http://www.gizmodo.co.uk Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/the-smartest-computer-in-the-world-also-has-the-dirtiest-mouth/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/the-smartest-computer-in-the-world-also-has-the-dirtiest-mouth/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:30:30 +0000 Ashley Feinberg http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=134337 We already knew Ken Jennings thought IBM’s Jeopardy-winning supercomputer was a dick, but he’s not alone. Developers at IBM were forced to wipe part of Watson’s memory once they realized their hyperintelligent computer had turned into a bit of a twat. During development, Watson’s project head had what must have seemed like a brilliant idea. [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/01/the-smartest-computer-in-the-world-also-has-the-dirtiest-mouth/feed/ 7 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/aptly-named-titan-takes-supercomputer-crown/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/aptly-named-titan-takes-supercomputer-crown/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:00:46 +0000 Chris Mills http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=119601 It’s a hard life, being a supercomputer: in June 2012, just a paltry few months ago, IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer was the awesome new kid on the block, calculating many millions of weird and wonderful things a second. Now, though, poor old IBM’s been dethroned by the bigger and better – and more awesomely named – [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/11/aptly-named-titan-takes-supercomputer-crown/feed/ 5 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/maths-has-never-looked-as-pretty-as-this/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/maths-has-never-looked-as-pretty-as-this/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:30:40 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=109364 When you were at high school, maths was probably an uninspiring string of algebra you had to crunch through. Get to the cutting edge of computational fluid dynamics, though, and it all starts to look a hell of a lot more pretty. These images represent incredibly complex fluid flows, and were generated suing supercomputers by [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/10/maths-has-never-looked-as-pretty-as-this/feed/ 4 http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/ibms-27-million-computer-for-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope/ http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/ibms-27-million-computer-for-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope/#comments Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:45:55 +0000 Jamie Condliffe http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/?p=56813 When it’s built, the Square Kilometre Array will be the world’s largest radio telescope. Then, when it goes online, it will spit out 1,000,000 terabytes of data each day—and IBM is trying to make a computer which can handle it. To give some context, 1,000,000 terabytes—or one exabyte—is twice as much information as there is [...]]]> http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/04/ibms-27-million-computer-for-the-worlds-largest-radio-telescope/feed/ 4