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Submission + - Objet demonstrates ready-to-use 3D printing (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25, 2011 @06:49AM

An anonymous reader writes: There's little doubt now that the world is on the cusp of a 3D printing revolution, but the technology has always been held back by its scale: while small objects are easy to create out of lightweight materials, usable large-scale creations are more difficult.
Objet, a company founded back in 1998 to create commercial-scale 3D printing systems, believes that it may be pushing that barrier with its latest creation: an entirely 3D printed folding chair, capable of supporting up to 100 kilograms.

Submission + - Installing OSX Lion On A Real World Mac (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 22, 2011 @12:34PM

Stoobalou writes: It's all very well reviewers telling you how Apple's OSX Lion works on a brand new Mac with a clean install and no clutter, but what happens when you've got a three-year-old Mac Pro stuffed full of digital detritus with a spider's web of USB and Firewire devices hanging out of the back of it, not to mention four monitors of questionable heritage?

Check out this real world review of Apple's latest OS.

Submission + - Murdoch-Detecting Add-On For Firefox Created (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 22, 2011 @10:54AM

Stoobalou writes: A Firefox add-on that issues a warning should a user inadvertently stray onto a web site operated by the now universally loathed Murdoch empire and his News Corporation has been created.

Submission + - Anon+ Hacked By Irate Turks (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 22, 2011 @10:50AM

Stoobalou writes: Hacktivism collective Anonymous has suffered a taste of its own medicine, with its recently-formed pro-anonymity social networking service Anon+ falling foul of Turkish hackers.

Submission + - Ubisoft Declares War on Second-Hand Game Sales (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 21, 2011 @10:34AM

An anonymous reader writes: Ubisoft has decided that it has had enough of the thriving market for second-hand games, and will be providing a new service it calls UPlay Passport in an attempt to squeeze some money out of those who don't buy their games new. Any second-hand buyers will need to shell out additional cash for a new single-use code, or miss out on key functionality.

Submission + - Intel Details Dynamic Resolution Rendering Tech (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @06:09AM

Stoobalou writes: Intel is risking the ire of hardcore gamers by suggesting that PC gaming can learn a trick or two from the world of consoles by altering a game's rendering resolution on the fly in order to boost performance.

Intel's latest chips, the Sandy Bridge series, pack some impressive graphical horsepower compared to the company's previous attempts, but still lag behind the performance of dedicated graphics from AMD or Nvidia. While that hasn't been a problem in the past — as there is a significant cost for an OEM to include discrete graphics with its product — AMD's move to the Fusion platform and the 'accelerated processing' concept threatens Intel's hold on the integrated graphics market.

Submission + - Apple iOS 4.3.4 Jailbroken Hours After Update (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Monday July 18, 2011 @08:37AM

Stoobalou writes: The cat and mouse game between Apple and the jailbreaking community continues unabated as an updated version of PwnageTool hits the web just hours after apple updated its iOS mobile operating system to lock out the JailbreakMe PDF-based exploit.

Submission + - Rumour: Windows 8 to Bring Xbox 360 Game Support (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @08:42AM

An anonymous reader writes: Evidence is mounting that — as unlikely as it may seem — Windows 8 will bring with it the ability to play Xbox 360 console games on your PC, ending the often long wait for console exclusives like BioWare's Mass Effect to make their way to the PC.

Submission + - Up To 90% Of iPhone Games Are Stolen (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Wednesday July 13, 2011 @06:52AM

Stoobalou writes: Software developer Gamized has blasted Apple for its inability to curb piracy on its iOS platform, calling the problem 'humiliating'.

The company's Luis Fonseca has sparked an iOS piracy debate by revealing that fewer than one in ten copies of commercial games currently being played by iDevice owners has actually been paid for.

Submission + - Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @08:11AM

Stoobalou writes: Microsoft exec Tami Reller told attendees at the company's Worldwide Partner Conference 2011 taking place in Los Angeles yesterday that any PC capable of running Windows 7 today would be capable of running Windows 8 when it is released, towards the end of the year.

Submission + - AMD Grabs Fastest Mobile GPU Crown From Nvidia (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:56AM

Stoobalou writes: AMD has scored another point over its graphics rival Nvidia with what it claims is the world's fastest single-GPU mobile graphics processor, the Radeon HD 6990M.

While the red team is unlikely to hold the crown for long in the fast-moving world of discrete graphics, the company's latest chip is certainly impressive enough. Based on the TeraScale 2 unified processor architecture and the Barts GPU core, the Radeon HD 6990M — a mobile equivalent to the company's high-end Radeon HD 6990 PCI Express graphics card design — features 1,120 stream processing units, 56 texture units, 128 Z/stencil ROP units, and 32 colour ROP units.

Submission + - GlobalFoundries Gets Ready For 300mm Wafers (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @05:29AM

Stoobalou writes: Semiconductor fabricator GlobalFoundries has announced a new stage of its race to support 300mm wafer sizes in its manufacturing plants: a move from construction to equipment installation.

For the past year, the company has been constructing brand-new clean rooms in its New York and Dresden facilities, ready to support the 300mm wafer size. It's been a long project, but one which will hopefully start bearing fruit soon with Fab 1 in Dresden pushing manufacturing up to 80,000 wafers per month once the equipment is installed.

Submission + - Apple Attacks GetJar Over App Store Name (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Tuesday July 12, 2011 @04:59AM

Stoobalou writes: Apple has served independent software distributor GetJar with a cease & desist order over its use of the term 'App Store.'
GetJar — which says it is the world's largest free app store with over two billion downloads of 150,000 mobile applications on multiple platforms including Android, Blackberry, Java and Symbian — has told Steve Jobs in no uncertain terms what he can do with his order.

Submission + - Space Shuttle Atlantis Heads Into Space (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 08, 2011 @11:40AM

Stoobalou writes: The last-ever space shuttle launch has taken place, despite some last-minute glitches that saw the countdown held at just T-minus 31 seconds.

Coming in the last few minutes of a tight launch window at an overcast day as the computers at Mission Control handed off to those within the Atlantis shuttle itself, the short hold left many wondering if the weather would close in before the glitch was corrected.

Submission + - Pinhead-Sized Camera Developed by US University (thinq.co.uk)

Submitted by Stoobalou on Friday July 08, 2011 @08:47AM

Stoobalou writes: Scientists at Cornell University have developed a camera small enough that several of them could sit on the head of a pin.
The device, which is 100th of a millimetre thick and less than half a millimetre on each side, won't exactly replace your DSLR — resolving, as it does, just 20x20 pixels — but the development has wide reaching implications in many industries.
Costing just a few pennies to manufacture, the tiny device, which resembles a miniaturised CD, could soon be seen in consumer gadgets, robot monkey butlers and surgical theatres.

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