Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Monday, February 17th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, the world's most powerful climate supercomputer.

HQ trivia joins the Deadpool.

Apple isn't happy with call com's chips again.

Fodable phones are having crease issues again and a bit of an explainer about the

Indian e-commerce gold rush.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

The UK's Met Office, which is Britain's Weather Service, said it will spend $1.2 billion to acquire

the world's most powerful climate supercomputer capable of forecasting weather

events to an area just a thousand meters across. I feel like we've done a couple of

stories in this forecasting weather space recently.

Who knew weather forecasting would be a hot tech space all the sudden except, well, you know.

Quote, the Mets said the computer will create a digital twin of our atmosphere with data like wind speeds, air temperatures, and pressures, and more.

It will create forecasts down to an area just 1,000 meters or 0.62 miles across,

compared to 10 kilometers or 6.2 miles across currently.

Around large airports, accuracy will focus down to just 300 meters or about a

thousand feet. Once in service it will not only generate better forecasts

including rainfall predictions but will help emergency workers deploy mobile

flood barriers, balance the energy grid, and more. The Met also noted that it will also

help services mitigate the effects of climate change, quote, and help support the transition to a low

carbon economy across the UK said enters B the supercomputer will also be used by

universities for drug design AI AI, energy storage, and other types of research."

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