In Pictures: 15 amazing tech feats and world records
Not to be outdone by athletes at this summer’s Olympic games, techies have been setting some world records of their own of late.
Supercomputers with ever more blazing speed, transistors that are smaller than ever and thousands of URLs where you can never lose them. These are the techiest records, the kind of accomplishments that keeps Guinness pumping out volumes of world records year after year.
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