Most EV Friendly Cities Listed
Ford decided recently to go on a mission to find the most friendly cities across the United States in terms of Electric Vehicles, and it seems that it has just done that. Across the nation, many cities offer incentives for new customers to help offset the price, along with reduced restrictions concerning inspections with the new Electric Vehicles. Also a part of the study to put some areas at the top of the list is plans for charging stations and infrastructures across the city, along with utilities that form a structure to permit off-peak charging. Most of the cities that made the list from Ford tend to be primarily in the east coast region, though Texas and California help to offset the numbers by making the top twenty five as well.
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Corsair Memory Used to Set 3DMark World Record
Corsair has announced that a PC equipped with its Dominator GT GTX2 DDR3 memory recently broke the world records in both 3DMark 11 and 3DMark Vantage, with scores of P24347 and P79364, respectively. The records were broken by the team of Vince “K|ngp|n” Lucido and Illya “TiN” Tsemenko. Also used in the record breaking effort were two Intel Xeon 5690 CPUs, an EVGA Classified SR-2, and four NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 GPUs. Seven liquid nitrogen pots were used to keep everything nice and cold.
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Evercool Announces Dr. Cool for Routers
Evercool has announced the world's first cooler geared towards routers and other IP sharing devices. Known as Dr. Cool, this device seeks to cure your devices of heat problems. The 80mm fan provides adequate cooling for the device, while staying nearly silent. Dr. Cool can be powered using USB or a wall jack, and is adjustable to accommodate other devices, such as portable hard drives and Netbooks.
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New Technique Could Estimate Your IP Address with Great Accuracy
During a conference at NDSI (Networked Systems Design and Implementation), researchers at Northwestern University gave us a new way of estimating the location of an IP address. By using local landmarks such as educational institutions and businesses this new technique could estimate your physical IP location to an accuracy of less than half a mile. The researchers claim this new technique can give real-time results in just a few seconds despite all the data sources needed. To trace an IP location you start by pinging the target IP from multiple servers and record the amount of time it takes for the packet to return. The servers you are pinging the target IP from all have known locations, and the results returned will give you a general idea of where the target IP is located. That result is then converted into a corresponding ZIP code based on geographical location. Using businesses and local landmarks that have websites in this ZIP code the program comes closer to locating the target IP address. Finally you send trace routes to all the local landmarks and the target IP address. Once you figure out the amount of time it takes the packets to return you will then have the target IP location down to just a few city blocks.
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SanDisk and Toshiba's Flash Memory Reaches 19nm
Aiming to beat out Intel and Micron's joint efforts with 20nm sized memory fabrication, SanDisk and Toshiba have come out one step ahead. They made the announcement last week that their 64 gigabit NAND flash memory chips have successfully been shrunken to 19nm, a 5% reduction from their competitors. The two have been touting the new chips as their most advanced yet while further lowering their production costs. Consumers should rejoice since this could mean more memory can fit in a mobile device, the mobile device could have other improvements with the added space, or even added efficiency improving battery life. The switch from 24nm to 19nm has begun in four of SanDisk's fabrication facilities in Asia, though the conversion is taking additional time due to the catastrophe in Japan. The new memory will come in both 2-bit and 3-bit cells, where the 2-bit cells will be used for RAM in mobile devices and the 3-bit cells for USB Flash drives.
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New Wind Farm Investment by Google
With a corporation as large as Google, its operations involve large quantities of electricity from the grid. Earlier this year Google had entered into a 20 year contract to construct wind generated power since it was openly criticized for using less environmentally friendly sources of power. Google has made it a point to reduce its carbon footprint on the Earth. Due to wind power's tendency to lose efficiency on less windy days, Google plans to send the power directly to the grid. All of the power that Google Energy's wind farm creates will be sold to the grid and then any energy that Google needs from the grid will be purchased at a wholesale rate. The wind farm is to be constructed in Oklahoma and the contract was made with NextEra Energy to build them. Google wants to push other large Internet-based companies to follow in its footsteps and to not get all of the electricity from coal plants. Google has admitted that the wind-generated energy is not directly going into its data centers since there is no way to dictate where certain wattage in the grid can be redirected.
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Toshiba's Glasses-less 3D Laptop
A new glasses-free 3D laptop from Toshiba is on the way that will be a new member to the Qosmio family. Aside from being able to display 3D images and videos, this laptop can display 2D content as well. At the same time! The computer uses a "face tracker" that allows the webcam to send the proper images. This is done by sending a different image to each eye which is aided by the webcam which tracks the position of your face.
In addition to the awesome 3D features the laptop runs on an Intel Core i5-2410M processor and a GeForce GT540M for graphics. With up to 8GB of RAM and a Blu-ray player, this laptop can do just about anything. You will see this in stores starting in July. This is definitely something to keep an eye on.
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Chrono Trigger Coming to the PS3
Sony has really picked up the pace over the last year or so by releasing a staggering number of classic PSone games. Not all of the games are former blockbuster titles, but you do get some real gems every so often. Sony has already announced that Final Fantasy V and VI will be coming to the PS Store which made many people wonder if certain other SNES-era Square games will be released. Well, wait no longer as Chrono Trigger is coming to the PS3. The ESRB rated Chrono Trigger for the PS3 and PSP which means it will see release as a PSone Classic. The ESRB has generally been a very good source of upcoming (and unannounced titles) since any game needs a rating before being released. Sure, you can get Chrono Trigger on the Nintendo DS but this marks the first time in a decade you can play it on a console. Previously Chrono Trigger was released with Final Fantasy IV in a collection known as Final Fantasy Chronicles, but chances are quite slim of finding that nowadays unless you already own it.
There was no word on when Chrono Trigger will be released on the PS3, but as an avid fan of the game, I eagerly await that information.
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AMD Hits Half a Billion in Q1 Profits, Fusion APUs Make Up Half of Notebook Shipments
After seeing the profit numbers from both Intel and Apple, AMD has gone ahead and released its own set of numbers. AMD posted a profit of $510 million for the first quarter of this year with a total revenue of $1.61 billion. This is good news for AMD since it has finally managed to turn a sizeable profit while keeping revenue about the same. CFO and interim CEO Thomas Seifert noted that AMD has tripled its Fusion APU shipments compared to last quarter, which means that 3.9 million units have made its way to OEM partners in Q1. However, not all is rosy for AMD as average selling prices for both microprocessors and graphics cards were down due to competition from Intel and NVIDIA. AMD does have a bit of a leg up though with the Radeon HD 6490M and 6750M GPUs which are the only options for Apple MacBook Pros. AMD also provides discrete graphics for Apple iMacs, which makes AMD responsible for the GPUs in a good deal of Apple computers.
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Amazon Server Hosting Issues Affect Other Websites, Leaves Bad Mark for Amazon Cloud Service
You may not realize it, but Amazon.com hosts a good deal of other websites on its servers. Most of the websites are social networking sites (like foursquare) that utilize Amazon's servers, but so does Reddit, Quora, and Zynga. Yesterday, a problem occured which impacted many of those websites. Amazon experienced a server outtage which brought many websites offline or at the least experienced unusual slowdowns. Amazon has been working diligently to restore service to all those sites, but some like Reddit went into an emergency shutdown mode which prevented many users from accessing any part of the site. Amazon has to restore the impacted volumes but does not currently have a timetable as to when everything will be back up.
Conversely, Amazon's troubles with its servers have left a bad mark on it, cloud storage, and web hosting services. You see, Amazon is the poster child of keeping a website online no matter what and when something of this magnitude impacts Amazon's own servers (but not Amazon.com itself) many are left wondering just how it happened. It shouldn't be a deterent for other websites to use Amazon's services since problems like these do happen, it just isn't usually as visible as the Amazon outtage. The thing that will be impacted is just how safe and reliable this technology is for other websites considering migrating to the cloud.
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