Lenovo is bringing another Windows 8 tablet to market -- this one made with keyboard cover in mind -- along with five new touch-based laptops that are slated to arrive globally in July and August. Lenovo's new Miix tablet that can come ...
Chip maker Qualcomm is introducing six new processors meant for entry-level phones in China and emerging markets. The processors are part of Qualcomm's Snapdragon 200 class, a chip line that offers support for lower-end specs compared to ...
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The successor to LG's Optimus G smartphone, due sometime in the third quarter, will run a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor, the companies announced late Wednesday. The 800 series chip is notable for integrating support for faster ...
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Wall Street plans to hold a simulated cyber-attack against equity markets this month that experts hope will set an example of how industries should test their defences against assailants. Called Quantum Dawn 2, the drill will involve big ...
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Demand for mainframe and high-performance Unix servers is falling, but a new wave of SPARC and IBM Power chips for the servers will be unwrapped at the Hot Chips conference in late August. IBM, Oracle and Fujitsu -- the main suppliers of ...
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You have to love those Bed Bath & Beyond coupons. The housewares retailer not only gives you 20 percent or $5 off a single item for in-store purchases, but its coupons also never expire, no matter the expiration date stamped on them. (A ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is building its future server strategy around chips used in smartphones and tablets. The company said its first ARM server processors -- which will be released in the second half of next year -- will be faster and ...
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Huawei Technologies' much-leaked Ascend P6 smartphone is the world's thinnest at 6.18 millimeters, and has the highest-resolution front-facing camera at 5 megapixels, the company claimed at the phone's London launch. In comparison, ...
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Nvidia wants to accelerate mobile-device performance with underlying tools that enable CPUs and graphics processors to work in a coherent manner. The company released on Tuesday its CUDA 5.5 programming tools, which will for the first ...
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The supercomputing arms race is heating up again between the United States and China, as China retakes the top spot in the 41st Top500 listing of the world's most powerful supercomputers with Tianhe-2, an updated system that was able to ...
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China has produced a supercomputer capable of running at 54.9 petaflops that will likely be recognized as the world's fastest system in the forthcoming Top500 list of the world's most powerful computers. The new system -- called Tianhe-2, ...
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Food packaging manufacturer in the US, Sealed Air has selected Milliken’s Millad NX 8000 clarifier for its new range of lightweight thermoformed Cryovac lidded trays and pots for meats, salads and other fresh produce. With its new ...
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The 8-core CPUs are designed for gaming and multimedia professionals AMD has unveiled a 5GHz CPU processor, the AMD FX-9590, which is claimed to be the most powerful member of its FX family of CPUs. Initially available in PCs through ...
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Smartphone and tablet chips are now making their way into high-performance computers, providing an energy-efficient alternative to the power-hungry server chips used in the world's fastest supercomputers. The Barcelona Supercomputing ...
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Targeting gaming and multimedia enthusiasts, AMD announced a 5GHz processor at E3 in Los Angeles.A The AMD FX-9590 is an eight core CPU. Another new processor, the FX-9370, runsA at 4.7 GHz. Both processors will be available in July and ...
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