BEIJING (AP) — China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse. The semiannual TOP500 official listing of the world's fastest supercomputers released Monday says the Tianhe-2 developed by the National University of Defense Technology in central China's Changsha city is capable of sus ...

Toyota Motor Corp.unveiled on Thursday the new sporty design for the 11th generation of its Corolla compact car--a long-delayed revamp for a model that has fallen behind its competition in styling and technology. The 2014 Corolla Toyota, scheduled to reach U.S. showrooms this fall, will be a key to Toyota's efforts to regain momentum and market share in the U.S. Toyota's overall U.S. sales are up 5.2% for t ...

We’re consuming about three times the amount of information today that we did in 1960, according to researchers at University of California, San Diego. But too much time with devices takes its toll. And now, even our top technology giants are on to this and increasingly spending resources on helping their employees dial down the device overload to regenerate: Google’s Search Inside Yourself  and Apple and Y ...

Pop-up ads Running into pop-up ads while surfing the Web used to be par for the course. Thanks to pop-up blocking now standard in modern browsers, these annoyances aren't common. Still seeing pop-ups online from multiple sites? It could be a badly-configured browser. Seeing pop-ups when your browser isn't even open? It's usually adware, spyware or scareware. You can usually tell it's the last one if the pop ...

A new ad for Samsung televisions portrays men as dirty slobs, just a half step up from cavemen -- and it has the more evolved members of the male species crying foul. “That's probably one of the most vile adverts I've ever seen,” wrote one outraged user on a Reddit forum dedicated to men’s rights. “This isn't the normal IV drip of laughing at men; this is simply mainlining outright contempt.” “Are they tryi ...

Microsoft gave the world the first look at its new game console today hoping the newly named Xbox One will build on a solid core of gamer fans and become a hub for living room entertainment. The third-generation Microsoft console, coming eight years after the Xbox 360, was unveiled by games unit chief Don Mattrick at an event at the software company’s campus near Seattle. The new device interacts with a use ...

Waiting hours for a cellphone to charge may become a thing of the past, thanks to an 18-year-old high-school student's invention. She won a $50,000 prize Friday at an international science fair for creating an energy storage device that can be fully juiced in 20 to 30 seconds. The fast-charging device is a so-called supercapacitor, a gizmo that can pack a lot of energy into a tiny space, charges quickly and ...

Nigerian mobile phone operators will from June 30 start to disconnect any unregistered subscriber identification module (SIM) card phone line which will mark the closure of the SIM registration exercise begun in 2011 according to theNigerian Communications Commission, (NCC) A message posted on NCC’s twitter handle by the Director, Public Affairs, NCC, Mr Tony Ojobo, yesterday, said “Nigerian Communications ...

The Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) has revealed that a Korean firm has indicated interest in investing $30billion to build a 10,000 megawatts solar power plant in the country. ...

Physicists at Duke University announced Monday that they had successfully cloaked an object with "perfect" invisibility. ...

Regulatory body of Nigerian telecom industry, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC),announced an immediate ban of promos and lotteries run by telecoms operators in the country. ...

Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy S3 became the world’s best-selling smartphone model last quarter, pushing aside Apple Inc’s iPhone, which has dominated the chart for more than two years, research firm Strategy Analytics said on Thursday. ...

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it plans to accelerate the deployment of robust broadband services across the country to enhance communication among the people. ...

Windows 8 is a bold innovation, melding the worlds of tablets and PCs. Its excellent touch input, an app store, and better performance are compelling, but the changes will be too drastic for some and as a completely new product, a few rough edges remain. ...

Thinking of rushing to buy Windows 8 immediately it comes out? Well, you might need to have a rethink. ...

Below are a few tips which are intended to help you save fuel and as such, minimize cost: ...

Future generations of astronauts could come back wealthy men - Yale scientists have detected a huge 'super-Earth' made of diamonds. ...

Researchers at Uppsala University in Sweden have found that it's possible to interrupt the formation of memories during a crucial stage when they're being cemented in your brain by proteins. ...

There are two main ways employers track computer usage — with monitoring software on your desktop, and by watching the traffic on the corporate network. ...

Apple has been awarded more than $1 billion in damages as it prevailed in its patent-infringement case against Samsung. ...