Thursday, May 17, 2012

IT News Head Lines (Ars Technica) 17/05/2012





NVIDIA virtualizes the GPU for streamed desktops and cloud gaming
New GPUs also triple speed for high-performance computing

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AMD ships Trinity processor, aims for a piece of Intel's ultrabook market
Built on the legacy of Bulldozer, Trinity is competitive with Intel—sort of.

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Turn Your PlayStation Vita into a cell phone
Do console-quality graphics plus Skype equal mobile bliss? Not quite.

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Cambrian shutter of doom becomes sucker of worms
The mouth of this segmented invertebrate has been a puzzle for many researchers.

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Judge: Ample evidence that Apple "knowingly joined" e-book conspiracy
Apple hasn't been found guilty yet, but the judge's comments don't bode well.

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Apple TV could make ESPN another trick in its bag
America's biggest sports network could have a home on Apple's TV.

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Pro rugby club enlists IBM to predict when players will be injured
How do you measure fatigue if you can’t directly measure it?

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Android fragmentation: one developer encounters 3,997 devices
Android devs miss out on market share by not casting a wide support net.

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Was Righthaven right to sue an Ars author?
A new article sort-of makes the case; I raise a giant eyebrow of skepticism.

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Google Docs' new sidebar makes research faster
Now you can find handy info without ever leaving the page.

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Oracle tells jury "clean room" not enough to avoid patent infringement
The jury will now decide whether Google infringed on two Oracle patents.

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Sheets of virus generate electricity when squished
The biomaterial could one day power electronics using our body movements.

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General Motors pulls annual $10 million worth of ads from Facebook
A GM executive says paid advertising is ineffective on the social network.

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New fraud tools turn Pinterest scams into point-and-click exercise
Toolkits allow scammers to get fraudulent Amazon referral fees.

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Augmented reality tank can blast holes in real surfaces
Our childhood tanks only fired foam darts.

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Windows 8 on ARM restrictions could fall afoul of EU browser ballot deal
Microsoft has declined to comment on whether the ballot is applicable

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Cosmic forensics: signs of a Tunguska meteorite?
A group of researchers thinks a small Siberian lake may be an impact crater.

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MacBook Pro rumor rollup: thinner, better, faster, stronger
As the MacBook Pro update looms, "leaked" info is seeping out of the woodwork.

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Admitted file-swapper begs Supreme Court for help
Says RIAA sought huge damages to create an "urban legend."

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Canadian tech protester acquitted on all charges from G20 arrest
Byron Sonne was kept behind bars for nearly a year after his 2010 arrest.

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How much bandwidth does your office really need?
Quite a lot, if you watch Netflix. But even e-mail may surprise you.

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"Swiss Army knife for QuickTime" Perian turning off the lights
The source code will be made available on Github or Google Code.

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Entanglement swapping photons make for better security
Researchers can use an eavesdropper to make quantum keys more secure.

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"Patriotic hacktivist" The Jester unmasked—or maybe it's a big troll
Anonymous opponent heads for the hills—or maybe for another Twitter account.

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Diablo 3: Give a knight a shield, and he kicks you from the game
A hotfix is on the way for the game-stopping bug.

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