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Intel’s bold bet against ARM: visionary or myopic?
Today, Intel’s x86 architecture reigns supreme on PCs (and millions of servers, such as Google’s, that use the PC organ bank). Anywhere else, the ARM processors have won; they’re in billions of devices, regular cell phones, smartphones, entertainment devices, navigation systems and legions of other embedded applications. Understandably, perhaps, Intel didn’t want to play in […]
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3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children
SchlimpyChicken writes “Turns out 3D television can be inherently dangerous to developing children, and perhaps to adults as well. There’s a malaise in children that can prevent full stereopsis (depth perception) from developing, called strabismus or lazy-eye. It is an abnormal alignment of the eyes in which the eyes do not focus on the same […]
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Tracking Down a Single-Bit RAM Error
Hanji writes “We have discussed here before the potential effects of and protections against cosmic ray radiation, but for the average computer user, it’s an obscure threat that doesn’t affect them in any real way. Well, here’s a blog post that describes a strange segfault and, after extensive debugging, traces it down to a single […]
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Pirate Bay’s Founding Group ‘Piratbyrån’ Disbands
Piratbyrån had many purposes, but could be described as a pro-piracy lobbying organization. It was founded in response to Antipiratbyrån, the local anti-piracy outfit in Sweden. The goal was to start a debate on copyright issues and how they affect society. Until then, most press in Sweden would simply take everything Antipiratbyrån said for granted. […]
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Google, Spectrum Bridge sending smart grid data over TV waves
The smart grid just entered brand new territory: television airwaves. Today, service provider Spectrum Bridge announced that it is working with Google, of all companies, to start channeling data collected by smart meters over “white space,” the term for unused television channels. Smart grid data communication is a hot-button issue in the burgeoning industry. Several […]
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Google Can Remotely Remove Apps From Your Phone
Even if I’ve been following Android’s development since the earlier parts of 2008, I’d never known that Google has the functionality to remotely remove any application from your device that they deem necessary. There’s a reason we don’t hear about this: they don’t do it often, and when they do, it’s usually for a very […]
