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Tianhe-2 may easily crush supercomputer speed record at 30.7 petaflops

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Many suspect that China’s Tianhe-2 could win the supercomputer speed wars, but there haven’t been real numbers to back up that hunch. We now have some of those figures courtesy of Top 500′s Jack Dongarra, and Tianhe-2 could well be the new leader — by a gigantic margin. The cluster of Ivy Bridge and Xeon Phi chips has benchmarked at 30.65 petaflops when using 90 percent of its nodes, giving it a 74 percent edge (!) over the 17.6-petaflop Titan. There’s no guarantee that Tianhe-2 will hold the crown when the official Top 500 rankings appear on June 17th, but we don’t see any upstart rivals on the horizon. It could be lonely at the top… for a while.

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Lenovo pulls in best-ever revenue of $7.8 billion for Q4 2012/13, record $34 billion for the year

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Author: Ian Simpson

Lenovo pulls in bestever revenue of $ 78 billion for Q4 201213, record $ 34 billion for the year

Lenovo’s just announced its Q4 and full year 2012/13 financial results, and all the indices point to good news for the Chinese company. It earned $ 127 million on $ 7.8 billion in revenue for the quarter and $ 34 billion for the full year, both records for the company, while netting $ 635 million in profit for the full year — another all-time high. The only sore spot for Q4 was Lenovo’s laptop business, which dropped two percent over last year to $ 4.2 billion, but that’s a far milder plummet than many PC makers saw — thanks to a 74 percent revenue growth in China. Otherwise, desktop PCs held flat for the company at $ 2.4 billion during an otherwise down period, and it held firm as China’s number two smartphone manufacturer, seeing shipments grow at 206 percent year-over-year, double the average rate. It remains to be seen if Lenovo can continue to buck the downward PC trend that’s continued unabated with the release of Windows 8 — but if not, maybe we’d finally see some of its smartphones over here.

Filed under: Cellphones, Desktops, Laptops, Lenovo

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Mob Of The Dead: Shit Happens. Attempting Solo World Record PS3 Livestream w/Stoller

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Ford to break its yearly hybrid sales record in the US, seven months early

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Author: Ian Simpson

When Ford’s hybrid lineup has been rapidly expanding over the past year, it stands to reason that the company’s sales in the category would take off like an eco-friendly rocket. They have, and faster than you’d expect: the automaker now says it should break its yearly record for US hybrid sales sometime in May, with just under 6,000 cars standing between its current 2013 figures and an all-time high of 35,496 hybrids in 2010. The company has also more clearly established itself as number two, climbing from an estimated three percent of the US hybrid market share last April to 18 percent this year. While Toyota is still the clear frontrunner at 58 percent, Ford is ahead of its Detroit-based rivals — and when Prius sales are soft, the Japanese firm just might be nervous.

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Source: Bloomberg

Tablet Usage Edges Past Mobile On BBC’s On-Demand iPlayer For First Time: Record 41M Tablet Requests In March Vs. 40M Mobile

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Author: Janet Odell

Another sign of the swift rise of tablets today: last month tablet usage of the BBC’s on-demand online TV service iPlayer edged past mobile for the first time, with 41 million programme requests by tablet vs. 40 million on mobile, according to BBC stats for the month. There were 200,000 more requests on tablets than mobiles. Overall, across all device types, the service saw 272 million full length programme requests in March in the U.K.

As a percentage of the overall requests by device type, tablets and mobiles took a 15% of the March pie. Judging by the below graph, the two devices have clearly been eating into the share of the main iPlayer access device: the traditional computer. The stats show mobiles and tablets have driven down the usage on computers from 59% in March 2012 to 47% in March 2013. Over the same period, tablets have grown their share from 6% to 15%, and mobiles from 9% to 15%.

This finding aligns with wider industry analysis that PC shipments are declining as people buy and use alternative smart connected devices, such as tablets and smartphones. Gartner predicts almost 200 million tablets will ship globally this year, powered by YoY growth of nearly 70% (IDC pegs the rate at 78.4%). While PC shipments are predicted to decline 7.3% this year. In another related data point to the BBC’s figures, last month, Adobe’s latest Digital Index recorded the proportion of web traffic coming from tablets also pushed past smartphones for the first time.

The BBC’s on-demand TV service, which lets viewers catch up on scheduled programmes after they have been broadcast, is exactly the sort of app you’d expect to thrive on the tablet form factor — which is both portable and has a screen that is large enough to view high production value video content without compromising the overall viewing experience. And the BBC’s iPlayer data bears this out: with considerably higher tablet usage for TV programmes vs radio content.

Looking specifically at TV content, the BBC said tablets took a 19% share of iPlayer programme requests in March compared to 17% for mobile. But its radio only data shows tablets dropping right down to 4% while mobile took 10%. Computers swelled their share to 68% of the radio data — suggesting people who are using their computer to multitask use iPlayer to stream radio in the background while they browse the web or work.

The BBC’s iPlayer data also flags up another interesting difference between how people consumer TV and radio content online — with the majority (88% in March) of TV requests being on-demand (i.e. catch up) requests, rather than live TV viewing. But for radio the proportion is almost reversed, with 83% of the radio requests being for live listening.

The BBC licence fee may explain a portion of this behaviour, since iPlayer users are required to be licence-fee paying to view live TV (but do not need to for radio). But it also suggests continued decline in live TV viewing among the iPlayer demographic (which skews younger than traditional TV viewers, with 76% of iPlayer users aged under 55 as of Q4 2012). The proportion of live TV viewing on iPlayer did increase in August (to 32%), possibly owing to the Olympics.

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Tabletop inspired ‘Torment: Tides of Numenera’ breaks Kickstarter record for game funding

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Author: Stefanie Jenkins

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When the lead designers of the cult struck Planescape: Torment couldn’t get the rights they had to make a sequel, they decided to make the following finest thing. A spiritual successor called Torment: Tides of Numenera finished a Kickstarter project today, ending with even more cash pledged than for any various other video game to date. With $ 4,188,927 in financing, developer inXile Home entertainment more than quadrupled its required objective to produce the isometric RPG. It’s the business’s second appeal to Kickstarter. The first project, nearly a year ago, funded the RPG Wasteland 2, which is still in development.

Like Planescape: Torment, the brand-new game is based off of a fantasy setting for a tabletop RPG, and it takes a lot of cues from the …

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Tabletop inspired ‘Torment: Tides of Numenera’ breaks Kickstarter record for game funding

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Author: Gabe Hall

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When the lead designers of the cult hit Planescape: Torment couldn’t acquire the rights they needed to make a sequel, they decided to make the next best thing. A spiritual successor called Torment: Tides of Numenera finished a Kickstarter campaign this week, ending with more money pledged than for any other video game to date. With $ 4,188,927 in funding, developer inXile Entertainment more than quadrupled its required goal to produce the isometric RPG. It’s the company’s second appeal to Kickstarter. The first campaign, nearly a year ago, funded the RPG Wasteland 2, which is still in development.

Like Planescape: Torment, the new game is based off of a fantasy setting for a tabletop RPG, and it takes a lot of cues from the…

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The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots LP 12″ clear red vinyl record

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Hon Hai shows record profits, keeps making money from making iPhones

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Author: Dave Adams

Hon Hai Accuracy, additionally called Foxconn Innovation, has reported its incomes for the year and notched a net income of $ 3.2 billion according to the Financial Times. The majority of familiar as the production muscle behind Apple’s iPhones, iPads and so forth, the Taiwan-based producer beat expert predictions on high margins for those products. Its subsidiary, Foxconn International Holdings, is the world’s biggest cellular phone maker and produces gadgets for business including Nokia and Motorola, but suffered a bottom line of $ 316.4 million. As a result, some are worried about Foxconn’s heavy dependence on Apple as a consumer going forward. Still, the company is supposedly continuing a strategy to enhance upright integration, by producing the parts for gadgets and not just putting them together– we’ll see if anybody notices modifications in the end product anytime soon.

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Researcher breaks Pi calculation record with the help of NVIDIA

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Yesterday’s self-congratulatory pat on the back to anyone reciting Pi to ten digits might feel a bit insufficient compared to Santa Clara College’s Ed Karrels. The analyst has actually broken the record for calculating Darren Aronofsky’s favorite number, taking the ratio to eight quadrillion locations right of the decimal. Offered the place of the College, you’ll be unsurprised to learn which hardware maker’s gear was used to break the record. Karrels will be displaying the new digits at the GPU innovation conference in San Jose, demonstrating the CUDA-voodoo essential to take advantage of all of that Kepler-based computing power.

[Image Credit: Ed Karrels]

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