IT News HeadLines (HardOCP) 14/07/2010

Robot Helicopters Working Together
Proof positive that robots are getting closer to taking over the world. Comments
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Apple Censors Negative Consumer Reports' iPhone 4 Test
It would seem that Apple isn't too happy with Consumer Reports' negative iPhone 4 report. If you mention the story we linked yesterday (here) in the Apple forums the thread will be deleted. Apple has deleted at least six threads talking about Consumer Reports' iPhone 4 tests. Customers on Apple's support boards were discussing the publication's negative report, which demonstrated that the design flaw could affect all users. Now, those threads are gone. Comments
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Random [H] Sighting
Sometimes it hurts to be [H], that is all I have to say about today's random [H] sighting. Thanks to Undercover_Man for the image. Comments
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NVIDIA: Worst-Performing S&P 500 Stock of 2010
NVIDIA is #1! Unfortunately for team green, we are talking about taking top honors for the worst-performing S&P 500 stock of 2010. Chip maker Nvidia(NVDA) has plummeted 45% this year. The company swung to a fiscal first-quarter profit of $138 million, or 23 cents a share, from a loss of $201 million, or 37 cents, a year earlier. Revenue advanced 51%. Nvidia sells for a price-to-projected-earnings ratio of 9.8 and a price-to-book ratio of 2.1 -- 27% and 23% discounts to respective semiconductor industry averages. Of analysts following Nvidia, 11, or 34%, rate its stock "buy", 19 rate it "hold" and two rank it "sell." Nvidia has $1.8 billion of cash, equaling a quick ratio of 3, and $24 million of debt. Comments
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Greenest Supercomputer On the Planet
This may be the greenest supercomputer on the planet but it is also the messiest too. Look at this damn thingÂ…wow. Comments
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Man Claims to Own 84% of Facebook
I am not saying this is a blatant cash grabÂ…I just get the feeling this guy would easily settled out of court for less that what Zuckerberg would spend on attorney fees. The contract entitled Ceglia to a $1,000 fee and a 50 percent stake in the final product, which eventually launched as TheFacebook.com, according to the suit, which was filed in the Supreme Court of New York's Allegany County on June 30. Comments
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Apple iOS 4 Upgrade Kills Old iPhones' Wi-Fi
According to reports, upgrading to the latest iPhone operating system kills old iPhones' Wi-Fi. I don't mean the "revert-to-your-old-OS-and-it-is-fixed" kind of killedÂ…I mean killed, as in "never works again." Numerous threads have cropped up on Apple's support forums in the last few weeks outlining the problem: After the OS upgrade, the iPhone will no longer pick up the presence of Wi-Fi networks at all. Reverting to the old iPhone operating system does not resolve the problem, nor does resetting the phone to factory-original status. Comments
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Millions Made By Selling Your Personal Information
It looks like they have caught the scumbags selling your name, address, driver's license number and other personal information. It's the DMV, it's legal and they've been doing it for years. Since 2005, the Bureau of Motor Vehicles has sold more than 1.39 billion records containing personal information to various companies, municipalities and other customers for about $42 million, according to state records. Comments
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'Expecting the Unexpected' Doesn't Always Work
Researchers are now saying that "expecting the unexpected" doesn't always work? Great, now we're hosed for sure. "The main finding is that knowing that unexpected events might occur doesn't prevent you from missing unexpected events," researcher Daniel Simons, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in a university news release. Comments
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eBay and Microsoft Announce Cloud Computing Agreement
Microsoft Corp. and eBay today announced that eBay will be one of the first customers of Microsoft's new Windows Azure platform appliance for cloud computing. The partnership is a significant joint engineering effort that will couple the innovation and power of the Windows Azure platform appliance with the technical excellence of eBay's platform — to deliver an automated, scalable, cost-effective capacity management solution. Comments
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The End of the Free Internet?
It's the end of free internet as we know it. It's the end of free internet as we know itÂ….and I feel fine. Now both the news and entertainment industries are experimenting again with online payment plans. Someday, 2010 may be remembered as the year when companies finally scrapped the idea of a "free" Internet. Comments
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Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta Download
There is an update to the Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta story we posted earlier today, it appears that you can now download the beta service pack HERE. Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates. Comments
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YouTube Leanback Meets The WiiMote
Take YouTube's Leanback and combine it with a WiiMote and you have, in my opinion, a much better user experience. The author says the software will eventually be available to the general public (when it's done). Comments
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 SLI Performance Follow-up
Our first look at the GeForce GTX 460 showed it to be an impressive product with excellent all-around performance for the price. But what about SLI performance? How does GTX 460 SLI performance compare with a single GTX 480 or GTX 470 in real world gaming? Two 460 cards are now only $80 more than a single GTX 470.
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