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Living with USB-C
I was working in a mobile tech store when microUSB began its slow dominance of the mobile ecosystem. Everyone I worked with at the time glared at the massive wall of barrel connectors, weird plastic plugs with copper bits on the sides, and those huge 20-pin plugs with equal degrees of hatred. MicroUSB changed all of that, and eventually made it possible for almost every phone and tablet to use the same connector over the last couple of years.
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Asus' powerful GX700 gaming laptop rocks liquid cooling
Today at IFA ASUS is announcing some of its fall laptop lineup. As with the other vendors, they have been waiting on Windows 10 which launched at the end of July, and Intel’s Skylake processors which launched just a few hours ago. The combination of new operating system and new processor is likely going to mean there are a lot of new products coming out in the next while.
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What Intel’s New Processors Mean for Your Next Computer
The sixth generation of Intel’s Core processors, known more approachably as Skylake, will start invading new laptops and desktops over the following weeks and months. With them, they’ll bring a few enhancements you should know about—especially if your current rig is starting to show some rust. Before we get started, though, it’s probably healthy to manage some expectations. Better processors will always be welcome, but chips aren’t...
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Trying Out The Open-Source NVIDIA/Nouveau Driver Rework In Linux 4.3
With the forthcoming Linux 4.3 kernel is a big rework to the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver. Here are our first tests of NVIDIA GeForce hardware under Linux 4.2 stable and then the Linux 4.3 Git code with this reworked driver.
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More from Moore
There is a popular belief that Moore’s law is coming to an end. The doubling of transistors on a chip every two years, for the same cost, has continued apace since Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s founders, noted it back in 1965. At the time, a few hundred transistors could be crammed onto a sliver of silicon. Today’s powerful chips contain billions.
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Samsung Debuts World's Largest Hard Drive
Samsung has launched the world’s largest hard drive, a staggering 2.5-inch 16 terabyte flash drive that’s almost 60% bigger than the largest drives currently on the market. Aimed at enterprise consumers, the drive's price has not been disclosed yet. According to Deutsch site Golem.de, Samsung displayed a server containing 48 of the new drives, dubbed the PM1633a, at a California trade show. Samsung representatives apparently referred...
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What we learned about SSDs in 2015
2015 was the beginning of the end for SSDs in the data center. Why? Because researchers have delved deep into their actual behavior and found multiple problems. Here's what you need to know. Despite their wide use, SSDs are a young technology, one we're still learning about. Here's a roundup of the best research on SSDs in 2015.
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Nvidia announces ‘supercomputer’ for self-driving cars at CES 2016
Nvidia is kicking off CES 2016 with its traditional first keynote. CEO Jen-Hsun Huang wasted no time getting to the "punchline," a new computer for cars he's calling the Drive PX2, the follow-up...
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Microsoft Will Not Support Upcoming Processors Except On Windows 10
Microsoft has long been the bastion of long term support for older platforms, so today’s support news out of Redmond is particularly surprising. Intel launched its 6th generation Skylake cores back in August, and support on Windows 7 has been not as strong as Windows 10 right out of the gate. It’s not terribly strange that new features like Intel’s Speed Shift will not be coming to Windows 7, but today Microsoft announced that going forward, new processors will only be supported on Windows...
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Nvidia replaces its Game Ready driver for The Division with something less terrorizing
Earlier this week, we reported on version 364.47 of Nvidia’s ‘Game Ready’ GeForce driver that quickly added support for Vulkan as well as some freshly instated optimizations for new and upcoming games such as Tom Clancy’s The Division and Need for Speed. Unfortunately, it appears the graphics company may have released the driver prematurely, as a number of users are reporting various technical issues on its official feedback thread.
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AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo mashes two Fury GPUs together for 16 teraflops of compute
After first being teased at E3 2015, AMD has finally made its dual Fury GPU official. Dubbed the Radeon Pro Duo, the card combines two of AMD's top tier Fiji GPUs (as used in the Fury X and Fury Nano) onto a single card, resulting in a claimed 16 teraflops of compute performance. The price for such power? A mere $1499 (UK pricing TBC, but probably around £1200). The Radeon Pro Duo goes on sale in "early" Q2 2016.
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With another Apple failure, it’s time to forget about hardware
The lesson is this: we shouldn’t be focusing on hardware anymore. Perhaps instead we need to focus on what happens when hardware and software come together.
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MacGyver IT: 19 more tools for IT heroes
In the field, at the server rack, or in need of a live stream, these essential IT tools will help your team troubleshoot, collaborate, and train like champs
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PCs Aren't Dying. They're Just Way Overpriced.
PC sales have crashed because manufacturers offer too little innovation at too much cost. Today's sub-$700 laptop is nearly identical to one from 2012.
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Report: Apple may use a separate GPU to drive new 5K Thunderbolt Displays
External GPUs could get around DisplayPort 1.2's bandwidth limitations.
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'World's largest' SSD revealed as Seagate unveils 60TB monster
Seagate has been showing off its monster 60TB solid-state drive (SSD) this week, which breezes past the 15TB SSD that Samsung launched in March. But don't expect to see Seagate's SSD in a consumer device any time soon, with the new drive set to join the high-performance end of its datacenter portfolio. Samsung's PM1633a has a 2.5-inch form factor and holds 15.36TB of data. For now, it remains the largest commercially available SSD and reportedly costs $10,000 per unit.
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I don’t like being force-fed Windows 10
The nagware announcements are gone, but Microsoft, along with AMD and Intel, has made darn sure you’ll be running Windows 10 and not Windows 7 on the next PC you buy.
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Thanks for the memory: How cheap RAM changes computing
RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers. In the form of SRAM (static RAM) or DRAM (dynamic RAM), it’s where data is held temporarily while some kind of processor operates on it. But as the price of RAM falls, the model of shuttling data to and from big persistent storage and RAM may no longer hold. RAM is highly susceptible to market fluctuations, but the long-term price trend is steadily downward. Historically, as recently as 2000 a gigabyte of memory cost over $1,000 (£800 in those days); today, it’s just under $5 (~£5).
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The 'Apple of gaming world' just launched a laptop to 'eradicate' all other laptops
The laptop features a "vapor chamber" to dissipate heat, as well as a custom fan design. It costs €4,199 if ordered in Europe, £3,499 in the UK, and $3,699 in the US. "What we are trying to do is a suite of products focused on the gamer. Previously we had laptops that were designed for better portability, somewhere there is a fine balance between performance and portability, and one that had an intense amount of performance," said Min-Liang Tan, CEO and cofounder of Razer told Business Insider.
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WIRED Reviews the New MacBook Pro With Touch Bar from Apple
It's a very future-forward machine. But that also makes it messy in the present day.
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