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Meet Australia’s New Supercomputer

Computer geeks around the world are now drooling over the recently launched supercomputer in Australia. Forget the supercomputers that you see in the movies or read about in the books. This one is the best of them all – at least according to the people behind the project.
The new supercomputer is known as [...]

Posted by noemi at 9:54 am

Hitachi develops visceral fat technology

Here’s something geek doctors will take interest in.
Hitachi has developed a new fat simulation technology that can “simulate” visceral fat. This is shown through cross section images of the abdomen.
Visceral fat, the fats that are found inside our abdomen and peritoneal cavity are usually hard to see with present medical equipment.
The technology uses the body [...]

Posted by gecko at 2:15 pm

Kaku is a physic rock star

One of my personal heroes is theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. I think he’s one of the rock stars of Physics world. His ideas on string theory, M theory and all of the other esoteric branches of physics just beggar my imagination.
I’m such a big fan that I try to collect as many of his books [...]

Posted by gecko at 8:38 am