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SEBASTIAN POP
I am not one to go to great lengths to build some sophisticated characterization. There really is nothing overly incredible to report about my life (really! I am not saying it just to reorient your attention from the awesome stuff). Suffice to say, I am a 24 year-old guy with a better than average grasp of English who can type fast and avoids typos most of the time.
I've been with Softpedia for over two years now, during which I got to see a lot of things happen, particularly on the technological side of the worldwide industry, since that's my focus here. If someone asked me for my favorite sort of news, I'd say it's when someone comes up with something either really unusual, like a robotic roach for instance, or when something really revolutionary gets invented, like a super chip or means to capture solar energy.
What I don't much fancy are bits about patent litigations. Seriously, you can patent anything, so when I see global intellectual property fights over, I don't know, whether or not icons have rounded edges, my face gets very closely familiar with either my palm or the surface of my desk.
And only the second part of that was hyperbole... mostly.
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Despite Samsung not having said anything about it, the Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 tablet is very well known already, at least in certain circles. That is because of leaks, like the ones perpetrated by GLBenchmark (1), (2). GLBenchmark has posted the slate on its servers. Or should I say slates. There are two after all, Wi-F... |
18 May 2013
11:00 UTC |
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Amtrak is one of the premier train companies in the United States, which means that it sets the tone for more or less everything in regards to train travel. For the most part, trains are pleasant enough. Although some trains are a bit uncomfortable, especially over long distances, others have plenty of leg room, res... |
18 May 2013
10:31 UTC |
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Immersing in a movie or game can be done easiest when people barely see the edges of the display, which is why cinemas are so popular.
This is also why hardcore gamers lean in very close to their monitors, regardless of the eye health risks. Provided they don't have oversized screens or multi-monitor setups.
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18 May 2013
10:02 UTC |
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Some people, especially corporate executives and journalists, spend a lot of their time on the phone, and they may even have a hard time finding a spare hour to leave it to recharge.
That is why Energizer invented the 180W Cup Inverter, a car charger for electronics.
It plugs in the cigarette lighter, of all things... |
18 May 2013
09:27 UTC |
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Marketing stunts come in all forms, which means that some really bizarre things can crop up, like the latest deal between Domino's Brazil and 10 video rental stores. Essentially, the Domino's pizza chain has collaborated with the video rental stores to sell films on special DVDs. Said DVDs start smelling ... |
18 May 2013
09:00 UTC |
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Valentin Boanta is a hacker that is serving a term in prison for supplying gadgets to an organized crime gang used to conceal ATM skimmers. Now, either because of boredom or regret, the man has developed an add-on that will prevent ATMs from being skimmed ever again. It took him six months, but he eventually finish... |
18 May 2013
08:27 UTC |
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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 graphics card may not have been officially released, but it has already surfaced and has been photographed, and even benchmarked.
Now, PNY has allowed the press shots of that adapter, and that of the GeForce GTX 770, to reach the web.
The GTX 780 is equipped with the same cooler as on t... |
18 May 2013
07:58 UTC |
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Even as it hops over, or pushes through, all the hurdles in the path of going private, Dell continues to do its job as world-class provider of computers and other consumer electronics devices. Case in point, the company is developing more notebooks for the Latitude series, two of which are expected to debut during t... |
18 May 2013
07:40 UTC |
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Intel is always working on something, and I mean more than central processing units. While the company may have quit one of its minor outlets (motherboards), it is still involved in storage, SSDs in particular. Which is why the appearance of the upcoming Intel DC S3500 Wolfville solid-state drive did not go unnotice... |
17 May 2013
15:05 UTC |
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The main problem with bringing tablets to work when you're employed in a factory or some other sort of industrial environment is the likelihood of the slate becoming defective.
That is why rugged notebooks and tablets exist, and why companies like Getac and Panasonic can sell things like V100/V200 convertibles... |
17 May 2013
14:50 UTC |
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It was clear that tablets were eating more and more of the market share of desktop and notebook PCs, but there are some countries where they have basically taken over.
Case in point, IDC looked at what happened in the United kingdom between January and March and discovered that 2.8 million tablets were shipped, whic... |
17 May 2013
14:31 UTC |
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This is yet another instance of the newest high-end NVIDIA graphics card making the news. Not that I can blame it after this.
And by “this” I don't mean the teaser trailer for EVGA's custom-made GeForce GTX 700 series cooler, though that one was a nice find too. After all, it means that the GT... |
17 May 2013
14:10 UTC |
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EVGA, like more or less every other graphics card OEM out there, has its own ideas for what a competent cooling module is. Some companies use coolers made by others, but EVGA likes to make its own. Case in point, the company has put together a new one for the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 700 series. Or rather, the company h... |
17 May 2013
13:30 UTC |
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Eurocom's Panther notebook has such powerful hardware that the company went as far as to say that it was the most powerful laptop in the world. I'll leave it to it and its various challengers to decide if that's really true, through whatever means they choose. Provided they bother staging a competitio... |
17 May 2013
13:02 UTC |
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The security integrated chip market has a special wonder child like all other segments of the technology industry: smart cards. Samsung has just unveiled a new type of smart card integrated circuit. Or rather, Samsung has just officially introduced a new manufacturing process technology that can make new smart card... |
17 May 2013
20:41 UTC |
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Network-attached storage devices are good ways to add some free terabytes of storage to LAN environments, whether at home or at work, but they aren't always ideal, as there sometimes isn't a network to tap into.
Some people don't have their PC connected to a network of any sort, though they may have ... |
17 May 2013
12:00 UTC |
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Earlier this week, there was a report about E Ink designing an electronic paper display with a diagonal of 13.3 inches.
Now, Sony has posted a video of an e-reader equipped with one of those things. Or rather DigInfo posted a video of the device on YouTube.
Clearly, the e-reader is the result of a collaboration b... |
17 May 2013
11:25 UTC |
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Another day, another storage device. This time, Transcend is the one making its contribution, in the form of the MSM610 mSATA mini SSD.
The solid-state drive is a very small thing, measuring 26.8 mm x 29.85 mm x 3.85 / 1.05 x 1.17 x 0.15 inches.
Yet it still communicates over the SATA II 3 Gbps interface. Coupled w... |
17 May 2013
09:57 UTC |
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Back in October 2011, Corning introduced the Lotus glass, which boasted thermal and dimensional stability superior to other glass substrates usable in OLED and LCD displays.
Samsung and Corning entered a partnership for the use of Lotus soon after, but that turned out to be the full extent of the Lotus's succes... |
17 May 2013
09:34 UTC |
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Meta is a startup company that probably wouldn't have managed to get its plans off the ground alone. Fortunately, it managed to secure a collaboration with Epson, leading to the successful introduction of the Meta 1 augmented reality headset.
The first difference anyone will notice between it and Google's... |
17 May 2013
09:12 UTC |
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The Cheetah robot from MIT is one of the most advanced robots in the world, because it has actually attained a reasonable level of stability while running.
Meant to reproduce the way cheetahs, the fastest mammals alive, move, the cheetah bot from MIT's Biometrics Robotics Lab has achieved a speed of 13.7 miles ... |
17 May 2013
08:40 UTC |
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The 4K ultra-high definition image standard (3840 x 2160 pixels 4K resolution) has only been around for a few months, but already display makers are considering enhancement.
Never mind that the specification is already the farthest ahead of the curve.
Anyway, a report says that in 2014, and maybe even this year, Ul... |
17 May 2013
08:20 UTC |
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A while ago, a report arose that said 20% of all notebook sold during the first quarter of 2013 had support for touchscreen input. Now another one had been made, which only partially corroborates that story. Market watcher Displaybank found that 4.57 million units sold during the first quarter of 2013. That mea... |
17 May 2013
17:11 UTC |
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As far as tablets go, low prices are usually in the range of $200 / €200, and they are achieved at the expense of screen size, performance, image quality, storage, and memory.
Basically, companies have to cut back on everything in order to make a tablet cheap. It has been getting easier, but the time when stand... |
17 May 2013
07:34 UTC |
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All-in-one liquid coolers can be a godsend for people who want their hardware expertly chilled but don't have the means, room, or disposition to set up an actual water cooling system.
This must be why SilverSyone decided to essentially release two new Tundra series AiO cooling products. Their names are TD02 and... |
17 May 2013
07:13 UTC |
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NEC could probably make a lot of money if it really tried its hand on the consumer display market, but it is content with creating and selling monitors to customers from the professional/enterprise segment.
The MultiSync EA EA234WMi is the newest monitor launched for that particular sector, but not a particularly e... |
17 May 2013
06:55 UTC |
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Instead of using one of those complicated (and breakable) hinges that can spin the laptop screen around and lay it flat on top of the keyboard, Lenovo's IdeaPad Yoga 11S is connected to the lower half with two hinges that allow it to spin all the way to the underside. Which is to say, the screen can be pushed ... |
17 May 2013
06:24 UTC |
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It wasn't that long ago that Intel revealed the Atom Silvermont processor, and the supposedly massive implications it had for the tablet market.
Intel hopes to finally score a big set of points on the tablet industry.
Alas, if it thought it could truly ride the success of the slate market, it was mistaken, o... |
16 May 2013
14:58 UTC |
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The GeForce GTX 780 has been more or less fully detailed at this point, even though official information continues to be held back on.
There were a few photos too, but none that NVIDIA made itself.
Now we can finally check out one such photo, thanks to the folks at VideoCardz that nabbed it, somehow.
It shows i... |
16 May 2013
14:50 UTC |
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The Transformer Book is, or will be, a hybrid laptop-tablet device that ASUS will try to sell to as many people as possible starting this month.
Previously, there wasn't much information on the device, no more than what leaks usually expose anyway, although plenty could be discovered through conjecture.
Now,... |
16 May 2013
14:38 UTC |
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