Apr 20
GoPro will soon be revealing its next compact video camera, the GoPro Hero4, and has already been the subject of leaks and rumors. This latest round contains quite a few … Continue reading
Mar 08
While Target recovers from their shocking $40 million credit and debit card record theft from last year, Visa and MasterCard have joined forces to push for a new chip-enabled card … Continue reading
Feb 23
With the mobile chip wars slowly heading towards the 64-bit architecture, it was only a matter of time before MediaTek outed its own budget-conscious offering. But the newly unveiled MT6732 … Continue reading
Feb 16
Trying to perhaps avoid a large media backlash, Qualcomm has rather silently announced its decision to not push through with its Snapdragon 802 processor. This statement comes just a month … Continue reading
Feb 04
This week a seemingly run of the mill bit of patent litigation has lit up the Apple analyst boards as the company’s A7 chip has been placed at the center … Continue reading
Jan 06
Nvidia took to the fields to help publicize its new Tegra K1 chip, its first with a staggering 192 C
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Nvidia took to the fields to help publicize its new Tegra K1 chip, its first with a staggering 192 CUDA cores. The result is this deliciously geeky crop circle, cut into a field two hours south of San Francisco. [Nvidia]
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Nov 20
MediaTek launches world’s first true octa-core mobile chip, first devices due end of year
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Qualcomm’s nightmare has finally come true. Earlier today, MediaTek officially introduced the world’s first true octa-core mobile processor, MT6592, and the first devices to feature it are expected to arrive as soon as end of year. This 28nm chip packs eight low-power Cortex-A7 cores, and courtesy of the Heterogeneous Multi-Processing use model on top of ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture, all eight cores can operate simultaneously — at up to between 1.7GHz and 2GHz, depending on the bin.
MediaTek pointed that Chrome can already make use of all eight cores, and likewise with some map apps, video players plus multi-window function. According to the company’s figures, the MT6592 manages to beat what appears to be the quad-core Snapdragon 800 in benchmarks, power consumption (as low as 40 percent) and temperature. You can see the full detail in this article’s gallery. %Gallery-slideshow122456%
Filed under: Cellphones, Misc, Mobile
Nov 04
Some guys are just super hardcore. Like Rambo hardcore. Able to stitch themselves up on the battlefield hardcore. Take this guy for instance. A man named Tim Cannon is a “biohacker,” and he had himself opened up and inserted a computer chip in his arm -with no doctor helping. I must be a wimp, because there is no way I could do this.
Don’t try this at home kids. Being a walking computer just isn’t worth it. Tim had a large “Circadia” board implanted into his arm. It is even larger than normal due to a special case. The chip is powered by a battery but can also be charged wirelessly.
This chip sends all of Tim’s biometric signals to an Android device. He would have used a doctor, but he says that no certified doctor could preform the operation to implant the device. So he had a “body modification enthusiast” named Steve Haworth do the surgery. Sadly for Tim, Steve isn’t an official medical practitioner, so he wasn’t licensed to use anesthetics. That had to be painful.
Here’s an update from Tim showing off the wireless charging process for his arm-implanted computer:
Have fun monitoring your biometric signals, Tim. My idea of fun is playing video games.
[via Motherboard via Kotaku]
Oct 14
Repo Robot Takes A Ride With You
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Rachael Ward is suing a loan company for repeatedly freezing the ignition on her 2003 Mitsubshi Galant with a remote device. Companies that give high-interest loans to people who don’t qualify for regular car loans are installing devices that prevent cars from starting and can be activated remotely when payments are missed. Critics say the devices are dangerous, leaving people stranded far from home or in dangerous areas. J
Ah, how has technology changed the way we work? Let me count the ways. In the good old days, if you could not meet your car payment, other than receiving notices in your letter box from the bank, you also had to keep a keen eye out for the repo man. The thing is, the repo man is no longer flesh and bone these days, but rather, he comes in the form of a small device that is located under your dashboard. Whenever you miss a payment, the robot will get into action by immobilizing your ride, turning your car into a giant paperweight that sits on your driveway.
Of course, you as an owner will have the choice of paying up your monthly loan in order to use the car again, or simply to wait until the human version of the repo man show his face as he will have his co-ordinates locked onto your car thanks to the wonders of GPS navigation.
Repo Robot Takes A Ride With You original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Sep 24
We’ve already seen inside the iPhone 5S
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