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Friday, 18-February-2011 02:44:10 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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In case you missed it, OCAU now has official twitter and facebook pages. We also set up Tapatalk (discussion here) recently too, which makes it a bit easier to view the forums on a mobile phone.
A few people sent in the Dead Island trailer which is pretty incredible. Don't watch it if you can't handle zombies, obviously. In Dead Island you can enjoy a tropical vacation complete with zombies. Watch the official trailer for the new survival horror video game.
Jensen Button will tackle Bathurst in an F1 car in March. It's confirmed - Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes will bring Formula One to Mount Panorama on March 22, when Jenson Button will have a lash at a lap time around the fearsome circuit. As well, Triple Eight will bring Craig Lowndes and his Team Vodafone Commodore down for a play. The teams did a very similar thing last year at Albert Park, where Button swapped cars with Jamie Whincup. Discussion here.
HotHardware looked at some enterprise features of Sandy Bridge. Also, though perhaps a bit more low-key than some of the consumer-targeted bells and whistles, Intel also baked in a few key enhancements in the area of enterprise management and security. Intel's vPro badge has adorned notebooks and desktops in previous generation Core processor platforms and with Intel's latest incarnation, Sandy Bridge takes vPro capabilities to the next level.
It turns out that a supercomputer can win Jeopardy, and IBM explain what it all means. Watson’s advances in deep analytics and its ability to process unstructured data and interpret natural language will now be applied to humanity’s most vexing problems. If we can teach a computer to compete on Jeopardy! what could it mean for science, finance, healthcare and the future of society? There's also an interview with one of the human players here and Stephen Wolfram of Wolfram|Alpha fame has some thoughts too.
Booksellers Borders and Angus & Robertson have entered voluntary administration in Australia. Book retailing as been identified as one of the most exposed sectors to the rise of online shopping given the typically standard versions of books compared with clothing and footwear, for instance. One industry analyst said REDgroup's demise suggests Australia may have more so-called "bricks and mortar" book shops than the market can sustain. Discussion here.
Apparently there was a giant solar flare recently. Astronomers have been predicting a solar cycle known as Solar maximum, predicted to hit with full force in 2012, could be one of the most damaging on record. Similar storms back in 1859 and 1921 caused worldwide chaos, wiping out telegraph wires on a massive scale, but the potential for damage in the digital era could be much greater.
Apple have released a report on conditions in factories they use and there were some worrying findings, but it seems Apple is forcing them to sort out some of the problems. A tenth factory, also in China, had employed 42 children under 16. "We determined management had chosen to overlook the issue and was not committed to addressing the problem," Apple said in the report. ... Apple had the supplier company send the young workers back to school, and then stopped doing business with it. More here.
DigitalTrends visited Toy Fair 2011 and reported on some cool things there. This week is the annual Toy Fair at the Javits Center in New York, where toy companies from around the world show off the coolest high-tech toys you’ve never seen. Here’s some of the somewhat frivolous – but far more fun – technology we found on, and above, the show floor.
Issue 13 of The Overclocker online mag is out now.
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