Day: June 22, 2019

China Has Almost Half of The World’s Supercomputers, Explores RISC-V and ARM

Slashddot reader dcblogs quote Tech Target: Ten years ago, China had 21 systems on the Top500 list of the world’s largest supercomputing systems. It now has 219, according to the biannual listing, which was updated just this week. At its current pace of development, China may have half of the supercomputing systems on the Top500…


US hits Iran with crippling cyberattacks, says a report – CNET

The cyberattacks took down Iranian computer networks used to control missile launches, says The Washington Post. …read more Source:: CNet


People Keep Spotting Teslas With Snoozing Drivers On the Freeway

“In the last week, two different people have captured video of Tesla vehicles traveling down a freeway with an apparently sleeping driver behind the wheel,” writes Ars Technica. Iwastheone shares their report: Both incidents happened in California. Last week, local television stations in Los Angeles aired footage from viewer Shawn Miladinovich of a Tesla vehicle…


11 cool Stranger Things products to turn you Upside Down for season 3 – CNET

With the Netflix sci-fi hit set to return July 4, you can bring Hawkins home with everything from a bike like Dustin’s to a handheld unit that plays ’80s games. …read more Source:: CNet


FPGA Soft CPU is Superscalar

We will admit it: mostly when we see a homebrew CPU design on an FPGA, it is a simple design that wouldn’t raise any eyebrows in the 1970s or 1980s. Not so with [Henry Wong’s] design, though. His x86-like design does superscalar out-of-order execution, just like big commercial modern CPUs. Of course [Henry] designs CPU…


Will Hot-Desking Kill Your Company?

“If you hate your company, its employees and the shareholders then go ahead and introduce the latest management fad: Hot-desking,” writes Forbes contributor Simon Constable. “It’s a better way to destroy the firm than inviting Russian hackers to rob you blind. “The bigger the company, the faster the damage will occur with hot-desking.” Hot-desking is…


Our AT&T 5G speed test yields the craziest speeds yet – CNET

At the AT&T Shape conference in LA we get a taste of blazing 5G speeds. The confab also promises a glimpse of how you’d actually use the technology. …read more Source:: CNet


Intel Developing ‘Data Parallel C++’ As Part of OneAPI Initiative

Intel’s One API project aims “to simplify application development across diverse computing architectures.” Now an anonymous reader quotes Phoronix: Intel announced an interesting development in their oneAPI initiative: they are developing a new programming language/dialect. Intel originally began talking about oneAPI last December for optimizing code across CPUs / GPUs / FPGAs and as part…


‘Vast Quantities’ of Recycled Plastics Are Actually Burned Or Dumped In Landfills

“A Guardian investigation reveals that cities around the country are no longer recycling many types of plastic dropped into recycling bins. Instead, they are being landfilled, burned or stockpiled…” An anonymous reader shared this eye-opening report from the Guardian. “From Los Angeles to Florida to the Arizona desert, officials say, vast quantities of plastic are…


Mattermost Raises $50 Million For Its Open Source Slack Alternative

An anonymous reader quotes VentureBeat: Mattermost, a startup developing what it characterizes as an open source messaging alternative to Google’s Hangouts Chat, Atlassian’s HipChat, Slack, and Microsoft Teams, today announced the closure of a $50 million series B funding round. The round was led by Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund, with participation from new investor Battery…