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Nvidia Announces 192-Core Tegra K1 Chips, Bets On Android 128

Posted by samzenpus from the get-it-while-it's-hot dept.
sfcrazy writes "Nvidia just announced Tegra K1, its first 192-core processor. NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang made the announcement at CES 2014. He also said that Android will be the most important platform for gaming consoles. 'Why wouldn't you want to be open, connected to your TV and have access to your photos, music, gaming. It's just a matter of time before Android disrupts game consoles,' said Huang." Nvidia's marketing department created a crop circle to promote the chip after CEO Jen Hsun Huang declared that it was so advanced that "it's practically built by aliens."
Medicine

Why a Cure For Cancer Is So Elusive 366

Posted by samzenpus from the still-looking dept.
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "George Johnson writes in the NYT that cancer is on the verge of overtaking heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death and although cancer mortality has actually been decreasing bit by bit in recent decades, the decline has been modest compared with other threats. The diseases that once killed earlier in life — bubonic plague, smallpox, influenza, tuberculosis — were easier obstacles. For each there was a single infectious agent, a precise cause that could be confronted. But there are reasons to believe that cancer will remain much more resistant because it is not so much a disease as a phenomenon, the result of a basic evolutionary compromise. As a body lives and grows, its cells are constantly dividing, copying their DNA — this vast genetic library — and bequeathing it to the daughter cells. They in turn pass it to their own progeny: copies of copies of copies. Along the way, errors inevitably occur. Some are caused by carcinogens but most are random misprints. Mutations are the engine of evolution. Without them we never would have evolved. The trade-off is that every so often a certain combination will give an individual cell too much power. It begins to evolve independently of the rest of the body and like a new species thriving in an ecosystem, it grows into a cancerous tumor. 'Given a long enough life, cancer will eventually kill you — unless you die first of something else (PDF). That would be true even in a world free from carcinogens and equipped with the most powerful medical technology,' concludes Johnson. 'Maybe someday some of us will live to be 200. But barring an elixir for immortality, a body will come to a point where it has outwitted every peril life has thrown at it. And for each added year, more mutations will have accumulated. If the heart holds out, then waiting at the end will be cancer.'"

Comment Re:Why I Stay Away (Score 2) 894

Unfotunately, that doesn't have a thing to do with Canada's customs. "Product selection on canada.zappos.com is limited due to distribution agreements with the brands we sell in the United States." This sounds more like a problem Zappos needs to solve for themselves and not try to blame on Canada.

Comment Re:New meaning to blue screen of death? (Score 1) 214

by Anarchduke (#45725859) Attached to: Former Microsoft Exec To Lead HealthCare.gov
Only 3.5 hour wait for an emergency room visit? That's freaking awesome. I had to take my wife to Parkland county hospital in Dallas, TX once because of no health insurance. We waited 13 hours to get seen by a doctor just because her blood sugar had spiked to over 600. And the old lady next to us had to wait just as long to get seen for a broken hip.
The best thing?
Parkland is one of the better county hospitals in the nation.

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