Ben Sullivan is a contributing writer for Ayrn. He covers a variety of subjects ranging from tech and photography to travel and the arts. Ben studied music performance and language at University.
Linux has been top of the charts in functionality, security and stability for ages. It has blazed a trail by crowd driven innovations that software giants like Microsoft, Google and Apple have been happy to follow. It’s considered the most secure operating system on earth and is often the...
Russia unveiled it’s first ever smartphone today. The Yotaphone [http://www.yotaphone.com/#/en/], engineered by newly established Russian technology firm, Yota Devices. The Android powered mobile device is aimed at bringing smartphone production back onto the European playing field in a market that has become heavily dominated by...
At nearly double the speed of its US rival, “Titan [https://ayrn.io/2013/05/06/titan-the-worlds-fastest-supercomputer/],” the $390 million USD “Tianhe-2” is now the fastest and most powerful supercomputer in the world (according to internationally recognizedTOP500 [http://www.top500.org/] ranking). Housed in Guangzhou, China; the project was initiated...
In 2009, Henriette Uhlenhaut from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory engaged in a study that revealed this early change is not necessarily a permanent one. Henriette conducted a study using mice that had been genetically altered so that FOXL2 could be “turned off” via a drug called Tamoxifen. Henriette found...
[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4WtG_lIq6sg/Uf6RgghBXGI/AAAAAAAAEW4/EzJiJGUMlkI/s1600/74452_maxb.jpg] Mind Blowing Fact #1It was actually a dentist who invented the electric chair! In 1881, Dr. Alfred Southwick witnessed a drunk man touching an electrical generator. As may be expected, the drunk man was electrocuted and...
Housed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, TN, The Titan Supercomputer is already the word’s most powerful computing machine. It’s about to get an upgrade though. Titan will soon feature 1.4TB/s disk storage speeds. We’re talking the ability to store 1,468,006....
