Eric Schmidt's $100 Million 'Farewell'
And now, for the true reason we all hate Eric Schmidt...we're jealous. Like all of you, I too dream of a day I can "step aside" for $100 million. Google Inc. says it has awarded $100 million worth of equity to Eric Schmidt, who is stepping aside as CEO but will stay with the company as executive chairman. Google said in a regulatory filing on Monday the stock and stock options will be granted on Feb. 2 and will vest over four years. Comments
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AMD Announces New AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series Variant
We just got word from AMD that the company is launching a new 1GB variant of the AMD Radeon HD 6950. The company says it will provide a link to partner product sites in the next 12 - 36 hours. Here is the complete announcement with pricing information: We would like to take this opportunity to update you on our product positioning with a new variant of the AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series of products. When we launched the AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series in December, AMD introduced our most advanced enthusiast GPU ever. Equipped with a 2GB frame buffer for extreme high quality settings & very high Eyefinity resolutions we delivered an immersive gaming experience. With flexible image quality features like MLAA and EQAA, AMD delivered to our enthusiast gamers the ultimate graphics card. AMD HD3D Technology, coupled with excellent Crossfire scaling and our revolutionary AMD PowerTune power management technology paved the way for gamers to experience 2nd Generation DirectX 11 technology based on our world-class GPU. To further improve our products, we've continued to listen to your feedback and those of our customers. With the Catalyst 11.1a drivers (to be publically available on January 26th) we have improved the default image quality and also created new settings for different end user preferences. These drivers also bring more value to new and existing users alike with significant performance increases (up to and over 30% in cases) and allow end users across the range of products to experiment with their own balance of image quality and performance on DirectX11 titles with the new tessellation slider. We encourage you to test with this updated driver to get the most accurate comparison. Additionally AMD's partners are introducing the AMD Radeon HD 6950 1GB variant, bringing all the capabilities of the AMD Radeon HD 6900 Series to new price points. Between $200-$300 ender users can choose from: AMD continues to offer our customers compelling graphics solutions across the range. With the introduction of the 1GB version of the AMD Radeon HD 6950 and our Catalyst 11.1a driver, we bring an incredible feature set and enthusiast class performance to a highly competitive price point. Our evaluation of the Radeon HD 6950 can be found here and our AMD Radeon 6970 / 6950 CFX here. Comments
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ePower Juice Box 450W Auxiliary Power Supply Review
Looking for additional power for that new video card without buying and new PSU? The Juice Box is a widely sold auxiliary PSU that works in addition to your current PSU and this used to be sold under the Visiontek name also. Worth your cash?
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Random [H] Sighting
Okay, arranging thousands of dollars into a big [H] isn't what you would call "random" but it sure is cool! Think of the system you could build with that pile of cash though! Thanks to Mr. Please_Don't_Use_My_Real_Name for today's Random [H] sighting! Comments
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Recording The Police, Go To Jail
Temped to record the police the next time you get pulled over? I'd think twice about that, you might end up in jail. The authorities say that Mr. Drew and Ms. Moore audio-recorded their separate nonviolent encounters with Chicago police officers without the officers' permission, a Class 1 felony in Illinois, which, along with Massachusetts and Oregon, has one of the country's toughest, if rarely prosecuted, eavesdropping laws. Comments
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Computer Security = Guns, Lots of Guns
Who says computers and guns don't mix? The only problem I see here is that, if he gets any more guns, this guy will not have anywhere to sit. Thanks to Izzy for the image. Comments
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Social Networking Sites Are a 'Modern Form of Madness'
A professor from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology says social networking sites are a modern form of madness. What does that mean? According to her it means we are becoming "less human." Ummm, okay. Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writes in her new book, Alone Together: "A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological." Comments
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Colleges Want IP Rights To Your School Work?
Invent something cool while you are attending college? Be prepared to have your school attempt to sink its claws into the profits. The University of Missouri student came up with an idea in class one day that spawned an iPhone application that has had more than 250,000 downloads since its release in March 2009. But the invention also raised a perplexing question when university lawyers abruptly demanded a 25 percent ownership stake and two-thirds of any profits. Comments
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Top 10 Eric Schmidt Quotes
We've made fun of Google's CEO for years because of his penchant for saying incredibly weird stuff. Now that he is no longer the comapny's CEO, the Wall Street Journal has put together a list of "creepy" quotes from senior Schmidt that you should check out. Here's a good one: Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it. I would argue that implanting things in your brain is beyond the creepy line. At least for the moment, until the technology gets better. Comments
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AMD Continues its Commitment to OpenGL Community
AMD today announced wide-ranging support of OpenGL® 4.1 for Microsoft Windows® 7, Windows® Vista, Windows® XP and Linux across select ATI FirePro™, ATI FireGL™ and AMD Radeon™ graphics cards. The new functionality is made possible with the release of the latest professional and consumer graphics drivers, ATI FirePro™ and ATI FireGL™ unified driver 8.801, and AMD CatalystTM 10.12, available on the AMD website. Comments
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Web Images to Get Expiration Date
German researchers have developed software capable of putting an expiration date on uploaded images. The program is aptly named X-Pire and will be available later this month. Dr Backes said development work began about 18 months ago as potentially risky patterns of activity on social networks, such as Facebook, showed a pressing need for such a system. Comments
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Pirate Bay Returning as Music Bay?
The guys behind Pirate Bay may just have a few more surprises to spring on the music industry if rumors hold true. Interviews with Pirate Bay insiders indicate something big on the horizon from themusicbay.org. "The music industry can't even imagine what we're planning to roll out in the coming months. For years they've complained bitterly about piracy, but if they ever had a reason to be scared it is now," Comments
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Woman Hangs Up on $10,000 Call from Apple
Congratulations, you are the winner ofÂ…..Hello?...Hello? Apple's contest to find the 10 billionth downloader is finally over and the $10K prize was about to be awarded to the lucky winner. The only glitch was the lucky winner hung up on Eddy Cue, VP of iTunes, thinking he was a telemarketer. You might wonder why Cue himself didn't make the call. It could have been because it had, indeed, been Cue, rather than a telemarketer, who had made the original call and received a polite British brush-off. Comments
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France Telecom Negotiating for Stake in DailyMotion
According to inside sources, France Telecom is entering into negotiations with DailyMotion to buy up to half of the video provider on January 25th. Investing in DailyMotion would give France Telecom advertising revenue like that earned by YouTube. DailyMotion attracted 93 million monthly visitors as of October, according to the company. Comments
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AT&T May Give Away MicroCell Base Stations
If you are an AT&T customer in an area with poor wireless signal quality, cross your fingers, you may be receiving a coupon in the mail this week. AT&T will be trial testing its MicroCell indoor base station in designated areas. The MicroCell is intended specifically for subscribers who get very little or no signal in their home. "It is a product with a very narrowly defined use. We don't mass-market it," Siegel said. Comments
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Text Message of Death
For the five billion or so of us, who carry feature phones (non-smart phones) who thought their phones were attack proof, think again. Two German security students have found the SMS protocol that can take out even the simplest of cellphones. Oh joy! SMS-o-Death does not permanently kill a mobile phone, but the problem could prove very difficult to fix and its tricks could exasperate targeted people to no end Comments
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