Inventor of the Microchip Passes Away at 81
Jack Kilby, the man that invented the microchip in 1958, passed away on Monday in Dallas, Texas after fighting cancer. He was…
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Jack Kilby, the man that invented the microchip in 1958, passed away on Monday in Dallas, Texas after fighting cancer. He was…
The beta test of a new search feature will display a local map along with local area search results.
IBM's Blue Gene/L System ranked #1 in supercomputers in a new top 500 list. The computer figures things out for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory with an unholy 136.8 teraflops Linpack benchmark. The computer has doubled in size during the last six months after this same computer ranked #1 six months ago.
Scores of Filipinos filled the area around Manila Cathedral on Tuesday to mourn the passing and pay respects to Cardinal Jaime Sin, the former Catholic Archbishop of Manila who helped to topple two presidents.
Since the integration of Keyhole's satellite technology into their mapping service, Google Maps has become incredibly popular and quite useful. The use of high-resolution images puts portions of the globe in the palms of their visitors' hands; and it appears as if this ability will only increase.
Chinese appliance manufacturer Haier Group along with Bain Capital and Blackstone Group, have made a $1.28 billion offer to buy Maytag.