DARPA emergency response robot runs faster than the fastest human

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption:  DARPA’s Cheetah A robot under development by the U.S. Defense Department that could be used in a variety of applications, including emergency response missions, can run faster than the fastest human, recently reaching almost 30 miles per hour on a laboratory treadmill. Homepage position:  10 read more […]

Extreme Networks prepares to ship ‘world’s fastest Ethernet switch’

Extreme Networks’ latest switch, the BlackDiamond X8, billed as the “fastest Ethernet switch in the world”, went on general release this week with shipments expected to go out during the first half of February. The BlackDiamond X8 takes up one-third of a data centre rack and has a switching capacity of over 20Tbps, or 1.28Tbps […]