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Saturday, 26-January-2008 02:12:16 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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This is the first I've heard of it, but apparently there was a Doodle 4 Google My Australia competition recently, thanks Wayne. If you're not familiar with the initiative, we asked students across Australia to do their own version of the Google logo around the theme of 'My Australia'. There are four age groups across the eight states and territories.
After mentioning Canon's new DSLR in the previous post I'd be remiss to not take note of some interesting announcements from Pentax. Pentax has officially announced the new 14.6 megapixel K20D, which makes Pentax the very unlikely leader in sensor resolution in its class. This is a significant update to the current K10D, and the K20D rumors have been circulating for several weeks. Rumours have been around for a long time indeed, so there's a resurrected thread here with more recent info near the end.
Here's an interesting story about an artificial life breakthrough, although a bit more info would be good. In a report in Science magazine, the researchers from the Craig Venter Institute say they managed to reproduce the DNA of a common bacterium using laboratory chemicals.
Bit-Tech have more info on NVIDIA's Hybrid SLI. In this article, we speak to several Nvidia representatives in order to clarify display support, more details on the nForce 700a mGPU and how the mGPU manages its memory in the various Hybrid modes.
They also checked out the extensible firmware interface, which sounds like a whole new chapter for BIOS configuration. Given the necessary LAN and Internet connection, in addition to the usual Core Centre hardware tweaking, MSI is planning to enable many more features in its EFI BIOSs, including a live update option, along with instant messaging and streaming audio/video capabilities.
HWSecrets wondered how much power things use when in standby mode. Is it true that electronic equipments consume a lot of power when they are on their standby mode and presumably turned off? We took a digital power meter and measured the most common electronic equipments found at home to check this out.
TechSpot are looking at AMD Phenom performance. Today we will be comparing the Phenom 9500, 9600, 9700 and the 9900 (B2 Stepping) against the recently released Core 2 Duo E8400, as well as the very popular Core 2 Quad Q6600. An older Athlon64 X2 5200+ processor will be added to the mix as well.
HotHardware meanwhile checked out Crysis with 3-way SLI. At the time of NVIDIA's 3-Way SLI launch, we were unable to bring you proper Crysis benchmark numbers that we felt comfortable with. This was partly an NVIDIA driver issue and party because we were waiting on a patch from Crytek that would allow for more efficient SLI scaling. With the release of the Cyrsis v1.1 patch, however, we now have a stable, scalable platform with which to test on.
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