Wednesday, October 23, 2013

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 10/24/2013





Apple unveils 1-lb iPad Air, Retina-infused iPad mini
After tackling Mac updates during today's keynote, Apple moved on to the pièce de résistance: new iPad goodness.
Two new iPads are coming next month. The most striking one is perhaps the iPad Air , which delivers the same 9.7" Retina display as the iPad 4 inside a more compact and much lighter package. Apple ...
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Apple updates MacBook Pro Retina lineup, releases OS X Mavericks for free
I was expecting today's Apple keynote to be all about new iPads, but the company starting things off with some Mac-related announcements.
The first of those was that OS X Mavericks , Apple's latest desktop operating system, is coming out today as a free update. Apple said Mac users will be able to upgrade free of charge even from years-old versions of ...
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Asus' Transformer Book T100 convertible notebook reviewed
If you've been paying attention to the mobile scene, then you've probably seen Asus' Transformer Book T100 coming from miles away. Asus planted the first seed with the Eee PC, which brought basic, highly portable Windows computing to the masses. Netbooks like the Eee PC sold for only a few hundred bucks, much less than the grand or more one had to pay for ultraportables of that era.
The netbook craze burned brightly but briefly. Before long, the iPad arrived, spawning a tablet revolution that would have an even greater impact on the mobile PC industry. The first tablets were ...
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Warface, Crytek's free-to-play FPS, is out
The FPS scene is heating up ahead of the holiday season. Battlefield 4 is due next Tuesday, and Call of Duty: Ghosts is coming the week after that. And then there's Warface, the free-to-play shooter developed by the folks at Crytek. Warface has been in beta for a while, and it's finally ready for prime time. There's an official launch trailer and everything:
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WSJ: Microsoft working on Google Glass rival
Worried that wearing one of those Google Glass contraptions will make you look uncool? Well, worry no more; Microsoft has a similar device in the works. I'm sure that will look much more dignified.
Yes, according to the Wall Street Journal , Microsoft is "testing prototypes for Web-connected eyewear similar to Google Glass." The paper was tipped off by someone "familiar" with the project, who ...
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AMD's heterogeneous queuing aims to make CPU, GPU more equal partners
Slowly but surely, details about AMD's Heterogeneous Systems Architecture are trickling out. In April, we learned about hUMA, which will allow the Kaveri APU's CPU and GPU components to access each others' memory. Today, we can tell you about hQ. Otherwise known as heterogeneous queuing, hQ defines how work is distributed to the processor's CPU and GPU.
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