Detected oil field of 1.2 billion barrels in Alaska
In an area that had been deemed to have run out of oil in Alaska (USA), oil companies said they had found a huge oil field, reserves of up to 1.2 billion barrels.China makes the world's fastest supercomputer
China began to develop a supercomputing system capable of performing over a billion billion calculations per second, 10 times faster than the fastest computer in the world today.