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For all the talk of fast graphics in thin laptops, the technology isn’t quite there yet. You typically have to choose between a bulky gaming machine and a thin system with pokey low-end video. AMD thinks it might have the cure, however. It just offered a peek at a new graphics architecture, Polaris, that promises gaming-grade performance without the power draw. In Star Wars Battlefront, one of AMD’s future chipsets is 61 percent more energy-efficient than a GeForce GTX 950 with similar performance — in the mobile world, that could make the difference between a slim portable and a big desktop replacement. Even if AMD is cherry-picking the results, this could still lead to speedier visual in laptops and any other small PCs where heat and power are problems.

The main trick is a 14-nanometer FinFET design that lets AMD stuff more transistors into the same space. There are numerous extra upgrades under the hood, though, including improved memory use. Also, AMD is matching NVIDIA with support for newer tech like HDMI 2.0a (for HDR video) and 4K-friendly HEVC video.

The first Polaris-based graphics are due in the second quarter of the year, so you won’t have too long to wait. However, AMD is in a race against time here. NVIDIA is due to release Pascal, its own extra-efficient graphics architecture, around the same period. If Polaris isn’t a bigger technological leap, AMD is right back where it started… and you’ll still be more likely to find an NVIDIA graphics chip in your next PC.

Via: Eurogamer

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Gracenote has developed several ways to leverage its audio tech in the past few years, and the one unveiled today is all about making sure your music sounds its best while you’re on the road. Dynamic EQ is built on its ability to identify the music being played, and then adjust your car’s audio settings for that particular song. Pretty much any audio system out now has simple genre presets for the equalizer, but for drivers, switching between them as you listen to radio, streaming or CDs doesn’t usually make sense.

According to General Manager of Gracenote Automotive Brian Hamilton, it’s the first time anyone has used track-level metadata this way. The company’s database has profiles for "tens of millions of songs" so no matter how obscure your taste, it’s probably in there. There’s no mention of what cars will get this upgrade first, but Gracenote’s system is already in headunits from Tesla, Ford, GM and more, so it may be an option in your car very soon.

Source: Gracenote

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Need to recover a product key quickly? Here’s a free tool to help.

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If you forget about the last Duke Nukem (Forever) game to be released, then the series is held up as a part of history much like id Software’s titles are. And we’re still […]

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We offer u an ‘exe.’ file

The Raspberry Pi Foundation was offered cash to smuggle malware onto its bargain-basement credit-card-size computers, we’re told.…

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The year has been chock-full of scientific breakthroughs, but the University of Colorado is determined to finish 2015 with a bang. Its researchers have created what they say is the first full-fledged processor to transmit data using light instead of electricity. The design isn’t entirely photonic, but its 850 optical input/output elements give it the kind of bandwidth that make electric-only chips look downright modest — we’re talking 300Gbps per square millimeter, or 10 to 50 times what you normally see. The key was finding a way to reuse existing conventional processes to put optics in places where regular circuitry would go.

The design isn’t a powerhouse with a tiny size (3mm by 6mm, or 0.1in by 0.2in) and just two cores. However, it shows the potential for dramatic improvements in computing power without having to completely reinvent the wheel. You could have networking gear that copes with massive amounts of data, for example. And there’s plenty of room for optimization, too, so the possibilities for this technology remain wide open.

[Image credit: Glenn Asakawa, University of Colorado]

Via: Phys.org

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Russell Smith walks us through some quick steps on how to install Nano Server in Microsoft Azure with the Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 4.

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 Drone registration may seem like unnecessary hassle for some, but an incident at the alpine skiing world cup this week illustrated why the FAA is pushing for regulation. Read More

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 Blaze has come a long way. After participating in our Hardware Battlefield competition two years ago, the company signed a deal with a big client, London’s bike-sharing program. Read More

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LG debuted its webOS-powered HDTVs back in 2014, bringing HP’s mobile technology to the living room and making for a smart TV that mostly succeeded in being simpler and faster. Last year the second edition focused on speed, and for 2016 — in world where dongles, set-top boxes and videogame systems are all competing to manage your streaming TV apps — LG says it’s working on usability and control. There are three new "Magic" features this year, with Mobile Connection that lets users toss apps up from their phone to the big screen, a new remote that’s supposed to control more set-top boxes, and Zoom that can blow up parts of the picture without ruining the quality.

LG has also partnered with a new company called Xumo for a feature called Channel Plus, that lines up video from the internet in a guide that’s as easy to search as live channels. The IoTV app is supposed to make it easy to control compatible LG boxes or other compatible hardware, there’s Multi-view to watch more than one channel or even input at once, and a music player that can keep working while the screen is off. The first two rounds with webOS have left us impressed, and we’ll find out at CES in a couple of weeks if this edition keeps the trend going.

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Downhill from there

There are just under a billion web domains registered in the world today, and over four billion webpages, by some estimates.…

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 Remember Danger? The mobile maker Microsoft acquired for $500 million back in 2008 in the hopes of firing up its mobile fortunes? Things didn’t pan out quite so well for Microsoft of course, but Danger co-founder Joe Britt is doing just fine. In fact he’s uncloaking his new startup today — one he’s presumably been ploughing some of his unspent Danger money into. Read More

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The Raspberry Pi Zero’s best feature is its size, and DIYer Frederick Vandenbosch took advantage of that by using the Zero as a tiny little information display.

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Favourite blogging tool now ready for hacking – but cross platform will not be easy

Microsoft has released Windows Live Writer, a popular blog authoring tool, as an open source project on GitHub, under the MIT licence.…

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Citrix HDX and ThinLinx deliver super-cheap endpoints and flawless 1080p video

The Raspberry Pi is now a threat to thin clients.…

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What is Azure Active Directory, and what are the features? Here’s a feature comparison for the free, basic, and premium editions of Active Directory in the cloud.

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Curve ball thrown before London Show finally lands! First announced the night before this year’s London Show, at which it was being demonstrated on the RISC OS Open stand, Elesar Ltd‘s Titanium motherboard is now on sale and shipping. The board comes in two forms, one with RISC OS 5.23 and the other with Linux, […]

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If you’re on the lookout for the perfect Christmas gift for your Raspberry Pi loving pal, this guide is for you.

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Jaguar hasn’t been involved with motorsports since it offloaded its Formula 1 team to Red Bull, but it’s about to come back in a big, big way. The automaker has announced that it’s working on an all-electric car (its first) that will compete in Formula E’s third season, which kicks off in fall 2016. Jaguar is saying precious little about what that racer will be capable of, but the entry is possible because the beleaguered Trulli team is backing out of the league, leaving room for a new entrant.

This isn’t the sum total of the company’s EV efforts, either. Although it’s not mentioning any plans, Jaguar is swearing that electric cars will "absolutely play a role" in its lineup. The Formula E racer is really a precursor that will help Jag refine its technology under "extreme conditions" before it hits regular roads. If you end up driving an F-Type EV a few years from now, you’ll know something about its roots.

Via: The Verge

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Leave your coders to coding for $50k a year

Red Hat has launched a dedicated cloud platform for companies that want their developers to focus on coding.…

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For the first time, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is allowing a company to issue public shares using the technology behind Bitcoin. The honor went to Overstock, which was also the first retailer to accept Bitcoins from the public for purchases. It built its own crypto-currency tech via a subsidiary called T0 (T-Zero), and uses open-source Colored Coins to issue stock in the form of "blockchains," a type of electronic ledger. Overstock plans to license the tech to other public companies, and company CEO Patrick Byrne told Wired that it "can do for the capital market what the internet has done for consumers."

The system allows shares to be traded instantly, rather than in up to three days in regular exchanges. It could also eliminate a lot illegal short-selling and other cheating that goes on now, since there are no middlemen, and share owners can be reliably tracked. During an interview earlier this week with Tabb Forum, Byrne said that current markets "are extremely opaque. There are huge [price] spreads in it. It’s kind of a dirty little secret how much money is made there."

The stock market extremely opaque. There are huge [price] spreads in it. It’s kind of a dirty little secret how much money is made there.

Overstock was the first major retailer to accept Bitcoins, and the first to issue private bonds using blockchain technology. Byrne’s company won’t issue Bitcoin-style shares through a major exchange like NASDAQ, but will rather do it through an alternative trading system (ATS) via its T0 subsidiary. (Since it’s selling stocks to the public the exchange is still regulated by the SEC.) However, Byrne also recently acquired a company called SpeedRoute, which handles around 2.5 percent of US equity orders on all 11 major US exchnges. His plan is to eventually use the company to offer blockchain trading to companies listed on those exchanges.

The technology is also being considered by major banks like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Barclays. However, now that it’s been given regulatory approval by the normally cautious SEC, blockchain trading adoption may snowball. For now, Overstock plans to issue up to $500 million worth of public shares on its private exchange as soon as possible.

Source: Wired