Wave

Latest news on wave

Michael Dell heralds supercomputing fourth wave

Just like the third wave - with more marketing SC08 The annual Supercomputing 2008 trade show kicked off this morning in Austin, Texas with a sales call keynote by local billionaire and sometime HPC player, Michael Dell. As chairman and once again chief executive officer of a company that's trying to make a more substantial run at the HPC area, he can be forgiven (perhaps) for giving a keynote address that at times seemed to be more of a commercial for his company than a revelation about HPC (as supercomputing is now called).?

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Wave of innovation

Advancements are just around the corner

2010 switch-on for wave project

A ground-breaking wave energy project could be ready to send power back to the mainland in 2010.

Caution over tidal wave benefits

The benefits of a tidal energy scheme in Alderney will not be felt for a number of years, it is warned.

Wave power firm seeks help from rival developer

A wave power company is considering working with rival firms in order to expand its Scotland-based datacentre.

Windows Live Wave 3: Microsoft Hangs 10

Microsoft officially launches on Nov. 13 new and revamped Windows Live services that will start rolling out over the coming weeks and, internationally, into 2009. - ...

Financial crisis: Wave of job cuts expected to hit the City

A fresh wave of tens of thousands of job cuts is expected to hit the financial world as banks cut costs to survive.

Gadget Watch: Logitech Cordless Desktop Wave Pro

"We consider this one of the best mouse and keyboard packages on the market"

Fun with sine-wave speech

Here are some voice recordings that have been tweaked almost beyond recognition, placed side-by-side with the unaltered recordings. The tweaked recordings are almost impossible to make out (though if you listen to them over and over, you can figure out what they are saying) but after you listen to the unaltered recordings, the tweaked recordings are very easy to understand. Most naive listeners hear this as a set of simultaneous whistles, or science fiction sounds. However, for listeners that have previously heard this sound: Listening to the sine-wave speech sound again produces a very different percept of a fully intelligible spoken sentence. This dramatic change in perception is an example of "perceptual insight" or pop-out. We have argued that this form of pop-out is an example of a top-down perceptual process produced by higher-level knowledge and expectations concerning sounds that can potentially be heard as speech. Here's one example: Sine Wave Speech | Clear Speech It's almost, but not quite, as weird as the McCollough Effect optical illusion that lasts 24 hours or longer. More here: Clear Speech (Via Mind Hacks)...

Kurds wave secession threat in Iraq flag row

"ARBIL, Iraq, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The leader of Iraq's ethnic Kurds brandished the threat of secession on Sunday as a row with the Baghdad government over the flying of the Iraqi national flag exposed an increasingly bitter rift."