Tianhe-1A:The World’s New Fastest Supercomputer

Unveiled at the Annual Meeting of National High Performance Computing (HPC China 2010) in Beijing, Tianhe-1A is considered the world’s fastest supercomputer with a performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the LINPACK benchmark.

Top 5 Influential People Who Never Lived

5. Santa Claus

What child has not been frightened into behaving thanks to the ever-present youthful fear of Santa not providing come Christmas? Almost all western children were told by their parents that Santa would leave them nothing if they misbehaved. I speak from experience when I say that it was one of the most effective methods of stopping tantrums! Funnily enough, though, the fear always dissipates on Christmas Eve as you just know that Santa will be coming – even if you did slip up a few times.

Creepiest Place On Earth

Hellingly Hospital was a large mental hospital in the village of Hellingly, east of Hailsham, in East Sussex, England. The hospital, also known as East Sussex County Asylum or just Hellingly, was opened in 1903. Its architect was GT Hine, one of the great asylum architects of the era.

Ten Most Bizzare Backstage Demands By Celebrities

All of us think that celebrities are these high profile out of this world people with amazingly posh life styles. We idealize their ultra modern homes and their world tours which sound larger than life. Have you ever wondered what life backstage might be like? These celebrities always keep whining about the long hours at the shooting sights, lack of proper food, sleep deprivation while working and what not. Well surely none of us dream of living endless days being short of sleep with pebbles to eat and the floor to sleep on. Read on to find out some of the most outrageous back stage demands that celebrities have these day and never again would you believe a word coming out of their pretty faces about woes of the backstage.

Celebrities Young Pics – Celebrity Childhood Pictures

How do they look when they were young? Some are strikingly similar, others may not be recognizable. Here are some of them...

George Clooney

Arnold Schwarzenegger Gets The Keys To A $250,000 Mercedes Unimog

Just a day ago we were reminiscing about that time former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into the law the most sweeping curbs on greenhouse gases in the country, rules that drive the federal government's march toward a 54.5 mpg average by 2025. About the same time, Schwarzenegger was in California picking up his new ride, a five-ton Mercedes-Benz Unimog pickup customized to a value estimated at $250,000. The earth underneath its tires will be safe, all right.

That’s What Happen When A Girl Gets Really High

A girl who spent four hours smoking super-strength skunk cannabis had to be rescued when she climbed a 40ft electricity pylon after hallucinating that it was a bridge.

Ten Real-Life Werewolves in Human History

Let’s admit that we’ve all heard stories about werewolves and have been scared breathless in our childhoods. Now that we are all grown up we know they don’t exist but we have seen then in movies, read novels about them. They are pretty cool. I believe that humans tend to be very ignorant at times and we simply deny the existence of things that our mind cannot comprehend. Same is the case with werewolves. Just because the entire phenomenon seems a bit farfetched and we haven’t seen them with our own eyes, we blindly trust that these creatures do not exist. But are we doing the right thing in trusting that? Read on to find out.

Cops: Drunk Guy Killed 70,000 Chickens In One Weekend

Police in Maryland say Joshua Shelton killed 70,000 chickens last weekend when he got wasted and broke into a chicken farm's power control station.

The Proper Etiquette Of A Woman Dating In The 1930′s

Time changes everything. Lets look at how a woman should behave when dating way back in the 1930s...

Awesome Miniature Food Art

No, these are not real food. They are work of art. Each of these are made from modelling clay but in the hands of an expert, they look real....

Samsung Pays Apple $1 Billion

28 August 2012

This morning more than 30 trucks filled with 5-cent coins arrived at Apple’s headquarters in California. Initially,  the security company that protects the facility said the trucks were in the wrong place, but minutes later, Tim Cook (Apple CEO) received a call from Samsung CEO explaining that  they will pay $1 billion dollars for the fine recently ruled against the South Korean company in this way.

25 Strangest Sunglasses

1. Dripping Sunglasses

Cool melting sunglasses by Anna Ter Haar made for Klavers van Engelen fall/winter 2008-2009 on the Milan fashion week.

The Jumbo Hostel

The Jumbo Hostel is situated at Arlanda Airport near Stockholm, Sweden. It opened in 2008. The hotel is located inside a decommissioned 747-200 jetliner built in 1976, which was last operated by Transjet, a Swedish airline that went bankrupt in 2002. It was originally built for Singapore Airlines and later served with Pan Am.

Painting with Light

Enhancing natural landscapes with "super"-natural light

This article is not about "painter of light" Thomas Kinkade; it's rather about less-established but extremely talented photographers, who use dynamic electric light patterns to enhance the nature's given landscapes, or our bleak industrial environments. In every case something luminous and strangely mesmerizing is brought "to light", transforming the photograph into an entirely different experience, and making our hearts beat faster.  

World's Most Expensive MacBook

Macbook Air Supreme Ice Edition was known as the world’s most luxurious notebook ever. Stuart Hughes, a gadget designer from Liverpool, finally released his Macbook Air Supreme Ice Edition design. This luxurious laptop will be sold for US$ 207,900. Now that’s really expensive for a Macbook Air.

Chinese Way of Ousting Competitors

Unlicensed taxi drivers messed up the market for legal taxi providers in Foshan, China, so they decided to settle the problem once and for all.

Wildlife In The Amazon

If you are thinking about Jaguars hunting in the dark, Iguanas sloppily moving up a tree trunk, or the Anacondas crunching the bones of its prey, it has to be the thick dense rainforests of The Amazon. One of the largest biodiversity hotspot in the world and home to over 2000 species which accounts to about a third of the entire world species. Some of which are found exclusively in the Amazonian rainforest. These jungles are deep and dense, partly impenetrable and cover almost half of the South America. No matter how dangerous the Amazon forests are to us, they are home to thousands of varied wildlife species, out of which some are yet to be discovered as they discreetly hide in the Amazon forests. Take a sneak peak at some of the Stars of this ‘tinseltown’.  

The 10 Most Obscene Credit Card Purchases

Whether it comes from the insanely rich or the insanely unlucky, some credit card receipts are too good not to share with others. Take a look at some of the craziest charges ever printed on receipts, and with enrollment in FreeCreditScore.com, you can make sure all of your purchases put you on the high road towards good credit and a successful start in life!

Scariest Glass Walkways In The World

If you have a head for heights and a fearless heart, then stepping onto these glass walkways should be an insanely thrilling experience! If not, then hello vertigo! So tell us, what would it take for you to walk these glass planks?