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News archive: 16th of September 2012 |
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Motorola has apparently designed and manufactured the world’s first “cloud computer.” The device itself is an ARM-powered tablet with a generous 18.5” display that also comes with a wireless mouse and keyboard.
The huge tablet was designed for a Chinese cable TV company and the official namin... |
16 September 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: Chakra GNU/Linux 2012.09 and Pear Linux 6 Alpha 1. In other news: New games powered by the Unity 4 game engine were announced for Linux; Canonical presents the top 10 Ubuntu app downloads for August 2012. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes art... |
16 September 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Intel may claim that its Xeon Phi GPU compute accelerator cards are powering the world’s most efficient HPC data center as we reported here, but the reality is that the efficiency is not coming from the Knights Corner architecture at all.During this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California, the compa... |
16 September 2012
16:31 GMT |
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We reported here that Intel decided to increase the level of integration in the new Clover Trail platform, but the company is now also allowing stacking LPDDR2 memory chips on top of its Atom CPU and offers a unique package to the tablet maker.In a very interesting move, the world’s largest semiconductor compan... |
16 September 2012
14:11 GMT |
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Intel is seriously banking on Windows 8 tablets and the company clearly wants a serious piece of the tablet market pie that is going to weigh just as much as the whole PC market weighs today.The 2012 PC market is roughly estimated to have sales reaching an impressive 390 million units while the tablet market will pro... |
16 September 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Django CMS is a Python content management system (CMS) built on top of the Django framework. It can be used from small to large projects the same, thanks to Django's great ability of dealing with traffic and advanced features.
The CMS is extendable via plugins, being able to adapt to absolutely any environment ... |
16 September 2012
12:01 GMT |
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Acer has demonstrated the Iconia W700 tablet back at Computex 2012, but the design has suffered some changes and not all of them bring good news. The initial design originally also included a ThunderBolt port that is now missing.During this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California, Acer has again displayed... |
16 September 2012
11:25 GMT |
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Intel’s 22nm low power manufacturing is apparently not ready yet so the company decided to launch the new generation Atom processors in the same 32nm manufacturing technology as Medfield.The new platform is called Clover Trail and Intel has selected complete platform integration as the main strategy to make the... |
16 September 2012
07:17 GMT |
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Google blocking Acer from releasing a Aliyun-based device sure isn't making Google look good. The company has now explained why it did it and, more importantly, revealed that Alibaba's Aliyun is actually based, at least in part, on Android.There's nothing wrong with that, as Android is open source, the... |
16 September 2012
06:51 GMT |
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Put Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, and you’re guaranteed to have a movie that fans will rush to see. “Stand Up Guys” just got its first official trailer, which you can see in full above. Val (Pacino) has been in prison for the better part of the last 3 decades so, naturally, when he g... |
16 September 2012
06:04 GMT |
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Now promoting the Blu-ray release of “Titanic,” which comes shortly after the 3D theatrical re-release, director James Cameron is also talking about “Avatar” and its sequels, how he made “Titanic” into the biggest selling movie of all times and, last but not least, why Jack had to ... |
16 September 2012
05:47 GMT |
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Now that it’s official that she’s dating her backup dancer / choreographer, Jennifer Lopez is feeling a bit more confident in the relationship to talk about it in front of the cameras – which is precisely what she did on Katie Couric’s “Katie” show. JLo and Smart started dating s... |
16 September 2012
05:32 GMT |
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With Google Chrome finally implementing support for Do Not Track, all major browsers now offer or will offer in the near future the ability to make your preference about ad tracking known.
Being able to opt-out of ad tracking with a couple of clicks seems like a major victory for privacy and, more importantly, for ... |
16 September 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Our review for this week is for Total War Battles: Shogun, a game that was created by The Creative Assembly and was originally designed to move the franchise to mobile devices before it was also ported to the PC.
We also have a Gamer Diary detailing my virtual President election adventures in The Political Machine 2... |
16 September 2012
05:11 GMT |
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The hair loss drug Propecia is known to come with some side effects but only one man is claiming to have turned him into a woman. Mandi, formerly known as William McKee, sat down for an interview with Anderson Cooper about her traumatizing experience. Videos of two relevant segments from the interview are below. M... |
16 September 2012
05:10 GMT |
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It’s been a couple of rough months for former darlings Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart after photos of her kissing another man in a parking lot emerged online but, as the saying goes, all’s well that ends well. The two “Twilight” co-stars, who had been dating for roughly 3 years when the ... |
16 September 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Pinterest has been a huge hit and the site keeps on growing at a steady pace. From the get-go, women were much more interested in the site and that continues to be true.
In fact, a recent report shows that one in five women in the US now use Pinterest, compared to 12 percent of US adults, which is about one in eight... |
16 September 2012
03:51 GMT |
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This past week was a busy one in all the departments of the information security industry: websites were hacked, data was leaked, botnets were disrupted, hackers were arrested, and vulnerabilities have been found. But let’s take them one at a time.
Video games have taken up a lot of our time this week. First, ... |
16 September 2012
00:21 GMT |
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