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- Facebook reaches a billion on same day
- Boffin creates paintable LEDs
- Pentagon contemplates wearables in war
- IBM takes aim at exaflop computing
- Tablet vendors aim for enterprise success
- Unigroup still wants Micron
- Most millennials are cynics about online security
- AMD has a smaller Fury
- Ashley Madison was a sad failure anyway
- Oracle goes all flash
| Facebook reaches a billion on same day Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:50 AM PDT
That's one in seven people on the planet. In a comment he made on his own Facebook page late yesterday, Zuckerberg thinks that its reach worldwide will continue to grow. Zuckerberg started Facebook as a way of contacting other people when he was a student at Harvard University. Stats show that Facebook has nearly one and a half billion people worldwide, who use it to irritate their friends, show what they've eaten for supper, and point to other news sources on the world wide web. Zuckerberg is now a very rich man. |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:25 AM PDT
Assistant professor Zhibin Yu claimed his invention could revolutionise lighting technology. "In general the cost of LED lighting has been a big concern thus far. Energy savings have not balanced out high costs." Yu said that the tech uses both organic and inorganic materials and can be applied like paint using simpler manufacturing techniques. LEDs generally need four or five layers of material to create the desired effect but Yu claims his method only needs one layer. The US National Science Foundation is providing further funding to develop stretchable active matrix organic LED displays. LEDs generally use between 75 and 80 percent less juice than incandescent lights and last longer. While adoption of LED lighting is increasing, costs are still high compared to regular lighting. |
| Pentagon contemplates wearables in war Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:18 AM PDT
According to Reuters, the aims are to create leading edge sensors that can be worn by USAF personnel or built into the exastructure of a plane. The report said the idea is to use next generation printing tech to make stretchable electronic devices tat can be worn by ground troops and naval personnel too. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that the US government will pump $75 million into the plans over the next five years and commercial companies will throw in $90 million and other government authorities creating a honey pot of $171 million. US universities will also work on the scheme with a hub based in San Jose. The US government has already pumped money into futuristic 3D printing schemes. |
| IBM takes aim at exaflop computing Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:10 AM PDT
An exaflop represents a billion billion calculations in a second. IBM said that the fastest systems in the world now operate at between 10 and 33 petaflop and that's only around one to three percent the speed of exascale computing. The two will collaborate for 18 months and create complicated scientific applications at speeds of over 100 petaflops. They will use technologies of over 140 members of the OpenPOWER foundation, all of which concentrate on using IBM's POWER microprocessors. Some examples of how this may pan out is connection Nvidia GPU accelerators to the POWER processors using Melanox 100Gb/s Inifiniband switches. IBM will use its design centre in Mellanox to test and bring into existence much faster applications. GENCI and IBM appear to be confident that they'll move the supercomputing industry much closer to the exascale level. |
| Tablet vendors aim for enterprise success Posted: 28 Aug 2015 06:03 AM PDT
But that doesn't mean they're going to give up the ghost. According to Taiwanese research firm Trendforce, tablets have yet to move away from being entertainment devices, but there is room for growth in the business application market. Trendforce said that in 2015 something like 163 million tablets will ship, but that's a 14.9 percent decline year on year. Branded vendors account for 117 million units but sales of those have slid by 17.7 percent year on year, while so called "whitebox" vendors have seen their share fall by 3.1 percent. Nevertheless, Apple remains on top of the tablet pile, with a 31.4 percent market share. Apple will introduce an iPad Mini 3 and later on a 12.9 inch iPad Pro, but Trendforce reckons they don't offer a compelling buy. Number two player is Samsung with 22.2 percent of the market, while Lenovo, Asus, and Microsoft follow the pack. |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 01:45 AM PDT
Micron dismissed an informal $23 billion offer by state-backed investment firm Unigroup in July because it thought that the US regulatory committee that reviews foreign acquisitions of sensitive US companies would block the deal on national security concerns. The US government hinted that Unigroup's acquisition would be a problem because Micron chips are used in US weapons systems and China might snoop on them. Republican US Senator John McCain had raised national security concerns in July from the proposed deal. But Unigroup chairman Zhao Weiguo’s visit reflects a belief that there is still hope for what would be the largest foreign deal by a Chinese company and a major step for the nation’s modest but up-and-coming chip industry. Zhao will also make a stop in Washington to meet with policy experts familiar with the CFIUS approval process, one of the sources said. Zhao is expected to return to Beijing next week. |
| Most millennials are cynics about online security Posted: 28 Aug 2015 01:42 AM PDT
However the survey, by security firm Intercede, claims that millennials, or those reaching adulthood in the year 2000, have terrible security habits, and probably because they think it is all pointless. Less than five percent believe that current safeguards will protect their data from exposure and 70 percent of respondents agree that the risk to their online privacy will increase as society becomes more digitally connected. Half of them thing that data breaches will undermine trust in businesses. The survey follows a bad summer of data breaches. However, some of them have only themselves to blame. The survey showed that millennials don't do much to make life hard for the hackers. More than 45 percent of the respondents are unlikely to ever change their passwords unless it is required. Businesses have gained an additional incentive to improve data security or face federal regulatory action. On August 24, a US appeals court upheld the right of the Federal Trade Commission to sue companies that lose consumer information in a security breach. The defendant in the case, hospitality company Wyndham Worldwide, had failed to adopt reasonable security practices, according to the FTC complaint. |
| Posted: 28 Aug 2015 01:42 AM PDT
Dubbed the Radeon R9 Nano, the card is compact – 6-inches of Fiji GPU core built on a 28nm manufacturing process paired with 4GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). The card is 1.5 inches shorter than the Fury X, and unlike its liquid cooled sibling, there’s no radiator and fan assembly to mount. AMD wants the world to see its R9 as the fastest mini ITX graphics card and space in those sorts of builds is thin on the ground. The Nano has 64 compute units with 64 stream processors each for a total of 4,096 stream processors, just like Fury X. There are 256 texture units and 64 raster operations pipelines (ROPs), and with an engine clock of up to 1,000MHz. All this means that the Radeon R9 Nano can do 8.19 TFLOPs of compute performance, which is pretty floppy. That is close to the Fury X, which features a 1,050MHz engine clock and do 8.6 TFLOPs when the wind is behind it. The Nano uses 175W which is 100W lower than Fury X at 275W. According to AMD, the Nano offers up to twice the performance per watt as its previous generation Radeon R9 290X. A single fan blows air over a large heatsink with densely packed aluminium fins. There’s also a dual vapour chamber block and heat pipes that run throughout, along with a dedicated heat pipe and heatsink for the voltage regulator. AMD tells us the card is being “library quiet” with a claimed noise output of just 16 dBA. AMD is claiming its Radeon R9 Nano isbetter than Nvidia's GeForce GTX 970 in mini ITX form at 4K resolution in several popular titles. It even manages to hit 60 FPS in Grand Theft Auto V. |
| Ashley Madison was a sad failure anyway Posted: 28 Aug 2015 01:13 AM PDT
This is because the database was mostly populated by men so, unless we are talking about gay affairs, few straight men would have found a woman to have an affair with in the first place. What is tragic about the whole Ashley Madison thing was that millions of men risk having their names exposed as using a website to have an affair when none of them had one. The overwhelming majority of men using Ashley Madison weren't having affairs. They were paying for a fantasy or a sad hope. Gizmodo did some number crunching and worked out that out of the millions of men on the site there were about 12,000 real women. There were 5.5 million female profiles out of a database of 37 million, everyone sort of got that. But it looks like almost no women used the site and a huge chunk of the profiles were real. A few years ago, a former employee of Ashley Madison sued the company in Canada over her terrible work conditions. She claimed that she developed repetitive stress injuries in her hands after the company hired her to create 1,000 fake profiles of women in three months, written in Portuguese, to attract a Brazilian audience. Ashley Madison claimed that the woman never made any fake profiles, but the case was settled out of court. Gizmodo found that there were about 10 thousand accounts with ashleymadison.com email addresses which were generated by a bot and nine thousand of these ashleymadison.com addresses were used for female profiles. In other words, the majority of fake accounts were marked female. Another give away were the email accounts. About two-thirds of the men, or 20.2 million of them, had checked the messages in their accounts at least once. But only 1,492 women had ever checked their messages. All this points to Ashley Madison being a sad place mostly devoid of women where sad men gathered to hope for an affair which never happened. Now thanks to the hackers, they are going to have rows with their wives for thinking about affairs, presumably with neither party wondering why it was a fantasy in the first place. |
| Posted: 27 Aug 2015 09:12 AM PDT
The Oracle All Flash FS1 is intended for handling concurrent workloads including OLTP and fast data backup in enterprise SAN environments and in public or private clouds. The thing scales to near to one petabyte (PB) of flash capacity and Oracle claims it can be installed in less than 30 minutes. Oracle also claims that its much faster than the competition, in the shape of the EMC XtremlO with eight times faster IOPs and 9.7 times faster write throughput. Oracle would like its customers to use the device with Oracle Database and Applications because, it claims, it takes advantage of compression designed by its engineers. Mike Workman, an Oracle senior VP, said high latency has hit customers on shared storage platforms "for years" and flash can fix these problems. |
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