FCC Announces Planned Regulations For The Internet
The Chairman of the United States Federal Communications Commission, Tom Wheeler, has announced a proposal that would treat Internet Service Providers as common carriers under Title II of the Telecommunications Act. This is the latest action in the ongoing battle for Net Neutrality that has caused a great deal of debate with supporters of Net Neutrality being outspent by lobbyists and interests against Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality maintained popular opinion support and generated more comments in its favor. The proposal is seen as a "striking victory for net neutrality advocates," and Wheeler stated "I am submitting to my colleagues the strongest open internet protections ever proposed by the FCC. These enforceable, bright-line rules will ban paid prioritization, and the blocking and throttling of lawful content and services." The FCC must vote on the proposal by February 28 and if approved it would likely face a tougher challenge in the Republican controlled Congress.
Source: The Verge and Venture Beat
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Radeon Users Experience Memory Leak Issues While Running Battlefield 4 on Windows 8.1
Although AMD was successful at making the most out of the GeForce GTX 970 memory problem that was recently confirmed by NVIDIA, the company is now having issues of its own. According to David Sirland, who works at DICE LA, Radeon graphics cards are currently experiencing memory leak issues while running Battlefield 4 on Windows 8.1. Robert Hallock, the Head of Global Technical Marketing for AMD, confirmed the problem and has reemphasized that it only affects Windows 8.1, though the cause of the leak is unknown at this time. The memory leak issues, which seems to be more severe in extended gaming sessions, is expected to be resolved for Radeon users within the next beta driver update from AMD.
Source: WCCFtech
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G.SKILL Sets DDR4 Overclock Record Again
G.SKILL has once again managed to achieve the highest memory frequency overclock for DDR4 memory, with a new high of 4355MHz. The overclock was set using the extreme performance Ripjaws 4 on an ASUS Rampage V Extreme with an Intel i7-5960X. Liquid nitrogen cooling was used to keep everything running cold to help ensure stability at high frequencies. In addition to the highest DDR4 overclock, the Ripjaws 4 memory was used to set three world records in the month of January.
Source: Press Release
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Tuning Band Gap Without Changing the Material
The band gap is one of the most important properties of a material in modern technologies, especially for electro-optical devices. It is what determines whether the material will absorb a photon or not, so the ability to tune the band gap would be invaluable. Normally this would require changing the structure or the chemistry of the material, but researchers at Northwestern University have found a much simpler solution.
The band gap is the energy distance between the conducting and non-conducting electron bands in an atom. Only with the right amount of energy can an electron be made to jump across the band gap, and conduct any energy. To tune this value, a material's composition typically has to be altered and normally that just results in a change of one electron volt. What the Northwestern researchers found with their quantum mechanical calculations is that shifting the layers in an oxide material can tune the gap by two electron volts. Shifting the layers, so that different atoms align with each other, does not alter the chemistry of a material.
As the current work is all just computational, the next step is to experimentally test that. If successful, this research could have some powerful implications as materials could have their properties altered, resulting in new properties, without becoming altogether different materials.
Source: Northwestern University
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POSEIDON Z Forged Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Unveiled by Tt eSPORTS
Tt eSPORTS, the leading expert in professional e-Sports gaming peripherals, has just unveiled the POSEIDON Z Forged mechanical gaming keyboard. The latest input device offers an aluminum faceplate that provides a sleek and smooth finish, 10 macro keys with customizable profiles, five levels of adjustable blue backlighting, and mechanical switches that offer a lifespan of up to 50 million keystrokes. The POSEIDON Z Forged mechanical gaming keyboard also includes a detachable USB cable that has been designed for storage and travel, as well as a built-in dual USB port hub and USB sound-card with a headphone and microphone jack.
The Tt eSPORTS POSEIDON Z Forged mechanical gaming keyboard will be available to purchase this March and will carry an MSRP of $139.99.
Source: Press Release
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Silicene Transistor Created
Since the discovery of graphene, researchers have been working to determine how its properties can be used and if other materials could be made with similar properties. One proposed material was silicene, which is an atom-thick sheet of silicon atoms and is very difficult to fabricate. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have found an easier way to work with it though, and used that method to build the world's first silicene transistors.
Both graphene and silicene are 2D materials with extraordinary electrical properties, but while graphene is a conductor, silicene is a semiconductor. This makes it of greater potential use for computers, but its fabrication limitations must be overcome, such as its reactivity with air. To work around this the Texas researchers worked with those at the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems to reduce the exposure to air by growing silicene on a block of silver and then coating it with alumina. These protective layers made it possible to transfer the silicene to an oxidized-silicon substrate, and then remove some of the silver, leaving two electrodes with silicene between them.
Among the potential advantages to silicene transistors are very high speeds and great efficiency, while possibly also being easier for manufacturers to work with, as it is a form of silicon. Before it can get anywhere near our electronics though, better ways to make it need to be found, and that is what the researchers are looking into now.
Source: University of Texas at Austin
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Revolver 360 RE:Actor Now Available on NVIDIA GRID Gaming Service
NVIDIA has announced that owners of SHIELD Tab and SHIELD portables can now play Revolver 360 RE:Actor for free, thanks to its addition to the NVIDIA GRID gaming service. Revolver 360 RE:Actor is a unique, independent shooter that has been brought to the United States by publisher PLAYISM, a Japanese company that aims to deliver creative games and content from Japan to gamers around the world. The game is developed by Cross Eaglet, a Japanese outfit famous for their frenetic action and unique mechanics, and focuses on a unique perspective rotation mechanic. This mechanic allows players to rotate the world, giving them the ability to not only slay the wealth of enemies around them, but also dodge incoming fire and find hidden items.
Revolver 360 RE:Actor is available for free through the NVIDIA GRID gaming service until June 30, 2015.
Source: Press Release
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