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Dramas continue for The Pirate Bay, with the U.K.'s High Court ordering ISPs to block access to their site. A High Court judge told Sky, Everything Everywhere, TalkTalk, O2 and Virgin Media to prevent access to the Swedish site, which helps millions of people download copyrighted music, movies and computer games. Discussion here.
Troy Hunt continues to antagonise call centre scammers. This time it was a group called "E-Protection" and it doesn't take long to establish that these guys have a bit of a record.
Phoronix looks at the integrated graphics performance of Intel's Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors using Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7. While the Sandy Bridge graphics performance was once faster when it came to OpenGL with the open-source Linux driver, that's no longer the case. The Linux OpenGL performance for both Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge hardware is now slower in most GL workloads than Intel's Windows 7 x64 driver.
Tech ARP have updated their Desktop CPU Comparison Guide. Currently covering 837 desktop CPUs, this comprehensive comparison will allow you to easily compare 19 different specifications for each and every CPU.
The University of NSW is aiming to have prototypes of a bionic eye ready for testing next year. With the bionic eye, images captured by a camera are processed by an external unit, such as a smart phone then relayed to the implant’s chip. This stimulates the retina, sending electrical signals along the optic nerve into the brain where they are decoded as vision.
If you regularly use Google Docs, you might be pleased to know that they've added over 450 new fonts. In the past month we've made updates both big and small to Google Docs, and today we’re announcing one more: web fonts in Google documents.
Xbox 360 players in Germany might not be happy to hear that Motorola have been granted an injunction, which may prevent the console being sold there. "We are pleased that the Mannheim Court found that Microsoft products infringe Motorola Mobility's intellectual property. As a path forward, we remain open to resolving this matter. Fair compensation is all that we have been seeking for our intellectual property."
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