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Recent Posts

• Japan plans for a new crazy fast supercomputer to predict tsunamis

  In news that is totally awesome, Japan’s science ministry has announced its plans to build a supercomputer by 2020 that is 100-times faster than Japan’s current most-powerful supercomputer, according to The Japan Times. The current title is held by a supercomputer called K, which is the third-fastest computer in the world, which gives you some idea of how ridiculously fast this new supercomputer will be. That is, assuming that the ministry can wrangle the money it needs for the project ...
  
  

• China is considering revoking its ban on gaming consoles [report]

  My gaming fanatic colleague Charlie just sent me an email at midnight in his timezone (he’s in the US), so either it’s a drunken missive or it’s big news. Turns out it’s the latter: Chinese government sources have told the China Daily that “authorities are reviewing a decade-long ban on game consoles and considering the possibility of opening up the country’s video game hardware market.” Banned since 2000 on the grounds of “the potential harm” to children, gaming consoles like the PS3, PSP, ...
  
  

• Meet the ibeam: the tablet prototype you can control with your eyes

  It appears to be Docomo’s habit in recent years of teasing its latest new tech just ahead of Japan’s CEATEC conference, the country’s answer to CES. Among the projects the company showed off today in Tokyo was ibeam, a tablet prototype which uses an embedded eye-tracking function from Sweden-based Tobii. Docomo presented this as a user interface for a Fujitsu-made tablet today, and I was pretty pleasantly surprised with the results. Essentially the user just focuses their eyes on whatever item ...