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Buddhism has largely remained the same over the past few centuries, but a group of monks in Japan are spicing things up by turning to alcohol and rap music to lure in followers.

The monks are calling it Buddhism 2010, the CNN reported.

Kansho Tagai, a Buddhist monk, believes it’s time to change for the future and doesn’t mind if it means dropping the chants and bringing on the rap music. Tagai also prefers to go by his street name Mr. Happiness.

Many argue that the Buddhist mantra is hard to understand, but if it’s interpreted in a modern way sung as a rap, then more young people might accept the Buddhist faith, according to Tagai.

“Getting the young people back to religion is key to Buddhism’s survival,” Tagai told CNN. “In Japan, it’s a religion in crisis.”

Each year, hundreds of temples close in Japan and it’s a similar struggle seen by other religions around the world.

Another idea that monks hope will help get more young people involved is mixing faith with fun at something called the Monk Bar.

This modern day bar serves up alcoholic drinks while teaching the Buddhist mantra, according to Zenshin Fujioka.

“This is closer to what Buddhism was intended to be,” Zenshin said. “Today’s temples are disconnected from the ordinary person.”

Like most monks, Zenshin is trained in an ancient language most Japanese don’t quite understand, but in a modern bar setting, the monks say the faithful talk at ease about their problems.

While many traditionalists may criticise these moves, it seems their ideas are paying off.

“Twice as many people, especially the young, are visiting the temple,” Tagai said. “Other monks are even calling me up for advice.”

The modern communication tool Twitter made it into outer space when US astronaut Timothy Creamer sent a tweet from the International Space Station (ISS), Russian state television reported on Saturday.

“Hello Twitterverse! we r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station – the 1st live tweet from Space!: ),” Creamer wrote to his Twitter following on earth.

Astronauts on the ISS have in recent weeks had direct access to the Internet.

Creamer has been sending updates on his progress in preparing for his space mission under the Twitter name Astro TJ since late December. Around 14,700 people have subscribed to his profile as followers.

The US astronaut and his countryman Jeff Williams are onboard the ISS, together with Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Maxim Suraev and Soichi Noguchi of Japan.

On Twitter: http://twitter.com/astro_tj

NVIDIA’s new ‘Fermi’ graphics platform may have suffered a succession of annoying delays, but newly released specifications for the GPU specialist’s latest architecture suggest the technology may be well worth the wait.
After using the recent Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas as a springboard to highlight the Fermi GF100 graphics processor, which has been developed through the 40nm manufacturing process, NVIDIA is now looking to shine the media spotlight just a little brighter in terms of core details.
Specifically, the next-gen graphics processing unit (GPU) will carry in excess of three billion transistors and 512 CUDA cores, which NVIDIA claims will significantly boost the GPU’s capabilities across various technical aspects such as ray tracing, physics, finite element analysis, high-precision scientific computing, sparse linear algebra, and search algorithms.
With NVIDIA’s new graphics beast set to offer plenty of muscle thanks to 48 ROPs and a 384-bit memory interface running on GDDR5, other contributing elements likely to test the temptation glands of gamers everywhere include 16 Shader Multiprocessing cores (consisting of 32 CUDA cores each), while each of those 16 cores has 16/48KB of dedicated L1 cache, four texture units, and a Polymorph Engine.
While related price points have not yet been divulged by Santa Clara-based NVIDIA (don’t expect it cheap), the company’s proposed release schedule indicates that the first boards equipped with the GF100 chip will begin appearing towards the close of February, with more widespread availability in March.