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Take the 1GHz Scorpion core residing in Qualcomm’s current flagship Snapdragon, the MSM8x55, duplicate it, overclock the resulting pair by 50 percent, and give them improved graphics in the form of Adreno 220. What do you get? A barnburner by the unsexy name of MSM8x60. Yes, the 1.5GHz Mobile Development Platform Qualcomm loosed on the world at CES earlier this year has found itself prostrate on a test bench, where it has produced some of the finest graphical performance scores yet seen on a mobile device. The taxing OpenGL ES 2.0 test you see above shows the new Snapdragon doubling the frame rates churned out by Motorola’s mighty Atrix 4G (which admittedly has to work harder thanks to its higher-res display) and completely embarrassing older generation hardware like the EVO 4G. That’s a theme carried on throughout AnandTech‘s benchmarking, which you may explore in full at the source link. If you’re wondering when this world-beating dual-core chip will be coming to market, the answer is that it’s already inside HTC’s imminently upcoming EVO 3D and Pyramid devices, albeit running at a tamer 1.2GHz. Exciting, eh?

P.S. – Do take note that the Qualcomm dev platform was plugged into the wall during these tests and was not subject to any power management software that may have otherwise restrained its performance as on the retail chips under test. Moreover, the Egypt benchmark can only run at native resolution, which is what’s causing some seemingly aberrant results such as the iPhone 4 (960 x 640) ranking below the iPhone 3GS (480 x 320).

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Well, this one is kind of far fetched but the Swift Web Browser is supposed for those people who like Apple’s Safari browser. At least the header on their site reads “Like Apple’s Safari? Get Swift!” It definitely doesn’t look like Safari and the only similarities that you will find is in the rendering engine since it uses the Apple WebKit.

I would go into details about the features but, well, there aren’t really any . The Tools menu has no options and all of the other menus are very basic. I can’t imagine that people would seriously want this browser in Windows when there are several other browsers that have much better site compatibility. The only reason I could see this being useful is if you didn’t have access to a Mac computer and wanted to test out your site to make sure it is compatible with Safari.

Swift is in the Alpha stages so it is way too early to be judging anything. All browsers have to start somewhere and even Firefox started off with only the basics.

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I’m a big fan of the Numb3rs television show, and a couple weeks ago the sixth season came to a close. Anyone that watches the show knows that they throw around a lot of mathematical equations and algorithms that can sometimes seem as though they are pulling them out of thin air. Wolfram Research, the creators of Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha, do their best to graphically explain some of the calculations used in each episode.

Using the advanced Mathematica software they provide brief video demonstrations for some of the concepts used in the show, and for the Mathematica users you can actually download the related source code to play around with it all yourself.

In reality this site is mostly an advertisement for their software, but math gurus may find this to be rather interesting. Another kinda cool thing is that they go beyond the complex explanations and actually provide quizzes for a bunch of the episodes (particularly from Season 5) to prove just how smart dumb we all are.

The Math Behind Numb3rs

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We know you — you’re that guy (or gal!) who simply can’t resist dipping your toes into whatever’s next, and in the case of AMD’s Fusion, you almost certainly went out and grabbed up an HP Pavilion dm1z as soon as it hit the market. Nah, we aren’t clairvoyant, just rational guessers. At any rate, now that you’ve had a solid two or three months with your Zacate-backed ultraportable, we’re eager to know how you’d change things if given the golden key. Are you satisfied with the build quality? How’s that heat? Feeling any jealousy for those who opted for Atom-based rigs? Are the keyboard and trackpad things you actually look forward to using? Go ahead and vent in comments below; it’s Friday, it’s your birthday, and HP’s got an awfully thick coat of skin.

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Well, it looks like GameStop’s plans following its acquisition of Impulse and Spawn Labs may be even grander than we had suspected. At an investor conference today, GameStop said flat out that it is “becoming a technology company,” and that it does indeed plan to introduce a cloud-based gaming service similar to OnLive as a result of the Spawn Labs acquisition, while Impulse will be used to “compete fiercely” with Steam. But that’s just the start of things. According to the Dallas Morning News, GameStop also plans to expand the gaming service to a variety of mobile devices, and it’s apparently even entertaining the idea of a GameStop-branded tablet, saying that “if we feel like we could do a better job of making a tablet, we’ll do that.” Of course, some of that is still quite a ways off, but GameStop will be taking its first steps fairly soon — it’s already showed off a demo of how the service will be integrated into its website (see above, complete with a “try it now” option), and it plans to begin a public beta sometime this year before rolling out the full service early next year.

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