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Rackspace launches OpenStack private cloud
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Filling in its OpenStack check list, Rackspace is making code for its OpenStack private cloud available on Wednesday. The company launched its OpenStack public cloud infrastructure on July 31. The availability of both private and public cloud infrastructure will enable customers that want to run some workloads on an internal or...
Sony confirms Xperia Play will remain on Gingerbread due to gaming issues
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Sony Mobile on Friday confirmed that it no longer plans to update its Xperia Play smartphone to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich due to compatibility issues with the device’s gaming features, Phone Scoop reported. “Ice Cream Sandwich demands more from the phone hardware than Gingerbread,” a Sony spokesperson said. “Android 4.0...
iPhone 5's A6 chip has 2x CPU power, 2x graphics performance, yet consumes less energy
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Every new iPhone needs a new engine, and Tim Cook has just let slip some of the iPhone's A6 processor. He hinted at a significant shrinkage in transistor size, allowing the block of silicon to be 22 percent smaller and hence more energy-efficient, while also -- he claims --...
Apple releases software update for latest MacBook Pro and MacBook Air
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Apple has released a software update for the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models introduced in June 2012. The update is mostly a bug fix release that improves USB device compatibility and issues that unnecessarily use more CPU power....
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Apple releases update for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro to fix CPU power consumption and USB errors
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As much as we've enjoyed Apple's latest updates and addition to its MacBook lineup, it wouldn't be a new product launch if there weren't a few issues to be worked out. To that end, Apple has just released a software update for the mid-2012 MacBook Air (both 11- and...
Origin PC lineup makes the leap to Haswell, GeForce GTX 700M
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Origin PC makes a point of embracing game-friendly technology as soon as it arrives, and you'd better believe it's welcoming Haswell-based processors with open arms: virtually all of its computer line is making the jump to the faster Intel hardware. The raw CPU power is the main highlight for...
Wii U developer reports struggles with slow CPU
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The kind of enemy-filled scene that the Wii U CPU has some trouble with, according to Warriors Orochi 3 Hyper producer Akihiro Suzuki. Tecmo Koei In the many months we've been hearing about Nintendo's Wii U, there have been wide-ranging reports that the machine's underlying hardware is comparable to or...
An Amazon cloud rival lets users spec out their own servers
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Amazon's omnipresent cloud computing service has a new rival with an interesting take on how to provide virtual servers. Instead of offering several types of pre-defined instances—each with a certain amount of memory, storage, and CPU power—an infrastructure-as-a-service company called ProfitBricks lets customers spec out their own virtual machines. A...
This Is What Happens When You Push Apple's New MacBook Pro To The Limit (AAPL)
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Nilay Patel of the Verge went to Apple's product event yesterday, and got some hands on time with the new MacBook Pro. The new laptop has a nice screen (a "retina display") and fast internals. So Nilay decided to put the thing through an "insane" test: running music editing software,...
Atom vs. Cortex-A15 vs. Krait vs. Tegra 3: Which mobile CPU is the most power efficient?
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What’s more power-efficient? Intel’s Atom, Qualcomm’s Krait, Nvidia’s Tegra, or Samsung’s Exynos 5 Dual?All four SoCs have very different architectures and performance characteristics, and they’re all built on different processes too, making the analysis rather difficult. Fortunately, Anandtech has worked with one of Intel’s power engineers to work it out...
Mozilla Opens Doors On New $3 Million Datacenter
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Racks of servers beneath a custom orange paint job: Mozilla's Santa Clara, Calif., datacenter. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Anytime you pay a visit to Mozilla.org, the home page of the open-source Mozilla project, you’re landing on a page served by a brand new type of machine. A SeaMicro SM10000 server —...
NVIDIA's VGX cards bring big graphics performance to virtual machines
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Though virtual machines have become indispensable in the server room over the last few years, desktop virtualization has been less successful. One of the reasons has been performance, and specifically graphics performance—modern virtualization products are generally pretty good at dynamically allocating CPU power, RAM, and drive space as clients need...
New Macbook Air powers up with Ivy Bridge processors, 512GB SSD, & more
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As expected, Apple has announced a refresh for its popular MacBook Air thin-and-light laptop, with the new model pumped up its CPU power and the size of its largest hard drive. The announcement took place at WWDC 2012. The last MacBook Air was laready a striking and powerful machine....
MapR gets $30M to push Hadoop deeper into the enterprise
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MapR has pulled in $30 million in funding to accelerate the adoption of open source computing framework, Hadoop. According to an SEC filing, the San Jose, Calif.-based company pulled in its third round of funding from a host of venture firms, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA). NEA is an existing investor...
Meizu MX Quad-core launching with Android 4.0 in June, gets 32GB and 64GB flavors
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Can't say we're surprised, but Meizu's finally giving us the lowdown on the quad-core variant of its flagship Android smartphone. Simply dubbed the MX Quad-core, this new device will be powered by a Cortex-A9-based, 32nm HKMG (High-K Metal Gate) quad-core Samsung Exynos chip -- no word on the clock...
Microsoft: Outlook.com Now Has 10 Million Users, SkyDrive Gets A New UI & Android App
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Microsoft just announced that Outlook.com, its well-received update to Hotmail, now has 10 million users. The redesigned Outlook.com user interface is now also starting to appear in other Microsoft products and today, SkyDrive.com, Microsoft’s online storage service, is getting a major design overhaul. The new design features the same Metro/Windows...
Engadget Mobile Podcast 153: iPhone5 edition - 09.16.2012
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Yes yes y'all, you know what time it is. Gimme 5 in this edition of the Engadget Mobile Podcast. Hosts: Myriam Joire (tnkgrl), Brad Molen Guest: Joseph Volpe Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Tycho - Coastal Brake (Ghostly International) 00:01:00 - iPhone 5 officially announced with 4-inch display, A6 CPU...
AMD's Opteron X-series targets Intel Atom for the microserver CPU market
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AMD might not be able to keep up (down?) with Intel in the CPU power consumption race, so it's taking another tack with the new Opteron X-series: horsepower. It just announced the Opteron X1150 and X2150 64-bit processors for microservers, part of the Jaguar-codenamed family of CPUs arriving in...
Benchmarked: New iPad’s A5X vs iPad 2′s A5 vs Tegra 3
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At the launch Apple’s third-gen iPad the company’s marketing chief Phil Schiller claimed the device’s new A5X processor with quad-core graphics provided up to 4x the graphics performance of NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 chip. Schiller also claimed the new chip provided 2x the graphics performance of the iPad 2′s A5...
Deducing details about Apple's A6X processor
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Jacqui Cheng As usual, Apple didn't share many specifics about its new A6 "Extreme" (A6X) processor, which powers the fourth-generation iPad. However, by looking at Apple's claims that it's "twice as fast" as the A5X-powered third-gen iPad, it may be possible to deduce what's inside. According to Apple, the...
How the world’s fastest supercomputer, Fujitsu’s K, saves on power and money
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Tired of cell phones and Mobile World Congress? Grab a bit of supercomputing news here. Fujitsu shared some details on how it managed to keep its K supercomputer running so efficiently at ISSCC last week. The K is currently the highest-performing supercomputer in the world, with a maximum speed of...
MEIZU announces the first Exynos-powered quad-core smartphone
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MEIZU on Monday announced its flagship MX Quad-core smartphone that is slated be available in June. The handset is the first to feature the new Exynos A9 quad-core chipset, which will reduce CPU power consumption by up to 20% compared to earlier versions. The device is also equipped with...
Apple fixes CPU power use, USB issues for 2012 MacBooks
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Apple on Wednesday rolled out a software update to address CPU power use and USB issues that plagued owners of the newly-released MacBook Pro and MacBook Air....
First ARM Cortex-A57 processor taped out by TSMC, ready for fab
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Your current smartphone just took another spin backwards on the obsolescence cycle thanks to a new landmark from ARM and TSMC: the first Cortex-A57 has reached "tape out," meaning it's ready for mass production. The new chip will use TSMC's 16nm FinFET technology (though the transistors will be 20nm...
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