Comment Re:89 (Score 1) 197
iPhone 7 was reviewed by them earlier, and it scored 86.
https://www.dxomark.com/Mobile...
Comment Re:News to me (Score 1) 672
Chrysler, Dodge (made by Chrysler), Jaguar (made by Tata Motors), Jeep (made by Chrysler), Ram (made by Chrysler) in the order listed on the site) doesn't really help.
jaguar was owned by ford before being sold to tata
Submission + - RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken (threatpost.com)
Trailrunner7 writes: A group of researchers is claiming that they've found a root exploit that enables them to jailbreak the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet made by Research In Motion. In a video demonstration of the jailbreak, one of the researchers shows off the ability to change the settings on a PlayBook and says that he also has the ability to install the Android Market app on the tablet.
Submission + - Algorithm Can Predict Red Light Runners
adeelarshad82 writes: Researchers at MIT have developed an algorithm that determines which drivers will run a red light, within one to two seconds before a potential collision. The research based on 15,000 cars at a busy intersection monitored various factors to determine which cars were were likely to run a red light. They found that their predictions were correct about 85 percent of the time, which is about 15-20 percent better than existing traffic prediction algorithms.
Comment yes, and no. (Score 1) 1486
Comment Re:I'm lucky (Score 1) 345
Is there something like a +5 'Impressive' Modifier?
PC Sales Strong In Stores 53
An anonymous reader writes "Notebooks and Desktops are both staying strong in brick-and-mortar sales, according to C|Net. While laptops have mostly fueled the market these last few years, Desktops actually had a little bit of a comeback." From the article: "The first quarter is always a bit slower than the fourth, when holiday shoppers often drive PC and chip companies to their strongest results of the year. This year, the drop from fourth quarter to first was a little more pronounced, echoing Intel's warning in March that earnings would fall short of expectations. But when compared with the first quarter of last year, PC shipments were up 28 percent, versus growth of 19.4 percent recorded during last year's first quarter."
Memory Manufacturers Could be Cheating 223
Mark Brown writes "Tom's Hardware is live-testing DDR2 memory products in order to determine whether memory manufacturers submit cherry-picked products for reviews. 'GeIL DDR2-667 that was claimed to be purchased performed worse than the review samples they got: 471 MHz for the review samples vs. 421 MHz for the retail memory.'"
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