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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced the upcoming availability of what it says is the world's fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2. The card is part of AMD's ATI Radeon 4800 X2 series. It's the most powerful graphics technology to come out of AMD, delivering a 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power -- that's 2.4 trillion floating point operations per second.
Yahoo announced a change in its targeted advertising privacy policy Friday. Beginning in late August, users will be able to opt out of customized advertising on the company's main page. The move is an expansion of the Internet portal's opt-out program for targeted ads provided by Yahoo on third-party networks The announcement was part of Yahoo's re...
Researchers have announced a technological development they say will improve the functionality of digital cameras and other imaging products. Yonggang Huang, a professor at Northwestern University, and John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a lens they said was inspired by the human eye In addition to enhancing d...
Part 1 of this two-part series explores how industries employ supercomputers and the cost of using these extremely powerful systems. Part 2 examines alternatives for companies that can't afford custom-designed supercomputers Despite the declining cost of supercomputing, the technology still remains out of reach for many businesses and universities,...
Following a nearly six-month delay from its original target release date, Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of its SQL Server 2008 Wednesday. The software maker had initially planned to launch the database application in February, but in January said it would have to move the date back to the third quarter With the software's c...
Since the first supercomputers came online in the 1960s and '70s, they have earned a reputation as high-powered workhorses helping researchers conduct complex calculations Typically found at major universities and research facilities, the massive machines -- which at one time could occupy more than an acre of space in a data center -- were often us...
PC gamers will see the release of "Grand Theft Auto IV" ("GTA IV") for their platform of choice this fall. Game developer Rockstar Games and parent company Take-Two announced Wednesday that the popular title will hit store shelves on Nov. 18 "[That] is the perfect time to release this game -- well, next to perfect. I think perfect would have been d...
AT&T announced its new cloud computing service on Tuesday, dubbed "AT&T Synaptic Hosting." With the new offering, the telecommunications company joins Amazon, Google and IBM as a service provider in the nascent application hosting market The service is aimed at providing companies with greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings by e...
AT&T announced its new cloud computing service on Tuesday, dubbed "AT&T Synaptic Hosting." With the new offering, the telecommunications company joins Amazon, Google and IBM as a service provider in the nascent application hosting market The service is aimed at providing companies with greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings by e...
AT&T announced its new cloud computing service on Tuesday, dubbed "AT&T Synaptic Hosting." With the new offering, the telecommunications company joins Amazon, Google and IBM as a service provider in the nascent application hosting market The service is aimed at providing companies with greater flexibility, improved performance and cost savings by e...
Microsoft will begin sharing technical details with security partners about vulnerabilities addressed in its monthly security updates, known as "Patch Tuesdays," the company announced Tuesday at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas The move, according to the company, was prompted by a growing but undesirable trend associated with Patch Tuesdays th...
Intel on Monday released technical details about its upcoming line of microprocessors, codenamed "Larrabee" in advance of the company's presentation at the SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques) conference, to be held in Los Angeles next week. The family of chips will be the springboard for a many-core -- as few a...
For people who may not be clear about the dangers of texting while walking, exercising or driving, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) issued a warning this week advising avid texters to resist the urge to read or send messages when engaged in another activity Emergency room physicians are seeing an increasing number of injuries -- ...
Cuil, the new search engine created by a team that included a couple of former Google execs, launched this week. However, just a few hours after it went live, it seemed as though Cuil's dive into the search engine pool was more like a belly flop, judging by a sizable number of reports and reviews Cuil says it's capable of providing more relevant re...
Hope springs anew for the more than 500,000 "Scrabulous" fans mourning the demise of their beloved Facebook game. Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla have launched a "new" word game, "Wordscraper." The new game, which bears a striking resemblance to its banned predecessor, made its Facebook debut as early as Tuesday -- the same day "Scrabulous" was removed ...
Law and order is one of the cornerstones of a civilized society. Establishing rules of conduct, spelling out acceptable and objectionable behavior, defining the consequences for anyone who violates those laws and deciding who will enforce them are all essential to maintaining peace and harmony In the real world, there exist systems of laws -- civil...
Two years after discontinuing sales of its DJ line of digital music players, Dell plans to launch a new effort to snag a piece of the digital music market from Apple with its own device this September, according to a Wednesday report in the Wall Street Journal Citing details provided by several Dell executives, the report describes a company stung ...
Microsoft launched another effort Tuesday to debunk the heavy criticism its Windows Vista operating system (OS) has received. But rather than sending out executives and evangelists to tout the benefits and new functionalities in Vista, Microsoft instead performed an experiment The test, much like a Pepsi versus Coke blind taste test, was designed t...
Dell rolled out its entry in the emerging ultra-small PC category Tuesday: the Dell Studio Hybrid. The desktop joins other systems in the category, including the Apple Mac mini and HP's Slimline series The Studio Hybrid, roughly the size of a large hardbound novel, is about 80 percent smaller than the average desktop minitower and uses significantl...
Facebookers hoping to get in on a game of Scrabulous on Tuesday were left disappointed. Instead of linking to the game, designed by brothers Rajat and Jayant Argarwalla for play on the Facebook social networking platform, players found the following message: "Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like...
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