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IBM Watson Engagement Advisor hopes to improve customer service

IBM Watson Solutions VP Stephen Gold interacts with the new IBM Watson Engagement Advisor, which uses cloud-delivered mobile and online chat technology to assist businesses’ customers, anytime and anywhere (credit: Jon Simon/Feature Photo Service for IBM) http://www.kurzweilai.net/ibm-watson-engagement-advisor-hopes-to-improve-customer-service

Bitcoin network speed 8 times faster than top 500 supercomputers combined

The mining speed of the bitcoin network on bitcoinwatch.com passed 1 exaFLOPS (1,000 petaFLOPS) this week — more than 8 times the combined speed of the Top 500 supercomputers, The Genesis Block reports . http://www.kurzweilai.net/bitcoin-network-speed-8-times-faster-than-top-500-supercomputers-combined

How powerful was the Apollo 11 computer?

With all the buzz about the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing I got to thinking, how powerful were the computers that "took us to the Moon?" It turns out, they were nothing short of amazing. If you've never had a nerdy bone in your body, feel free to skip this post. http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/07/20/how-powerful-was-the-apollo-11-computer/
http://www.theinquirer.es/2008/05/27/cuantos_flops_alcanzan_las_consolas.html ¿Cuántos FLOPS alcanzan las consolas?

¿Cuántos FLOPS alcanzan las consolas?

http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/05/20/e3-2005-microsofts-xbox-360-vs-sonys-playstation-3?page=3 GPU Even ignoring the bandwidth limitations the PS3's GPU is not as powerful as the Xbox 360's GPU.

E3 2005: Microsoft's Xbox 360 vs. Sony's PlayStation 3 - Xbox360 News at IGN

China's fastest supercomputer Tianhe-1 creates new speed record

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-10/28/c_13580129.htm BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's Tianhe-1 has overtaken Nebule to regain top spot as China's fastest computer according to a new list of China's Top 100 supercomputers released Thursday.
So what is all this flopping about? FLOPS are Floating Point Operations Per Second. http://www.ps3focus.com/archives/36

PS3 and Xbox 360: Flops, Gigaflops and Teraflops - PS3focus.com

http://singularity.com/charts/page70.html

is Near -SIN Graph - Exponential Growth of Computing

Exponential Growth of Computing, Twentieth Through Twenty-first Century , Calculations per Second per $1,000, pg 70.