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(link) Wednesday, 25-June-2014 10:37:09 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Dino from GIGABYTE sent across this PPTX file showing just how many world records they and TeamAU managed to break at Computex. I've been involved in just about every single one of these records and feel pretty proud that both GIGABYTE and TeamAU guys (me-dinos22, James Trevaskis-youngpro, Carl Hollingworth-SniperOz, Jack Coxon-JJJC) are heavily represented here and have such global overclocking achievements. They also have a new motherboard aimed specifically at LN2 users. Overclocking world cup (HWBOT Country Cup) is on again later in the year (Q4) and Team Australia are the defending champions. I look forward to defending the crown alongside all the Aussie enthusiasts with these new "weapons" in our arsenal.
HP have unveiled The Machine. Why do we call it The Machine? When we first started developing it, we wanted to be very careful not to call it a server, workstation, PC, device or phone, because it actually encompasses all of those things. So as we were waiting for Marketing to come up with a cool code name for the project, we started calling it The Machine—and the name stuck. Yesssss. Sooo, what actually IS it? More here. In order to handle this flurry of information it uses clusters of specialized cores as opposed to a small number of generalized cores. The whole thing is connected together using silicon photonics instead of traditional copper wires, boosting the speed of the system whilst reducing energy requirements. Discussion here.
Australia has signed a treaty to make it easier for visually impaired people to access published works. It's of interest more generally because it has involved copyright exceptions, which highlights the need for a broader "fair use" provision. As EFA noted back in February when Attorney-General Brandis released the ALRC report, Australia’s current Copyright Act is no longer fit for purpose in an environment of increasingly rapid innovations in technology and service delivery. The current law is out-dated and its inherent inflexibility casts uncertainty on the legitimacy of basic internet functions like caching and searching, cloud computing, mash-ups and remixes, data mining and the personal use of content, particularly within the social media context.
MIT have developed a new nanostructured material. Now engineers at MIT and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have devised a way to translate that airy, yet remarkably strong, structure down to the microscale — designing a system that could be fabricated from a variety of materials, such as metals or polymers, and that may set new records for stiffness for a given weight.
Meanwhile here's some cool stuff printed with sugar.
Tech Report follow up on the SSD "bait and switch" allegations from earlier this month. When buying a product based on an online review, most of us expect our purchase to match the reviewed item. It's hard not to feel some degree of trepidation when that doesn't happen, especially if the performance implications of such a discrepancy are unclear. Since component variability seems to be a key part of keeping budget SSD prices down, we'll likely see more examples of this in the future, and there's no telling whether the component variances will or won't impact performance, stability, longevity, and so forth.
There's more info here, here and here on Harley-Davidson's new electric motorcycle. Meanwhile from July 1st, lane filtering becomes legal for motorcycles in NSW. Lane filtering is when a motorcycle rider moves alongside vehicles that have either stopped or are moving slowly (less than 30 km/h).
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