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Comment Paying for convenience. (Score 1) 729

by blueshift_1 (#52491655) Attached to: PC Gaming Is Still Way Too Hard
There are services that build to of the line PCs with the latest and greatest in them - but you'll pay a premium. Sourcing your own components and coming up with a build that fits your needs is where you save money. You either do labor and pay less or pay more for convenience. The basics of economics there.
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Crispr Wins Key Approval to Fight Cancer in Human Trials (bloomberg.com) 71

Posted by msmash from the moving-forward dept.
Tom Randall, reporting for Bloomberg Technology:An experimental cancer treatment that alters the DNA of patients has won a key approval to proceed with its first human tests using the controversial gene-altering tool known as Crispr. Scientists from the University of Pennsylvania want to edit the immune systems of 18 patients to target cancer cells more effectively. The experiment, backed by internet billionaire Sean Parker, won approval from the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC), a federal ethics panel set up at the National Institutes of Health 40 years ago to review controversial experiments that change the human genome. The trial still needs final approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The experiment targets difficult-to-treat cases of multiple myeloma, sarcoma, and melanoma. The scientists will remove blood samples from patients and alter their T-cells -- central to human immune response -- to more effectively target and pursue cancer. The T cells will then be infused back into patients and studied for the safety and effectiveness of the technique.STAT News has an article in which it discusses the probable consequences of altering the DNA of a cancer patient.

Submission + - Princeton: Sites Turn to Audio Fingerprinting to Track Users

Submitted by Trailrunner7
Trailrunner7 writes: Researchers from Princeton University, conducting a privacy survey of the top one million web sites, discovered a variety of tracking and identification techniques in use, including a novel tactic that uses audio signals to fingerprint machines and browsers.

In the study, the Princeton researchers ran a set of measurements on the home pages of the Alex top one million sites. In addition to finding typical cookie tracking, the researchers discovered a small number of sites that are using the HTML5 AudioContext API to perform fingerprinting visitors. There are at least two different ways that sites are doing this fingerprinting, including one technique that produces an audio signal and then uses a script to process it.

“We tested the output of the scripts on a small sample of machines, and confirmed the values returned are largely stable on the same machine and different for different machines," the researchers said.

Submission + - SPAM: Transparent Displays Are Here, But Pretty Useless

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Samsung has debuted the first commercial installation of its 55-inch 'mirror' displays at a salon in South Korea, with a transparent OLED screen overlaid over a mirrored surface to allow interaction. The Samsung product rivals an equivalent TOLED from Planar, with both intended for high-end use in the retail display and exhibition space. However both manufacturers are struggling to find practical applications for the much-awaited technology. Transparent displays have been a staple of sci-fi films such as Minority Report for decades, but only, it seems, because they helped to open up scenes which would otherwise have been difficult to film. With the pending advent of AR-based visualization, the innovation of the clear monitor seems not only to have come too late, but to have limited practical use, even if its currently breathtaking prices were to descend to the consumer space.

Submission + - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Launched, Benchmarks Show Great Perf Per Watt (hothardware.com)

Submitted by MojoKid
MojoKid writes: A couple of weeks ago, NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun-Huang unveiled the company's new high-end graphics cards, the GeForce GTX 1080 and GeForce GTX 1070. Huang claimed the cards represented a true generational leap in performance and efficiency, thanks to NVIDIA's new Pascal GPU architecture. Yesterday, the official launch of the GeForce GTX1080 took place, with full specs revealed and the benchmarks results are in. The GPU at the heart of the GeForce GTX 1080 Founder's Edition has a base clock of 1607MHz and a boost clock of 1733MHz, though boost clocks actually shot a little higher right out of the box in some game tests (one test card went up to 1823MHz occasionally, without overclocking). The GDDR5X memory on the card is clocked at 5GHz for an effective data rate of 10Gbps. At its reference clocks, the GTX 1080 offers up to 320GB/s of memory bandwidth and a peak texture fillrate of 257.1 GigaTexels/s, all within a 180 watt power envelope and the card only needs a single, 8-pin power feed. In the benchmarks GeForce GTX 1080 is roughly 20 -25 percent faster than a Titan X and 10 – 15 percent faster than a factory overclocked GeForce GTX 980 Ti. It was also significantly faster than AMD's Radeon R9 Fury X, in both DirectX 11 and Direct X 12 game titles.

Submission + - SUSE Enterprise Linux promises 100% uptime (softpedia.com)

Submitted by LichtSpektren
LichtSpektren writes: Utilizing the live patching that was implemented into the Linux kernel version 4, SUSE now promises 100% uptime for version 12 of their Enterprise Server distro. Softpedia reports: "SUSE Linux Enterprise Live Patching is available starting today for all SUSE customers who run their workloads on the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, the SAP HANA platform, or any other SAP (Systems Applications Products) applications, helping them save money and keep their customers happy by offering 100% uptime."

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