Computing
New metal lets today’s 3D printers make tomorrow’s electronics November 14, 2014 at 4:15 pm
A new Kickstarter project could let regular 3D printers start making fully functional electronics, right away.
IBM and Nvidia will build two ultra-efficient 150-petaflop supercomputers for the DoE November 14, 2014 at 1:02 pm
IBM and Nvidia have been awarded $425 million by the US Department of Energy to build two brand-new supercomputers that leverage IBM’s Power8 CPUs and Nvidia’s upcoming Volta GPUs. The two computers — Summit, which will be built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Sierra, built at Lawrence Livermore — will have peak performance of around 150 petaflops when they’re completed in 2017-2018.
US government uses fake cell towers, flown on airplanes, to harvest phone data and track down criminals November 14, 2014 at 11:34 am
Proving yet again that the US government can show a surprising soupçon of tenacity when it comes to invading privacy and occasionally catching a terrorist, a new report claims that the US Marshals Service — since 2007 — has been criss-crossing the country with small airplanes equipped with fake cell towers. These small aircraft (fixed-wing Cessnas) intercept communications between your mobile phone and the carrier’s legitimate cell tower, allowing the US Marshals to find and triangulate the exact location of a target. Obviously, the primary target of the system is criminals — but the report says a lot of “innocent Americans” are also being tagged by the program.
Sharp demos 4.1-inch 736 PPI display: But is it destined for a smartphone, or VR? November 14, 2014 at 9:45 am
Sharp has announced a new Igzo display with a massive 736 PPI in a 4-inch screen. Can a phablet be far behind?
Zoom into a computer chip: Watch this video to fully appreciate just how magical modern microchips are November 13, 2014 at 2:24 pm
I don’t think you appreciate just how magical the computer chip at the heart of your smartphone or PC really is. In the case of a smartphone’s SoC, you essentially have a single less-than-a-square-inch package that enables you to do almost anything, from playing games, to accessing a cellular network, to contactlessly paying for your groceries. Let’s zoom in on a CPU to see just how it performs all of those functions.
DJI Inspire 1: An amazing 4K-capable drone for videographers and photographers November 13, 2014 at 12:31 pm
For the drone videographer or photographer looking to go to the next level, the new DJI Inspire 1 offers just about every feature you can pack into a lightweight, performance package.
Assassin’s Creed Unity for the PC: Benchmarks and analysis of its poor performance November 13, 2014 at 10:37 am
Assassin’s Creed Unity is being dogged by reports of low performance on PCs. We go under the hood, investigate GameWorks-specific performance, and look at the overall engine to see if this is indeed a shoddy PC port.
Xbox One finally ships 10 million units, three months after the PS4: Can Microsoft stage a comeback? November 13, 2014 at 7:58 am
After a very long radio silence indeed, Microsoft has finally announced that it will “shortly” have shipped 10 million Xbox One consoles to retailers. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft says that sales of the Xbox One ‘skyrocketed’ after the recent price cut of $50, and that the Xbox has led the PS4 in US console sales over the last two weeks. There’s still a huge gap between the two consoles (probably ~5 million units), but maybe the Xbox One is finally starting to close the gap.
Microsoft makes .Net open-source, finally embraces iOS, Android, and Linux November 12, 2014 at 2:46 pm
It’s a big day for Microsoft and its (soon to be even larger) cadre of dedicated developers: Starting today, Microsoft is making the core parts of its .Net framework open-source, and cross-platform on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Microsoft is also committing to adding Android and iOS support in the upcoming Visual Studio 2015. This is a bold move that will attempt to cement .Net, C#, and Visual Studio as the dominant development platform across Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, and Mac — and, well, it might just work.
The first thought-activated implant is an exciting hint of things to come November 12, 2014 at 12:54 pm
Researchers from ETH Zürich have implanted a living mouse with designer cells bearing genes that can be precisely controlled with light. As we will describe, that is technically challenging enough. But it is what they did next — namely, to wirelessly transfer power and control to this bioimplant according to the thought-controlling whims of an obliging human– that has people talking.
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