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Google in Space: NASA powers mini-satellites with Android phones
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Today’s smartphone has many times the processing power of all the used computers during the Apollo moon landings. So why not use the smartphone to control a spacecraft? That’s the approach NASA is taking in latest project, which uses off-the-shelf to electronics, including a Nexus One Android phone, in the...
Galaxy S4 launch: Samsung brings the fight to Apple
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South Korean phonemaker prepares to square up to Silicon Valley with unveiling of latest smartphone in New YorkSamsung will unwrap its latest blockbuster smartphone, the Galaxy S4, at the Radio City music hall in New York on Thursday evening as the South Korean phonemaker tries to bring the fight to...
Microchips: Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing ... And It's Analog
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How would non-digital chips work? Darpa paints a picture. Image: Darpa By definition, a computer is a machine that processes and stores data as ones and zeroes. But the U.S. Department of Defense wants to tear up that definition and start from scratch. Through its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...
New quad-core Snapdragon supports 55-megapixel images, Ultra HD
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Dr. Paul Jacobs, CEO of Qualcomm, shows off the processing power of the upcoming Qualcomm 800 series mobile processor. Andrew Cunningham A new Snapdragon series processor will arrive from Qualcomm this coming summer, the company announced during its keynote presentation at the Consumer Electronics Show Monday. The new processor,...
Samsung Galaxy S WiFi 3.6 hands-on (video)
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If you were paying very close attention during Samsung's IFA announcements last year, you may have caught wind of a 3.6-inch PMP, fittingly called the Galaxy S WiFi 3.6. Now, Samsung has confirmed that this elusive entry-level Gingerbread handheld will finally be making its way to North America, with...
Raspberry Pi's new turbo mode boosts performance by roughly 50 percent, doesn't void warranties
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Giving a Raspberry Pi extra voltage is a quick way to squeeze out additional processing power and void its warranty, but the folks behind the tinker-friendly board have devised a turbo mode that boosts performance by roughly 50 percent while keeping warranties intact. After studying the effects of temperature...
Skype launches on PS Vita, can do video calls in the middle of Uncharted (video)
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Skype continues to spread itself to anything with a data connection, and while while we don't expect this to be the last gaming device it'll appear on, it's certainly the first. Yes, the Microsoft-owned Skype is now available to download for free on the Sony-made PlayStation Vita and it's...
Google Fiber launches in Kansas City, promises 1000 Mbps up and down
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Google Fiber has finally arrived in Kansas City, offering crazy-fast broadband speeds and a new television service on both sides of the Kansas / Missouri state line. After hinting that it would be unveiled today, the company has made it official. Google is touting 1,000 Mbps download and upload...
Samsung's New Galaxy Could Have A Sweet Unbreakable Screen
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SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics, the world's leading technology company by revenue, is likely accelerating the launch of its next-generation flagship Galaxy smartphone - which may come with a breakthrough unbreakable screen. Codenamed "Project J" after mobile division chief JK Shin, development of the new Galaxy S IV could be...
Intel vs. AMD: Battle of the world's smallest PCs
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The desktop PC isn't dead, it's just shrinking. There's a new breed of miniature marvels on the market, and they boast a nonexistent footprint when attached to the back of a display. Unlike some micro-size, micro-priced computers--the $35 Raspberry Pi, for example--these incredibly small machines provide more than enough...
Big Data startup Trifacta comes out of stealth with $4.3M in Accel funding
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Trifacta is coming out of stealth mode today as the latest Big Data startup. Accordingly, it has raised $4.3 million from Accel Partners’ Big Data Fund. Trifacta is creating productivity platforms that make data analysts more productive. And the company’s visualization software makes normal folks into database analysts. The...
CoreMobile wants to cram a lot of apps on one screen
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Combine the gargantuan information flows from the web available to us everywhere with the small screen and processing power of a smartphone and you get a pretty evident bottleneck. Who among us hasn’t quickly thumbed from one app to another ahead of a client visit trying to get as much...
Watch out, Raspberry Pi: Intel unveils ultra-small Next Unit of Computing PC
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Details of a new, ultra-compact computer form factor from Intel, called the Next Unit of Computing (NUC) are starting to emerge.First demonstrated at PAX East at the beginning of April, and Intel’s Platinum Summit in London last week, NUC is a complete 10x10cm (4x4in) Sandy Bridge Core i3/i5 computer. On...
GoGrid Introduces Predictive Analytics Platform
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GoGrid today introduces its Big Data Solution predictive analytics platform. It adds features that combine the best from cloud computing with hybrid cloud flexibility and front-end apps. Everything is managed from the GoGrid web-based management portal. Sponsor The idea is to support very high performance analytics. It has preconfigured hardware...
Skype replaces P2P supernodes with Linux boxes hosted by Microsoft
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Microsoft has drastically overhauled the network running its Skype voice-over-IP service, replacing peer-to-peer client machines with thousands of Linux boxes that have been hardened against the most common types of hack attacks, a security researcher said. The change, which Immunity Security's Kostya Kortchinsky said occurred about two months ago,...
IBM NNSA Sequoia brings the 'world's fastest supercomputer' title back to the US
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A computer built by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has become the world's fastest supercomputer, according to the Top 500 Supercomputer list. Managing 16.32 sustained petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second), Sequoia blows Fujitsu's 10.51 petaflop K computer — the previous champ — out of...
MacBook Pro with Retina display review (15-inch)
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Though Apple quietly discontinued the 17-inch MacBook Pro this week, hardly a tear was shed. In fact, the company went out of its way to replace the ultra-premium tier with something even more covetous — namely, a 15-inch MacBook Pro with such a pixel-dense screen that the company put...
Preventing and treating drug abuse? There’s an app for that
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A new smartphone app called iHeal aims to revolutionize the prevention and treatment of drug abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder. By combining the processing power and connectivity of a smartphone, and a wireless biosensor on the patient’s wrist, iHeal can detect when a patient is stressed and at risk of...
RIP Mike Singleton, the RPG visionary who revolutionised the genre
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The death of Singleton is tragic news for the games industry. As creator of Lords of Midnight, he remains a hero to manyIf you were a gamer in the 80s, you knew Lords of Midnight. Released in 1984, first on the Spectrum and later on the Commodore 64, it was...
ASUS intros three new ROG TYTAN gaming desktops, Ivy Bridge on board
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Those of you looking for a fresh, Ivy Bridge-powered gaming rig may want to look ASUS' way. The Taiwanese outfit just welcomed a trifecta of new ROG TYTAN machines to its lineup, which include the CG8580, CG8270 and CM6870 -- all sporting similar aesthetics as that CG8490 we showed...
Samsung's Answer To The iPhone 5 Comes Out Today
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Samsung will unwrap its latest blockbuster smartphone, the Galaxy S4, at the Radio City music hall in New York on Thursday evening as the South Korean phonemaker tries to bring the fight to Apple's home market. With Samsung rumoured to have ordered a production run of 100m handsets and research...
Samsung reveals Exynos 4 Quad chip — the brains behind Galaxy S III
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Samsung’s next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III, has long been rumored to sport a quad-core processor. But instead of waiting until its May 3 launch event, Samsung ended up spilling the beans this morning on its next-generation Exynos 4 Quad processor. The new application processor runs at 1.4...
New York Times launches experimental HMTL5 web app for iPad
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The New York Times today announced it is launching a new HTML5 based web app accessible to iPad users at app.nytimes.com. While called an “experimental web app” in the press release, the move mirrors a switch by other publications such as the Financial Times, which released an HTML5 web...
ZX Spectrum: 30 years old, and still one of the cheapest computers ever made
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Today is the 30th birthday of the ZX Spectrum, one of the most popular home computers ever made, and probably the single most important factor in the creation of the IT industry in the UK. The ZX Spectrum, made by Sinclair Research in Cambridge, England is usually considered the UK...
Acer's $800, Ivy Bridge-toting Windows 8 tablet hits on October 26
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The Acer Iconia W700 tablet in its docking cradle. Andrew Cunningham News about Acer's Windows 8 lineup continues to surface: earlier this week, we took a look at the touchscreen-equipped Aspire S7 Ultrabooks, and today we got our hands on their upcoming Intel-based Iconia W700 Windows 8 tablet, which...
Samsung confirms Galaxy Note II to launch on all major carriers by mid-November
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Samsung (005930) on Wednesday announced that its follow-up to the popular Galaxy Note “phablet” will launch on at least five major carriers in the United States ahead of the holidays. The Galaxy Note II, which BGR previewed earlier this month, is now confirmed to be arriving on Verizon Wireless...
The new iPad’s touch screen is made by Samsung, because LG and Sharp couldn’t hack it
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The Retina display featured in the new iPad will come from Samsung, rather than competitors Sharp or LG, reports Reuters. According to IHS iSuppli’s Vinita Jakhanwal, the other manufacturers couldn’t meet Apple’s quality control demands. Samsung already makes Apple’s A5X chip, which combines a dual-core processor with a quad-core graphics chip....
Be productive: The Ultimate Smartphone Guide, part V
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Aurich Lawson Today's desktops and laptops have become fast enough that we've stopped seeing huge performance increases from generation to generation. This year's processors and graphics cards are faster than last year's, but not by so much that it's worth buying a new PC every year. In smartphones, though,...
Google may be working on computerized eyeglasses
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A report Tuesday, from the website 9to5Google, said Google is close to coming out with eyeglasses, or goggles, equipped with processing power, storage and Android phone functionality....
The Cloud Will Cure Cancer
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Editor’s note: Mark Kaganovich is founder of SolveBio and a doctoral candidate in genetics at Stanford University. Follow him on Twitter @markkaganovich. Much ink has been spilled on the huge leaps in communications, social networking, and commerce that have resulted from impressive gains in IT and processing power over the...
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