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Submission + - AMD Unveils The Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by wesbascas on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:01AM

wesbascas writes: This morning, AMD unveiled its latest flagship graphics board: the $1,500, liquid-cooled, dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2. With a pair of Hawaii GPUs that power the company’s top-end single-GPU Radeon R9 290X, the new board is sure to make waves at price points that Nvidia currently dominates.

In gaming benchmarks, the R9 295X2 performs pretty much in line with a pair of R9 290X cards in CrossFire. However, the R9 295X2 uses specially-binned GPUs which enable the card to run with less power than a duo of the single-GPU cards. Plus, thanks to the closed-loop liquid cooler, the R9 295X doesn’t succumb to the nasty throttling issues present on the R9 290X, nor its noisy solution.

Submission + - Pico Projector That Adapts to Surface, Can Use Random Objects as Input Devices (engadget.com)

Submitted by jpwilliams on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @02:50PM

jpwilliams writes: This tiny projector can use random surfaces to project an image. Using a webcam, it adapts to the surface, not just by adjusting keystone, but also following that surface and displaying different amounts of information (in certain cases). The guy in the video also uses a coffee mug as an app changer.

Submission + - Canonical puts Ubuntu on Android smartphones (pcpro.co.uk) 1

Submitted by

nk497

on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @01:01PM

nk497 writes: "Canonical has revealed Ubuntu running on a smartphone — but the open source developer hasn't squashed the full desktop onto a tiny screen. Instead, the Ubuntu for Android system runs both OSes side by side, picking which to surface depending on the form factor. When a device — in the demo, it was a Motorola Atrix — is being used as a smartphone, it uses Android. When it's docked into a laptop or desktop setup, the full version of Ubuntu is used. Files, apps and other functionality such as voice calls and texting are shared between the two — for example, if a text message is sent to the phone when it's docked, the SMS pops up in Ubuntu, while calls can be received or made from the desktop."

Submission + - Mathematical parrot reveals his genius with posthumous paper (nature.com)

Submitted by ananyo on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @06:44AM

ananyo writes: Even in death, the world’s most accomplished parrot continues to amaze. The final experiments involving Alex – a grey parrot trained to count objects – have just been published. They show that Alex could accurately add together Arabic numerals to a sum of eight and three sets of objects, putting his mathematical abilities on par with (and maybe beyond) those of chimpanzees and other non-human primates (abstract http://www.springerlink.com/content/q08n44457x236ln6/).

Comment So wrong (Score 1) 2

by wesbascas on Saturday January 07, 2012 @12:09AM (#38618840) Attached to: Microsoft Patents "Avoid Ghetto" GPS Feature

I want to see this in action where I live to see if it even works at all. Also if this thing does take off, I'd like to see if it negatively effects property values or impacts small businesses stuck in "unsafe" neighborhoods.

Comment HA HA (Score 1) 1

by wesbascas on Saturday January 07, 2012 @12:03AM (#38618802) Attached to: Web Browser Grand Prix VIII: Chrome 16, Firefox 9,

So the $800 desktop PC (I'm estimating) runs OS X better than the $1,350 (not including tax or other options) 2011 MacBook Air? F'ing awesome. Way to go Opera, still a contender even w/o HTML5 hardware acceleration or WebGL. Can't wait for v12.

Journal Journal: General Relativity Trumps Quantum Mechanics Twice.

Journal by mburns on Friday January 06, 2012 @11:29PM

The predictions by quantum mechanics of net vacuum energy and of slowing of ultrashort wave radiation by a quantum foam do not work out. This is because general relativity has theorems to the contrary. But why would those theorems win out? General relativity wins within the domain of its axioms, because a lockin theorem applies, namely the Bianchi identities that follow simply from the existence of the metric. It prevents the subject matter, spacetime, from experiencing alternatives to govern

Submission + - IT salaries edge up back to 2008 levels (infoworld.com) 1

Submitted by

tsamsoniw

on Friday January 06, 2012 @08:47PM

tsamsoniw writes: "A soon-to-be released salary survey finds that the average salary for IT professionals in the U.S. is $78,299, putting overall compensation back at January 2008 levels. More heartening: Midsize and large companies are both aiming to hire more IT pros. The midsize are seeking IT executives (such as VPs of information services and technical services), as well as programmers, database specialists, systems analysts, and voice/wireless communication pros. Enterprises are moving IT and data center operations back in-house, which means greater demand for data center managers and supervisors."

Submission + - Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA (infoworld.com)

Submitted by

snydeq

on Friday January 06, 2012 @05:22PM

snydeq writes: "U.S. Congress appears likely to move forward with SOPA and PIPA, despite widespread opposition, IDGNS reports. The U.S. Senate is expected to begin floor debate on PIPA shortly after senators return to D.C. on Jan. 23, and supporters appear to have the votes to override a threatened filibuster. Some opponents of the bills hold out hope: 'We're optimistic that if members really understood the Internet architecture and cybersecurity measures, they would not support SOPA as written. Instead, members who are really committed to combatting online piracy would look for effective ways to do that without compromising cybersecurity or the open architecture of the Internet,' said a CCIA spokesperson. Others remain doubtful that Congress will come to this understanding."

Submission + - Why US Gas Mileage Advances Don't Help Consumers a (inhabitat.com) 2

Submitted by

greenrainbow

on Friday January 06, 2012 @02:14PM

greenrainbow writes: "The average, fuel efficiency for US vehicles actually increased by 60 percent between 1980 and 2006 but at the same time cars in the US got bigger (by 26% on average) and their horsepower increased (by 107 hp on average), which, when factored in, means that the average fuel efficiency of American cars only increased by a mere 15%. Almost all of the new technology went into making cars more efficient per pound of weight so that the cars could get bigger and still fit within average mile per gallon expectations."

Submission + - Battlefield 3 Performance: 30+ Graphics Cards, Ben (tomshardware.com)

Submitted by wesbascas on Saturday October 29, 2011 @12:23AM

wesbascas writes: Have you ever wanted to play a new PC game, but weren't sure where your PC falls between the minimum and recommended system requirements? I don't have a whole lot of time to game these days and with new hardware perpetually coming out and component vendors often tweaking their model numbering schemes, knowing exactly what kind of experience I'm buying for $60 can be difficult. Luckily, somebody benchmarked Battlefield 3's campaign on a wide range of hardware configurations and detail settings. If you've purchased a system in the past few years you should be in luck. The video cards tested start with the AMD Radeon HD 4670 and Nvidia GeForce 8500 GT, and go up to the brand new Radeon HD 6990 and GeForce GTX 590. I hate it that my aging Radeon HD 4870 isn't going to cut it at 1080p, but am glad that I found out BEFORE buying the game. I suppose it's time for an upgrade anyway, there's no way I'm missing this title.

Submission + - Dolphin, a 3rd Party Android Browser, relays visit (androidpolice.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 28, 2011 @06:49PM

An anonymous reader writes: "As it turns out, Dolphin HD, one of the top browsers the Android platform has to offer, sends pretty much every web page url you visit, including those that start with https, to a remote server en.mywebzines.com, which belongs to the company. In fact, the WebZines feature was introduced only recently back in June with version 6.0, so it's safe to say this tracking started around the same time."

Dolphin's team says a fix is coming shortly.

Submission + - Intel gives up on TV (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by symbolset on Tuesday October 11, 2011 @10:05PM

symbolset writes: Bloomberg is reporting that Intel, on the cusp of having low-power embedded chips that can do true HD in a flatscreen, has given up on getting their chips embedded in TVs.

While many might say their efforts to date have been fruitless because of energy issues, Medfield might have had a chance on this field. Thoughts?

Submission + - Citigroup questions if US spectrum shortage exists (networkworld.com)

Submitted by alphadogg on Saturday October 01, 2011 @05:18PM

alphadogg writes: For more than two years, the U.S. mobile industry has warned of an upcoming spectrum shortage, but two analysts at Citigroup don't buy it. AT&T, trade group CTIA and even officials with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission have talked frequently about a coming spectrum crunch, as mobile customers move to data-sucking smartphones and tablets. Smartphones use 24 times the spectrum compared to standard mobile phones, and tablets use 120 times the spectrum, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said in a speech on Tuesday. But Citigroup analysts Jason Bazinet and Michael Rollins questioned what has become the convention wisdom in the mobile industry. The U.S. has plenty of spectrum for mobile broadband, but much of it is in the wrong hands, they said.

Submission + - Web Browser Grand Prix 7: Firefox 7, Chrome 14, Op (tomshardware.com) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 01, 2011 @04:15PM

An anonymous reader writes: Firefox 7 was released a couple days ago, and now the latest Web browser perfromance numbers are in. This article is the same series that ran benchmarks on Mac OS X Lion last month. This time around the new Mozilla release is going against Chrome 14 and Opera 11.51 in 40+ different tests on Windows 7. Testing comes from every category of Web browsing perfromance I can think of: startup time, page load time, JS, CSS, DOM, HTML5, Flash, hardware acceleration, WebGL, Java, Silverlight, reliable page loads, memory usage/management, and standards confromance. The article also has a little feature on the Futuremark Peacekeeper browser benchmark. An open beta of the next revision has just been made public. This new version adds HTML5, video codecs, and WebGL tests to the benchmark. It's also designed to run on any browser/OS/device combination — e.g. Windows desktop, iPad, Droid 2, MacBook, Linux flavors, etc. Another great read, a must for Web browser fanatics!

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