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Monday, 21-March-2016 15:03:17 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Formula E, the fully-electric FIA racing championship, are holding a parallel virtual race series this year. With eSports enjoying huge growth across all sporting sectors, Formula E is embracing this vast audience by running a virtual championship alongside its electric-powered race series. The championship will comprise of at least four online rounds, which will serve as a preview to the on-track action ahead of the Formula E races in Long Beach, Paris, Berlin and London.
The furore about Windows 10 upgrades continues, but apparently on the mobile side of things, Microsoft are being less forceful. Windows Phone users who might have been nervously awaiting Windows 10 Mobile have been told they can relax. Unlike Microsoft’s aggressive tactics to migrate users from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 (which have ticked off customers), Windows Phone users won’t have to accept Windows 10 Mobile upgrades if they don’t want to.
People never learn. If you have a new boat, don't ask the internet to name it. A £200 million Royal Research Ship, at the forefront of British naval engineering, deserves a proud, strong name to match the might of the vessel. Behold – the RRS Boaty McBoatface. This could be the reality as the joke name leads an open online vote to name the new ship, having picked up more than 15,000 votes.
OCInside have a photo report from CeBIT 2016 Hannover. The CeBIT 2016 in Hanover, Germany showed again a lot of interesting products. The OCinside.de CeBIT 2016 report shows with more than 200 images an overview of new IT products. Our CeBIT report main focus each year is current PC hardware and shows some new chassis, cooler, graphics cards, motherboards, power supplies, SSD, Router and NAS.
NVIDIA have unveiled their GameWorks 3.1 SDK. Coverage on Tweaktown, PC Perspective and HotHardware. Earlier in the week, NVIDIA also announced availability of its latest NVIDIA GameWorks software development kit (SDK), which is now up to version 3.1. In addition to the aforementioned new lighting and shadowing techniques, the latest GameWorks SDK also offers a couple of beta updates to PhysX.
AMD meanwhile have updated their GPU Roadmap with some upcoming architectures. Needless to say, it has been many years since we have seen a process node jump like the one we will be experiencing this summer. 28nm held its own for a long time, but we are finally jumping to a new node that promises far more density and power efficiency. When we combine this with design work that has been honed by having to rely on a single process node for many years, we can expect to see very efficient and fast parts. Just how fast will depend on how big the chips can get, but for now we believe that we have at least the budget and midrange covered with Polaris 11 and 10 respectively.
Matt spotted this video from 2011 showing how to securely erase a hard drive. This old hard disk needed to be securely deleted before being discarded. So, I opened it up and grabbed the power supply that charges my cap bank, an MOT 2-pack stack. I worked over the circuit board and disk assembly, but wasn't satisfied with my work. The disk assembly was filled with plaster and aluminum powder, which was ignited with a fuse. The data should be gone from this drive.
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