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Tuesday, 10-June-2014 00:10:03 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Apparently a super-computer has passed the Turing Test, no doubt kicking off the Singularity and plunging the world into an Amazon-drone-patrolled dystopian nightmare. Maybe. Eugene Goostman, a computer programme made by a team based in Russia, succeeded in a test conducted at the Royal Society in London. It convinced 33 per cent of the judges that it was human, said academics at the University of Reading, which organised the test. It is thought to be the first computer to pass the iconic test. Though other programmes have claimed successes, those included set topics or questions in advance. More here.
Maybe we can fight back by becoming cyborgs - or at least learning the piano. "I have a glove that can teach you how to play a piano melody,” Thad Starner declares when I call to chat about the future of wearable computing. Now a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the technical lead of Google Glass, he helped pioneer the field in the 1990s as a student at MIT. “During this conversation, you could have learned ‘Amazing Grace.’ ”
Vonz sent in this article about power bank ripple. It’s a fact that all switching power converters will produce some noise and voltage ripple, however, the better designed converters with sufficient filtering should approach a very low level of ripple. While I don’t really have the time to judge the overload characteristics, or the efficiency of conversion circuits, this article will focus on the ripple and noise in the power delivered by power banks. That article links to this one about USB chargers which is also interesting.
GamersNexus want to tell you how SSDs work. SSDs are surrounded by terminology that generally isn't understood beyond a relative level. There's this top-level concept that one type of NAND is superior to another, that synchronous is preferable to asynchronous, that endurance is tied to P/E cycles, but a lot of the knowledge halts there. We've worked closely with several SSD and controller engineers over the past year to educate ourselves on the inner workings of the storage world's biggest recent advancement; now it's time to start organizing that education in article form.
There's not much info with it, but JC sent in this very tidy XBOX360 PC case mod. Meanwhile here's another impressive PC mod, this time mounted on a wall.
Tetris recently turned 30. By now, Tetris's history is well-known among gaming fans: introduced on June 6th, 1984 as a PC game, the product of Moscow's Academy of Science of the USSR spread to the rest of the world in short order. It was the first video game exported from the Soviet Union to the U.S., by way of Commodore 64. But it was in 1989, when it was included in the U.S. launch of Nintendo's Game Boy, that Tetris entered a generation's psyche.
Here's some more Computex headlines: be quiet!, GIGABYTE, Thermaltake, Rosewill and Corsair on Futurelooks, Kingston Girls on TheSSDReview, Booth Babes on TechPowerUp and a single-slot GTX 750 Ti on TomsHardware.
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