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LG has further detailed its multitouch display targeted at Windows 8 users wanting to add touch to their desktop experience, the LG ET83, following in the footsteps of the company’s V325 AIO PC. The 23-inch monitor supports up to 10-finger multitouch for all of Windows 8′s gestures, and uses an IPS LCD panel for better viewing angles and colors.

Unfortunately, those details are just about where LG’s enthusiasm peters out. There’s no detail on connectivity – beyond the fact that it takes just a single connection to get the ET83 working with both picture and touch – and no talk of resolution, though our guess would be Full HD just like its all-in-one sibling.

Availability is set for Korea in November, with Europe and other markets following on after that. LG hasn’t talked pricing, but it’s worth noting that Dell’s 23-inch S2340T 23-inch touchscreen display comes in at $699, so we’d expect the ET83 to be somewhere similar.

For more on Windows 8, check out our full review.

LG ET83 touchscreen monitor wants your Windows 8 fingers is written by Chris Davies & originally posted on SlashGear.
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In case you didn’t hear, Microsoft‘s BUILD developer conference kicked off today in Seattle, and the folks from Redmond took the opportunity to show off some new apps. We got a first hand look at the new ESPN for Windows 8, and then they nicely shared a few details regarding what to expect in the coming months. Obviously apps are coming soon, but today they specifically mentioned DropBox, Paypal, Sports Illustrated and more.

A dedicated Netflix app for Windows 8 is already available, and earlier we shared details on the beautiful ESPN app too. While on stage Microsoft took a minute to shout out multiple brands we’ll be seeing apps from in the coming weeks and months. As shown above some of those include the popular Dropbox, PayPal, OWN, Sports Illustrated, Wikipedia, TBS and many others. These will be more than just apps, they’ll be useful apps built to work great with everything Windows 8 has to offer.

Paypal will not only have their own app, but they’ll offer an API to developers on Windows 8 to use PayPal payments in their own apps right in the Windows Store, as well as any Windows Store app. Dropbox has an app coming soon, but they didn’t give many details on that — obviously wanting users to choose SkyDrive instead.

The link above showing off the all new ESPN app is just one of many, and a fine example of what all the API’s and options Windows 8 brings to app developers. Being able to have an impressive and beautiful score-center and more all working seamlessly in Windows 8 as an app should be exciting. I’m sure we’ll be hearing plenty more all week at build, as well as from these specific app developers themselves.

Microsoft confirms Dropbox, PayPal apps and more coming soon to Windows 8 is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Trimble has unveiled a new rugged tablet computer running Windows 7 called the Yuma 2. The rugged tablet computer is designed for field workers in the construction, transportation, public safety, forestry, and other outdoor service related industries. The tablet features a seven-inch capacitive multitouch screen.

The device is designed to be easy to hold and measures 6.3-inches by 9.6-inches with a weight of under 3 pounds. The display uses technology to make it clear and easy-to-read in direct sunlight. Trimble promises that the display is readable even in the brightest of outdoor conditions. The tablet computer can be had with a dual mode cellular modem allowing connectivity to mobile data networks via GSM or CDMA cellular networks when available.

The operating system of the computer is Windows 7 Professional. The machine runs a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom dual core processor paired with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM. Storage is to a 64 GB SSD, and the tablet has a dual battery giving eight hours of runtime. There are a number of options for the Yuma 2 tablet, including a larger 128 GB SSD, and an extended battery set providing up to 16 hours of operation.

The touch screen can be used with fingers, a stylus, or special capacitive gloves. The tablet also can be used in portrait or landscape modes with orientation changing automatically thanks to an accelerometer inside. Other features include a five-megapixel camera that can take video or still photos with geo-tagging and an integrated GPS receiver. The tablet meets MIL-STD-810G standards for drops, vibration, and humidity. The Yuma 2 is expected to be available in early Q4 at an undisclosed price.

Trimble shows off rugged Yuma 2 tablet computer is written by Shane McGlaun & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Today the folks at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NVIDIA, and Cray have brought on the next generation of accelerated computing with not just a re-naming of the Jaguar supercomputer, but integration with NVIDIA’s solutions for GPU-powered greatness. This update turns the Titan (as it is now called) into the flagship accelerated computing system – the flagship for the whole world, that is. This is now a 200-cabinet Cray XK7 supercomputer working with 18,688 notes – AMD 16-core Opteron plus NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPUs – enough to change the way we work.

This project is a next-level teaming of the Cray XK7, the “most scalable supercomputer” on the planet, and the NVIDIA Tesla K20 GPU, aka the “world’s fastest accelerator.” This combination beings on CUDA and Open ACC programming and new features that expand programmability far beyond what’s been available before, and with the NVIDIA GPU units being used now, they’re working with 3x higher performance per watt. This means one whole heck of a lot less power consumed for the same tasks as were being performed before.

This supercomputer is currently in the acceptance process for a series of scientific applications. The program that surrounds this unit is made to expand the access groups have to supercomputing, judging each application for a program individually and giving them time based on the percentages allotted to each of the following: Plasma, Nuclear, Materials, Engineering, Earth Science, Computer Science, Chemical Science, Biology, and Astrophysics. This is all done through the US Department of Energy’s INCITE: Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment.

This program has seen a record number of proposals, with demand being approximately three times larger than they’re actually able to supply. Have a peek at the gallery below to see a few examples of what these applicants are proposing:

This also brings the Jaguar – again, now called Titan – up to a whole new specifications set. The compute notes remain the same at 18,688, but the Login and I/O nodes go up from 256 all the way to 512. The memory per node was at 16Gb and is now at 32GB + 6GB. Number of Opteron cores jumps from 224,256 to 299,008, and the total system memory was at 300TB and is now at 710TB. With the addition of 18,688 NVIDIA K20 Kepler accelerators, this beast’s former peak performance at 2.3 Petaflops is dwarfed by its current peak at 20+ Petaflops.

TITAN sees unprecedented demand for supercomputing science projects is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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It would appear that the folks at Google – or at least one of their ranks – wants to prove the versatility of the hardware behind the newest Chromebook on the market with a port of Ubuntu as an operating system. We’ve reviewed the Samsung Series 3 Chromebook in full and can say with some confidence that it’d be amazing to have more options than just Chrome as an OS, especially given the undeniably low price point of the unit at $249 USD. The process has already begun with Google’s Olof Johansson, right on down on the case – with a dirty port going strong here right as the Chromebook is arriving in mailboxes!

What Johannson has shown thus far is that he’s been able to do a “messy” dump of Ubuntu to his ARM-based Chromebook thus far, starting with putting the device in devmode. For those of you that wish to enter devmode, you can do it via instructions provided by The Chromium Projects – but KNOW THIS: you could seriously mess up your device if you do anything wrong inside this very fragile state. This mode is made for developers (and hackers) only, not the general public, and Google will most certainly not be apt to give you a new unit if you bust yours up from the inside out.

Johansson moved forward with a tarball Ubuntu filesystem he created himself with the “rootstock” tool – this available in a Ubuntu-distributed Ubuntu-core tarball if you like as well. The process requires a full-sized SD-card (which you’ll be popping in to the device in its handy-dandy full-sized SD card slot), and a few code tappings along the way. Of course it’s much more complicated than that, and you’ll want to check the full instructions over on the Google+ post that Johansson made just last night to make it all work.

It would appear that Johansson is essentially done with his part of the work here, pushing others to continue on at this point. If you’re a lover of the Ubuntu universe or just straight up want to get some other sort of operating system working on your Chromebook, let us know! We’ll be following this hacking project as long as there’s interest, folks!

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Samsung Series 3 Chromebook gets Ubuntu hack via Google itself is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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