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ElevationLab's Elevation iPhone dock already holds the record for Kickstarter's “fastest funded project”, when it reached $250,000 in just a few days late last year. Since then, it has gained an astonishing following and has now beaten Kickstarter's all-time total record too, with $971,000 in the pot. Yes, you read that right, nearly $1 million in funding for a project that needed $75,000. The previous record holder… Read More

Is a digital cold war brewing? If so, it's going to produce a lot of heat. China's record-breaking 2.57 petaflop supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, officially broke the world record for computing speed Friday, and already the United States is working on something much larger. Two 20 petaflop supercomputers are in development in the States, reports Computerworld. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is building one of the supercomputers. The… Read More

I imagine this is what the cold war felt like. China has unveiled a supercomputer that is 43 percent faster than any computer ever built (on Earth, by humans). Named the Tianhe-1A, it bests the previous record holder, the Cray XT5 Jaguar. China and Nvidia unveiled the supercomputer at the country's Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing, or “HPC 2010 China,” in Beijing Thursday. Tianhe-1A was designed by… Read More

Irish Internet provider Eircom has agreed to a settlement with the four major record companies—EMI, Universal, Warner, and Sony—that will have the ISP shutting down users who are downloading music illegally from the Internet. Under the agreement, record companies will supply Eircom with the IP addresses of users they believe are illegally distributing music via P2P applications or other services; Eircom will give the users two… Read More

In a real “Can you hear me now?” moment, a climber has claimed an unlikely world record – for making a cell phone call from the summit of Everest. Rod Baber, a British mountaineer, phoned home on Monday, May 21, stood at the top of the north face of the 29,000 foot mountain, the tallest in the world, to claim his unassailable record. It all became possible after China built a cell phone base station with an Everest… Read More

From ATI's press release: ATI Technologies demonstrated the awesome graphics power of the RADEON X800 XT Platinum Edition visual processing unit (VPU) by setting new graphics speed records in a variety of games and industry-leading graphics benchmarks. The event took place at System Builder Summit in Barcelona. Notably, a new world record score of 15,738 was set in Futuremark's 3DMark2003 graphics benchmark, easily… Read More