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News archive: 2nd of September 2012 |
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Intel’s work on the Larabee project and succeeding Xeon Phi accelerator cards has cost the company billions of dollars and lasted for almost a decade. Now, the architecture is finally ready to fight for a place on the GPU compute market.
During this year’s Hot Chips conference in Cupertino, California, ... |
2 September 2012
19:21 GMT |
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HP decided to surprise the UltraBook fans with an incredibly well-built and well-featured mobile device at the IFA 2012 event in Berlin, Germany. The new mobile system features the first Thunderbolt port on a HP UltraBook and it’s the first time the company used a 1080p IPS screen on such a design. We’re... |
2 September 2012
17:51 GMT |
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Linus Torvalds announced yesterday, September 1st, that the fourth Release Candidate of the upcoming Linux 3.6 kernel is available for download and testing.
Linux kernel 3.6 Release Candidate 4 comprises 40% arch updates (x86, PowerPC, ARM, MPIS), 20% Btrfs filesystem improvements, and 20% driver updates.
"The ker... |
2 September 2012
17:41 GMT |
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The HSA foundation was created by AMD together with Imagination Technologies, ARM, MediaTek and Texas Instruments earlier this year with initial funding from AMD.
HSA is short for Heterogeneous System Architecture and AMD’s HSA vision consists of a special programming tool library that will effectively create ... |
2 September 2012
15:43 GMT |
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The following Linux-based operating systems have been announced last week: KNOPPIX 7.0.4 and Descent|OS 3. In other news: Google released the 21st version of the Google Chrome web browser. Softpedia Linux Blog news includes articles about Linux kernel 3.5.3, Stellarium 0.11.4, Zorin OS Lite 6.1, wattOS R6, Semplice L... |
2 September 2012
12:51 GMT |
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CubeCart is an e-commerce platform for building and deploying online stores within a few hours, even with limited or no programming knowledge at all.
While the install script will have the store up and running with no complications, the admin panel is the true masterpiece of CubeCart.
Fast, intuitive, easy to use a... |
2 September 2012
12:01 GMT |
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AMD has decided to concentrate on the bulk manufacturing process instead of the usual Silicon-on-Insulator (SOI) that has been the company’s main technology for the past eleven years. Back in 2001, AMD’s Palomino processors, or the famous AthlonXP as most of us know them, were imbued with IBM’s SOI... |
2 September 2012
09:41 GMT |
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During this year’s IFA event in Berlin, Germany, Chinese company Lenovo has decided to announce its new thin and light series of notebooks called the S series. The new product line is powered by Intel’s processors and AMD’s mobile GPUs, while there are also models using AMD’s APUs only.
The f... |
2 September 2012
08:14 GMT |
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Following Clint Eastwood’s much debated speech at the Republican National Convention, it’s no wonder people are already talking about the Republicans making the biggest mistake possible by having him on. Jon Stewart is one of them.
On his most recent show, he calls Eastwood’s speech a “fistf... |
2 September 2012
07:53 GMT |
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“The Twilight Saga” is perhaps the most successful vampire franchise of all times but that’s not stopping one of its stars from trash talking it: Kellan Lutz, who plays Emmett Cullen.
In a new interview with Document Journal, Lutz reveals severe apprehensions before he started work on the first ins... |
2 September 2012
07:25 GMT |
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As announced in mid-July, the Backstreet Boys are back. This can’t but be amazing news for fans of the biggest boyband ever created, who have been waiting for Kevin Richardson’s return for years. It’s finally happening.
The five Boys men were on Good Morning America the other day, in an appearance... |
2 September 2012
06:52 GMT |
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Jennie Garth is fresh of a heartbreaking breakup (from Peter Facinelli, to whom she was married for 11 years) but she’s not looking for comfort in the arms of Luke Perry, as reports would have you believe. They do, however, have something to share with fans.
Earlier this week, rumors started making the rounds... |
2 September 2012
06:26 GMT |
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American Idol has lost another judge: Randy Jackson is also out. However, fans of the “dawg” should not despair because he’ll still be on the show, though not in the same capacity as before.
Jackson has been “demoted” to mentor, TMZ reports, citing well-placed sources, who also reveal ... |
2 September 2012
06:03 GMT |
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She might have recently admitted to knowing “nothing” about love, but at least Taylor Swift knows what she wants in life. A recent report claims she’s so smitten with her new beau Conor Kennedy she’s already planning a wedding and a family.
And it will happen soon as well, The Enquirer revea... |
2 September 2012
05:25 GMT |
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This week we have two Softpedia reviews: one for The Political Machine 2012, a Stardock-made simulation that allows players to try and become President of the United States of America, and one for Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition, the PC-based version of the notoriously unforgiving action and role-playing game crea... |
2 September 2012
04:01 GMT |
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