Evercool AIOLUS Notebook Cooler Review
Evercool AIOLUS Notebook Cooler Review
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OCC Needs Review Editors
We here at OverclockersClub are once again hiring, but this time it's for Review Editors. These are the ones who comb through a review before it's launched to make sure everything is properly spelled and written. It's an important job, and what we need are people who are up late at night. That can be people on the west coast of the US/Canada, or anyone in Australia/Asia and Europe. There are reviews that can be ready to edit later in the evening when the other Review Editors are asleep, and this is precisely why we need late night people.
There aren't a ton of requirements for Review Editors, however they are pretty major. The key requirement is you must possess an understanding of English, both in terms of spelling and grammar. It's absolutely vital for those two, as you'll have to know if words are spelled properly or used correctly in the course of editing. Editing does take time as you have to read through the entire review to make sure there are no mistakes, but you do have the added benefit of knowing how the item performs ahead of its launch.
If all of that sounds perfect to you, then send a PM or email to Bosco. He'll get you set up with the process to see if you can be one of OCC's new Review Editors.
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Thermaltake Adds Two Cases to Urban Series
Thermaltake is adding two cases, described as "mainstream mid-towers," to the Urban series, the T21 and T31. The cases are highlighted by a brushed metal design and a door on the front of the case, removing the flashy elements that are featured on many cases currently available. The front panel hides three optical drives and six hard drive bays and the cases are available in both windowed and non-windowed configurations. Both cases have two 120mm fans pre-installed with room to add another three. The T31 is slightly larger than the T21 and also gives users the ability to remove unused hard drive cages. The T21 has an MSRP of $69 while the T31 will cost $89.
Source: Press Release
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PowerColor Announces Devil R9 270X
PowerColor is adding the newest GPU to its Devil line of high end cards, the Devil R9 270X. The card is described with the ability to show "its demonic power with full support of DirectX® 11.2 and 4K gaming," providing the ability to play all of your favorite games in extreme high definition. The card is factory overclocked to 1150MHz with the ability to go up to 1180MHz with boost to go along with 2GB of GDDR5 memory that runs at 1400MHz. A three fan system is mounted on top of an aluminum heatsink that features four heat pipes for thermal performance, providing a solution that is 25% cooler and 18% quieter than the reference design. The card has several output options with connections for DVI, HDMI, and Mini DisplayPort.
Source: Press Release
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New Architecture for the Internet Being Developed
Everyday more content is uploaded to and downloaded from the Internet, which may one day make it challenging to access it all quickly and efficiently. This is why numerous teams of researchers are constantly working on new technologies for the Internet, and those at the University of Cambridge have recently built a prototype of a new architecture.
The project is called 'Pursuit' and the research team has already won an award for successfully demonstrating a part of the technology. The idea behind Pursuit is to leave the server-central architecture for a more 'social' Internet, where data is shared between personal computers. Essentially it would serve the content of the Internet by a Peer-to-Peer system, which could increase speed, depending on the closeness of the computers with the data you want. This move would also cause a shift from URLs to URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) by focusing on the data, instead of the webpage with the data on it.
The researchers also claim the Pursuit architecture would be more secure, because by using URIs, it is possible to ensure the data is coming from an authorized source. You can learn more about Pursuit at its webpage: http://www.fp7-pursuit.eu/PursuitWeb/.
Source: University of Cambridge
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Three Additional Developers Join AMD's Mantle
Good news for AMD fans, as the company today announced that three more developers will use AMD's new low level API called Mantle. Mantle should allow developers to better utilize AMD's graphics cards, thus making it possible to execute much more intense graphics. The three developers are Cloud Imperium Games, who made Star Citizen; Eidos Montreal, who made Deus Ex: Human Revolution and who are currently working on Thief; and Oxide Games, which was started by former Microsoft and Firaxis employees.
"AMD's Mantle will allow us to extract more performance from an AMD Radeon GPU than any other graphics API ... With Mantle, our team can spend more time achieving our perfect artistic vision, and less time worrying about whether or not today’s gaming hardware will be ready to deliver it." said Chris Roberts, CEO, Cloud Imperium Games.
Also, Edios-Montreal's studio head, David Anfossi, seems thrilled "Mantle lets you use AMD Radeon GPUs the way they are meant to be used, unlocking many new opportunities and increased CPU and GPU performance".
Just how much improvement Mantle will provide has yet to be seen, but in theory is should allow for much more precise tweaking from the developers' side, which should benefit all gamers using AMD's cards.
Source: MaximumPC
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Bit Commitment for Quantum Encryption Achieved
Secure communication is a necessity for many modern day functions, such as transmitting financial information, but so often it seems that no matter how hard someone tries to secure data, someone else tries harder to steal it. One future technology that could thwart the data thief is quantum encryption, but even it has imperfections. Researchers at the University of Cambridge however, have successfully demonstrated a way to overcome those imperfections.
Bit commitment is a scheme that secures data from being changed by any party, after being sent. Despite the promise of quantum encryption though, quantum mechanics alone cannot achieve bit commitment. Some fifteen years ago though, a researcher had the idea to bring relativity into the system, to cover quantum mechanics' flaws. At the time the idea itself was flawed, but now the Cambridge researchers have figured out how to combine the two physics and were able to send perfectly secure data between Geneva and Singapore.
While it is easy to imagine how bit commitment could revolutionize secure communication, this research is still at an early stage, making it impossible to predict its potential impact.
Source: University of Cambridge
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