Presentation of a spherical flying machine developed by researchers from Japan’s Ministry of Defense. It is still a prototype, it can take off and land in any position and reach speeds of up to 60 km/h.
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97% 3G Penetration in Japan
Mary Meeker shows in this presentation a ranking of countries by users of 3G devices. United States is the number 1 country with 179 million users and Japan ranks second with 117 million users. Looking at the penetration rates we can see that Japan ranks first with an incredible 97% and Korea second with a 82%. My home country, Spain, fares pretty well with 30 million users and a penetration rate of 53%.
A new supercomputer developed by Fujitsu which is already running at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science in Kobe is the new fastest supercomputer in the world. In 2004 Japan lost the lead on the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world, but last Monday Japan officially regained the lead. Fujitsu K is three times faster than the second supercomputer on the list (China).
It is the first computer in history to surpass 8 petaflops and all the system has 548,352 cores. The power bill and the general maintenance of the supercomputer will be close to 8 million EUR / 11,5 million USD per year.
Source: Nikkei