Japan's Sony Corp. has launched a voluntary recall of 438,000 Vaio portable computers, citing a potential hazard that could cause the machines to overheat or possibly burn a user. It is one of the biggest computer recalls since 2006 when Dell recalled 4.1 million notebook computer batteries because they could overheat.
Via Radio New Zealand
To date, there hasn't been an overarching theory of how the human brain really works, Jeff-Hawkins argues in this compelling talk. That's because we still haven't defined intelligence accurately. But one thing's for sure, he says:
The brain isn't like a powerful computer processor. It's more like a memory system that records everything we experience and helps us predict, intelligently, what will happen next. Bringing this new brain science to computer devices will enable powerful applications -- and it will happen soon.
A computer system designed in India has made it into a top ten of the world's fastest supercomputers.
Codenamed EKA - Sanskrit for number one - it is installed at the Computational Research Laboratories in Pune.
> India enters supercomputing race
