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Today is the 45th anniversary of the greatest space opera TV show of all time, and Space.com is celebrating with a cool infographic showing key moments in the first 45 years of Starfleet — as well as space travel in general. More »
KHL president Alexander Medvedev vowed Thursday to rebuild Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the hockey team whose players were killed in a plane crash, in time to play this season.
The year is almost over, but there is apparently plenty of time left for Nvidia to release its first quad-core mobile chips, based on ARM technology. President and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang said that, in order to get a leg up on its main competitor Qualcomm, the graphics company will release a quad-core mobile System-on-a-Chip, or SoC, before the end of the calendar year.
Code-named Kal-El, the successor to the prolific Tegra 2 chip, which powers over 70% of Android tablets and 50% of high-end smartphones, will not only be significantly faster, but also bring many of the ARM instruction sets such a NEON that are currently missing from the dual-core Tegra 2.
Huang said that by 2015 the mobile division at Nvidia will be worth more than its dedicated GPU divison, currently worth $4.5 billion. Their goal is to ship 1 billion mobile processors by then, too, an ambitious goal considering as of 2011 they have only produced around 100 million chips.
Earlier this year the GPU giant acquired mobile baseband company Icera, whose technology will be integrated into future Nvidia chips starting next year. The inclusion will allow for them to rely less on separate component manufacturers when developing mobile processors, ultimately lowering costs and increasing profits. This will be necessary to reach their goal of a $20 billion mobile chip business by 2015.
As for the quad-core chips, it’s unlikely we’ll see any of them in smartphones by the end of this year; initial yields will be low, with heat and power consumption being the major hurdle to overcome in the production process.
Source: Forbes Online
Via: Phandroid
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Most Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque and would be in financial difficulty if their pay was even one week late, a new survey suggests.
The official Google blog says it all: the Mountain View tech monster bought Zagat, whose restaurant ratings are used and respected all over the world. Yelp should be worried. More »
Do you know the one about the guy who tries to put out a fire with a bloody vacuum cleaner? Yes, me neither, because that’s fucking stupid, right? Well, it works. [YouTube via Oh Have You Seen This] More »
Today you have a vast choice of where you can pick up the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 4G. TELUS released this tablet yesterday for $649.99, but it was quickly put back to “coming soon” for some reason. In a press release this Android 3.1 tablet became available at a few other carriers: Bell, Rogers, Virgin Mobile and Sasktel. Pricing so far has this on Bell on a 3-year term for $449.95 and we’re told $599.95. The other carriers have not updated their sites yet with pricing.
Highlighted specs are that this has a 10.1-inch display with a 1280 x 800 resolution, 1GHz dual core processor, 3 megapixel rear-facing camera with a 2 megapixel front-facing camera, HSPA+ 21Mbps and Wi-Fi, weighs in at 565 grams and is only 8.6mm thin.
Update: Rogers has just gone live with their pricing. It’s as follows:
No term $679.99
1-year term $449.99
2-year term $399.99
3-year term $349.99
Source: Bell & Rogers
Via: CNW
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A Russian jet carrying the Kontinental Hockey League’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team crashed Wednesday, killing most of the team, including Canadian coach Brad McCrimmon and former Vancouver Canuck star Pavol Demitra
Malware sucks. In the best-case scenario, it craps up your system with unwanted files and occasionally makes itself known in the form of a persistent pop-up window or annoying browser-based toolbar. In the worst-case scenario, malware completely takes over your desktop or laptop and ruins your life. More »
Military spending has nearly doubled since 9/11 and national security spending is $92 billion higher, according to a report released Wednesday.
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“Leaders are not what many people think–people with huge crowds following them. Leaders are people who go their own way without caring, or even looking to see whether anyone is following them. ‘Leadership qualities’ are not the qualities that enable people to attract followers, but those that enable them to do without them. The include, at the very least, courage, endurance, patience, humor, flexibility, resourcefulness, determination, a keen sense of reality, and the ability to keep a cool and clear head even when things are going badly. This is the opposite of the ‘charisma’ that we hear so much about.” ~ John Holt More »
Despite all the har-haring about Summer Glau’s guest spot, Syfy’s summer drama Alphas was picked up for a second season. More »
After an interlude in Chicago, slotback Andy Fantuz has returned to the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
A slew of meteorites pelted Earth some 3.9 billion years ago — delivering that gold you may be wearing on your finger.
McDonald’s is spending $1 billion to renovate all its Canadian locations in an effort to look cozier as the fast food giant raises the stakes to grab more customers.
At some point earlier this year, all-in-one desktops became a thing. Companies like Toshiba that had never before taken an interest in the space suddenly started selling ’em, beefing up a market that HP, Dell and Apple had owned for years. You could tell what HP executives were thinking. Months earlier, the outfit had announced its TouchSmart 610 — you know, the one with the sprawling, tilting display. It’s as if the company had to prove it’s the real deal when it comes to all-in-ones — or, at least, that it could come up with something that’ll eat up less desk space than the 610.
Okay, we just put a lot of words into HP executives’ mouths, but really, what else could this deluge of all-in-ones mean? The company just spat out seven new models for the US market, the highest-end of which have a markedly more minimalist look. The 20-inch TouchSmart 320, 21.5-inch 420 and the 23-inch 520 all boast the kind of free-standing display display you see in that photo up there — a screen that tilts 30 degrees, and leaves enough space underneath for you to stow the wireless keyboard. The lot have starting prices ranging from $600 to $800, with the highest-end 520 matching the 610, which will still be around for the foreseeable future. Moving along, HP also trotted out the similar-looking 7230, its first TouchSmart for the small business market, along with the Pro 3420, a non-touch model. That will start at $600, with the touchscreen pushing the 3420’s price northwards of $850. And, just to make sure it had its bases covered, the company introduced two plain-Jane models, the 20-inch Omni 120 and the 21.5-inch Omni 220, which steps up to Beats Audio, Sandy Bridge processors and a more striking design. These will each be available before the end of the month, starting at $400 and $800, respectively. Oodles of glossy press shots below and a short video after the break.
Gallery: HP TouchSmart 520 hands-on
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In an exclusive interview with CBC News, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the biggest security threat to Canada a decade after 9/11 is Islamic terrorism.
