Scientists develop fastest computer Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise. Wen Ho Lee settles privacy lawsuit Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist once suspected of being a spy, settled his privacy lawsuit Friday and will receive $1.6 million from the government and five news organizations in a case that turned into a fight over reporters' confidential sources. Richardson: Wen Ho Lee Was Mistreated SANTA FE, N.M. - A former Los Alamos National Laboratory scientist who was held in solitary confinement for nine months was ``badly treated,'' Gov. Bill Richardson acknowledges in his new autobiography.
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