Massive Amount of Domains Leave Go Daddy Due to SOPA Support
I am sure everyone has heard of Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the effect it will have on the Internet, with sites facing potential censorship of anything the government deems unfit. You may have heard Internet domain site Go Daddy is a supporter of SOPA, and when people found out about that, something happened. Go Daddy lost more than 70,000 domains in a week, with 21,054 just on last Friday alone. One way to protest a company supporting SOPA is to stop giving them your money, and that is exactly what happened to Go Daddy. One of the more noticeable domains no longer part of Go Daddy is Wikipedia, which has been pretty vocal about Go Daddy's stance on SOPA. Even though Go Daddy says it no longer supports SOPA, it has never told Congress its new stance on the bill it helped author. Go Daddy is also exempt from SOPA, which is one of the benefits of writing something. Perhaps the 70,000 lost domains can change Go Daddy's stance officially, but until then, I expect more sites to switch over to another provider.
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Twisted Metal to Include Twisted Metal Black on the PS3
Fans of vehicular combat use to turn to the Twisted Metal series on the PlayStation, but over the years that genre has grown to countless other titles while Twisted Metal has been fairly quiet. Sure, there have been some PSP games and the like, but the last actual Twisted Metal game for the consoles was Twisted Metal Black (not counting the PSP game Twisted Metal: Head On re-released on the PS2). As such, fans have been left without one of the best vehicular combat games for some time, but soon that will change. We have known about series' debut for the PS3 for some time, but now we know a little more of the new Twisted Metal. The upcoming PS3 debut of Twisted Metal will include Twisted Metal Black as a free download during the first run of the PS3 game. The version of Twisted Metal Black will be the PS2 version released in 2001, meaning no online component, but it should still bring back plenty of memories. The new Twisted Metal features a campaign mode with plenty of new vehicles, plus two player splti-screen and online gaming.
Twisted Metal is being developed at Eat Sleep Play by David Jaffe and much of the original team, and will launch for the PS3 on February 14th, 2012.
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Corsair Announces Memory Upgrades for Apple Computers
Corsair has announced the availability of 8GB and 16GB DDR3 memory kits designed for Apple Mac desktops and laptops. The memory modules have been tested at the Apple Developer Compatibility Labs and have been verified to work with most MacBook Pro, iMac, and Mac Mini systems shipped in the last year. According to VP of Memory Products Thi La, "The ability to go beyond 8GB of memory will be a boon for graphics designers and video editors on the go, IT professionals who need to run Windows virtual machines simultaneously with Mac OS X, network administrators who use Macs as servers or web hosts, or anybody who wants to push their Mac to the limits of its performance." Corsair was even nice enough to post a demonstration of how to change the memory in your MacBook.
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NVIDIA Gaming Notebook Giveaway
NVIDIA has announced a contest with the grand prize being an MSI GT783 limited-edition gaming notebook. Featuring a GeForce GTX 580M 2GB GPU, this laptop should have enough horsepower for anything you decide to throw at it. An Intel i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 128GB SSD round out the high performance components that make this laptop more powerful than many desktop systems. A 17.3" screen will display all that gaming goodness in full HD resolution of 1920x1080. A copy of Battlefield 3 will be included to get you started. Five additional winners will receive an MSI SteelSeries gaming mouse, and another ten will receive an MSI tumbler. The contest ends January 23, and can be entered here.
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Looking for Links Where Ever they are
You are given a large set of data and told to find the patterns in it; you must report on what variables are linked. How would you perform this task? If your answer is, "use a computer," you are in good company as many researchers do the same thing, and a new tool coming from MIT is looking to help.
Modern algorithms for finding patterns within data have been found to be prejudice. Sometimes a variable’s data is noisy, and the program will not consider it properly. Other times the relationship is not linear, so the software misses it because it is not looking as closely for these other relationships. Both of these issues can lead to connections being lost and the understanding of a scenario suffers.
The researchers have crafted a new way to find relationships without these prejudices. This was achieved by having the algorithm look at how orderly the patterns are between two variables, and then plotting this on a grid. Grids have no preference to the kind of relationship, so if a link exists, it will be found. This tool can aid any area which requires reaching data sets, such as medicine.
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Intel May Launch Thunderbolt for Windows PCs in April 2012
Intel had been talking about its new data transfer system, Light Peak, for a while before it finally appeared on Apple products. The name had been changed to Thunderbolt but offered a blistering fast connection (10Gbps) capable of transfering data to and from at the same time. Currently, you can pretty much find Intel Thunderbolt only on Apple products (plus one Sony laptop), but soon Windows computers will be joining the party. Intel Thunderbolt could launch on Windows PCs in April 2012, with products from Acer, ASUS, Gigabyte, and Sony planned for the spring. Gigabyte will incorporate Thunderbolt ports on its motherboards, while Sony will presumably use the standard Thunderbolt port instead of the USB 3.0-based one it currently uses. Acer and ASUS will both add Thunderbolt ports to its upcoming ultrabooks, while ASUS could add the port to motherboards in time for Intel's Ivy Bridge launch. Dell and HP, two of the largest computer manufacters in the world, currently do not have plans to add Thunderbolt ports to any of its products, nor do Lenovo and Toshiba.
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New Etching Technique for Optoelectronics
Optoelectronics are devices like lasers and solar panels, which connect electrons and photons, and may lead to more advanced computers. Manufacturing them though can be difficult though as the best materials are tricky to etch. Silicon can be etched into the patterns needed for circuits using a wet or dry method. Wet etching uses an acid to erode a semiconducting material into the desired pattern while dry etching uses an ion beam to carve away the material. These different methods can produce different results, with dry etching being necessary to create high-aspect-ratio nanostructures. These are the kinds of structures desired for optoelectronics, but the best materials for optoelectronics, so called III-V semiconductors, cannot survive dry etching without damage.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new wet etching technique which can create the high-aspect-ratio structures needed for optoelectronics without damaging the III-V material. Metal-assisted chemical etching, or MacEtch, uses a piece of metal carved into the desired pattern that is then placed on top of the semiconductor. A chemical solution is then used to etch away the semiconductor beneath the metal. The resulting structure can then have the metal cleaned off of it, leaving the desired nanostructure of III-V semiconductor.
Though MacEtch has only been used on gallium arsenide (GaAs) thus far, the researchers are looking to expand the technique to work with other III-V materials. This method also has the ability to work on large samples of a material, making it very efficient and much cheaper than dry etching. Such potential can lead to cheaper high-quality solar panels using III-V materials as well as other optoelectronic devices.
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