TECH NEWS: MARK ZUCKERBERG AND BILL GATES JOIN FORCES TO INVEST IN CLEAN ENERGY TECHNOLOGY

The founders of Facebook and Microsoft are teaming up to solve climate change. Mark Zuckerberg announced today that he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have

BIRTHDAY DELIGHT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BILL GATE'S DAD, William H. Gates, Sr.

Today is a very special day for Bill Gate's family --- His Dad's 90th birthday, William H. Gates, Sr.

This is a little something He wrote about His Dad.

SPEED OF COMPUTING: TOP 10 FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTERS IN THE WORLD.

The performance or processing speed of supercomputer is measured in petaflop that is equal to a million billion or a thousand trillion floating point operations per second. These massive machines are not made for fun but rather help scientists, meteorologists to do research or forecast global climate and whether, while some are used being to simulate brain activity or effects of storm or wind on a plane.

SPEED OF COMPUTING: THE WORLD'S FASTEST SUPERCOMPUTER

Tianhe-2

Tianhe-2 or TH-2 is a 33.86-petaflop supercomputer located in National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou. It was developed by a team of 1,300 scientists and engineers.

It is the world's fastest supercomputer according

AYAKATA: HOW TO SUCCEED IN KONGA BLACK THURDAY / FRIDAY NIGHT

Konga Black Thurday / Friday night is coming up and Konga is giving best deals on their products for up to 90% discount of prices. Follow these steps inother for you not to get left out for this deal on that day, because most of their

TUTORIAL: HOW TO RESET YOUR WINDOWS 10, 8.1, 8 PASSWORD WITH INSTALLATION CD

This tutorial shows you how you can reset any windows pc password with your installation disc and command prompt. This steps are easy to follow and a clear:

1. Boot your Windows 8 computer from Windows 8 installation disc. Once the message “Press any key to boot from CD…..” appears, press the Enter key to continue.
2. As soon as you get to the Windows Set

PROGRAMMING: 10 COMMON ERRORS IN PROGRAMMING. C++.

1: Undeclared Variables:

int main()
{
cin>>x;
cout<<x;
}

"Huh? Why do I get an error?"

Your compiler doesn't know what x means. You nee

TUTORIAL: HOW TO SET YOUR COMPUTER TO BOOT FROM A USB DRIVE

How to set computer boot from USB drive

This document shows you how to set your computer to boot from USB flash drive. You can set your computer to boot from USB flash drive by the following ways.

• Method 1: Boot computer from USB drive with Boot Menu (Recommend)
• Method 2: Set USB drive as first Boot device Priority in BIOS/UEFI

RESEARCH: SCIENTISTS TURN TASTES ON AND OFF BY ACTIVATING AND SILENCING CLUSTERS OF BRAIN CELLS

This image shows the location of the bitter cortex (red) and sweet ortex (green) in the mouse brain.

Credit: Charles S. Zuker, PhD/Columbia University Medical Center

Most people probably think that we perceive the five basic tastes -- sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami (savory) -- with our tongue, which then sends signals to our brain "telling" us what we've tasted. However, scientists have turned this idea on its head, demonstrating in mice the ability to change the way something tastes by manipulating groups of cells in the brain.

STUDY: HOW TO READ DIFFICULT TEXTBOOKS AND HAND-OUTS

Reading difficult material

Reading difficult material can be a matter of concentration
or of simply organizing the challenge into steps:

• Choose a moderate amount of material or a chapter to begin
• Get a grasp of how the material is organized:
  Scan the section for titles, headings, sub-headings, and topic sentences to get its general idea; pay attention to graphs, charts, and diagrams
• If there is a summary at the end of a

ELECTRONIC PLANTS CREATED

Augmenting plants with electronic functionality would make it possible to combine electric signals with the plant's own chemical processes.

Credit: Laboratory of Organic Electronics

Researchers at Linköping University in Sweden have created analog and digital electronics circuits inside living plants. The group at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics (LOE), under the leadership of Professor Magnus Berggren, have used the vascular system of living roses to build key components of electronic circuits.