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Regular readers will know that the FCC is a bit of a virtual whistle-blower, alerting tech-hungry Americans to when new goodies might soon be landing on their shores. Other times it coughs up the odd thing we weren’t even waiting for. Today’s offering appears to be a 3G tablet from NEC. There’s little in the way of specification, or even pictures, but we do know it’s sporting GSM and HSPA radios along with the standard WiFi. The device measures 222.6 mm across, which strongly points to a display somewhere in the 7-inch region. The KMP7R4D1-1A model number isn’t ringing any bells right now

NEC Tablet With GSM Along With HSPA Breaks Cover Around The FCC

We got an eyeful of Samsung’s stunning 55-inch OLED HDTV prototypes earlier this year at CES, but now Samsung is surprising the world by showing off its first mass produced ES9500 models at the World’s Fair (which is apparently still a thing?) in Korea. Beyond the Smart Interaction voice and gesture control, Smart Content and Smart Evolution upgradeable dual-core CPU features found in its other high-end HDTVs , Samsung has also built in Smart Dual View technology, which lets users watch two different programs (2D) on one screen at the same time using the set’s 3D glasses. Since each pixel is individually lit, Samsung says its OLED tech has 20 percent better color reproduction than existing LED-backlit LCD HDTVs. There’s still no word on exactly when these will ship and for how much, however with competition on the way from LG , these fresh-off-the-factory-line flat panels are a sign we won’t be waiting long.

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Samsung shows off production 55-inch OLED HDTVs at the 2012 World’s Fair

Samsung Shows Down Production 55-inch OLED HDTVs In The 2012 World’s Fair

ASTRON has enlisted the help of IBM to lead a five-year, $43 million project to develop and build a supercomputer for the new Square Kilometer Array . The SKA is a $2.1 billion initiative to construct the world’s largest radio telescope across a 3,000km strip of Australia or South Africa. It’s hoped to be around 50 times as powerful as the dishes we currently point heavenward and will be used to examine the deepest reaches of space to learn more about the formation of the universe. When it goes live in 2024, it’ll produce an Exabyte of data each day : twice as much information as there is traffic on the internet in the same period. Of course, no existing computer could handle the job, so Big Blue has a slim 12 years in which to turn nascent technologies like Nanophotonics, 3D chip stacking and phase change memory amongst others into a practical, workable Exascale computer. Its either that, or somehow daisy-chain 100 million PCs with enough power and cooling fans to keep it all working and hope for the best.

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IBM: ‘We must build an Exascale computer before 2024′ (video)

IBM: ‘We Must Create An Exascale Computer Ahead Of 2024′ (video)

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week’s most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us — it’s the Week in Green. Man-made islands ; indoor ski slopes ; temporary ice hotels . We thought we had seen it all in Dubai, and then the Middle Eastern city went and outdid itself with the Water Discus Hotel , a hotel that will feature a series of sci-fi styled discs, one of which will be located 21 stories underwater. For those who prefer to stay above water, Antwerp will open one of the world’s largest floating swimming pools this summer. Made from an old ferry boat, Badboot will be 120 meters long and it’ll be part of a larger facility that can host as many as 600 people. And across the point in New York, the One World Trade Center skyscraper was just crowned the tallest building in NYC

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Inhabitat’s Week in Green: the Water Discus Hotel, magnetic LED bulbs and pig poo electricity

Inhabitat’s Week In Green: The Water Discus Hotel, Magnetic LED Bulbs Along With Pig Poo Electricity