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Submission + - Wolfenstein RayTraced 7.7x faster with 8 cards (intel.com)

An anonymous reader writes: As Slashdot readers know Intel's research project on ray tracing for games has recently been shown at 1080p using eight Knights Ferry cards from the "Many Integrated Core" architecture. Now a white paper goes into more detail documenting 97.7% close to linear scaling for the cloud setup with 8 cards and gives details on the implementation of "smart anti-aliasing". It will be interesting to see how many cards of Intel's next MIC iteration, dubbed Knights Corner with 50+ cores will be required for the same workload.
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Submission + - How Publishers Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Zite's Aggregator (xconomy.com)

waderoush writes: "In March 2011, personalized-magazine startup Zite got a cease-and-desist letter from a group of 11 media giants outraged by the way Zite's popular iPad app 'misappropriated' their news articles. By August 2011, Zite had become part of CNN, which is owned by Time Warner, one of the organizations behind the C&D letter. Zite's brief clash with the media establishment, followed by its swift assimilation into the same establishment, is emblematic of a larger story unfolding in the media business: the grudging acknowledgement by publishers that readers want to access their content in new ways. In this article Zite CEO Mark Johnson explains how the startup mollified publishers (by presenting articles in 'Web view' mode rather than a stripped-down 'reader mode'), why CNN bought the company, and how it strives to make reading more enjoyable while still respecting publishers' business models."

Submission + - Could your car be hacked?

Pat Attack writes: I think most of the people who read Slashdot know that if it has circuitry, it can be hacked. Well the good folks over at CNN have an article about the potential for your car to be hacked. This article lists the potential damage that could be done, proof of concept work, as well as a few scary scenarios. My mom reads CNN and is a Luddite. I expect to hear from her today. She'll probably tell me my new car with bluetooth is unsafe.

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