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Google Sidewiki Brings Annotations to Websites
It's by no means a new idea, but the fact that Google is introducing the new "Sidewiki" feature to the Google Toolbar today means that it may gain widespread adoption. The basic premise, as outlined in a post on the Official Google Blog (with video demo) is that a lot of people visit the same pages on the web looking for information, and giving them a way of adding some helpful knowledge to these pages in the form of annotations means that more people will find what they are looking for. With Sidewiki, if there are notes available on a website you visit, they will appear in a browser sidebar for you to peruse. Or should you want to add useful information of your own, then you can do that too.
Of course, giving everyone free reign to add notes to websites could potentially lead to plenty of 'less desirable' information being added, which is why Google says it has spent a lot of time working on the ranking algorithms involved. Taking into account both user feedback and a number of other signals (naturally, they don't go into specifics), only the most useful or "high-quality" entries will be shown. Sidewiki will also take entries made on one page and display them on other pages that use the same snippet of text. If you want to try out Sidewiki it is currently available with Google Toolbar for Firefox and IE (Chrome and other browsers to come later).
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Intel's 'Light Peak' Can Carry Data up to 100 meters at 10Gbps
While fiber-optic links themselves are nothing new, with Light Peak Intel is aiming at providing a standard that could see just about anything you plug into a PC using just one type of cable. The technology, demonstrated today at IDF, would allow data to be carried at 10 gigabits per second (full duplex) for up to 100 meters, with Intel believing that could jump to 100Gbps in the next decade. Cables using the technology could be used to connect just about anything, from monitors to external drives or any other peripheral you could think of.
It is an ambitious goal to essentially replace all of the connection standards we are familiar with (USB, DVI, HDMI etc.) with a single cable, but Intel are working with the industry in an attempt to get it standardized. The cables themselves are apparently durable ("you can tie a knot in it and it'll still work" according to Intel's Jason Ziller) and could include copper wire to provide power to devices. The components for the technology will reportedly be ready sometime next year, though it may be a bit (or a lot) longer before we see any PCs with Light Peak ports. For now we will have to make do with the impending appearance of USB 3.0.
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Lucid Announces HYDRA 200, MSI Confirms Use on Big Bang Motherboard
Last month we saw some shots of MSI's upcoming 'Big Bang' motherboard which showed Lucid's HYDRA engine chip placed to take on multi-GPU duties. Lucid has now announced the HYDRA 200 processing engine, which allows combinations of GPUs to work together, whether you favor the red team or the green team, or even a bit of both. The chip is a 65nm package that draws under 6W and comes in three versions, one of which supports up to four GPUs. It also does away with GPU-GPU connectors (your SLi or CrossFire bridges).
MSI has also confirmed that it will be featuring the HYDRA chip on its Big Bang P55 motherboard, which it has been previewing at the Intel Developer Forum event this week. It will feature three PCI Express slots, so should make for some interesting GPU configurations. It should be available for the holiday season, though without an official price tag as yet. The thought of finally being able to throw whatever GPUs you like into a system is an exciting one, though we will wait for some hard performance numbers before writing off SLI and Crossfire as obsolete. Should you come across any, then please let us know.
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Clarksfield Brings Nehalem to Laptops
Intel is using its Developers Forum event this week to introduce plenty of new tech. Today saw the official launch of the company's Clarksfield processors, which bring the Nehalem architecture to laptops. There are three chips, with the Core i7-920XM taking on the mantle of the top of the line mobile chip, which can run as fast as 3.2GHz with Turbo mode enabled (2.0GHz normally). That comes with 8MB of cache, which also features on the Core i7-8200QM (1.73GHz / 3.06GHz Turbo mode). The Core i7-7200QM drops the cache to 6MB and clock speeds to 1.6GHz / 2.8GHz. All support hyper-threading with four physical cores for a total of 8 threads.
The chips should already be popping up in a number of products, with Dell offering the Core i7-7200QM and Core i7-8200QM in its Studio 15, 17 and XPS 16 models. Alienware (also part of the Dell stable) are going that bit further by offering the Extreme edition Core i7-9200XM in its Area-51 M15x laptop. Others are also introducing the new CPUs, such as Toshiba in its X500 Gaming Laptop.
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Kingston Expands Core i5/i7 HyperX Kits to 8GB
Kingston has expanded its product line of HyperX DDR3 memory products for Core i5 and Core i7 processors to include two 8GB kits. The new dual-channel DDR3 kits support Intel XMP profiles and are available in 1600- and 1333MHz frequencies. The kits come in sets of four modules with the 1600MHz part sporting timings of CL8-8-8-24; the 1333MHz kit has timings of CL7-7-7-21. The two new kits expand Kingston's existing lineup of Core i5 and i7 memory solutions as the company has been shipping 4GB kits in 2133-, 2000-, 1600- and 1333MHz frequencies since late August. The new 8GB kits are available now with the 1600MHz part having a suggested retail price of $255US with the 1333MHz kit priced slightly lower at $240US.
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iPhone Coming to South Korea
As of today, the iPhone has been approved for sale in South Korea by the Korea Communications Commission. The market, which is currently dominated by phones from South Korea based Samsung and LG, could prove to be very accepting of the iPhone. Several wireless carriers are already in talks with Apple to bring the iPhone to their customers. The final hurdle in bringing the iPhone to South Korea involved the ability to use maps and get directions. Devices that have such functionality are required to obtain government permission.
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Intel Demos Its Own GPU
Intel demoed a functional version of its upcoming GPU, code named Larrabee, on Monday at the Intel Developer Forum. The Larrabee chip was used in a Gulftown system to render ray tracing environments. It was also revealed that Intel plans to build its own GPU based on Larrabee to compete with Nvidia and ATI in the future. However, Intel feels that Larrabee will really shine when used in hand held devices such as cell phones. Such applications would seem to indicate that Larrabee won't be extremely power hungry, an interesting change from current high end video cards.
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ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series Officially Released
Finally the long awaited ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 series cards have been released, fully supporting Microsoft’s DirectX® 11. These new cards utilize the 40nm fabrication process and pack double the amount of transistors found in the 4800 series, coming in with 2.15 billion of them. Both the 5870 and 5850 come with a GDDR5 memory interface, a PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface, DirectX® 11 support, OpenGL 3.2 support and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology as well as a few more extras. The 5870 comes in as ATI’s fastest graphics processor, with 2.72 TeraFLOPS of processing power, 1600 Stream Processing Units, 80 Texture Units and 32 ROPs with a peak bandwidth of 153.6 GB/sec while the 5850 which comes in slightly less powerful with 2.09 TeraFLOPS of processing power, 1440 Stream Processing Units, 72 Texture Units and 32 ROPs with a peak bandwidth of 128.0 GB/sec. The full specifications for the 5870 can be found here and for the 5850 here. You can expect cards to be coming from ASUS, Club 3D, Diamond Multimedia, Force3D, GIGABYTE, HIS (Hightech Information Systems), MSI, Multimedia, PowerColor, SAPPHIRE Technology, VisionTek and XFX.
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