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NVIDIA Updates Mobile Lineup with GeForce 400M Series GPUs

NVIDIA Updates Mobile Lineup with GeForce 400M Series GPUs

Today, NVIDIA announced the GeForce 400M Series, a major addition to its lineup of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs).The 400M series features seven new processors, including the GTX 470M and GTX 460M monsters aimed at “enthusiast users,” as…. [...]
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Daily Dose – The Emotion Markup Language

The W3C is working to formalize a language of emotional states for computers. Ruby developers are emotional over the release of Rails 3.0.
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Dell’s Aero Smartphone: An Embarrassment to Android

Often times, the announcement of a new Android phone is cause for excitement. Occasionally, though, a phone’s arrival inspires little more than a sigh.
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Intel Acquires McAfee For $7.68 Billion

Intel Acquires McAfee For $7.68 Billion

Intel has agreed to acquire McAfee Inc. for approximately $7.68 billion ($48 per share in cash), the company announced today. The boards of directors of both companies have approved the deal, which is expected to close following shareholder approval and…. [...]
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Oracle Outlines Solaris Roadmap; Other Projects Not So Lucky

Determined not to make the same mistakes that Sun did when they bit off more than they could chew in some of their roadmaps, Oracle presented a more moderate amount of data today to outline their plans for the Solaris 11 operating system and SPARC systems.. [...]
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Amazon’s Hardware Plans Don’t End With the Kindle [RUMOR]

Amazon’s Hardware Plans Don’t End With the Kindle [RUMOR]

Amazon is hiring a ton of hardware people, and sources close to the company say that it plans to expand beyond the Kindle e-reader to make new kinds of gadgets to help customers access the content it sells. Most likely,…
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GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript: Memory

In almost every case, a computer’s memory is not a simple contiguous region; the GameBoy is no exception in this regard. Since the GameBoy CPU can access 65,536 individual locations on its address bus, a “memory map” can be drawn of all the regions where the CPU has access.. [...]
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Create your own save-your-ass multi-boot USB stick

I don’t have to convince you that carry around a couple of Linux distros can mean the difference between life and death. Well, of course I’m being a little bit melodramatic here, but it’s really nice to have the ability to quickly run a memory test on a machine that insists to misbehave, or even [...]

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5 Ways to Improve Web Accessibility

The need to ensure that your business website is accessible to all visitors has never been greater. With one in five Australians being disabled in some way, a website that complies with web accessibility standards opens the door to engage with a 20% larger audience, or about 4.2 million more people nationally./. [...]
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OpenGL 4.1 Challenges Direct 3D 11

The Khronos Group has been busy with the release of OpenCL 1.1 last month and the completion of OpenGL 4.0 only four and a half months ago. Today, the group releases OpenGL 4.1 – they believe this version surpasses the functionality in Microsoft’s Direct 3D 11 API. New features include compute shaders [...]

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