He also explained why the chip was billed as a supercomputer chip initially and not a gaming chip. “It’s a zero-sum game. You have a certain amount of die (chip) area, a certain power budget. It is the case that we put a bunch of die area into double-precision floating point, a bunch of die area into ECC. And for gaming graphics applications, those give less returns than they do for the scientific applications,” he said. Double-precision floating point operations are used heavily in scientifi

GKN Aerospace was awarded the $425,000 contract by the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office’s VIP Protection Subgroup to incorporate dimmable films with armored glass to provide a “SmartShade” that conceals the location and identity of VIPs traveling in armored vehicles.

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The U.S. Department of Defense has contracted for the development of bullet resistant windows that dim instantly with a touch of a button, providing “on-demand” light control, privacy

“Mostly now we have people (in government) writing policies and reports about security rather than people who can do it,” said Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute. “And we’re getting killed.”

The government is launching a talent search for students with cybersecurity skills.

With the U.S. Cyber Challenge the goal is to find 10,000 young Americans to be “cyber guardians and cyber warriors,” according to a statement from the Center for Strategic & Inter

Free iPhone app PandoraBox can help you track down the latest and greatest sales on iPhone software.

Released in March, PandoraBox has captured around 70,000 downloads. The AppZap team has already updated the program since its debut and promises more changes in the near future.

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On the surface, PandoraBox is similar to the App Store. You can search for software by name or browse by selecting among categories. The New Apps section p

Reeves continued. “For instance, if you’re a heavy Photoshop user having 12 gigs of the fastest memory might be very important to you,” he added, saying in that case a consumer would want to opt for a Core i7 900 series over the newer 800 series.

The main message of the new Core i5 chip is simple: it’s cheap–even cheaper than Intel chips based on older technology.

The official pricing from Intel in quantities of 1,000 units makes the price g

However, Simplify Photo is functional for existing Simplify Media users looking to view friends’ pictures, or their own, remotely.

Simplify Photo’s media is view-only for now; though ideally the app would also add your iPhone photos to the network. You can swipe through images in the viewer or can play a slide show. As a perk, you can also save the picture locally to the iPhone. Unfortunately, and unlike the desktop viewer, Simplify Photo doesn’t yet rotate images by

Bribery should be alluring, not merely an everyday solution to an annoying practical problem.

And it understands you so well in these times of penury and desperation that it knows you have certain vulnerabilities that might be worth exploring: the vulnerabilities that lurk in the area around your pocket.

I would have preferred something that stirred the emotions, rather than something that feels like it’s going thr

Nokia’s Maemo OS is separate from the company’s Symbian OS for smartphones, though the company has said it wants to make it easier for developers to write applications for both.

Running the open-source Maemo 5 software, it can provide more of a PC-like experience on a small device, according to Nokia. The Maemo OS lets people juggle several applications at the same time.

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Equipped with a Mozilla browser and Adobe Flash 9.4 suppor

Most incompatibilities will be fixed, of course. Apple released Snow Leopard earlier than expected, and developers are scrambling to update their apps. But even some of the big developers have fallen behind the cycle here — Microsoft’s Live Mesh sync and backup product doesn’t yet work, for example.

It’s not the current versions of the big apps that don’t work, of course. The latest version of Photoshop still runs. Even the current versions of the close-to-the-metal virtualizati

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Venco also has an online calculator (for Java applet-friendly browsers) for estimating how much power one can expect each particular turbine product to generate. Potential customers input average wind speeds for each month of the year at their location, and can change which turbine the figures are applied to.

“We’re also excited to bring German engineering talent and technology to the quest for alternative energy,” Gardner said in a statement.