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Wednesday, 17-August-2011 13:20:40 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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The big news of the last couple of days is that Google is acquiring Motorola for $12.5 billion. Specifically, Motorola Mobile, the mobile phone division. This is clearly to strengthen their Android platform and tackle Apple in the smartphone arena. The purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., by far the largest in Google's history, thrusts the Internet company into the cutthroat business of making smartphones, tablet computers and cable set-top boxes. It will nearly double Google's work force and test the company's young alliance with other cellphone makers. More here, here and discussion here. Thanks to everyone who sent that in!
Ken Block has a new gymkhana video, which doesn't take itself too seriously and is better than the last couple. DC and Ken Block present Gymkhana FOUR: The Hollywood Megamercial.
XbitLabs checked out USB 2.0 and 3.0 for flash drives. The today’s most popular way of moving data around and transferring it from one computer system to another is definitely USB flash drives. However, now that we have gigabytes of data the USB 2.0 speed may become a bottleneck. Will the transition to faster USB 3.0 interface help flash drives resolve this issue and is it justified at this time?
JD spotted a browser malware test which claims IE9 is the safest. Windows Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), Google Chrome 12, Mozilla Firefox 4, Apple Safari 5 and Opera 11 were tested with 1,188 malicious URLs - links that lead to a download that delivers a malicious payload or to a website hosting malware links.
DumbparameciuM spotted some sneak peek stuff about Battlefield 3, including co-op mode and a new gameplay video. The headline says it all, really. The single-player game of Battlefield 3, which hasn’t had much attention so far, will be playable with a chum. BF3 discussion here.
Tech Report have an article on tessellation in Crysis 2. We won't duplicate all of his hard work, but we do want to take a look at one aspect of it: a breakdown of Crysis 2's use of tessellation using a developer tool from AMD called GPU PerfStudio.
Meanwhile HotHardware looked behind the curtain at id's upcoming Rage. id Software's long-awaited FPS Rage is set to ship in October. When it launches, it'll be the first game to feature id's newest graphics engine, dubbed id Tech 5. With expectations running high in the wake of the latest game trailer shown at QuakeCon last week, we've put together an article to examine the merits of both the game and the technology behind it.
From Mambonee, a TED video about wireless data via light bulbs. Not sure if this has been on before as the actual seminar is from July but I found it pretty interesting in a Star Trek kinda way. All about replacing current wireless with light bulbs emitting data streams in the visible light spectrum with simple LED’s.
On the SSD side of things, TheSSDReview cover a new SandForce controller. Our report today will be a quick look at the recently updated OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G 240GB SSD with the new SandForce SF-2282 processor. OWC is the first company consumer manufacturer to step up to the SF-2282 and bettered their 6G line even further yet with their memory switch to Toshiba 32nm NAND flash in both 120 and 240GB versions of the 6G. BenchmarkReviews meanwhile cover OCZ's virtualised controller architecture 2.0. When SandForce launched their second-generation chip, featured in the OCZ RevoDrive3 X2, the four integrated SandForce SF-2200 SSD controllers used an undocumented OCZ SuperScale Storage Controller.
Today's timewaster is typeracer, which at least looks like you're working.
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