Gadgets & Gizmos: China's supercomputer, World Cup streaming problems & a green screen error

Where do we begin today? Well, we begin with China.

Oh, okay.

And the Lineshine.

Now, the Lineshine, you may not have heard of, but the Lineshine is the world's fastest supercomputer.

And it has beaten the American El Capitan.

It's faster than that.

So the Americans are very worried that the Chinese have this super fast computer.

And they say, oh, it could be used for medical research and climate modeling.

But I suspect all kinds of nefarious things as well.

But they're all supercomputers.

Unlike the Americans, of

course, who would never dream of doing

that.

And they built it entirely using CPUs, central processing units, as opposed to the GPUs, the graphics processing units, that are apparently better for AI.

They're just using an awful lot of the CPUs.

And for most of us, what difference are we likely to notice from that?

Well, very little.

It uses 42.2 megawatts.

which is the equivalent of 42,000 kettles, or, so ChatGBT tells me, the equivalent of eight high-speed trains accelerating.

Well, in this country, we wouldn't even know what that was, would we? I wouldn't.

Yes, we just have to look at our watches and wait another 10 years before we can experience that.

Yes.

Okay.

Yes.

You pop across the France.