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Adobe releases Flash Player 11.2, AIR 3.2, still very much into gaming
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Adobe has already hinted at its plans for Flash Player 11.2, but today, those plans finally became official. The company formally announced both 11.2 and AIR 3.2 this morning, reaffirming its commitment to browser-based gaming. With 11.2, Adobe is bringing support for mouse-lock, right and middle click events, and...
Kiss goodbye to your productivity: Google just brought 8 trillion LEGO blocks to Chrome
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What would you say if I told you that I could put you in charge of the biggest LEGO set you have ever seen, giving you access to more than 8 trillion blocks. Oh, and you wouldn’t even have to move from your seat? Well, that’s exactly what Google has...
Solid-state revolution: in-depth on how SSDs really work
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SSDs—how do they work? Not with magnets. Flickr user Zhou Tong Way back in 1997, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and I was working part-time at the local Babbage's for $4.25 an hour, I scraped together enough spare change to purchase a 3Dfx Voodoo-based Diamond Monster 3D video card....
Garmin's K2 'glass cockpit' will change the way you interact with your car, we go hands-on at CES (video)
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Infotainment platforms are a dime a dozen these days, but Garmin's K2 "glass cockpit" is definitely one system that you're going to want to take seriously. You'll be interacting with a 10.4-inch capacitive touch screen, which is positioned front and center, while a squat 12-inch digital gauge and information...
Garmin's K2 'glass cockpit' will change the way you interact with your car, we go hands-on at CES (video)
8 Tablets That Can Beat The iPad Mini (AAPL, GOOG)
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Apple's iPad Mini--a smaller version of the iPad with a 7.85-inch screen--is expected to be announced tomorrow at an event Tuesday at the company's Cupertino, Calif. campus. As tech improves, all tablets are heading towards being lighter, thinner, and faster. But smaller? The iPad has pretty much defined the tablet...
Intel refreshes set-top silicon with Atom CE5300 Media Processor, aka Berryville
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Intel's empire-building in non-PC markets could almost be considered Napoleonic, were it not so inherently rational. Having given us the lauded Medfield SoC for smartphones and tablets, it has now announced its next-gen processor for cable boxes. Nicknamed "Berryville", the dual-core Atom CE5300 is loaded up with integrated 2D/3D...
Adobe launches Flash 11.2 and AIR 3.2, won't charge for premium features until you hit $50,000 in revenue
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In its continuing effort to stay relevant in the gaming space, Adobe today announced Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, which further Adobe's goal to enable "console quality" games like Shadowgun inside your web browser. 11.2 includes support for mouse-lock (3:42 in to the video below), relative mouse coordinates,...
Adobe launches Flash 11.2 and AIR 3.2, won't charge for premium features until you hit $50,000 in revenue
Figure by Propellerhead is a simple, fast, and beautiful music creation app
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There are some undeniably great music apps for the iPhone and iPad, but most of them are pretty involved and not meant for fast music creation on-the-go. Propellerhead, a Swedish music software company and the creators of Reason, saw this gap in the market and are trying to fill...
There goes my day: Google brings Lego building to Chrome
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In one of the coolest uses of modern browser tech we’ve yet seen, Google and Lego have teamed up to create Build, a world where users can construct whatever they can imagine with Lego blocks. “Over the last few months we’ve been working with LEGO Australia, thinking about what...
Apple may bring 3D gaming and eye-tracking to the iPhone, iMac
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The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple on Thursday that reveals a 3D eye-tracking-based interface that could be used for gaming, digital photography and videography in future iOS and iMac devices, reports PatentlyApple. The new features could work in conjunction with Apple’s current 3D...
Mozilla launches multiplayer browser adventure to showcase HTML5 gaming
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Mozilla has teamed up with Web design studio Little Workshop to develop a Web-based multiplayer adventure game called BrowserQuest. The game is built with standards-based Web technologies and is designed to be played within a Web browser. With the technical capabilities offered by the latest standards, Web developers no...
The PC inside your phone: A guide to the system-on-a-chip
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Andrew Cunningham / Aurich Lawson A desktop PC used to need a lot of different chips to make it work. You had the big parts: the CPU that executed most of your code and the GPU that rendered your pretty 3D graphics. But there were a lot of smaller...
Get on WiFi, because Android app size limit increases from 50MB to a whopping 4GB
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Downloading apps is commonplace for mobile phone users at this point. As these apps become more and more sophisticated they’re becoming larger in size, which is sad for the end users. Being told to jump on a WiFi connection to download a game while you’re out and about on your...
The Louvre now offering Nintendo 3DS audio guides with built-in maps
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Back in December, the Louvre announced plans to replace its audio museum guides with Nintendo's 3DS consoles, as part of an attempt to appeal to more touchscreen-minded audiences. Today, the initiative launches in earnest, with the official release of the Audioguide Louvre-Nintendo 3DS. According to Nintendo, the new app...
Ivy Bridge HP EliteBook gets first review, high performance scores
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We've been eagerly following specifications, release dates, and all sorts of rumors about Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors, but until now, we haven't had much of a chance to see how the chips perform in the wild. Laptop Reviews has obtained a still-unannounced HP EliteBook 8470p that contains an...
Samsung begins producing next-gen mobile memory with industry's first 30nm 2GB LPDDR3 chips
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Samsung Electronics on Tuesday announced that it has begun production of 2GB LPDDR3 (low power double-data-rate 3) mobile memory using a 30 nanometer production scale, an industry first that should bring bandwidth levels equal to that of current-generation PCs to mobile devices when they arrive next year. The LPDDR3 package...
Mozilla making the Web a gaming platform with Unreal 3 engine in a browser
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Mozilla wants the Web to be a platform that's fit for any purpose. That's why the company is investing in Firefox OS—to fight back against the proliferation of platform-specific smartphone apps—and it's why the company has been working on WebGL, in order to bring 3D graphics to the browser,...
Microsoft details Windows 8 Enterprise’s feature set
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We’re going to keep this extremely brief, as this post is essentially an information dump. Today Microsoft announced the feature set for Windows 8 Enterprise, essentially explaining what volume and InTune customers will be able to buy, and how it differs from the consumer SKUs. For more information on what flavors of...
AMD's Trinity combo processors aimed at do-it-yourself PC builders and gamers
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Advanced Micro Devices’ new family of combination graphics-microprocessor chips is available today for do-it-yourself PC builders and gamers. As we noted earlier, the chips, code-named Trinity, are accelerated processing units (APUs) that combine graphics and computing functions on a single chip. Now the second-largest maker of PC processors is announcing prices...
Wanted: a cheap desktop PC for 3D graphics
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Thompson Edolo wants a cheap desktop PC that can run Blender, Adobe After Effects and other high-end graphics software at a reasonable speedI want to buy a desktop PC to do 3D modelling and rendering. I am learning how to use Blender, and I hope to add Unity 3D for...
Microsoft moves to relegate Windows 7 to second-class status
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As Microsoft goes full speed ahead on Windows 8, a number of signs suggest that Windows 7 is fading fast in Redmond's rear view mirror. On Monday, Microsoft program manager Daniel Moth confirmed in a support forum that DirectX 11.1 will only work with Windows 8. The company has...
Coming Soon to Chrome: Faster 3D Graphics for Slower Computers
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Chrome 17 just launched yesterday, but today, the development team announced the next beta of Chrome. This new beta includes improved support for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics using Canvas, as well as the promise of better 3D performance for users on older operating systems like Windows XP. Better 3D for Slower Machines...
Google’s Chromium blog fights for the Web as a cutting edge platform
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Pointed out in a blog post by Alex Komoroske, Product Manager of Chromium (Google’s open source browser project), there’s been an ongoing, heated debate among developers about the capabilities of the Web versus a native platform. So in an effort to show off the cutting edge capabilities of Web apps, Komoroske...
Glasses.com's mobile app scans your face in 3D, lets you try on sunglasses virtually
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July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Glasses.com has introduced a cool new way to try on sunglasses without having actually having to try on sunglasses. The company has created a 3D-Virtual Try-On technology that captures your face in 3D graphics and then overlays glasses...
On eve of Intel's developer event, ARM argues that it is winning the mobile race
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Intel is about to talk up its progress in making chips for smartphones and tablets at its Intel Developer Forum this week. But its arch rival ARM has preemptively argued that it continues to dominate the market for processors for mobile devices, based on the strength of its partner...
Here's Everything Apple Will Announce In Less Than A Month (AAPL)
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Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 11. And we're expecting a slew of new product and software announcements, ranging from redesigned MacBooks to new features for the iPhone and iPad. With luck, there will be a surprise or two as well. So what does...
Zynga Previews Its Next 'Ville Sequel, CityVille 2, In Closed Beta In the Philippines
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Zynga just announced that it’s launching the sequel to its hit CityVille today in a closed beta test. The company blog post doesn’t offer too many details about the game itself, beyond saying, “It has all the features in CityVille that players love – from neighbor visits and crews to...
Parallels 8 now available with 30% faster 3D graphics, 25% faster Windows startup
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Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac officially launched to the public on Tuesday, offering new features like support for Apple's Retina display MacBook Pro, along with improved performance and faster startup times....
The Game Genome Product Finds Games You'll Most Likely Enjoy
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Finding the right game for your Android device can be hard. Are you a tower defense kind of guy or are you in the mood for a Bejeweled clone? Do you like zombies? The military? Fart apps? Thankfully, there’s the GameGenomeProject, a discovery engine that helps you find games that...
OpenGL celebrates its 20th birthday with two new versions
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Enlarge / The SGI Reality Engine revision 2 bumped the number of processors on the Geometry Engine up to 12. This is what graphics power looked like in the olden days. Dave Fischer, via Wikipedia The Khronos Group has released two new versions of its 3D graphics APIs. The...
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