Friday, October 17, 2014

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AMD flounders

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:53 AM PDT

flounderThe surprise exit of Rory Read as CEO of AMD appears to have been explained as the company reported a lower-than-expected revenue forecast for the current quarter and announced job cuts.

Read cleaned out his desk,  handed over the keys to the executive drinks cabinet and his special poisoned chalice, to Chief Operating Officer Lisa Su this week. more»

Apple’s new iPad disappoints

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:52 AM PDT

new-ipadNot even the Tame Apple Press was able to come up with much to say about Apple's new iPad, which is surprisingly similar to the old model.

True they are a bit slimmer and had a fingerprint sensor, but everyone said that the gear was a bit of a yawn and offered nothing to wow consumers ahead of a holiday shopping season. more»

Ulrika ? Those were the Crays

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:49 AM PDT

crayCray has just built a machine with 1,500 cores, 6TB of DRAM, 38TB of SSD flash and 120TB of disk storage and named it after a Swedish weather girl from the 1990s.

Actually we are not sure if there is any link between Gladiators' star Ulrika Jonsson and Crays' latest supercomputer but she has not been in the news lately so we thought we would help her out. more»

There’s fowl play in the gaming industry

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:46 AM PDT

rooster-71685_640There’s surprise news in the gaming industry after Digital Extremes, the outfit which made Warframe, has been taken over by a Chinese chicken company.

Sumpo Food Holdings, a Chinese agricultural company that describes itself as "one of the well-known chicken meat products suppliers in Fujian" has taken an eggceptional steak in Digital Extremes [ surely eggstremes. more»

Will.i.am releases new watch phone

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:46 AM PDT

watch will i amPopular beat combo artist, and Intel advisor, Will.i.am has released a new watch gadget which he says can do everything a phone can.

Dubbed the Puls the “smartwatch-type device” is designed to be worn throughout the day and be charged at night. more»

Notebook shipments creep up

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 01:48 AM PDT

notebooksSales of notebooks in the third quarter of this year are only up by 2.6 percent compared to the same quarter last year, despite bullish talk by vendors like Microsoft and Intel.

Digitimes Research said shipments for the calendar third quarter amounted to 45.198 million units, with HP being the top dog worldwide. more»

There’s hope for better batteries

Posted: 17 Oct 2014 01:37 AM PDT

David Prendergast, Berkeley LabScientists at Berkeley Lab think there's light at the end of the tunnel as people quest to develop better alternatives to lithium ion batteries.

The problem with Li-ion batteries is that they sometimes burst into flames but we need rechargeable batteries with better energy density and cost reductions. more»

AMD Cuts Workforce – Sea Change 101 for Sailors?…,

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 09:37 PM PDT

AMD LayoffsJust one week and a day after assuming her new roll as AMD's CEO Dr. Lisa Su announced a reduction in force amounting to seven percent of the AMD's current workforce of 10,149 employees.

The fallowing of ~700 people follows two rounds of layoffs under Rory Read's three year tenure. more»

New mirror invented

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:42 AM PDT

mirrorzScientists claim to have invented a mirror that uses nanoscale technology to create new effects.

According to the Optical Society's journal Optica, the boffins demonstrated a mirror that abandons a shiny surface but reflects infrared light by using a magnetic property of a non metallic "metamaterial". more»

Google wants us to lick its lollipop

Posted: 16 Oct 2014 07:32 AM PDT

lollipopGoogle has released a major update of Android, dubbed "Lollipop".

According to Google, this is its thirteenth and most ambitious release of Android.

It has over 5,000 new application program interfaces (APIs) and to work on all devices.

Lollipop, it says, has a consistent design across different devices.  more»

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