General technology information from around the world.
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17/11/11
Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Google Music, the company’s cloud-based online music service, is now available to all users in the US and includes song and album sales, as well as an integration with the Google+ social networking site. Introduced in test form and by invitation only in May as a cloud-based song storage and playback service, Google Music will also let users buy albums and songs from all major music labels, except Warner.”
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17/11/11
$50,000 To Solve the Most Complicated Puzzle Ever
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“A team from UC San Diego is using crowd-sourcing as a tool to solve the most complicated puzzle ever attempted, which involves piecing together roughly 10,000 pieces of different documents that have been shredded. (The challenge is designed to reveal new techniques for reconstructing destroyed documents, which are often confiscated by troops in war zones). The prize for solving this jigsaw puzzle is $50,000, which Read more…
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17/11/11
Study Finds Frequent Gaming Changes Your Brain
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Gamers always felt they had more grey matter. The LA Times reports there is now proof: ‘Fourteen-year-olds who were frequent video gamers had more gray matter in the rewards center of the brain than peers who didn’t play video games as much — suggesting that gaming may be correlated to changes in the brain much as addictions are. European scientists reported the discovery Tuesday in the journal Translational Read more…
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17/11/11
Intel and DreamWorks Working On Rendering Animation In Real-Time
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“This week while speaking at the Techonomy conference, DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told audience members that they’d formulated the solution for real-time rendering of animation for video. Katzenberg told the audience that they’d been working hand-in-hand with Intel in order to rewrite their software to take advantage of scalable multi-core processors, this allowing them to achieve advances that will, for lack of a better term, revolutionize the animation process.”
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“The openSUSE project is proud to present the release of openSUSE 12.1! This release represents more than eight months of work by our international community and brings you the best Free Software has to offer. Improvements include the latest GNOME 3.2 desktop as well as the newest from KDE, XFCE and LXDE; your ownCloud made easy with mirall; Snapper-shots of your file system on btrfs; and much, much more. Other Read more…
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17/11/11
Intel Announces Xeon E5 and Knights Corner HPC Chip
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“At the supercomputing conference SC2011 yesterday, Intel announced its new Xeon E5 processors and demoed their new Knights Corner many integrated core (MIC) solution. The new Xeons won’t be broadly available until the first half of 2012, but Intel has been shipping the new chips to a small number of cloud and HPC customers since September. The new E5 family is based on the same core as the Core i7-3960X Intel Read more…
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17/11/11
Research Promises Drastically Increased LiOn Capacity
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“Could this be the breakthrough we’ve all been expecting that will finally make the electric car a reality? Researchers of Northwestern University USA discovered a new way to build lithium-ion batteries that changes dramatically both the charge time and capacity [original paper, paywalled]. Guess what it involves? That’s right, graphene.”
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17/11/11
CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship With “Rootkit”
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“According to a developer on the XDA forums, TrevE, many Android, Nokia, and BlackBerry smartphones have software called Carrier IQ that allows your carrier full access into your handset, including keylogging, which apps have been run, URLs that have been loaded in the browser, etc.”
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17/11/11
Patent Issue Delays Doom 3 Source Code Release
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“id Software is still planning to release the Doom 3 source this year, but it’s been delayed by a patent issue that’s causing John Carmack to personally rewrite some of the code. The patent issue in Doom 3 concerns the Carmack’s Reverse algorithm and has led Carmack to rewrite it in the open-source Doom 3.”
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08/11/11
Apple Faces Temporary iPhone, iPad Ban In Germany
Posted in General Technology by DragonMicro | Comments (0)“A regional court has temporarily banned Apple from marketing or supplying iPhones and iPads in Germany, following a suit brought about by Motorola. However, Apple said that the judgement ‘does not affect our ability to do business or sell products in Germany at this time.’ This may Read more…
