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Akamai published its quarterly State of the Internet report on Tuesday covering global Internet speeds and Internet security from the last quarter of 2012. South Korea remained the leader in terms of Internet speeds, averaging a connection of 14 Mbps,...

According to tech newsgroups, the Titan supercomputer over at Oak Ridge National Laboratory already proudly wears the mantle of being the world’s most powerful supercomputer, but you know what they say about power. Now, the Titan is set to amass...

According to USENET, a Sony-backed ISP in Japan has launched a 2Gbps Internet service, which it said is the world’s fastest for home use. So-net Entertainment began offering its “Nuro” fiber-based service on Monday to homes, apartments, and small businesses...

Apple has filed a patent for hybrid notebook/tablet whose display can be removed from the base containing the keyboard, reports Apple related USENET newsgroups. “The patent filing includes details of a very cool display with a retractable magnetic mechanism that...

With the flip of a switch on Sunday, Los Alamos National Laboratory will shut off the Roadrunner supercomputer. The five-year-old computer was the first to break the petaflop barrier, or a million billion calculations per second, and was key to...