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Feeding a supercomputer with news stories could help predict major world events, according to US research. Image: Egyptograph plots media "sentiment" around Egypt fell dramatically in early 2011, just before the resignation of President Mubarak. A study, based on millions of articles...

IBM on Wednesday claimed it has built the world's fastest supercomputer, wresting the title from Japanese company NEC. The new supercomputer, dubbed Blue Gene/L, claimed to sustain speeds of 36 teraflops (36 trillion calculatons per second), surpassing Japanese 'Earth Simulator' which has a...