Ballmer: Yahoo Search Appealing, Complete Takeover Isn’t

Steve Ballmer speaks out regarding a possible Yahoo takeover
Outspoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today said Microsoft is interested in a possible Web search partnership with Yahoo, but ruled out a complete takeover of the struggling company.
“Let me be as clear as I think I’ve tried to be publicly,” Ballmer said during the Microsoft annual shareholders meeting.  “We are [...]

NVIDIA Launches Tesla Supercomputer

Tesla Supercomputer uses up to 960 parallel processing cores
When talking about supercomputers, the images that come to mind are those of massive computer systems with hundreds or thousands of individual CPUs taking up huge rooms and requiring millions to build and operate. Those mental images are correct for most supercomputers.
NVIDIA is looking to change the way people thing [...]

New Wind Turbine Generator Ditches Mechanical Transmission, Ups Efficiency 50 Percent

New wind generator design takes advantage of an advanced electrical transmission to decrease cost while boosting performance
While the costs of solar power havecontinually dropped over the past couple decades, wind power has only decreased slightly in cost, owing to a relative lack of sources of improvement.  Much of the wind power research has focused on either [...]