e-mail domain of the company’s 1,400+ employees. Yahoo does something similar; its staff uses @yahoo-inc.com e-mail addresses instead @Yahoo.com in order to avoid confusion between its employees and the hundreds of millions of users of its e-mail service.
By the way ,Facebook has been updated their message system to work like email . Maybe in future ,we can use email with @facebook.com ?
YouTube has just announced it will be featuring its top videos in a new section called YouTube Charts.
This page will keep you updated on which videos are trending right now, which are all-time classics, how various vids stack up against one another and more. Think of it as the Billboard Hot 100 for the world of web video.
We’re guessing this will pretty much settle the Gaga v. Bieber YouTube debate once and for all as well as surface interesting and timely content from around the ‘Tube.
YouTube Charts filter top videos by several criteria. You can grab a list of videos that got the most views, the most likes or the most subscribers over the past day, the past week, the past month or all time. You’ll be able to see the top 100 videos from each list; that means the YouTube Charts will feature 900 videos and channels (likely with some redundancies) every day.
The “most subscribed” option also gives us some insight into what individuals or production channels are gaining popularity at any given moment.
Ever wanted to search not only your e-mail, but your presentations, spreadsheets and documents? Googleis working on an experimental project to do just that.
Google Apps Search is a new Gmail Labs feature that “extends search with Google Docs and Sites results,” according to the feature’s description. When you activate it, the “Search Mail” button changes to “Search Mail and Docs.” Now whenever you perform a search through your Gmail, it will not only display the 20 most recent e-mails with that query, but will also show 20 related Google Docs or Sites as well. These are displayed below the Gmail search results.
In addition to universal search functionality, Apps Search also includes a second feature: “Did you mean?” search suggestions. Whenever your queries contain typos, Google will provide a suggestion for the search it believes you meant to perform, just like Google Search does.
Combined with the “Search the Web” button that sits directly to the right of the “Search Mail and Docs” button, Gmail is quickly becoming a central location for performing all of your searches. Many Google Docs are related to e-mail threads; I can’t tell you how many times I’ve searched my e-mail just to get to a Google Doc. It’s nice to see a Labs feature address this problem.
What do you think of Apps Search? Will you activate it for your account?
A group of researchers at Georgia Tech may have an answer to the epidemic of government censorship we’ve seen marring communications in many international spheres of late: a system they’re calling “Collage” that will allow people to hide messages in user-generated content, to be disseminated via platforms like Twitter, Flickr and YouTube. That’s right, Keyboard Cat could become a harbinger of covert news.
So how does this process work? Sam Burnett, one of the researchers involved in the project, described the system to us in layman’s terms: “Someone uploads pictures containing hidden messages to Flickr, then someone else comes along and downloads them and decodes the message. (Of course, it’s not dependent specifically on Flickr, YouTube, etc.)” A tool called Selenium helps in disseminating said messages.
He also points out that while the current iteration of Collage uses an image steganography tool called Outguess for hiding content in images and a text steganography tool called SNOW for embedding content in text, the design makes it easy for users to change around its components — for example, instead of steganography, people could use watermarking techniques. Watermarking makes it difficult to remove the data without wreaking havoc on the cover material itself.
“As far as we know, Collage is the first anti-censorship system to store messages inside user-generated content (e.g., on Flickr, YouTube, etc.) such that a censor can block/corrupt some of this content and users will still be able to retrieve their messages. The sender may publish 10 photos, with the expectation that the receiver can download any five of them and still reconstruct the message,” Burnett told us. “The main advantage of this approach is that, because we store our messages on existing user-generated content hosts, the system doesn’t require any additional infrastructure deployment (computers, network connections, etc.). This is in contrast to systems like Tor that rely extensively on volunteer support.”
The researchers also plan on releasing the API, so that others can build applications.
Although it’s easy for governments to block such sites — YouTube, Twitter and Google have been blocked in the past — Burnett and Co. are banking on that fact that it’s difficult for them to block all content sites.
If you’re interested in finding out more about Collage, you can check out the full paper on the subject, embedded below. A demo of the technology will take place at SIGCOMM in New Delhi on September 1, and Collage will be published on the Georgia Tech Network Operations and Internet Security website.
Yahoo has launched a new, HTML5-based version of Yahoo Mail for the iPad. It’s similar to the recently launched version of Yahoo Mail for the iPhone and iPod Touch, Yahoo Mail product manager Lee Parry says, only optimized for iPad’s larger screen.
Features include local caching, which enables you to access and search your messages while offline. There’s also the ability to see rich photo attachments in full form, or as previews directly in the inbox views, as well as a dual-pane view for a better overview of your inbox.
You can also search through your inbox using Full Search, personal folders or Smart Folders with messages from your most important contacts.
To try it out, open mail.yahoo.com in your iPad’s Safari browser.