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Thursday, 5-August-2010 04:08:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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AMD have a new Bulldozer Blog detailing their upcoming core architecture. Just to make sure that everyone is up to speed on what Bulldozer is — a brand new design featuring up to 8 cores for client products and up to 16 cores for server products. Bulldozer will feature a new floating point unit that can support up to 256-bit floating point execution, which will boost the performance for technical applications that rely on floating point math. Bulldozer discussion continues here.
DigitalTrends checked out three of the new generation smartphones. With the arrival of a new messiah phone from Cupertino (Apple iPhone 4, $200 on AT&T), the very first 4G phone in the U.S. (HTC Evo 4G, $200 on Sprint), and the fastest Android device on the market (Samsung Captivate, $200 on AT&T), smartphone buyers have never faced a better slate of options - or a more confusing one.
Possibly old news now with patches etc, but a bug in StarCraft II could melt your video card. The glitch reportedly manifests when those playing the game access screens with scant detail, such as menus; this leads to extremely rapid refresh rates which can excessively tax your hardware. Hrm, sounds a bit strange. Meanwhile ATI people can use anti-aliasing now.
Corsair have announced the replacement for their popular Hydro H50 cooler, the Hydro H70. The Hydro Series H70 CPU cooler is an evolution of the award-winning Hydro Series H50, with several significant upgrades that enable it to deliver even greater cooling performance. These upgrades include a double-thickness (50mm) radiator with higher heat-exchanging capacity and a pump/cold plate unit with increased efficiency. The H70 also features two 120mm speed-switchable cooling fans in a push-pull configuration to provide increased airflow at low noise levels. There's an unboxing here on HardOCP, and discussion here.
The AFACT vs iiNet appeal continues, but one judge wonders what the point is. Justice Emmett stressed, at this point, it seemed there was nothing the Court could do to resolve the fundamental matter of who should be responsible for dealing with copyright breeches.
Iceickle sent in this interesting article about an Aussie alien hunter. What you have to do is use another program to extract that signal out of that noise. Well, after we did that, we found this very sharp signal, sort of a laser lookalike thing which is the sort of thing we’re looking for—a very sharp spike. And that is what we found. So that was the excitement about the whole thing.
Today's timewaster is the web version of the UK quiz TV show Mastermind. The quiz is made up of two rounds and each contender answers questions on his/her chosen specialist round and on general knowledge. Both rounds each last for two minutes.
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