According to Honda, the world’s cutest and most advanced robo-boy turned 10 today. Happy birthday, ASIMO. Next year Honda will turn you into a real boy! Haha. Just kidding, ASIMO. That will never happen. In any event, let’s take a look at some of the things you’ve accomplished: ASIMO was created 10 years ago as part of Honda’s program of research and development into robotics and human mobility. After 10 years of...

Forty-one years ago today, a pair of computer scientists tried to send the world’s first computer-to-computer message via the internet. The message was to be the word “log.” Their connection crashed before they got to “g.”

LaCie has decided to take advantage of the increasing size of hard drives and has updated both its 2big and d2 external USB drive products. For those who need a lot of storage, but don’t want to go down the route of creating a homemade 70TB storage array, the 2big USB 3.0 unit is for you. Utilizing two of the latest 3TB hard drives it offers 6TB of storage. Not only that, but because this is two drives in parallel LaCie is also...

It happened. China just passed the US and the world with the reveal of the world’s fastest supercomputer. The fully operational Tianhe-1A, located at the National Supercomputer Center in Tianjin, scored 2.507 petaflops as measured by the LINPACK benchmark. That moves it past Cray’s 2.3 petaflops Jaguar located at Oak Ridge National Lab in Tennessee. Tianhe-1A achieved the record using 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs and...

The amount of space needed to fit a decent amount of storage continues to fall and Verbatim has created the smallest USB 2.0 flash drive I have yet seen. It’s called the Store ‘n’ Go Netbook USB drive and manages to offer 8GB, 16GB, or even 32GB of storage in a drive that protrudes just 5mm when inserted. The Netbook in the name is relevant as you can just slot this into a netbook or laptop and forget its there. Use it as a...