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Submitted by PodissRT on Thursday January 31 2008, @12:28PM
PodissRT writes "New Mexico, normally found towards the bad end of any ranking it's listed in, recently announced a surprise top finish with its acquisition of the world's third fastest supercomputer.

From the CNN artice:
"The third most powerful computer on the planet will take center stage today as New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson joins other leaders in saluting the arrival of the massive supercomputer that will drive groundbreaking research for education and commerce in the state. The system claims the No. 3 position on the internationally recognized Top500 list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. Capable of executing up to 172 trillion operations per second, the system will be used to enable breakthroughs in areas ranging from aerospace and automotive design to drug development, alternative energy development and film production."

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM07528012008-1.htm

Finally something about my state I can be proud of."
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM07528012008-1.htm
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  Wii Becomes Leading Console 2007-08-26 09:32 Bender0x7D1

Submitted by Bender0x7D1 on Sunday August 26 2007, @09:32AM
Bender0x7D1 writes "According to VG Chartz, total worldwide sales of the Nintendo Wii have surpassed those of of the XBox 360. It has been a long time since Nintendo held the lead in console sales and Sony, the sales leader of the previous generation, is lagging far behind in this current generation. The question is: Does the Wii have the staying power to keep outselling the competition, or will upcoming games like Halo 3 and GTA IV give the advantage to Microsoft and Sony?"
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  Science: Space Telescope Catches Monster Flare 2006-11-07 17:00

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 07 2006, @05:00PM
from the big-boom dept.
gollum123 writes, "NASA's Swift satellite has seen a giant flare explode from a nearby star. Our sun also flares when twisted magnetic field lines in the solar atmosphere suddenly snap — but this was on a far larger scale, perhaps 100 million times as strong. The energy released by the explosion on II Pegasi was equivalent to about 50 quintillion atomic bombs. If the Sun were ever to produce such an outburst, it would almost certainly cause a mass extinction on Earth. II Pegasi is a binary system 135 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. Its two stars are close, only a few stellar radii apart; as a result, tidal forces cause both stars to spin quickly, rotating in lockstep once in seven days compared to the Sun's 28-day rotation period. Fast rotation is thought to be conducive to strong stellar flares."

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