Samsung announces Exynos 5 Octa eight-core chip at CES

Samsung’s second keynote, and the news keeps coming. The mobile giant has just annouced a new Exynos 5 Octa chip, based on the Cortex A15 architecture. Designed to be a low powered, high performance mobile processor. Samsung claims that the 3D gaming performance is twice that of anything available at the moment. Developing… Filed under: Samsung Comments

Australia Is So Hot They Had to Add New Colors to Their Weather Maps

It’s super-hot in Australia right now: there are massive bush fires happening spontaneously and it’s 95°F in Sydney at midnight. In fact, the Australian bureau of meteorology has recorded the highest ever known temperature in Australia—and as a result, it’s had to add new colors to its weather maps. More »