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Although known for its restrictive policies concerning just how much its partners can use from its portfolio, NVIDIA seems to have had a change of heart and may have started allowing them to craft dual-GPU adapters. This is probably due to just how well AMD has been doing lately, with its many recent DirectX-compatib... |
19 November 2009
09:51 GMT |
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Those who don't want to skip buying a computer component for Christmas just so they can save some cash for an upcoming Fermi card now have three new video boards to choose from. The adapters are capable of matching and even topping the performance of most of the mid-range cards. They are the GeForce GT 240 D3 51... |
17 November 2009
02:54 GMT |
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Although most NVIDIA fans are likely waiting for the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker to officially roll out its next-generation line of desktop graphics cards, some of the company's board partners are continuing to roll out new designs based on the current generation of GPUs. Such is the case with Galax... |
28 September 2009
05:58 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in the UK now have yet another great handset that they can purchase, the Android-powered Samsung Galaxy i7500, which has just been launched on O2's airwaves. The phone has been expected to make it on the UK market via O2 for quite some time now, and we should mention that it comes with a delay... |
1 September 2009
06:17 GMT |
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One of the most popular cellphones that became available on the market this year is the Samsung Galaxy GT-I7500, the first handset the South Korean mobile phone maker launched under Google's Android operating system. The device is already available for purchase in several markets, featuring a black coat, and it ... |
6 August 2009
03:34 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy is yet another mobile phone that seems to be heading towards the Americas running under the Google Android operating system. Already spotted at FCC, where it received approval to be used in this part of the world, it seems that the device bears the A3LGTI7500L model name. The good news is that the phon... |
31 July 2009
06:10 GMT |
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Apparently, BioWare is getting into the vaporware business, as the downloadable content that was supposed to be announced for the first Mass Effect is no longer coming.The company's Twitter feed, which delivered the news of fresh content coming for the game that was first released in 2007, surprised some but fan... |
29 June 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Samsung's first Android-powered mobile phone, the Samsung i7500 Galaxy, has been launched in Germany as well, via O2. The handset comes with a wide range of interesting features, and it is even said to be the highest-end Android device launched on the market until now. However, even if it takes down the HTC Magi... |
25 June 2009
09:02 GMT |
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BioWare is keen on spreading the presence of its new franchise, Mass Effect, to as many mediums as possible, so it was no surprise to see that the developer created a game for Apple's iPhone, launched yesterday.It seems that some players have already finished it, proof that it might be too short or that people a... |
24 June 2009
14:51 GMT |
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Describing Mass Effect Galaxy for iPhone and iPod touch as “a very cool leap into expanding the Mass Effect universe onto a new and innovative platform,” Jay Watamaniuk, writing over at the BioWare Blog, has exchanged a few thoughts on the topic with the game's producer, Kevin Barrett. With no relea... |
1 June 2009
09:21 GMT |
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The first mobile phone running under the Google Android operating system coming from the South Korean handset maker Samsung, the already announced Samsung i7500, is now reported to be on its way to get launched in France via Bouygues Telecom as the Samsung Galaxy. Although Samsung announced that the phone would becom... |
20 May 2009
04:23 GMT |
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With the launch of the GeForce GTX 275, NVIDIA's latest 55nm GT200-based graphics accelerator, the Sunnyvale, California-based graphics chip maker has certainly put its partners to work. Companies such as EVGA, BFG, ASUS, Zotac, Galaxy and many more will try to convince you that their version of the new card is ... |
6 April 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Galaxy has recently announced the introduction of a new GeForce graphics card, as part of its Low Power lineup. The new card is based on one of NVIDIA's 55nm GPUs, the GeForce 9800GT, coming to provide users with a mainstream performance solution that is capable of reducing the power consumption of the entire de... |
26 March 2009
09:45 GMT |
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Given the ongoing financial situation and the fact that PC users are taking a higher interest in lower-cost solutions, one of Galaxy's latest graphics cards seems like an adequate product for the current market. Part of the company's extensive range of GeForce graphics cards, the low-power 9600GT is designe... |
9 March 2009
02:37 GMT |
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Astronomers scouting an ancient gas cloud known as the Leo Ring have discovered that the formation houses forming stars, even though it lacks most known necessary elements that support this process, such as heavy elements and dark matter. The scientists have been puzzled by the way the young stars formed, and have hy... |
19 February 2009
03:46 GMT |
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If you have set your mind on building one of those small-sized home-theater PCs, graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA might have something for you, coming in the form of two new NVIDIA-based video cards, specifically designed to fit the tight space in HTPCs. The two new low-profile cards are based on the company's ... |
5 February 2009
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The way galaxies transform from the pinwheel-shaped spirals – that tend to be blue or reddish – to the egg-shaped ellipticals was unknown to astronomers up until Hubble decided to send back a new set of pictures, detailing extremely rare red spiral galaxies, which experts now think may be the missing link... |
22 December 2008
17:21 GMT |
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A new study performed with the help of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, focused on galaxy clusters, indicated that they are forming at a slower rate than they should be, which is considered a new piece of evidence in the complicated case of dark energy. These results, in tandem with those of previous extensive res... |
17 December 2008
15:41 GMT |
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Surprisingly, the skies over the southern hemisphere of the Earth have never been scoured in great detail, such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has done for the northern regions. As such, the knowledge scale is heavily tilted towards the celestial objects of the north. This issue had to be addressed, especially since... |
16 December 2008
06:43 GMT |
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The prevalent concept has it that every 100 million years or so, stars come close enough to our solar system for them to crash on the multitude of objects in the Oort cloud and place them on a course towards our planetary system. But a team of Swedish researchers argued that the rate of the star-created comets is not... |
12 December 2008
10:11 GMT |
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It's impossible to observe black holes directly with today's technology, especially since they're, well, black, and no light escapes so that their shape and existence can be detected. But scientists are pretty sure that almost (if not all) galaxies hold one such mysterious object at their core. This is... |
11 December 2008
05:36 GMT |
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The Omega Centauri is the largest glittering jewel that lights up the skies of the south. The behemoth formation that comprises millions of stars is found in the Centaurus constellation, some 17,000 light years away from Earth. It can even be observed directly, with the unaided eye, as it shines at a magnitude of 3.7... |
3 December 2008
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An international team of astronomers has managed to detect the presence of a sugar molecule in the outer space. The chemical compound is known to be among the few primal building blocks that form life, and thus the discovery proves to be highly important in the search for Earth-like planets where life could appear an... |
26 November 2008
10:18 GMT |
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It is believed that hydrogen was the most frequent element found in the early universe, not long after it formed as a result of the Big Bang explosion. But a new study surprised scientists by indicating that it might yet not be so. The research focused on the observation of very distant galaxies formed during the you... |
26 November 2008
08:50 GMT |
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Voorwerp means “object” in Dutch. This is the generic definition received by a peculiar phenomenon spotted a while ago by a Dutch school teacher, Hanny van Arkel, while she was combing through hundreds of photos as a volunteer for the Galaxy Zoo project. For more than a year now, scientists have been tryi... |
26 November 2008
07:21 GMT |
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The inner secrets of a pair of the most luminous stars ever discovered are finally revealed. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to take an unprecedentedly high detail picture of the stars in the Carina Nebula, lifting the veil (of gas and dust) from their faces. Much to the surprise of the team of astronomers, the b... |
26 November 2008
03:59 GMT |
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So far, there were two known types of galaxies (excluding the peculiar ones that form by accident): the blue spiral ones, like our own, and red elliptical ones, shaped like a football. Their color (although the shades and contrast may differ) is very important, since it gives a hint on the age of the stars in the gal... |
25 November 2008
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Supermassive black holes, with a mass approximately a billion times that of our Sun, have been thought to reside at the very heart of the biggest galaxies, including our own. A recent computer simulation, corroborated with data obtained from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, indicated that one of these black holes gener... |
24 November 2008
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The material surrounding and circling the black hole of the Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, emits flares of radiation. Two Chilean telescopes have managed to spot the event simultaneously for the first time. This allows for a better understanding of the phenomena going on in that place, otherwise unobservable due t... |
19 November 2008
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When thinking of the vastness of space, on how little we know and have seen of it and on how much there is still left to discover and prove, choosing the next missions that will be set in motion in a decade or so seems to be the most difficult thing to do. So, what will it be - dark matter, Earth-like planets, u... |
12 November 2008
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Developer Phil Hassey released Galcon for iPhone and iPod touch a while ago, pricing it at close to ten bucks. Later on, Galcon saw a substantial drop in price, down to $4.99 (the fee users currently have to pay for the app), while a Lite version was also released recently. The latter is free to download and pla... |
7 November 2008
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According to a Reuters article, a recent vast-scale simulation of the creation and evolution of a Milky Way-type of galaxy has indicated some potential places in space where scientists should search for dark matter. Although the existence of the matter that forms a huge part of the universe has been known for a long ... |
6 November 2008
09:17 GMT |
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NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer instrument is set for a mission to survey all the width of the sky in ultraviolet light for the first time. During its most recent surveys, it came upon a lenticular galaxy called NGC 404 that lies beyond a red giant star named Mirach, which obscures it from normal view wit... |
5 November 2008
08:27 GMT |
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Galaxies still generate a far larger amount of questions than the answers they provide to scientists, ever since people first turned their attention towards outer space. Although several theories have been issued related to the process that leads to their formation, the exact paths and factors that influence said pr... |
28 October 2008
11:52 GMT |
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New observations performed by the Hawaii-based Submillimeter Array's eight antennas indicated that massive black holes had been common since the early ages of the universe. The recent discovery of the collision of two ancient galaxies brought new data on the behavior of black holes.As the artist's concept, ... |
17 October 2008
07:49 GMT |
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A major step in the actual discovery of dark matter, or at least a honing of the discovery process, was performed by the PICASSO project taking place at SNOLAB, in Canada. Scientists came upon a method to refine the search by finding that, under certain conditions, dark matter's WIMPs yield different acoustic si... |
16 October 2008
09:40 GMT |
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A recent study indicates that the top speed stars in our own galaxy may have been assimilated after being ejected from a dwarf one that merged with the Milky Way. This kind of stars are dubbed “hypervelocity” stars, and were mostly believed to be originating from our galaxy's core, from where th... |
15 October 2008
03:31 GMT |
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The Hubble telescope continues its series of amazing pictures with one that ensured the most accurate analysis of a far galaxy ever performed. The image embedded in this article presents the photography taken by the device, which resembles an eye, or, more precisely, a stylized image of the eye of Ra, the Egyptian go... |
9 October 2008
11:03 GMT |
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Some gas tendrils between two galaxies indicate that a high-speed collision of the celestial bodies once took place. Scientists look up to this as a possible clue to the reason so many of the galaxies are unable to form new stars.One of the two is the spiral galaxy NGC 4438 situated about 50 million light years away ... |
9 October 2008
06:57 GMT |
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Ever stopped what you were doing just to gaze at the night sky? The stars are fascinating, aren't they? However, you can't make out much without someone (or something) explaining to you what constellations are visible at a time, which star is which, how far it is from the Earth and so on.Starmap for iPhone ... |
7 October 2008
05:34 GMT |
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A recent study indicates that there are stars in the proximity of the Milky Way's core that feed on dark matter, thus prolonging their lifespan with more than a billion years. Finding them would possibly help understanding what dark matter really is and how exactly it functions.Although responsible for 22% of th... |
3 October 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Since the distance between space's bodies is so enormous, astronomers have very hard times counting and measuring all the newly-emerging stars. That's why the H-alpha characteristic signal emitted by the new stars comes as a blessing for those who detect them by telescope. The amount of such rays emitted fr... |
2 October 2008
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As researchers finally conducted their first direct measurement of a young, far galaxy's magnetic field, the result shocked them, since it was found to be ten times stronger than the Milky Way's, exactly the opposite of what they had originally predicted.The 6.5 billion light years away young galaxy DLA-3C2... |
2 October 2008
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The mysterious force that drives the patches of matter at incredible speeds and in uniform directions through space, which can't be explained by comparison to any known gravitational force, and which may also exist outside of the observable universe, was called "dark flow."If you think you already know all there... |
25 September 2008
06:47 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of Montreal, Canada, discovered that the giant star is also accompanied by another huge "sister," weighing 89 times more than our sun. The way stars are formed is known only in theory, based on previous observations and on the limits of science, which proposes models stating that ... |
23 September 2008
03:32 GMT |
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So far, this seems to be the dimmest galaxy in the universe ever discovered. Shining only with the brightness of less than 350 suns, which is very little for an entire galaxy, it is believed to be filled with dark mater in enormous quantities. Segue 1, as it is called, is one of only about 2 dozen dwarf galaxie... |
19 September 2008
06:14 GMT |
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Researchers from Durham University discovered that an enormous black hole located 500 million light years away from Earth emits a strong X-ray pulse. They stumbled upon the phenomenon as they were scouring about the middle of a galaxy called REJ1034+396, and it looks like the pulse is attributed to the gas arou... |
18 September 2008
02:55 GMT |
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Intel's Atom processor has been designed to meet the performance requirements of small-sized desktop computer systems and sub-notebooks (also known as netbooks). As a matter of fact, the increasingly expanding netbook market has been the main catalyst for Intel's impressive sales numbers with its Atom CPU. ... |
26 August 2008
04:14 GMT |
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Barred galaxies, having two arms trailing each other on either side of the galactic center, might have evolved in this particular shape with the passing of time, say astronomers who discovered that, compared to the first half of the universe's past, currently there are three times more galaxies that have bars. M... |
30 July 2008
02:52 GMT |
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The worst place where a star could grow is in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, as powerful gravitational fields exerted by the latter prevent the clouds of gas to condense into objects such as our Sun. However, astronomers have recently discovered that young stars do form near the center of our galaxy, insi... |
24 July 2008
04:15 GMT |
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