The Obama administration has joined the ranks of skeptics of the Stop Online Piracy Act. In an online statement released Saturday, three senior White House officials wrote that the administration "will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk, or undermines the dynamic, innovative global Internet." The statement was made in response to a petition on the White House's "we the people" site asking the president to veto SOPA if it reached his desk. [......]
Tomorrow's guest: the Internet "Tomorrow night," announced host Jon Stewart at the beginning of The Daily Show yesterday , "our guest will be the Internet." The odd intro came about thanks to a redditor , who showed up to a Daily Show taping yesterday with VIP passes. Knowing he would have a chance to ask Stewart a preshow question, the redditor pondered ideas and settled on SOPA, the hugely controversial Stop Online Piracy Act now being considered in Congress. "The Internet sent me to ask you what you think of SOPA and why you haven't mentioned it on the show," he said to Stewart. [......]
Here’s an interesting little project that, while it’s unlikely to grow into a major product, nevertheless demonstrates the potential of alternative interfaces. Bruno Zamborlin’s Mogees (an abbreviation of "mosaicing gestural surface") takes input from a contact microphone and analyzes it to determine the placement and direction of gestures on any surface through which vibrations can be detected[......]
It appears Microsoft jumped the gun in releasing a hotfix to improve performance for AMD Bulldozer systems running Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 operating systems. The patch, which was released on Friday, caught AMD off guard because it's just one of two updates needed to improve performance. [......]
MSI's been bitten by the overclocking bug and is hoping you have as well. [......]
You're officially old school if you're still swinging a single-core CPU. AMD's Sempron chips are some of the last of a dying breed, and even though the Sunnyvale chip maker is fully invested in its E-Series and A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs) and upcoming Bulldozer architecture, the company is still planning to shuffle Sempron chips into its lineup for the foreseeable future. Fudzilla is hearing that Sempron will remain in active production and ship out until at least the first quarter of 2012, and possibly much longer[......]
Ever since Intel laid to rest it's Netburst architecture, AMD has only been able to look back and reminisce about a time when the Sunnyvale chip maker held the performance crown the way a washed up athlete remembers his days as an all-star on the high school football team. We're not saying AMD is washed up by any means, it just hasn't been able to dominate the benchmarks chart. The company's upcoming Bulldozer could change all that, especially if leaked benchmarks turn out to be legit. [......]
Solid state drives appear to be simple things. [......]
Quick, what's the first thing you think of when you hear the word "Celeron?" Some of you will undoubtedly answer "overclocking" in reference to socket 478 Celeron chips from over a decade ago. That was a long time ago, and some of you are waiting for the day when Intel finally retires the Celeron brand. If that's you, you'll have to wait a little longer. [......]
OCZ has thrown another bone to the enterprise market by announcing its new Talos series, a line of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drives. Talos SSDs come equipped with multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory and boast OCZ's proprietary Virtualized Controller Architecture (VCA) technology to storage OEMs, but perhaps most importantly is that within the Talos line is the highest capacity 6Gbps SAS drive available on the market today (960GB). "We have experienced considerable demand for our high-capacity VCA-enabled SAS products, both with and without enhanced power fail protection," said Ryan Petersen , CEO of OCZ Technology Group. [......]
AMD set out to squash recent rumors suggesting the chip maker was interested in licensing ARM technology for use in tablets and other mobile devices. [......]
Two questions for you: Which is the more powerful architecture, ARM or x86? Which one is the lower power architecture? If you answered ARM to either question, you'd be wrong. [......]
Let's get a few things straight -- there aren't any 1,000 processors on the horizon, there's no such chip on Intel's processor roadmap, and we've yet to really tap into the computing power of today's multi-core architectures. Got it? [......]
Electronics are shrinking faster than Las Vegas housing prices, the market for 2D kiddie flicks, and Lindsey Lohan’s showbiz career. But for electronics, at least, shrinkage is good. Today’s cell phones, tablets, and other trendy mobile gadgets would be impossible without the miniaturized electronics of system-on-chip (SoC) processors[......]
By Scott M. Fulton, III , Betanews Apple has been challenging Google on many fronts this week -- first with its mobile platform, then with its advertising platform. Earlier today, its developers launched the first volley in the battle's third front, releasing the first public code for the next WebKit rendering and processing kernel that will likely drive the Safari 5 browser. [......]
