It was two decades ago that Tim Berners-Lee and his CERN colleagues uploaded the very first .GIF file to the Internet, and GIF has come a long way since then. Being the abbreviation of “graphics interchange format”, it has at long last taken its place among the pantheon of tech words in the Oxford dictionary, having good company such as “tweet,” “blog,” and “google”. Bear in mind that GIF remains Oxford’s Word of the Year 2012 in the US, while our friends living across the pond has named “omnishambles” as its Word of the Year in the UK.
Back in the US, “GIF” managed to beat out “superstorm”, a term that gained popularity after Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast, while “YOLO,” a shortened version of “You only live once”, proved to put up quite a fight as well. Glad that the road to such prominence, while long and winding, proved worthwhile – will JPG make the cut anytime soon?
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Vudu has just announced that their 1080p video streaming service is available over the Web, allowing users to enjoy a cinema-like experience straight from their browsers as well as Vudu To Go, making it the first-of-its-kind service that is available in today’s market. Touted to be the first streaming service to use a Web browser to deliver HDX, which is the highest-quality content available from any Internet, broadcast or satellite on-demand service, your eyes will definitely be clamoring for a better quality monitor if you haven’t made an upgrade to your monitor for years. HDX is a groundbreaking video format that is capable of offering stunning 1080p HD True Digital video, where it complements HDX streaming also over Vudu-enabled HDTVs, the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Blu-ray players and streaming media devices including (but not limited to) Roku and Boxee.
John McAfee’s name is a famous one – at least his family name is, for coming up with one of the more popular antivirus programs in the realm of PC computing. It is rather unfortunate that he is currently being sought after by the Belize police in connection with a murder, where American expatriate Gregory Faull is concerned. Faull was shot on Saturday night at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye, and Vienne Robinson, assistant superintendent of the San Pedro police department in Belize, informed FoxNews.com that police are hot on the trails of McAfee.
Asus’ latest VivoBook U38N has just made an appearance at the FCC, and it goes without saying that the Asus VivoBook U38N itself is set to follow for a general release in due time Stateside. To understand more about the Asus VivoBook U38N, it resembles an Ultrabook, but on the technical side of things, it does not qualify to be one since it is powered by an AMD processor instead of an Intel processor. Still, this 13.3” notebook measures a mere 0.7” in thickness and tips the scales at 3.4 pounds, while sporting a 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS touchscreen display, 4GB RAM, and a 500GB hard drive.
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NVIDIA is making some noise in the supercomputing world today by unveiling its latest Tesla K-Series, in which K stands for “Kepler”, which is the name of the micro-architecture used to build it. That is the same architecture used in NVIDIA’s most recent graphics processors (GPUs) which is now making its way to the supercomputing world.
America’s most dysfunctional cartoon family, the Simpsons, is definitely one of my favorite cartoon series to date – and for good reason, of course. The offbeat humor, parody of certain real life characters and situations, and generally the script as well as storyline with characters who seem absolutely real and alive did it for me. I am quite sure the merchandise juggernaut for the Simpsons is a force not to be trifled with, and here we are with the latest edition of The Simpsons USB flash drives.
