Coming soon at a theatre near you, a film on Google ‎

With the news that a Groundswell production is working on a movie about Google, based on the book, “Googled: The End of the World As We Know It,” by Ken Auletta. Its eminent that people start speculating about the casting of the movie.

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Happy Independence Day

On the eve of Indian Independence Day let me treat you all with some reality and truth of our free India. Actually it is in form of a movie review. I went to see Peepli Live today. And OMG its such a pathetic movie. Well, if you’ve watched it then you must be having different opinion than me. Why ? Because it shows exactly what happens in India. I can bet you guys that this movie is not going to be on theaters for long. Now you must be thinking why am I thinking like that. Its because this movie uncovers our media’s reality. It show what exactly our pathetic news channels are in reality.. So if the these channels don’t show anything about this movie then how would this movie run. It won’t because the news channels don’t want to show their embarrassment on their own channels.

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Custom made PC breaks the Pi Calculation World Record

Processor
2 x Intel Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 GHz – (12 physical cores, 24 hyperthreaded)
Memory
96 GB DDR3 @ 1066 MHz – (12 x 8 GB – 6 channels) – Samsung (M393B1K70BH1)
Motherboard
Asus Z8PE-D12
Hard Drives
1 TB SATA II (Boot drive) – Hitachi (HDS721010CLA332)
3 x 2 TB SATA II (Store Pi Output) – Seagate (ST32000542AS)
16 x 2 TB SATA II (Computation) – Seagate (ST32000641AS)
Raid Controller
2 x LSI MegaRaid SAS 9260-8i
Operating System
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise x64
Built By
Shigeru Kondo

This configuration broke the world record of calculating Pi upto 5 trillion digits.

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Amazing BP Oil spill satellite images from NASA

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Hydrogen Enegery in your pocket now

Remember those sci-fi movies and TV series where people have endless amount of energy and that too bundled in a small package. I was thinking if I was ever able to see anything of that kind in my life. Horizon has developed a pocket sized fuel cell power plant. Its called Minipack. Minipack can power up/charge mobile, mp3 players, GPS devices and other small consumer electronics which does not take more than 1.5 to 2W power. As per the press release you would need to replace 1 Horizon Fuel Cell compared to 10000 AAA alkaline batteries. This is great news. Check out the press release here and watch the working demo video.

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