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- ARM In Supercomputers — 'Get Ready For the Change'
- An anonymous reader writes Commodity ARM CPUs are poised to to replace x86 CPUs in modern supercomputers just as commodity x86 CPUs replaced vector CPUs in early supercomputers. An analysis by the EU Mountblanc Project (PDF) (using Nvidia Tegra 2/3,
- Researcher Unlocks Galaxy S4 Bootloader For AT&T, Verizon Phones
- Trailrunner7 writes Those of you who like to tinker and jailbreak Android phones should take notice of some new research conducted on Samsung Galaxy S4 Android devices shipped by AT&T and Verizon. Both devicemakers ship the Galaxy S4 smartphones with
- Mayor Bloomberg Battles Fleet Owners Over NYC 'Taxi of Tomorrow'
- An anonymous reader writes In April, Mayor Mike Bloomberg announced that the Nissan NV200 minivan had won a citywide competition to replace the current cab model, the Ford Crown Victoria, in a phased-in period of five years. Cab owners sued,
- Schrödinger's Cat and RCU (Well, Structured Procrastination, Actually)
- davecb writes Paul E. McKenney, one of the Linux RCU implementors, addresses the problem of synchronization using structured deferral on, what else, Mr Schrödingers famous cat. Courtesy of deferral/procrastination, the cat can be both alive and dead at the same
- Med Students Unaware of Their Bias Against Obese Patients
- An anonymous reader sends news of a study which found that two out of five medical students have an unconscious bias against obese people. The study, published in the Journal of Academic Medicine (abstract) examined med students from many different
- Six Months Developing Software For Wearable Computing
- An anonymous reader writes Twilios Jon Gottfried has written an article about the lessons hes learned after six months of developing software for Google Glass. He has some insightful points: I expected it to be very similar to building mobile
- Human Stem Cell Cloning Paper Contains Reused Images
- An anonymous reader writes A very recent paper in the prestigious biology journal Cell — Human Embryonic Stem Cells Derived by Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (openly accessible) — reports the novel creation of human embryonic stem cells from somatic nuclei.
CNET News.com
- The ugly truth: Apple vs. PC design
- commentary The PC world still hasnt come up with an awesome design to challenge the iPad. The clocks ticking.
- Moon dust gathered by Neil Armstrong discovered in warehouse after 40 years
- While tidying up a storage space at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, an archivist makes a cosmic discovery.
- Why DOJ didn't need a 'super search warrant' to snoop on Fox News' e-mail
- Vagaries of federal surveillance law, enacted in 1968 and updated in 1986, favor lots of e-mail snooping over only a little.
- Google's Schmidt: Teens' mistakes will never go away
- Speaking at a festival in the U.K., Googles executive chairman offers that the things teens do now will stay with them forever, by way of the Web. He also suggested some people are sharing too much online.
- Does Bible Belt love porn as much as the godless do?
- Figures provided by popular site PornHub suggest that those who live in allegedly more religious communities enjoy as much online release as the allegedly godless.
- Bible Belt loves porn as much as the godless do
- Figures provided by popular site Porn Hub suggest that those who live in allegedly more religious communities enjoy as much online release as the allegedly godless.
- Apple 1 breaks auction record, goes for $671,400
- One of whats thought to be only six working Apple 1 computers -- hand-built by Steve Wozniak -- flies out of a German auction house for a tidy sum. The last one went for $640,000.
ZDNet
- Sony PlayStation 3 firmware reportedly hacked
- Chinese hacker group, BlueDisk-CFW, releases leaked tool which circumvents the game console's latest 3.60 firmware that had plugged security holes from the unauthorized access by another hacker group last year.
- Google releases renamed productivity apps for Chrome users
- Now called Docs, Sheets and Slides, the apps can be installed individually from the Chrome Web Store. This will be of particular interest to those buying into Google's latest Chromebook push.
- LG swings to profit in Q3 with surprise mobile boost
- LG Electronics reports a third quarter net profit of 157 billion won (US$138.57 million), thanks to better than expected earnings from its mobile handset.
- Apple's iPad Mini pricing: Did it miss the tablet death blow?
- The iPad Mini expands the total addressable market for Apple and strengthens its hammerlock on the tablet category. But Apple could have delivered a death blow to rivals with a lower price.
- SK Hynix posts small Q3 operating loss
- Spike in demand for mobile and flash memory chips helps South Korean chipmaker limit the impact of a slumping PC market to book an operating loss of US$13.6 million.
- Conroy gives blessing to Telstra acquisition of Adam Internet
- Communications Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has no problem with the telecommunications giant gobbling up the long-standing Adelaide-based ISP.
- Will Google ever lose its crown as the most popular search engine?
- I fully expect to see Google as the primary search engine of choice, so long as the search engine paradigm exists as-is. Here's why.
Wired Technology
- Silicon Swagger: Tech Titans Embrace Big Architecture in Staggering New HQs
- No longer satisfied with hiding in standard-issue tech-company hives, Apple, Facebook, and Google have embraced Architecture with a capital A.
- Markets | DIY Market Slows Dramatically as 3-D Printing Hits Its Industrial Stride
- Buyers hit the brakes on purchasing hobbyist 3-D printers in the past year, even as industrial-grade printers are playing a larger role in manufacturing
- Social | The App Can Wait: Nextdoor’s Big Bet on Slow iGrowth
- When it came to developing a mobile app, Nextdoor took it slow - an approach that looks like it will pay off.
- 10 Questions | Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M
- Gentry Underwood answers our questions on the success of his app Mailbox and Mailboxs future now that it has been acquired by
- Amazon’s Urban Biospheres Give New Meaning to ‘Tech Bubble’
- In case you doubted that the 21st century as envisioned by past generations pulp futurists had arrived, check out the biospheres Amazon has proposed to anchor its new
- New York Can Fight Airbnb and Uber, But the Sharing Economy Is Here to Stay
- Freelance innkeepers across New York City shuddered this week as a judge found that a man renting out his East Village apartment
- Big Tech | After Apple’s Tax Grilling, It’s Time for Tech To Shape Up
- Apples senate testimony on tax avoidance shows that tech companies are being held to a higher standard. They have only themselves to blame.
Tom's Hardware
- EKWB Announces a Liquid Nitrogen CPU Cooler
- EKWB has announced a liquid nitrogen-based CPU cooler.
- Intel: Haswell Provides 50% More Battery Life in Notebooks
- Intel is talking Haswell power savings just weeks before the launch.
- Battery, Native App Tests Coming to PCMark 8
- PCMArk 8 will have a new battery test and a native application test.
- EA: PS4, XBox One Are a 'Generation Ahead' of Gaming PCs
- Now those are fighting words, mister.
- UK Ad Lists 2013 Release Date for PlayStation 4
- Previous talk of a 2014 launch seems even more unlikely.
- BBC Finally Brings iPlayer for Android to 10-inch Tablets
- BBC is bringing iPlayer for Android to 10-inch tablets.
- EKWB Says All Current EK-Water Blocks are Haswell Ready
- EKWB has announced that all of its current CPU water blocks will work on the LGA 1150
Ars Technica
- Report: Google considering Internet balloons to connect sub-Saharan Africa
- WSJ says that Google is already in talks with regulators in emerging markets.
- Bears, beets, Battlestar Galactica: Ars visits Comicpalooza 2013
- Also steampunk, Minecraft, cross-canon shenanigans, and Danny Trejo!
- Seven apps Ars readers use to chase away the iOS default-app blues
- More tools to use when Apples built-in apps let you down.
- When lightning strikes the staff: Ars readers react
- Also the Xbox One was announced this week.
- Why aren’t user-defined operators more common?
- Developers who can handle it still have to work with developers who cant.
- Hands-on: Use gMusic on iOS to listen to Google Play Music All Access
- How does the app fare compared to something youd find natively on Android?
- Going inside the machinery and machinations of working in science
- You get a degree, you get an academic job. Then what?
Hard OCP
- IN WIN G7 Mid-Tower ATX Case Review
- We have been using IN WIN cases here at HardOCP for as long as HardOCP has been in existence. Some of our first case mods were based on an IN WIN chassis. We have lost focus on IN WIN in
- Internet Cafés Declared 'Illegal Businesses' in Ohio
- Ohio House Bill 7 was passed by the Ohio State Senate on Wednesday, effectively closing down all Internet Cafes in the state and putting an estimated 6-8K employee out of work. The main concern was not so much the Internet
- Proposed Law: Reprogramming Cellphone IDs a Crime
- A proposed law dealing with changing the identification number on a cell phone would make the act a criminal offense punishable by five years in jail. The bill was introduced by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and is aimed
- Lenovo 1Q13 Net Profits Soar
- While other PC manufactures are languishing in poor sales numbers for the first quarter of 2013, Lenovo has seen a rise of 90% on the years sales. PC sales for the majority of the major manufacturers have been dismal this
- Radeon HD 7990 versus GeForce GTX TITAN Review
- We follow-up with a look at how the $999 GeForce GTX TITAN compares to the new $999 AMD Radeon HD 7990 video card. What makes this is unique is that the GeForce GTX TITAN is a single-GPU running three displays
- Corsair Neutron Series 256GB SSD Refresh Review
- Corsair keeps pace with continuing innovation in the NAND market by switching from 25nm IMFT NAND to the rarely seen 22nm SK Hynix NAND. This NAND provides a lower price point and extra capacity. Today we take a look to
- Dish Secures $9 Billion Financing for Sprint Bid
- Dish Network has regrouped and put together a new consortium of financial backers to pursue the purchase of Sprint Nextel Corp. The offer to purchase Sprint is reported to be worth $25.5 Billion. Dish is competing with Japans Softbank Corp.
AnandTech
- The Kabini Deal: Can AMD Improve the Quality of Mainstream PCs with Its Latest APU?
- There are two non-negotiables in building a PC these days: the cost of Intel silicon and the cost of the Windows license. You can play with everything else but Intel and Microsoft are going to get their share. Those two
- Mythlogic Callisto 1512 (Clevo W550EU) Ultrabook Review
- Major OEMs are producing ultrabooks at a breakneck pace, but vendors like Clevo are making sure boutiques can get in on the market, too. Mythlogic sent us their Callisto 1512 based on the Clevo W550EU for testing.
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Review: The New High End
- Launching today is NVIDIA's latest entry in the world of high end video cards and the first member of the GeForce 700 family, the GeForce GTX 780. Based on the same GK110 GPU as GeForce GTX Titan, it stands to
- 2013 AMD Elite Performance APU Platform (Mobile Richland)
- Somehow or another, we missed covering the Richland APU launch. With AMD launching Kabini and Temash today and reiterating the features and parts in the Richland APU lineup, we felt it was a good time to
- AMD’s 2013 Elite Mobility Platform, aka Temash
- AMD has a bunch of APUs launching today, and while the only hardware we have on hand for testing right now consists of a Kabini laptop, we wanted to at least briefly discuss the two other
- A Closer Look at the Kabini Die
- With our review done I did the one thing I've been keeping myself from doing for the past week: I pulled the heatsink off my Kabini review notebook and grabbed a shot of the SoC.I guess
- AMD Kabini APUs Detailed
- AMD has a three-pronged assault going out today: at the bottom (in terms of performance) is their 2013 AMD Elite Mobility Platform, formerly codenamed Temash. Next up is the newly christened 2013 AMD Mainstream APU Platform,
O'Reilly Network
- Four short links: 24 May 2013
- Ubiquity — Sears Holdings has formed a new unit to market space from former Sears and Kmart retail stores as a home for data centers, disaster recovery space and wireless towers. Google Abandons Open Standards for Instant Messaging (EFF) —
- Burning the silos
- If I’ve seen any theme come up repeatedly over the past year, it’s getting product cycle times down. It’s not the sexiest or most interesting theme, but it’s everywhere: if it’s not on the front burner, it’s always simmering in
- Four short links: 23 May 2013
- Kindle Worlds Fine Print — Amazon’s fanfic publishing system has a few flaws: no pr0n, no slash (crossovers), and Amazon Publishing will acquire all rights to your new stories, including global publication rights, for the term of copyright. I can’t
- Talking about in-memory
- I flew to the west coast this week to attend Maker Faire with my computer-programming, ham-radio-building, hardware-curious teenage cousin. I’ve attended twice in New York but this was my first trip to the mothership. Wow. So much cool stuff to
- Four short links: 22 May 2013
- XBox One Kinect Controller (Guardian) — the new Kinect controller can detect gaze, heartbeat, and the buttons on your shirt. Surveillance and the Internet of Things (Bruce Schneier) — Lots has been written about the “Internet of Things” and how
- Four short links: 21 May 2013
- Hyperinflation in Diablo 3 — interesting discussion about how video games regulate currency availability, and how Diablo 3 appears to have messed up. several weeks after the game’s debut a source claimed that there were at least 1,000 bots active
- Four short links: 20 May 2013
- Our Fair Deal — international coalition (EFF, InternetNZ, Demand Progress, Creative Freedom Foundation, many others) raising awareness and petitioning lawmakers to reject copyright proposals that restrict the open Internet, access to knowledge, economic opportunity and our fundamental rights. (via Susan
Techdirt
- Awesome Stuff: Dealer's Choice
- If you havent yet, you owe it to yourself to read Grantlands long, but fascinating, oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker -- which more or less made Texas Hold Em poker super famous, made it a major
- GMacGuffin's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week
- Pre-postscript: I realized down at the end of this that its all about uncool lawyering, and I didn’t get to the most uncoolest of them all, the DOJ. Steel up, because scary DOJ stories roll in at an alarming pace.That
- Awesome Stuff: Dealer's Choice
- If you havent yet, you owe it to yourself to read Grantlands long, but fascinating, oral history of the 2003 World Series of Poker -- which more or less made Texas Hold Em poker super famous, made it a major
- In Defense Of Digital Freedom: It's Time To Get Beyond 'Cyber' Hyperbole
- Marietje Schaake, a member of the European Parliament often credited as one of the most tech savvy (and, yes, a regular Techdirt reader) has penned an excellent article, In defense of digital freedom. Its well worth a read, even if
- Xbox One Release: Tons Of Questions, Very Few Answers
- Unless, like me, you are looking at the release dates for the next generation of gaming consoles the way a starving hyena watches an approaching gazelle thats been eating nothing but butter for weeks, perhaps youre not up on all
- Think DOJ Spying On Reporters Was 'Unprecedented'? Think Again
- Weve already written about how the DOJ has a bit of history of spying on journalists phone records without following the rules, and that was only scratching the surface. On Monday we showed that to be the case with the
- DailyDirt: DIY Soda (Pop Or Whatever You Call Carbonated Beverages)
- Making your own carbonated soft drinks has a few benefits -- from knowing where all the ingredients came from (eg. no brominated vegetable oil) to getting the satisfaction of creating your own custom flavoring. Its not quite as simple as
X-bit labs
- Second-Generation Kinect Sensor for Windows Due in 2014 - Microsoft
- Microsoft Discloses Additional Details About Kinect 2
- New Technique May Open Up an Era of Atomic-Scale Semiconductor Devices
- Atom-Scale Semiconductor Devices May Be Incoming, Thanks to New Researchers
- Kinect Support Is Not Mandatory for Xbox One Video Games - Microsoft
- Microsoft Will Not Require Compulsory Support of Kinect from Xbox One Games
- Thermaltake Publishes List of PSUs Compatible with Intel Cori i "Haswell" Chips
- 20 PSUs from Thermaltake Are Compatible with Next-Gen Intel Chips
- European Amazon Stores Start to List Xbox One with €599 Price-Tag
- Microsoft Xbox One May Cost €599 in Europe, If First Listings Are Correct
- Asus P8Z77-V LK Mainboard Review: One of Asus' Simplest Designs
- This mainboard will suit perfectly for a contemporary system, it doesnt boast anything extraordinary, but also doesnt have any functionality limitations of any kind. There are more complex and more expensive, as well as simpler and more affordable products out
- Apple to Assemble Macs in Texas, Set to Manufacture Parts Across the U.S.
- Apples Plan to Move Production Back to U.S. Gets Shape