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Friday, 20-September-2013 10:53:47 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Nintendo video game pioneer Hiroshi Yamauchi has died, aged 85. Yamauchi was just 22 when he took over the family business - then a maker of playing cards - and went on to head the firm for over half a century. It was during his tenure, in 1983, that Nintendo released a games console called the Family Computer, which laid the foundations for the modern video-game industry.
Guru3D had some fun in ultra high definition. We take the ASUS PQ321 monitor for a nice test spin and check out PC game performance at Ultra High Definition, that would be a whopping 8 Mpixels resolution of 3840x2160 ! So please do join me, we'll start off with a quick overview of the monitor, then we'll do some regular benchmarking at UHD and then some FCAT results.
In what seems destined to become an iconic photo, a Free Syrian Army rebel has been observed using an iPad to aim a mortar, thanks Owen. These rebels, according to Szoldra, appear to be using an app to level the tube because they don’t have sights on the mortars to help level it out and aim at a target.
According to Intel, it's the year of the Linux desktop.. again. Thanks to Android on smartphones and tablets, plus the rise of Chromebooks, Intel sees Linux as the leading end-user operating system. So, not really traditional desktops exactly.
Google have released a pre-rolled coding environment for the Raspberry Pi. So we built something for Raspberry Pi called Coder. Download it, put it on an SD card, plug it in and it turns your Raspberry Pi into a simple place to write code and a miniserver to run it on, everything you need to get started making real web things, using real languages of the web.
UQ had a recent scramjet launch which didn't go entirely to plan. The rocket carrying the scramjet launched at 3pm (Norwegian time, 11pm Brisbane time), however the payload failed to achieve the correct altitude to begin the scientific experiment as planned.
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