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Submission + - Hynix Reveals 128GB DDR4 Memory Module (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: SK Hynix today announced it has manufactured a 128GB DDR4 memory module and plans to begin mass producing it early next year. The new module, which the company plans to begin sampling in 64GB and 128GB capacities, can process up to 17GB of data per second, according to Hynix. The memory is based on 8Gbit DDR4 chips manufactured with 20nm process lithography. The new module runs at 2,133Mbps with 64-bit I/O. It also runs at ultra low-voltage of 1.2V, compared to 1.35V of existing DDR3 memory modules.

Submission + - Seagate releases 6TB Hard Drive Sans Helium (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: Seagate has released what it said is the industry's fastest hard drive and it has up to 6TB capacity, matching one released by WD last year. WD's 6TB Ultrastar He6 was hermetically sealed with helium inside, something the company said was critical to reducing friction for additional platters, while also increasing power savings and reliability. Seagate, however, said it doesn't yet need to rely on Helium to achieve the 50% increase in capacity over it's last 4TB drive. The company used the same perpendicular magnetic recording technology that it has on previous models, but it was able to increase areal density from 831 bits per square inch to 1,000. The new drive also comes in 2TB, 4TB and 5TB capacities and with either 12Gbps SAS or 6Gbps SATA connectivity. The six-platter, enterprise-class drive is rated to sustain about 550TB of writes per year — 10X that of a typical desk top drive.

Submission + - Ad tracking: Is anything being done? (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by bsk_cw
bsk_cw writes: The W3C's Tracking Protection Working Group has been trying to come up with a way to make targeted ads acceptable to users and useful to advertisers — and so far, hasn't gotten very far. Computerworld's Robert Mitchell has interviewed people on all sides of the issue — consumer privacy advocates, vendors of ad-blocking tools, advertisers and website publishers — to try to unravel the issues and see if any solution is possible at all.

Submission + - USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: A presentation released today by Intel revealed images of the USB 3.1 Type-C cable and connectors, which is symmetrical and will no longer require a user to correctly orient the plug. Initially, the USB 3.1 Type-C specification will support up to 10Gbps data transfer speeds. The Type-C connectors resemble those of Apple's Thunderbolt cabling in that they are much smaller than today's USB SuperSpeed connectors. The receptacle opening is 8.3mm x 2.5mm.The first iteration will have a 5 volt power transfer rate, but it is expected to deliver up to 100 watts for higher power applications in the future.

Submission + - BMW i8 Hybrid To Be The First Production Car With Laser Headlights (computerworld.com)

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: While Audi plans to use laser beam headlights this June in its R18 E-Tron Quattro racecar in the Le Mans 24 Hours, BMW is saying it will be the first carmaker to bring the technology into production with its i8 plug-in hybrid sports car. The car is due out this fall. The headlights are brighter and project up to three times the distance of today's LED lamps — up to 1,800 feet or about a third of a mile. The lights do not cause eye damage because of the way the headlamps refract the laser light. The laser technology also allows the headlamp units to be smaller and lighter. BMW's laser diodes are 10 times smaller than conventional LED diodes.

Submission + - Solar Energy Is Now Same Price As Conventional Power In Germany, Italy, Spain (computerworld.com) 1

Submitted by Lucas123
Lucas123 writes: A new study by International consulting firm Eclareon found that the cost of solar- and conventional-powered electricity has the same per kilowatt hour (kWh) price tag in Germany, Italy and Spain. The report covered 19 cities in 10 countries (Australia, Brazil, U.S., Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Spain and the U.K.). In Latin America, while the cost of renewable energy has gone down, high installation prices still prevent PV technology from being competitive against grid electricity. Meanwhile, in the U.S., there has been a 50% reduction in the cost of renewable energy over the past five years, according to an August 2013 report from global financial adviser and asset manager firm Lazard Freres & Co. In areas of the U.S., the dropping costs of solar, wind and hydroelectric power has spurred utilities to sign contracts to use renewable energy rather than conventional fuels like gas in power plants, according to Cory Honeyman, a solar power analyst with GTM research.

Comment It always amazed me (Score 1) 47

by Lucas123 (#46508761) Attached to: Origins of Blarney Stone Revealed
People are willing to allow a complete stranger to hold them while they slide over the side of a 90-foot wall in order to share in the bacteria and viruses of thousands of others on the oft change they'll be given the ability deceive people without offending them.

Comment The Russian Embassador (Score 3, Funny) 878

by Lucas123 (#46506829) Attached to: Russian State TV Anchor: Russia Could Turn US To "Radioactive Ash"
There were those of us who fought against this. But in the end, we could not keep up with the expense involved in the arms race, the space race, and the peace race. And at the same time, our people grumbled for more nylons and washing machines. Our Doomsday scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we'd been spending on defense in a single year. But the deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Doomsday gap.

Submission + - Elon Musk Addresses New Jersey's Tesla Store Ban (teslamotors.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: On Tuesday, we discussed news that New Jersey is trying to ban Tesla stores, which would force the company to sell through car dealerships instead. Now, Elon Musk has prepared a response: 'The reason that we did not choose to do this is that the auto dealers have a fundamental conflict of interest between promoting gasoline cars, which constitute virtually all of their revenue, and electric cars, which constitute virtually none. Moreover, it is much harder to sell a new technology car from a new company when people are so used to the old. Inevitably, they revert to selling what’s easy and it is game over for the new company. The evidence is clear: when has an American startup auto company ever succeeded by selling through auto dealers? The last successful American car company was Chrysler, which was founded almost a century ago, and even they went bankrupt a few years ago, along with General Motors. Since the founding of Chrysler, there have been dozens of failures, Tucker and DeLorean being simply the most well-known. In recent years, electric car startups, such as Fisker, Coda, and many others, attempted to use auto dealers and all failed.'

Submission + - Google and Microsoft Both Want To Stop Dual-Boot Windows/Android Devices (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The laptop has undergone many changes over the past decade. At various times, netbooks, ultrabooks, and Chromebooks have been en vogue. Over the past several months, we've seen signs of the next step in the laptop's evolution: Android/Windows dual-boot laptops. Several companies had already announced upcoming models, including Asus and its Transformer Book Duet TD300. However, neither Google nor Microsoft seem to want such an unholy marriage of operating systems, and they've both pressured Asus to kill off the dual-boot product lines. Asus has now complied. 'Google has little incentive to approve dual-OS models, since that could help Microsoft move into mobile devices where Android is dominant. ... Microsoft has its own reasons for not wanting to share space on computers with Google, particularly on business-oriented desktop and laptop PCs that could give the Internet giant an entry point into a Microsoft stronghold. Computer makers that make dual-OS machines risk jeopardizing a flow of marketing funds from Microsoft that are an important economic force in the low-margin PC business.'

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