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- ASRock Announces A-Style Conformal Coating For 8 Series
Motherboards - What usually happens when you spill beverages or
other conductive liquids onto your motherboard is that it turns into a
not-so-fun sizzling barbeque fest, and then your motherboard dies of
short circuit fatefully. That's where A-Style,
Conformal Coating comes in.
- NVIDIA Announces PhysX Support for Microsoft Xbox One -
NVIDIA announced its support today for the Microsoft Xbox One game
console with its popular NVIDIA PhysX and NVIDIA APEX software
development kits (SDKs). Together, PhysX and APEX provide solutions for
collision detection and simulation of rigid bodies, clothing, fluids,
particle systems and more, across a wide range of platforms, including
desktop PCs, game consoles, and mobile and handheld devices.
- Download NVIDIA's FaceWorks Demo - Those of you that want
to play around with NVIDIA's FaceWorks demo can now download the app
directly from the company here.
The package weighs in at just under 309MB, so grab it if you want it.
- Samsung Starts Production of High-Performance SSDs for Data
Centers & Servers - Samsung has announced that it has started
supplying the SM843T SSD, which is an SSD intended to be used in data
centers and servers. The SM843T will come in capacities up to 960 GB,
and feature IOPS of up to 98,000 sustained random read IOPS. No word
was given on sequential throughput. The SSDs run over a SATA3
interface, and they also feature up to 20,000 TBW (Terabyte Written)
endurance, depending on the capacity. The SSDs feature read and write
speeds of up to 520 MB/s and 400 MB/s, respectively. According to
Samsung, the systems running with these SSDs will experience a multiple
6 performance gain, and save up to 30 percent more energy over
traditional hard drives. The drives will be available in capacities
ranging from 120 GB to 960 GB, although there is no word on pricing or
availability just yet.
- Microsoft's new mice include a Windows button, built for
Windows 8 - Microsoft has announced two new mice, the Sculpt
comfort mouse and the Sculpt mobile mouse that are designed
specifically for Windows with the Sculpt comfort mouse offering
advanced functionality for Windows 8 users. As the name implies, the
Sculpt brand is carried over from the keyboard Microsoft released last
year. The Comfort mouse has a touch-sensitive strip on the side of the
device, called the 'touch tab' that assist with navigation in Windows
8. By tapping the tab, you can open the Start screen, much like you can
by hitting the Windows key on your keyboard. Once in the Start screen,
there are gestures that will allow you to navigate your open apps. The
mouse uses Bluetooth to connect to your PC and will cost $39.95 with
availability in June.
- Microsoft makes Siri look foolish in new Windows 8 ad - The
gloves have come off in Redmond as Microsoft's
latest Windows 8 advertisement takes one of Apple's key features,
Siri, and uses it to show how Windows 8 tablets best those of Apple.
- Google Glass apps: everything you can do right now - The
chaps over at Verge
have tested every Google Glass app so you don't have to. Glass is a
slick implementation of the wrong idea. Google has worked so hard at
making the device simple that it has succeeded too well - Glass simply
can't do anything Google hasn't allotted for. Right now there's little
room for innovation by developers, because all third-party apps are
trapped in a simple API that's only capable of pushing and pulling data
to and from the device. The API could grow, and Glass doesn't have to
be this limited forever, but without the ability to process information
on the device, most of the true power of apps on smartphones is lost
here. Yes, most of the popular apps on mobile devices are games and
social services, but the whole point of a wearable computer is that it
should open up new opportunities: augmented reality, serendipity, ways
to comprehend your surroundings, way to improve interactions with the
people in front of you, and at least some sort of notetaking capability
beyond sending emails to yourself. A game like Ingress should be Glass'
killer app, not Google+ sharing. Services like Google Search and Google
Now will have to be smarter, not just simpler, on a device like
this.
- Google Faces-Searching for faces on Google Maps using face - An
independent searching agent hovering the world to spot all the
faces that are hidden on earth.
- 18 year old's invention might charge your phone in 20 seconds
- An
18 year old named Eesha Khare has invented a device that can be
fully charged in 20 to 30 seconds, which also lasts longer than normal
batteries. She did this for an international science fair and took home
a $50,000 prize.
- Meet the Man Who Sold a Month-Old App to Dropbox for $100M - When Mailbox sold itself to Dropbox for a reported
$100 million or so this March, the month-old iPhone app wasn't even
available to the public. People could download the email organizer, but
using it required joining a mailing list that stretched to nearly
800,000 names at
one point. Mailbox was popular because it
provided innovative new ways to organize and clear an inbox. Users can
swipe a message to the left to 'nooze' it, a command that instructs
Mailbox to resurface the email after a set period of time. Other swipes
- hard left, right, or hard right - archive, delete, or file messages.
Today, Mailbox is releasing its first new product from within Dropbox,
an iPad version of its flagship iPhone app. Future releases will bring
Mailbox to Android and enable support for Yahoo mail and other services
beyond Gmail.
- AIREAL: Tactile Gaming Experiences in Free Air - You can
get a glimpse of the device
in action at the 45 second mark in this video.
- New 70 and 60 inch 4K LCDs announced for Sharp Aquos UD1
series - Sharp
Japan has announced two new models to its Aquos UD1 range of LCD
TV's. The mammoth 70 and 60 inch TV's will come with a 4K panel
supporting a resolution of (3,840 x 2,160 pixels). Sharp will be making
use of Moth eye panels which significantly improve the viewing
experience by reducing reflections from ambient lighting. Also included
are optical control systems which suppress luminance unevenness to
deliver uniform screen brightness. Sound is delivered using a 2.1
channel sound system which makes use of a low vibration woofer. The
televisions come with 400 mb of onboard memory for storing audio /
video media. The 70 inch LC-70UD1 and the 60 incher LC-60UD1 will go on
sale in June 15 and August 10th in Japan for 850,000 Yen ($ 8500) and
750,000 Yen ($ 7500) respectively
- Domino's pizza DVD campaign - This would have to be the
ultimate marketing strategy to entice you to buy Domino's Pizza. Using
rented DVD movies to tempt your senses, Domino's Brazil is teaming up
with video stores to test out a very new type of advertising and if
it is successful, you may be smelling pizza with your next rented movie
- Leap Motion With Windows - It's what we've always
envisioned for Leap Motion - to break down the barriers between people
and technology. Here's a video to show you how close we are. With
Leap Motion technology, Windows OS is natural, easy, and fun to use.
You'll navigate your desktop, browse the web, flip through photos, and
do everything you do everyday in extraordinary ways - all with the wave
of a hand or lift of a finger.
- SRI (home of Siri) shows us augmented reality binoculars -
How good can something like Google Glass become? Here is part of our
tour of SRI, the famous Silicon Valley research lab that brought us the
Internet, mouse, Nuance, HDTV, Siri, robotic surgeries, and much more. In this
video you'll see binoculars that can tag, track, buildings and people
as well as play war games where we see virtual people on the ground,
along with vehicles. Really amazing.
- NASA's Lansat Takes Largest Photo Of Earth Ever - This picture
of Earth, taken by NASA's Landsat, is 6,000 miles long and 120
miles wide. Watch the video below and click the link to use the
GigaPan.
- 1:1000th Scale Tokyo + 3D Projection Mapping - Symphonize
with the world to the ever-evolving city of Tokyo.
- Why Can't We Regrow Teeth? - Regrowing teeth would solve
so many problems! Many animals are able to, so why not humans? Anthony
takes a look at how scientists are trying to change this.
- Mantidfly - Looks like Praying Mantis and Wasp - This
little guy is a mantid fly, and is a wasp mimic. a
- Craziest Way to Go Down a Waterslide Ever - Craziest way
to go down a waterslide, Fritt Fall - Skara Sommarland - Sweden!
- Tornado Intercept - This tornado
was one of the strongest ever intercepted, and we needed all
10,000k pounds of the new Dominator because I have never felt vibration
like that before as we were slammed by suction vortices wrapping all
around the vehicle. Jim Cantore was on board and he's hooked. One word!
Crazy!
- Connor de Phillippi's first lap of the Nurburgring - There's no
music added, just engine whine during nine minutes of crests,
turns, bumpy straights and that wicked Carousel.
- The Feelgood Russian Dashcam Video Of The Year - Not
everyone in Russia is crazy. This dashcam
proves that. Or, at least proves they weren't crazy at these exact
moments.
- Europa Report - Official Trailer - Plot: A unique blend
of documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller, "Europa
Report" follows a contemporary mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to
investigate the possible existence of alien life within our solar
system. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean could exist
underneath Europa's icy surface and may contain single-celled life,
Europa Ventures, a privately funded space exploration company, sends
six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data
and explore the revolutionary discoveries that may lie in the Europan
ocean. After a near-catastrophic technical failure that leads to loss
of communication with Earth and the tragic death of a crewmember, the
surviving astronauts must overcome the psychological and physical toll
of deep space travel, and survive a discovery on Europa more profound
than they had ever imagined.
- J.J. Abrams Shows A Deleted "Star Trek Into Darkness" Scene -
To answer charges of sexism in "Star Trek," J.J. shows a
cut scene of Benedict Cumberbatch showering.
- Man of Steel - Official Trailer #4 - This is the
first trailer that has actually made me interested in this movie.
- WTF Biker ;-) - check it out
- Emily Ratajkowski 4 Surfline Bikinis - Check it out!
- Carmen Electra Amazing Bikini Scenes! - Carmen
Electra tanning in her sexy bikini, and various other clips from
the movie 2 headed shark attack from 2012. Damn hot!
- Leanna Decker in a sexy TeenyB Bikini - Leanna
Decker will leave you breathless in her TeenyB video debut. She's
rocking the new TeenyB Baroque print in our 2-String Triangle Top and
Tie Side Brazilian Half Pucker bottom.
- Petra Nemcova 4 Wild Orchid - This wild
orchid is hot and in need of some watering.
- Sex Doesn't Sell - An old industry is in deep recession.
- The best pics on the Internet #20 - All pictures
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