Tuesday, July 22, 2014

IT News Head Lines (bit-tech.net) 23/07/2014

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Gaming Monitor Roundup 2014
We look at eleven monitors that prioritise high refresh rates and fast response times

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Seagate ships first 8TB hard drives
On-track for 10TB this year.

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Dell starts accepting Bitcoin payments
Partners with Coinbase for US launch.

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Google denies Fibre UK launch plans
No 1Gb/s goodness for ol' Blighty.

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Microsoft to slash 18,000 jobs
Half of Nokia to be shown the door.

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Nvidia Shield Tablet leaks ahead of launch
Tegra K1 chip under the hood.

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Open Rights Group to sue over DRIP Act
Jim Killock pledges a battle.

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World of Tanks: Blitz Review
World of Tanks: Blitz is a tense and thoughtful adaptation of the PC shooter to mobile.

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EA upgrades all The Sims 2 owners to Ultimate Edition
The last update the game will ever get.

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Microsoft boosts OneDrive storage space
Up to 1TB per user now available.

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Phanteks launches Enthoo Luxe full tower
More compact version of the Primo.

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SilverStone DS380 Review
SilverStone has combined a NAS enclosure with a PC case with room for graphics cards

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Intel launches Galileo Gen 2 dev board
Numerous improvements, still Quark-based.

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Intel sees PC market growth in latest financials
Mobile revenue nose-diving, however.

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DRIP snooping bill passes with massive majority vote
416 MPs agree, but gain exemption themselves.

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What the hell is videogame AI anyway?
Dearest readers of bit-tech! Come hither and listen to my whispered words, as I am a troubled soul. For a long time now I have lamented the lack of progress made in the AI sphere of game development. In the years surrounding the millennium AI was bold and bright and exciting. Games like Unreal Tournament, Thief, Black and White and Halo were doing clever and innovative things with artificial intelligence, providing enemies that could use teamwork to outmanoeuvre us, guards that would hunt us, and a big daft monkey that could learn from us.



This continued until around 2005, with FEAR being the last game I can recall with truly memorable AI. Then something changed, and after that nothing changed. Stealth AI has patrolled the same pathways for years, shooter AI crouched behind a wall circa 2006 and decided to make a home there, and when was the last time you played a game that involved the AI learning anything?


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Synology launches DS415play NAS
Real-time transcoding, four drive bays.

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Microsoft declares war on Chromebooks
Pledges ultra-low-cost Windows devices.

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US government lays claim to foreign-held data
Sets out its argument against Microsoft.

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Parvum Systems Interview
We chat to the owners and founders of Parvum systems to see how their epic cases were born

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