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 TechNews - Windows 8.1 Update Tries To Win Back - tech
(hx) 09:56 AM CET - Mar,12 2014
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  • Intel's 800Gbps cables headed to cloud data centers - Intel and several of its partners said they will make 800Gbps cables available in the second half of this year, bringing big speed increases to supercomputers and data centers. The new cables are based on Intel's Silicon Photonics technology that pushes 25Gbps across each fiber. Last year, Intel demonstrated speeds of 100Gbps in each direction, using eight fibers. A new connector that goes by the name "MXC" holds up to 64 fibers (32 for transmitting and 32 for receiving), enabling a jump to 800Gbps in one direction and 800Gbps in the other, or an aggregate of "1.6Tbps" as Intel prefers to call it. (In case you're wondering, MXC is not an acronym for anything.)
  • Build Your Own: Single-Slot GeForce GTX 750 Ti - How much performance might you sacrifice in the process of dipping from a dual- to single-slot cooler? That's probably the most important question coming from HTPC and small form factor enthusiasts.
  • Gigabyte Builds First Single-Socket LGA2011 Motherboard With 10 Gb/s Ethernet -The Gigabyte GA-6PXSVT is the world's first motherboard with a single LGA 2011 socket to feature integrated 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Beyond this, the motherboard has support for up to Intel Xeon E5-2600 V2 CPUs, 256 GB of DDR3 ECC 1866 MHz memory (split over eight DIMMs), along with ample storage options. Ample, in this case, means that the board has a total of 10 SATA3 (6 Gb/s) ports, along with another four SATA2 (3 Gb/s) ports. It also features three PCI-Express x16 ports.
  • Ghetto Crypto-Currency Mining Rigs - The crew at ThinkComputers has posted an article today that showcases some really ghetto crypto-currency mining rigs.
  • Sony And Panasonic Announce The 1TB Archival Disc - Sony Corporation and Panasonic today announced that they have formulated "Archival Disc", a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage. Optical discs have excellent properties to protect themselves against the environment, such as dust-resistance and water-resistance, and can also withstand changes in temperature and humidity when stored.
  • Stephen Wolfram's Introduction to the Wolfram Language - Stephen Wolfram introduces the Wolfram Language in this video that shows how the symbolic programming language enables powerful functional programming, querying of large databases, flexible interactivity, easy deployment, and much, much more.
  • Windows 8.1 Update Tries To Win Back Desktop Diehards - A word of warning: If you're a Metro hater, this update will do almost nothing to make you feel all warm and fuzzy. The Windows 7-style Start menu is not coming back. This update sticks with the fundamental design principles of the Windows 8 interface, and nothing in it comes close to restoring the Windows 7 desktop interface. It is still the Windows 8.x interface, evolved, with that evolution clearly driven by powerful negative feedback.
  • Apple Releases iOS 7.1 with Bug Fixes and New Features - Apple has made iOS 7.1 available to iPhones, iPads, and iPods Touch. The operating system update resolves a significant bug that soft reset iOS devices when being used. iOS 7.1 also adds support for CarPlay, Apple's recently-announced in-car software. The update tweaks the behavior of a wide range of functions, such as the ability to control Siri manually by pressing and holding the home button. Siri gains more natural-sounding voices for Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese. iTunes Radio was improved with new placement of the search bar, and the ability to buy albums directly from the Now Playing screen. The Calendar app gains the ability to display events in the month view, as well as view country-specific holidays. Accessibility has been improved with a bold font option, and the Reduce Motion function now applies to more apps, including weather and messages. iOS 7.1 also adds new HDR camera tools, improves iCloud Keychain support, automatically clears FaceTime calls, improves Touch ID on the iPhone 5s, improves performance of the iPhone 4, and provides other UI teaks. iOS 7.1 is free to download from Apple.
  • iPhone Air Concept 2014 - The design by Sam Beckett rests upon the same principles that Apple's existing devices use, such as flat metal sides that act as the antennae with chamfered metal edges. The concept also boasts sapphire glass, an enhancement which seems likely given Apple's recent investment in the manufacture of the material. However the 1920x1080 resolution that Beckett gives is unlikely to be included on a real device, as Apple traditionally do their best to maintain aspect ratios in their device upgrades; they are more likely to double the iPhone 5s' resolution, as they did with the iPads with Retina Displays. An imaginary 10-megapixel camera makes an appearance as well as the existing Touch ID sensor. This comes within a device which, if ever made real, would be 9% thinner than the current generation.
  • Leaked video shows Wi-Fi Sense in Windows Phone 8.1 - The brief clip on UnleashThePhones' YouTube channel shows how users will be able to turn off Wi-Fi on their handset for a brief period before it comes back on again automatically. Wi-Fi connections can be stopped for one hour, four hours or one day in addition to the regular manual selection. The other feature shown in the video is what Microsoft is calling Wi-Fi Sense. If a user goes to a Wi-Fi hotspot regularly, this feature will let them to save their login and password information. This will enable them to login automatically the next time the phone "senses" that the Wi-Fi hotspot is available. Finally, Wi-Fi Sense includes a feature where users can actually share their hotspot connection information with others via their Outlook.com, Skype and Facebook contacts. So if a group of friends gather at the same hotspot, one person can simply send that login and account info to their buddies without the others having to type it in manually.
  • Toyota FCV Concept - Geneva Motor Show 2014 - Heralding the fuel cell vehicle Toyota plans to launch in 2015 as a pioneer in the development of hydrogen-powered vehicles, the Toyota FCV Concept makes its European debut at the 2014 Geneva Motor Show.
  • Trouble with the steering wheel - WTF? :-)
  • The Duel: Timo Boll vs. KUKA Robot - Man against machine - The unbelievably fast KUKA robot faces off against one of the best table tennis players of all time. Who has the best technique? Who will win the first ever table tennis duel of human versus robot? Watch this thrilling preview of table tennis and robotics performed at the highest level. The KUKA KR AGILUS demonstrates its skills with the table tennis racket - a realistic vision of what robots can be capable of in the future.
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  • How The Economy Works - If you guessed "supply and demand," sit down and fill your brain pantry with some knowledge food.
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last 10 comments:
Apathy Curve(02:51 PM CET - Mar,12 2014 )
@Win8.1 update: Microsoft just don't get it, do they? I DO NOT WANT a tablet interface on my desktop computer. Period. No amount of tweaking, coaxing or cajoling is going to make me want it. Ever.

Just freakin' stop pushing your lame-ass app store in my face and produce a basic operating system. One that, you know, operates the system. That's it.

Greedy jerks.

gx-x(05:03 PM CET - Mar,12 2014 )
"Leaked video shows Wi-Fi Sense in Windows Phone 8.1"

They did not have all that before? o.O Android and iOS have these features since like....forever...Androids puts wifi to sleep when device enters deep sleep, or you can tell it not to if you prefer constant updates to get every single tweet/spam...As for remembering user/pass for networks, wow, just...wow...What's next? mobile IE that supports bookmarks?

spectra9(02:20 AM CET - Mar,13 2014 )
Metro looks like ugly even on the OS it was designed for. What was MS thinking when they design this thing :roll:

Kompressor(04:15 AM CET - Mar,13 2014 )
This is a conspiracy. Microsoft is trying to get everyone to buy Apple computers and invoke a shitload of hardware sales.

gx-x(05:00 AM CET - Mar,13 2014 )
I actually installed windows 8.1. It's terrible, it needs a lot of fixing and tweaking to get it to acceptable levels (most of those are minor things but very irritating, like, win8 takes your background picture and compresses it to 300KB and then it looks ugly, you need to convert wallpaper to PNG so windows wont compress it. Took me like 5 hours to figure this out (using google ofc))

I disabled appstore and changed nagging UAC to totally off because I couldn't even uncompress some archives if I don run WinRAR in exclusive mode (not all but some archives)...thats just a few things I personally had to change, there are more of course but to each his own. I made start button on keyboard shortcut to "Launchy" (a great little customizable indexing launcher that can replace windows search and most of the shell if you want to and like to type), as for start menu, luckily, I type fast so I can open/find things very fast via launchy, but anyone can if it's indexed... (you can choose to index just first 3 levels of depth of drives instead of every junk file like windows does).

anyway, I installed it (win 8.1) because some games run better. I was sceptical but they really do.

spectra9(01:14 PM CET - Mar,13 2014 )
I'm sticking to Win8 right now, because Win8.1 brings nothing worthwhile for me, most of the updates are Metro related, which I don't use. Not to mention that it's reported to conflict with the driver I used to flash my tablet.

Metro and UAC are the first things that I ditched when I installed Win8. I also install Start8 and thankfully, haven't needed to see any Metro abomination so far. I agree with the wallpaper compression issue, what an annoying one that is, how can MS mess something so simple like setting a wallpaper that's been working fine since Win95. When I see a cool picture, I always have to restrain myself from right clicking it and setting it as wallpaper because I don't want to mess with the procedure to fix it again.

I actually had come to a point where I uninstall Win8 and go back to Win7, only to find out that strangely, Chrome does not work properly via RDP on Win7. Starting Chrome in RDP will result in the Chrome instance in local machine to hang somehow. So, back to Win8 for now

gx-x(05:30 PM CET - Mar,13 2014 )
8.1 has some speed improvements, gaming vise :) Couldn't care less about metro... As for wallpapers, just save whatever you like and convert it to png with image editor/viewer of your choice and then set it as wallpaper.
The reasoning MS gave for atrocious compression is "it makes for a smoother desktop workflow experience" . While I do agree that setting a 2MB wallpaper on a 1GB memory tablet is not a very good idea, I am not using windows mobile and that approach should not be used on non-mobile versions or at least we should be presented with a choice.

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