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The world’s first time machine from Iran?
Reporting stories in the month of April can be a nightmare, because everyone’s pulling some new jape at everyone else’s expense. Consider this opening as a somber disclaimer to what you’re going to set your eyes on. According to The Telegraph, a scientist from Tehran, Iran has registered with the Center for Strategic Inventions a…
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Iran blocked from World of Warcraft
Blizzard’s hallmark multiplayer game has changed the face of gaming in the world. So it goes without saying that World of Warcraft is a rage, not only in the Western world but in nations such as Iran. However, the game’s developer had to cut access to its online module, to all players in Iran. They’ve…
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Iran’s Soorena-2 humanoid robot looks good but what does it do?
A new Iranian humanoid robot called Soorena-2 has been designed by developed by 20 researchers and engineers from the University of Tehran to be used to conduct what are being called “sensitive jobs”. What these jobs actually are we don’t know. The President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad just recently showed off this 4.7-foot walking robot to the…
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Iran says ‘No more Gmail’
More on the Google front is not good news for the Internet ruler. Iran’s telecommunications agency has just announced that they have permanently suspended Google’s e-mail services in the country. The situation is a little more serious than mere blocking of a personal email accounts to deter citizens from joining anti-government protests that were planned…
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AMD stunned after Iran’s claim that they used the companies products for, ‘you know what’
I wouldn’t touch this one with a 50 foot pole but it’s one little 3 letter entry that hit me hard on the head. AMD. Yes! The company has found itself in an absurd situation, in which some dudes from Iran go about telling everyone how cool their processors are and how helpful they are…
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Iran 2009
One of the best I have seen till date. [Nerdcore]
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Iranian Scientists develop country’s most powerful supercomputer, despite ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation
According to an undated posting on Amirkabir University of Technology, the Iranian scientists have managed to build the country’s most powerful supercomputer, despite ban on the export of U.S. computer equipment to the Middle Eastern nation. They claim to have used 216 microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices. They used Linux-cluster architecture in building the…
