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Hidden away in Goodyear's Akron, Ohio airship hangar, the tire giant is slowly building its next-generation blimp. Technically a zeppelin, the first of three of the new airships is slated to be finished later this year.

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AKRON, Ohio — To Goodyear, a blimp is a blimp, even if it’s not a blimp.

For decades, the tire giant has been flying its signature airships around the United States, mostly over sporting events, and has become one of the most recognizable icons in the world.

But Goodyear’s current fleet of three blimps — based out of Akron, Pompano Beach, Fla., and Carson, Calif. — is aging, and the company announced in 2011 that it had decided to replace the airships with zeppelins, which are longer, faster, quieter, and more maneuverable than blimps.

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Intel has been open with its plans to introduce an internet-based TV service, but many of the details remain up in the air — not the least of which is the name. However, GigaOM has done sleuthing that suggests the offering could be called OnCue. A reported shell company for Intel, Sest, has registered trademarks that include the OnCue title, a logo and a “TV has come to its senses” slogan. Simultaneously, an employee at the marketing agency OMD claims to have worked on the OnCue launch. Intel isn’t commenting on the apparent discoveries, but we wouldn’t count on the trademarks arriving in tandem with a product. When the company is taking a very cautious approach to entering the internet TV field, there’s a chance that the names will be all we ever see.

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Earlier this month, the AnTuTu benchmarking tool raised a bit of a firestorm when it showed Intel‘s Atom Z2580 out performing offerings from Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and Samsung. This led to BDTI, a consulting firm, showing that not all instructions were being executed by the Intel processor, causing a false boost in results. As such, AnTuTu has issued a revised version of the benchmarking tool, and Intel has fallen 20-percent as a result.

Reportedly, this entire issue was the result of the ICC compiler, which was introduced in version 2.9.4 and utilized for Intel processors, while other processors utilized a GCC compiler. The issue caused the RAM test to be incomplete, causing the artificially high results. The revised version is 3.2.2 and was released this past Wednesday.

The ICC compiler is still used for Intel processors in the new version, but the new benchmarks scores are vastly different, with the Atom Z2580 taking a hit of about 20-percent and the RAM score in particular falling by half. Other scores are said to have been marginally affected, but the big changes center in these two areas.

Meanwhile, the results for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 and the Samsung S4 Oct were relatively unchanged, with the Exynos 5 Octa now ranking higher in performance the Intel Atom Z2580. Next month AnTuTu plans to issue new testing standards, at which point we’ll get a chance to see what kind of result changes might surface with the next big release.

AnTuTu did not reveal what changes it made to the newly released version to correct these issues, and some are questioning whether they’re now accurate. Looking at other benchmarks for the processors, however, the new AnTuTu results fall more in line with what we’ve seen elsewhere.

SOURCE: EE Times

Intel Atom Z2580 AnTuTu benchmark falls 20% following revision is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Earlier this week, we saw the BlackBerry A10′s specs leak alongside the BlackBerry 9720, the first of which is a reboot of the currently available Z10 handset. The following day, someone leaked an image of the front of the A10, as well as a screenshot of the system screen. Now the folks over at Tinh te have nabbed some pictures of the handset’s back cover.

There are four images of what is said to be the back of the BlackBerry A10, the rest of which you can see in the gallery below. This in addition to the leaked image of the front of the device, which was sent to the folks over at BGR and visible below. Combined, we get a good idea where BlackBerry is heading with its reboot of the A10, something it is reportedly aiming towards gaming and power.

According to BGR, which first leaked an image of the handset, this version is more refined and finished than the Z10 handset, with the entire handset being more rounded in nature than what you’ll find with some of the company’s other recent handsets. What we see in these images is in line with what was reported about the back of the device (with it being similar to the Q10), of which we’re now seeing it for the first time.

The specifications leak has the BlackBerry A10 pegged with a 5-inch Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 1280 x 720. Inside, users will reportedly find a dual-core processor and a separate graphics chip, which is something that deviates away from BlackBerry’s typical usage of integrated chips in its more recent smartphones. This is along with 2GB of RAM.

In the images from this leak, we see an AT&T logo on the back over of the device serving as a pretty strong hint that the handset will be cropping up the carrier in the future. That’s the extent of what we know about the handset right now, but at the rate of the A10 leaks, we’ll be keeping an eye out for more information as it surfaces.

SOURCE: Tinh te

BlackBerry A10 back cover revealed in images is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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This is a bit of a niche product, but it’s still interesting nonetheless.

Artist Julius Tuomisto believes that VJs are the next DJs. Just in the same way that a DJ shepherds music lovers through a thoughtful selection of tracks, video artists can guide audiences through live visualizations that respond to music.

He and his Helsinki-based firm Delicode have created a new software platform, called Z Vector, that can take data from a Kinect or the PrimeSense Carmine to create live video feeds and visualizations that rotate around 3D forms and people captured by the camera. It’s a tool for live performances, not for programming.

You can see how it works in this music video he created with the band, Phantom.

Z Vector takes the raw 3D data from the Kinect and puts effects or filters on it like different geometric textures and lines (like in the Phantom video).

Or it also can put in distortion fields like in the video below (or particle trails and gradients, too). They’ve used it during live dance performances to broadcast visualizations behind troupes of modern dancers who have recently demoed it at the Venice Biennale, Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and SXSW.

The beta is free, but it’s a possibility that Tuomisto might charge down the line. The feed from Z Vector can also be broadcast into other devices, even ones like the Oculus Rift, the virtual reality headset that has hardcore gamers salivating and that recently picked up funding in a round led by Spark Capital.