TechNews - Happy New Year 2014! - tech
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Happy New Year to all of you who make this website possible. I look
forward to giving you more gaming and technology news in 2014, and I
hope next year will be a happy and healthy one for everyone!
- Chromebooks Outsold Apple's MacBooks In 2013 - Sales
of Google's Chromebook surged this year - outselling
Apple's MacBook, according to a study by research group NPD. From
January through November 2013, 1.76 million Chromebooks were sold --
that's up from a total of 400,000 sold last year. Altogether,
Chromebooks made up 21% of notebook sales in 2013. Meanwhile, NPD's
report showed that Apple's desktop and laptop sales dropped 7%.
- Samsung Intros 8Gb RAM Chip for Mobile Devices - Samsung
has announced a new memory chip for smartphones, tablets, and
laptops. The module is an 8Gb, low power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4)
DRAM chip on a single 1GB die. It is fabricated with a 20nm processes.
According to Samsung, four can be combined together to form a single
4GB RAM module. The 8Gb LPDDR4 DRAM chip uses a Low Voltage Swing
Terminated Logic (LVSTL) I/O interface. Samsung says this enables data
transfer rates of 3.2Gbps per pin, which is twice the speed of today's
LPDDR3 DRAM modules. Samsung claims its new chip offers 50% higher
performance, but uses 40% less energy, making it ideal for high-end UHD
smartphones and tablets. The chip will reach volume production next
year.
- Apple Denies Working with NSA on iPhone Backdoor - Apple has
responded to newly released documents claiming that the U.S.
National Security Agency has a method for gaining backdoor access to
its iPhone. It says it has never worked with the agency, and is unaware
of the alleged program targeting the iPhone known as DROPOUTJEEP. The
program was disclosed in a trove of documents leaked yesterday and
shared by the security researcher Jacob Appelbaum and the German news
magazine Der Spiegel.
- Skype's Twitter, Facebook, and blog hacked - Earlier
today, some person(s) breached Skype's security and hacked its Twitter
account, Facebook page, and blog. The group claiming responsibility is
the Syrian Electronics Army (SEA). Its message: end spying on the
public. Minutes after TNW
has published this post, it appears that Skype has regained control
and has deleted the hacker messages from Twitter and Facebook. However,
the SEA's official Twitter account has also repeated
the messages that were posted on Skype's social media profiles and
blog.
- Homemade Death Ray Laser DRONE BOT! - This beast
packs a potent 2W blue laser that fries anything in it's path. It
can walk around and shoot it's death ray at the touch of a button!
- North Dakota Train Derailment Explosion Caught On Tape - Video of one
of the train explosions near Casselton. Amazingly no injuries have
been reported at this time.
- Top 10 Video Games of 2013 - USA
Today has put together a list of the Top 10 Video Games of 2013. The usual suspects
populate the list but, if it were up to me, I'd reshuffle their
rankings. How would you have ranked these games?
- NASA Controls Robot Using Kinect 2 And Occulus Rift - Watch
NASA control this robotic arm with an Occulus Rift and the Kinect 2.
- Isaac Asimov Predicts in 1964 What the World Will Look Like
Today - in 2014 - When New York City hosted The World's Fair in
1964, Isaac Asimov, the
prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston
University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would
look
like 50 years hence - assuming the world survived the nuclear
threats
of the Cold War.
- The Raid 2: Berandal - Official Trailer #1 - The plot is
unknown, however, the story begins two hours after the first movie
ends.
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - NYE Trailer - The Amazing
Spider-Man 2 trailer that was shown at the New Year's Eve
celebration held in Times Square New York.
- NPR: 2013 By The Numbers - NPR reporters from different
beats have chosen one number that they think helps define 2013. Covering
everything from symphonies to the conflict in Syria, some of these
numbers might surprise you.
- Tom Hanks cracks up memorial service - An emotional
Tom Hanks shares a funny story at Michael Clarke Duncan's memorial
service.
- Bye Bye Santa!! - check it out
- The Only Photographer With Regular Access To North Korea - Photojournalist
David Guttenfelder offers a glimpse inside North Korea's tightly controlled
society, where the truth is rarely simple.
- Best Vines Of 2013 - check it out
- Hottest Babes on the Internet #13 - Which one is
hottest? ;-)
- The best pics on the Internet #56 - All pictures
are carefully handpicked!
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