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An intimate chat with Sony PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida

@ 2015/06/18 read/post comments(0)

Sony PlayStation's Shuhei Yoshida is the best kind of corporate executive. The Worldwide Studios head is affable, open-minded and, best of all, he embraces competition from rivals. I'm speaking, of course, about Microsoft's recent move to partner up ...… Go To Full Article

Amazon's latest Kindle Paperwhite packs text that's twice as sharp

@ 2015/06/18 read/post comments(0)

Don't want to shell out $199 for the Kindle Voyage just to get an Amazon-badged e-reader with extra-crisp visuals? You won't have to after today. Amazon has launched an updated version of the Kindle Paperwhite whose e-paper display touts the… Go To Full Article

Radio telescope spots previously unknown star-forming region

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Scientists at the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) have discovered that a region in the Medusa merger serves as home to thousands of recently formed stars. That region's called the Eye of Medusa, and it's a gas rich location smack-dab... Go To Full Article

V-Moda's 3D-printed headphones can cost you up to $40,000

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From clothing to food, 3D-printed consumer goods are still a hit or miss at this point. Even so, that hasn't stopped companies from trying to feature this novelty in their products. The latest to do so is audio gear manufacturer… Go To Full Article

AMD Radeon R9 Nano to Feature a Single PCIe Power Connector

@ 2015/06/18 read/post comments(0)

AMD's Radeon R9 Nano is shaping up to be a more important card for AMD, than even its flaghsip, the R9 Fury X. Some of the first pictures of the Fury X led us to believe that it could stay… Go To Full Article

NASA's heat shield tech could save firefighters' lives

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NASA has teamed up with the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service to see if the agency's heat shield technology could be adapted to protect people during forest fires. Currently, firefighters carry a 4.3-pound "personal fire shelter" -- a large ... Go To Full Article

Artificial intelligence learns Mario level in 34 attempts

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Perhaps it's that all the levels have simple, left-to-right objectives, or maybe it's just that they're so iconic, but for some reason older Mario games have long been a target for those interested in AI and machine learning. The latest… Go To Full Article

Silicon Motion SM2256 SSD Controller Preview: TLC for Everyone

@ 2015/06/18 read/post comments(0)

The SSD industry has been talking about TLC NAND for over three years now. We published our first post, Understanding TLC NAND, back in early 2012, but in three years we have actually seen very little TLC NAND making it… Go To Full Article

Killing Floor 2 Is First With NVIDIA FleX

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NVIDIA FleX started as a research project, which grew into a tech demo that created a buzz on the internet with a video of a rabbit washing around in a wave pool and cereal floating in milk. Nice. But the… Go To Full Article

IT glitch sees 600,000 RBS payments go missing

@ 2015/06/18 read/post comments(0)

RBS has just stepped into another IT nightmare. The company, which owns the Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest, Coutts and Ulster Bank, has admitted that 600,000 customer transactions weren't completed last night. It hasn't revealed the exact nature of ... Go To Full Article

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