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Month: December 2010

U.S. Air Force Creates Powerful Supercomputer Out Of PS3s

The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has connected 1,760 PlayStation 3 systems together to create what the organization is calling the fastest interactive computer in the entire Defense Department.

The Condor Cluster, as the group of systems is known, also includes 168 separate graphical processing units and 84 coordinating servers in an parallel array capable of performing 500 trillion floating point operations per second (500 TFLOPS), according to AFRL Director of High Power Computing Mark Barnell.

Netflix Offers $100K Per Episode For TV Shows

The New York Post claims that Netflix is so desperate to acquire content that it is offering $100,000 per episode (not season) for new TV shows.

Netflix is making an aggressive play for in-season episodes of hit TV shows to expand its Web streaming service. The company is in talks with studios about gaining access to current episodes of primetime shows and is willing to pay between $70,000 and $100,000 per episode, according to a person familiar with the matter. Netflix had no comment.

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Facebook Cartoon Profiles Dominate Search Trends

Listed below are the top 20 google Trends for Dec 3, 2010.

1. cartoon pictures for facebook profile
2. carlos slim
3. a walk in my shoes
4. cartoon characters from the 80 s
5. rugrats pictures
6. 1970s cartoons
7. looney tunes cartoon characters
8. cartoons from the 70 s
9. smurfette
10. mighty mouse cartoon
11. judy jetson
12. foghorn leghorn
13. magilla gorilla
14. strawberry shortcake
15. underdog cartoon
16. fat albert characters
17. snorks
18. bugs bunny cartoons
19. fraggle rock
20. smurfs