First off, awesome AMD-powered Jaguar/Cray machine crunches 1.759 PetaFlops (that’s trillions) to grab the top spot of IBM’s Top-500 SuperComputers. Compared to Intel’s latest incarnation – i7 – calculating at a measly 70GigaFlops, or 0.000007 PetaFlops…. Interestingly enough, AMD CPUs grab the top 3 position in the top-500 Supercomputer race, but Intel conquered over 80% of the 500 SPC listed! Totally awesome climate simulation video below, and more detailed articles here: Wired’s article, Bit-Tech.net article

On a different news, there’s MIT’s new robot-driver-helper, AIDA (Affective Intelligent Driving Agent) who accompanies you while you drive. The goal is for AIDA to “analyze our driving habits, keeping track of frequent routes and destinations to provide real-time traffic info and make friendly suggestions along the way”

More details on AIDA: Wired

Last is Phillips latest invention on kitchen utilities that are military-green anodized aluminiums. Finally a kitchen appliance that both me and the wife will fight for.