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Haswell Battery Life Claims Energize Hopes for PC Industry

Friday - May 24, 2013

Despite improvements in processing power in recent years, battery life remains an issue with the growth of mobile devices. Intel has looked to address this with a new family of Core processors code-named Haswell, which the company said Thursday will offer up to 50 percent more battery life for laptops than its previous Ivy Bridge chips provided -- all without impairing performance. The Haswell chips are designed specifically with those on-the-go devices, notably laptops and tablets. [More...]

AMD Stakes Out Mobile Territory With New Low-Power Chips

Friday - May 24, 2013

Perennial Intel competitor AMD on Thursday launched three additions to its 2013 A-Series and E-series mobile accelerated processing unit family. They include the Elite Mobility APU, previously code-named "Temash," and the Mainstream APU, formerly code-named "Kabini."Both are system on a chip solutions based on AMD's "Jaguar" microarchitecture for low-power processors. [More...]

TECH TREK
Kim Dotcom: Two-Step Authentication Patent Is Mine

Friday - May 24, 2013

Kim Dotcom, founder of the seized file-sharing site Megaupload, hinted via Twitter that he might sue the slew of companies using two-step authentication, for which Dotcom claims to own the patent. Dotcom provided a link to a patent that deals with two layers of identification, corroborating his purported ownership. [More...]

The iWatch's Time Will Be 2014, Says Analyst

Friday - May 24, 2013

Will we see an iWatch in 2014? Ming-Chi Kuo thinks so. In a research note this week, the KGI Securities analyst predicted that Apple had too much on its plate in 2013 to introduce a smartwatch, but is readying the device for next year. The company's entry into the wearable computer market will be a device that attaches to the wrist, Kuo said, but it will not be positioned as a watch. [More...]

ANDROID APP REVIEW
Google's All Access Music Service Starts on the Right Note

Friday - May 24, 2013

Google has refreshed its music app. It's a big deal, because Google has introduced custom radio and an a la carte music streaming service, All Access, for an introductory price that's $2.00 cheaper than a la carte streaming leader Spotify. You can try the service free for 30 days, and if you start a trial by June 30, it will then cost $7.99 a month to continue. [More...]

Twitter Learns How to Do the 2-Step

Thursday - May 23, 2013

Twitter has announced it is deploying a long-awaited security measure: two-factor verification. The move comes about a month after The Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked. Twitter is late to the game with this security tactic. A number of companies already feature it. However, the company must have scrambled to get it in place after hackers sent the stock market reeling last month [More...]

Nvidia's GTX 780 Boosts Performance With Less Tweaking

Thursday - May 23, 2013

With a slew of advanced action games for the PC on deck for release later this year, including Activision's just announced Call of Duty: Ghosts and Electronic Arts' Battlefield 4, Nvidia has introduced a graphics card that will provide top-notch performance for gamers. The GeForce GTX 780 GPU is the latest evolution in Nvidia's line of powerful Kepler-enabled processors. [More...]

Google's Makani Buy Could Take Wind Energy to Higher Levels

Thursday - May 23, 2013

Google X Labs, the not-so-secret-but-secretive facility that works on cutting edge projects, has bought airborne wind turbine developer Makani Power, which announced the news on its website. Makani uses tethered aircraft that fly in figure 8s to generate power. The purchase formalizes a long and productive relationship between the two companies. [More...]

Call of Duty Draws Players Into Brave New World

Thursday - May 23, 2013

Activision's Call of Duty: Ghosts from developer Infinity Ward got the honor of demonstrating the power of Microsoft's Xbox One at its unveiling earlier this week. The game development studio reportedly has designed new game-engine technology specifically to handle what the Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 can deliver. [More...]

TECH TREK
SAP Seeks Autistic Employees

Thursday - May 23, 2013

German software heavyweight SAP plans to recruit hundreds of people with autism in a quest to staff employees who "think differently." Autism affects people's ability to communicate and interact socially but has the knock-on effect of creating repetitive -- to the point of obsessive -- behavior. This makes autistic people particularly adept at analyzing data and picking up on details. [More...]

LINUX BLOG SAFARI
Another Day, Another Distro: Antergos Linux Is Born

Thursday - May 23, 2013

They say springtime is a season of rebirth and renewal. Not only have we seen the birth of Cloverleaf from the ashes of Fuduntu, but now Cinnarch has gone through a similar transformation. No real death was involved this time. Rather, the Arch-based distro decided to give the Cinnamon desktop at its foundation the proverbial boot, calling it "too much a burden to maintain/update going forward." [More...]

OPINION
Senators Piling on Apple's Taxes Are Missing the Point

Thursday - May 23, 2013

So is Apple a tax-dodging evil company with a dark heart? No. The answer is no. However, Apple is certainly a corporation, and all corporations are driven first and foremost by profit -- no matter what the company says about the joy of making great products. Astoundingly passionate and driven individuals, who sometimes run corporations, might be driven by the joy of creation. [More...]

Teens Starting to See Facebook as Old and Creepy

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Facebook may have a budding problem on its hands with its teenagers, suggests a report released Tuesday by Pew Research Center. Teens expressed waning enthusiasm for Facebook in focus groups, according to Pew, saying they disliked the growing number of adults on the site, were annoyed by "inane" status updates, and viewed the drama commonly played out on Facebook as draining. [More...]

Microsoft Could Be Saving Xbox One's Best for E3

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Microsoft's new Xbox One video game console, announced with fanfare on Tuesday, is certainly a step forward -- but the early reaction has been mixed at best. Much of the massive attention it caught from Twitter users, for example, seems to be anything but positive. There's a perception that Microsoft focused too much on living room entertainment and too little on gaming. [More...]

Qualcomm Puts Super High-Res Mirasol Magic on Display

Wednesday - May 22, 2013

Qualcomm, which has been struggling to market its futuristic Mirasol display technology, demonstrated the product at the 2013 Display Week conference being held in Vancouver, Canada. The company displayed a 5.1-inch panel with 2,560 x 1,440 pixel resolution. It also showed off a 1.5-inch panel embedded on a smartphone and on a smartwatch, but these were apparently mockups. [More...]

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