How fast is the fastest microprocessor chip, now and in the future?

How fast is the fastest microprocessor chip, now and in the future? by Marshall Brain | April 20, 2011 Add Comment ShareThis  You asked: How fast is the fastest microprocessor chip, now and in the future? Marshall Brain answers: Today, in 2011, the fastest microprocessor chips that are commercially available to “normal people” are the six-core hyperthreaded chips from Intel. These chips run at approximately 3.3 gigahertz and each core can execute two threads....

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Posted by Jeffrey Kelly     A recent Bloomberg BusinessWeek feature maintains that we are in the midst of yet another tech bubble. This time, writes BusinessWeek’s Ashlee Vance, “the hype centers on more precise ways to sell.” Following on the success of Facebook and Google, Vance writes, investors are falling all over themselves to invest in like-minded social media companies even though some are unlikely to succeed in the long-term. No argument there. Some tech start-ups...

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Super Google Reader Converts All Partial RSS Feeds into Full Feeds

DOWNLOADS Super Google Reader Converts All Partial RSS Feeds into Full Feeds  Whitson Gordon — Chrome: If you do most of your reading in Google Reader, you probably find truncated RSS feeds—that is, feeds that only give you the first paragraph of a post—annoying. Convert them all into full feeds with one simple Chrome extension. We've featured a few services that convert truncated feeds into full ones, but they usually require you to plug in each...

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How Location is Changing the Way We Work

How Location is Changing the Way We Work By Audrey Watters / April 20, 2011 11:20 AM / 0 Comments  Hacker News  Share & Save With the Internet has come a new breed of worker: the telecommuter. A business owner, employee, or freelancer, someone who telecommutes is able to work from home rather than from a designated office building. According to the latest American Community survey data, about 2% of Americans - some 2.8 million people...

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An iPad 2 Smart Cover Is Much Less Entertaining Without The iPad

An iPad 2 Smart Cover Is Much Less Entertaining Without The iPad By Laura Northrup on April 19, 2011 4:35 PM Jeremy's iPad 2 has been backordered, and he has to wait another month or so to receive it. That's okay, though. They sent along his Smart Cover in advance, and he's found at least as many uses for the cover as he would have had for the iPad. Kind of. My New iPad2...Smart Cover! [YouTube] ...

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Bald Eagle Family Live Video Drawing Over 43 Million Views

Bald Eagle Family Live Video Drawing Over 43 Million Views Comment Now! Share The Raptor Resource Project provides a live video feed online streaming 24/7 of a two Bald Eagles and her three baby chicks. The family of eagles is unaware of the camera being right there. The project has well over 43 million visitors, and it is indeed an attention-grabbing web site. As a matter fact, the web site had so many visitors on April 2, 2011 the web site crashed. But the birds were...

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Facebook Expands Safety & Security Tools

1 day ago by Sarah Kessler25 email share Just a day after security firm Sophos sent Facebook an open letteraddressing privacy issues, Facebook has introduced a suite of new safety features. While the social network did not satisfy the letter’s requests to make privacy the default, create a vetting process for app developers and turn on HTTPS automatically, it did come through on the promises it made in an announcement at President Obama’s White...

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