World of Warcraft Player Dies After Gaming for 19 Hours Straight
Wu Tai, a 24-year-old man who was reportedly addicted to the immensely popular role-playing game World of Warcraft, died at an Internet café in Shanghai, China after playing the game for 19 hours straight. A gamer sitting next to Tai stated that he called an ambulance after he heard the man groan and saw blood wiped away from his mouth with a handkerchief. Attempts made by Internet café staff and medical units to revive Tai, after he died in front of a crowd of gamers, were unsuccessful. While an autopsy is still underway, the policeman on scene stated that it was likely like Tai died due to playing on the computer for 19 hours straight.
Source: N4GM
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COUGAR Announces First 80 PLUS BRONZE Digital Power Supply
COUGAR has announced its first 80 PLUS BRONZE digital power supply, the COUGAR CMD. The company hopes that the release will improve the opinion of digital power supplies, "freeing them from their current status of niche product and putting digital power in the right direction towards becoming the mainstream option for PC gaming." COUGAR has integrated the PSU with its UIX Device Management system to provide users with the ability to control and measure the performance of their PSU. Users will have access to efficiency, temperature, consumption, and other measurements.
Source: Press Release
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Kingston DDR4 Receives Intel Validation For Xeon Processors
Kingston has announced that its upcoming 4GB and 8GB ValueRAM 2133MHz DDR4 ECC SO-DIMMs have received Intel validation for use with the Intel Xeon D-1500 processors. The D-1500 is a System on Chip targeted at microservers, networking, and storage systems. The DDR4 modules from Kingston offer a low power solution without skimping on performance, making them an excellent choice for "energy- and space-efficient solutions that serve specific data center needs."
Source: Press Release
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Combining Light and Sound for Better Signal Processing
For a long time, researchers have been working to develop better ways to process signals, such as turning to optics from electronics for smaller sizes and greater bandwidths. By incorporating acoustics as well, it may be possible to push the boundaries even farther, and now Yale University researchers have created a device that can manipulate both photons and phonons.
We may not think much about sound for use in computers, since the waves travel so slow, but they can store information for longer and in a smaller space than optical signals can. With circuits that can control both, the Yale researchers are able to get the best of both worlds. Not only that, but the size of their circuitry is small enough that it can be integrated into microchips, allowing for more efficient storage, filtering, and manipulation of signals.
Source: Yale University
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Watching Dendrites Grow
Personally I have never had a battery burst into flames, but I have had some swell on me, and lose performance. The reason this happens is to do with tiny structures called dendrites that form within lithium-ion batteries, and have proven somewhat difficult to stop. Researchers at ORNL, however, have now, for the first time, imaged the formation of these structures in real time, which could help defeat them one day.
As the name suggests, lithium-ion batteries use lithium ions to store energy and normally they stay in solution or in one of the electrodes. Sometimes though, they will collect together to form solid structures called dendrites. As the dendrites grow, they may puncture the protective layer between the electrodes, causing a short circuit. Obviously this is a bad thing, which is why a lot of work has been done to protect against them, but the ORNL researchers are the first to directly image dendrites forming. To do this, they created an electrochemical cell to mimic the inside of a lithium-ion battery, applied a voltage, and had it under a scanning transmission electron microscope. The result was a series of images showing how the dendrites develop, at high resolution.
Typically studies concerning how a battery fails, wait until after the battery does, but this research and method allows researchers to watch the process unfold. This new approach could aid in the development of additives and new separators to prevent dendrites and preserve batteries better.
Source: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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ROG GR8S Steam Machine Announced by ASUS
ASUS has officially announced the ROG GR8S Steam Machine, which brings together the company’s renowned ROG branding with Valve’s Steam Machine design. The unit, which is roughly the size of an Xbox One and features ASUS' signature red and black ROG product design, offers gamers the ability to fully enjoy PC gaming in a living room environment. The ASUS ROG GR8S Steam Machine includes a variety of internal hardware configurations but offers consumers up to an Intel Core i7 processor, GeForce GTX 900 "Maxwell" graphics, 16GB of DDR3 RAM, 802.11ac Wi-Fi with a Miracast receiver, and a 1TB HDD or a 512GB SSD. Connectivity wise, the ASUS ROG GR8S Steam Machine offers four USB 3.0 SuperSpeed ports, two USB 2.0 ports, gigabit Ethernet, DisplayPort 1.2, HDMI 2.0, and digital and analog multi-channel audio connectivity.
Source: TechPowerUp
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CD Projekt RED Shows Off The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at PAX East
Although CD Projekt RED announced late last year that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was delayed 12 weeks, pushing back its release date to May 19, 2015, the game remains highly anticipated. Gamers looking to run the game upon its release can be sure that their system meets the minimum requirements listed by CD Projekt RED, but until then, can view the latest gameplay released directly from PAX East. The gameplay, which is roughly seven minutes in length, shows off what Geralt happens to do best in a world filled with combat and magic.
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AMD Plans To Unveil Radeon R9 300-Series at Computex
Rumored specifications for the upcoming AMD Radeon R9 300-series graphics cards began to leak early last month, and there are new rumors that hint at when the official announcement of the new cards will be. Sources have indicated that AMD is planning to introduce the new cards during Computex in June. There were some initial plans to release a single new card at CeBIT and a few re-branded cards before Computex, but senior management demanded a "full line up" of cards to be released at the same time. The new cards could be what AMD needs to recover from a year that saw NVIDIA take significant market share in the GPU market with AMD CFO Devinder Kumar stating, "We are confident that as we get into the second half of 2015 with the launch of that [new graphics] product, we will gain back the market share which is low from my standpoint and historically."
Source: Kit Guru
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Virtual Reality Demos at GDC Powered by NVIDIA Titan X
Virtual Reality technology made a big splash at the Game Developers Conference, with demos from Valve, Oculus, and Epic Games. All of these demos were powered by the next generation NVIDIA GTX TITAN X video card, which the company had initially planned to reveal two weeks after GDC at the GPU Technology Conference. NVIDIA made the decision to break the news early to help its partners power their VR demos, with NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivering the card to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney during his keynote speech. NVIDIA also announced improvements to its own VR Direct software with support for SLI to use one card for each eye.
Source: NVIDIA
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