I'M YOUR VENUS, I'M YOUR FIRE, IT'S YOUR DESIRE
This past week Fujitsu Ltd. announced that they have developed the world's fastest central processing unit, called Venus, capable of performing 128 gigaflops - er, billion calculations per second. That's about 2.5 times faster than the previous record-holding model made by Intel. Comparatively, it takes your hand and a pencil .0119 seconds to jot down instructions from your brain. Which is a little different than the calculations speed per second for your mind to determine whether you need brats or dogs for Saturday's BBQ which may or may not happen depending on whether it rains. Can you compute that faster? Maybe. Read more!
VIRTUAL ASSISTANCE
The bot race to find the perfect personal assistant has been on for a long time with developers across the world still hell-bent on creating a virtual assistant whether they've been a talking head on a computer screen or a rubber facsimile with a giant power cord. Remember, the idyllic 1950s vacuuming robot with apron only evolved into a simplistic Roomba. And still hovering in the fatalistic future is good 'ol HAL from Space Odyssey 2001. Yet, we're still trying to go there. NPR host Liane Hansen talks this week with Microsoft researcher Eric Horvitz about the development of their virtual personal assistant Laura. And while Microsoft is forever focused on PC utilization (ehem), Japanese programmers have been trying to "make it real" for years, like this expo video from 2006.
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