Nvidia unveils GeForce GTX 690: Dual GK104 flagship launching May3rd As we mentioned back on Monday, Nvidia was going to be making somekind of GeForce announcement this evening at the Nvida GamingFestival 2012 in Shanghai, China. Nvidia"s CEO Jen-Hsun Huanghas just finished his speech, announcing Nvidia"s nextultra-premium video card, the GeForce GTX 690. Launching later thisweek, the GeForce GTX 690 will be Nvidia"s new dual-GPUflagship... AnandTech Why is Ivy Bridge so hot and bothered? If you read our Ivy Bridge coverage carefully, you'll know that weobserved some rather high temperatures when overclocking the Corei7-3770K.
With a single-fan air tower, our chip ran at a reasonable50-60属C when clocked to 4.4-4.5GHz at its default voltage.However, when we pushed to 4.9GHz on 1.35V, the temperature soaredpast 100属C. Other reviews have observed similarly scorchingtemperatures, so it's not just our sample. Tech Report Get rich U. Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant andsunny, it"s as if you could eat from the trees and livehappily forever.
Students ride their bikes through manicured quads,past blooming flowers and statues by Rodin, to buildings named forbenefactors like Gates, Hewlett, and Packard. Everyone seems happy,though there is a well-known phenomenon called the "Stanfordduck syndrome": students seem cheerful, but all the while theyare furiously paddling their legs to stay afloat. The New Yorker Texas, Amazon agree on sales taxes, says statement fromCombs" office Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs and Amazon.com,Inc. today announced an agreement that will lead to the creation ofthousands of new jobs in Texas by the online retailer. According tothe agreement between the Comptroller of Public Accounts andAmazon, the Company plans over the next four years to create atleast 2,500 jobs and make at least $200 million in capitalinvestments in the state.. Automotive Water Pumps
Chron.com Brilliant: Players waging actual war on EVE"s economy I"m not an EVE player. I know it sucks in some people like amassively multiplayer black hole, but the actual act of playing ithas never exerted much of a gravitational pull on my attention.I"m probably dumb. Regardless, though, I can"t help butadmire the sheer insanity this place constantly generates.Years-in-the-making corporate conspiracies, thousands-strong spacebattles, the very existence of Dust 514 -- it is, at times, nearlyunbelievable. RPS Steve Wozniak: Why I love m y Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Our Dan Patterson, Todd Moore and Gina Smith caught up withGina"s coauthor and friend Steve Wozniak, who invented Appletechnology and co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs.It"s noisy in there -- but this podcast is a fun conversationwith Wozniak over why he thinks the Windows Phone 7 UI is just thebee"s knees. China OEM Auto Body Parts
He shows us that he carried two iPhones, a DroidRazr and, to our surprise at the time, a Nokia Lumia. aNewDomain A history of Mozilla browsers design Writing the piece on FOSS design, it made me think about pastexperiences in various communities and brought back memories to thepoint when I decided to put down some thoughts on Mozilla browsers(won't cover other apps today) design history as I saw it, both asan user and from my involvement with its community. Even if thescreenshots below are taken mostly from Wikipedia (try to run 10-15years old binaries on a current Linux desktop)... Nicu Buculei FCC: TV stations must post rates for campaign ads The FCC voted Friday to require broadcast TV stations to postonline the advertising rates they charge political candidates andadvocacy groups. OEM Truck Accessories
The vote came despite strong opposition from manybroadcasters, who have argued that making sensitive advertisingrate information so publically available will undermine stations'competitiveness and give advertisers unfair leverage over how muchthey are willing to pay. Phys.org At 92, a bandit to Hollywood but a hero to soldiers One of the world"s most prolific bootleggers of HollywoodDVDs loves his morning farina. He has spent eight years churningout hundreds of thousands of copies of "The Hangover,""Gran Torino" and other first-run movies from his smallLong Island apartment to ship overseas. "Big Hy" -- hishandle among many loyal customers -- would almost certainly be castas Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details.
The NY Times Get him to the geek The underground double bus on Boston's silver line is filled tocapacity with an unusually homogeneous crowd this morning. Mostlymale, mostly twenty-something, mostly white, mostly dressed inslouchy windbreakers, cargo pants, and baggy jeans. Their T-shirtsmostly depict pixelated cartoons and mushrooms, and esotericcatchphrases. It's the uniform of a certain social subset, the kindof attire that suggests acne where there is none.
GQ How Apple sidesteps billions in taxes Apple, the world"s most profitable technology company,doesn"t design iPhones here. It doesn"t run AppleCarecustomer service from this city. And it doesn"t manufactureMacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employeesin a small office here in Reno, Apple has done something central toits corporate strategy: it has avoided millions of dollars in taxesin California and 20 other states. The NY TImes Is GPL licensing in decline? A debate has raged for months about open source licensing trends.It all started with assertions that the GNU General Public License(GPL) is rapidly falling from favor as an open source license,replaced largely by the Apache License.
Free software advocatescouldn't disagree more. What's really going on? To understand theanswer, you need to know a little background. InfoWorld.
With a single-fan air tower, our chip ran at a reasonable50-60属C when clocked to 4.4-4.5GHz at its default voltage.However, when we pushed to 4.9GHz on 1.35V, the temperature soaredpast 100属C. Other reviews have observed similarly scorchingtemperatures, so it's not just our sample. Tech Report Get rich U. Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant andsunny, it"s as if you could eat from the trees and livehappily forever.
Students ride their bikes through manicured quads,past blooming flowers and statues by Rodin, to buildings named forbenefactors like Gates, Hewlett, and Packard. Everyone seems happy,though there is a well-known phenomenon called the "Stanfordduck syndrome": students seem cheerful, but all the while theyare furiously paddling their legs to stay afloat. The New Yorker Texas, Amazon agree on sales taxes, says statement fromCombs" office Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts Susan Combs and Amazon.com,Inc. today announced an agreement that will lead to the creation ofthousands of new jobs in Texas by the online retailer. According tothe agreement between the Comptroller of Public Accounts andAmazon, the Company plans over the next four years to create atleast 2,500 jobs and make at least $200 million in capitalinvestments in the state.. Automotive Water Pumps
Chron.com Brilliant: Players waging actual war on EVE"s economy I"m not an EVE player. I know it sucks in some people like amassively multiplayer black hole, but the actual act of playing ithas never exerted much of a gravitational pull on my attention.I"m probably dumb. Regardless, though, I can"t help butadmire the sheer insanity this place constantly generates.Years-in-the-making corporate conspiracies, thousands-strong spacebattles, the very existence of Dust 514 -- it is, at times, nearlyunbelievable. RPS Steve Wozniak: Why I love m y Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Our Dan Patterson, Todd Moore and Gina Smith caught up withGina"s coauthor and friend Steve Wozniak, who invented Appletechnology and co-founded Apple with the late Steve Jobs.It"s noisy in there -- but this podcast is a fun conversationwith Wozniak over why he thinks the Windows Phone 7 UI is just thebee"s knees. China OEM Auto Body Parts
He shows us that he carried two iPhones, a DroidRazr and, to our surprise at the time, a Nokia Lumia. aNewDomain A history of Mozilla browsers design Writing the piece on FOSS design, it made me think about pastexperiences in various communities and brought back memories to thepoint when I decided to put down some thoughts on Mozilla browsers(won't cover other apps today) design history as I saw it, both asan user and from my involvement with its community. Even if thescreenshots below are taken mostly from Wikipedia (try to run 10-15years old binaries on a current Linux desktop)... Nicu Buculei FCC: TV stations must post rates for campaign ads The FCC voted Friday to require broadcast TV stations to postonline the advertising rates they charge political candidates andadvocacy groups. OEM Truck Accessories
The vote came despite strong opposition from manybroadcasters, who have argued that making sensitive advertisingrate information so publically available will undermine stations'competitiveness and give advertisers unfair leverage over how muchthey are willing to pay. Phys.org At 92, a bandit to Hollywood but a hero to soldiers One of the world"s most prolific bootleggers of HollywoodDVDs loves his morning farina. He has spent eight years churningout hundreds of thousands of copies of "The Hangover,""Gran Torino" and other first-run movies from his smallLong Island apartment to ship overseas. "Big Hy" -- hishandle among many loyal customers -- would almost certainly be castas Hollywood Enemy No. 1 but for a few details.
The NY Times Get him to the geek The underground double bus on Boston's silver line is filled tocapacity with an unusually homogeneous crowd this morning. Mostlymale, mostly twenty-something, mostly white, mostly dressed inslouchy windbreakers, cargo pants, and baggy jeans. Their T-shirtsmostly depict pixelated cartoons and mushrooms, and esotericcatchphrases. It's the uniform of a certain social subset, the kindof attire that suggests acne where there is none.
GQ How Apple sidesteps billions in taxes Apple, the world"s most profitable technology company,doesn"t design iPhones here. It doesn"t run AppleCarecustomer service from this city. And it doesn"t manufactureMacBooks or iPads anywhere nearby. Yet, with a handful of employeesin a small office here in Reno, Apple has done something central toits corporate strategy: it has avoided millions of dollars in taxesin California and 20 other states. The NY TImes Is GPL licensing in decline? A debate has raged for months about open source licensing trends.It all started with assertions that the GNU General Public License(GPL) is rapidly falling from favor as an open source license,replaced largely by the Apache License.
Free software advocatescouldn't disagree more. What's really going on? To understand theanswer, you need to know a little background. InfoWorld.