Wednesday, March 4, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 3/5/2015

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Inno3D releases market’s first GeForce GTX 960 graphics card with 4GB VRAM
Inno3D
Inno3D today announced the launch of the market’s first GeForce GTX 960 card with 4GB of memory. The Inno3D GeForce GTX 960 comes with 4GB of 128-bit GDDR5 memory running at a clock speed of 7.0GHz and comes with GPU core clock speed of 1126GHz with a boost speed of 1178MHz. For cooling, the card...

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AMD to retire Mantle, asks developers to focus on DirectX12
Mantle
AMD today announced in a blog post that it will no longer be focusing on its Mantle 1.0 gaming API that was announced around a year and a half ago. Instead, the company has suggested developers to divert their attention to DirectX12 or glNext. The progress with DirectX12 and glNext is said to be the...

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Tesoro reveals Excalibur Spectrum mechanical gaming keyboard
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Tesoro today unveiled its new mechanical keyboard aimed at gamers. The Excalibur Spectrum is the company’s latest mechanical keyboard with customizable LED lighting for each individual key with a choice of 16.8 million colors. There are 8 different LED effects on offer – dimming, full zone, trigger, ripple, firework, radiation, rainbow wave and per key...

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HyperX announces new FURY DDR4 memory and higher capacity Predator DDR4 kits
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HyperX, a division of Kingston, today announced its new FURY DDR4 memory and expanded its Predator line of DDR4 memory with 32GB and 64GB kits. The FURY DDR4 memory is the first product line from HyperX to come with automatic overclocking via plug-and-play functionality, targeted at next-generation high-end desktops using Intel X99 chipset and Haswell-E...

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Khronos introduces Vulkan – the next-generation of OpenGL
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Khronos Group today revealed its next-generation application programming interface (API) as part of the ongoing Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The Vulkan API will take on Microsoft’s DirectX12 API and is claiming to bring massive improvements with both single and multi-GPU configurations. As is evident by the name, Vulkan is going to a completely...

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Pebble ups the ante even further with premium Time Steel smartwatch
Pebble Time Steel
Technically Pebble’s fourth ever wearable piece, the stainless steel new gizmo is a fancier take on the base second-generation Time. We don’t know if the tremendous Kickstarter support garnered of late led to this, or if it’s meant as a power move of sorts on the eve of Apple Watch’s long-overdue launch event. What’s crystal...

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Customers will now be able to try in-ear headphones before they buy in Apple retail stores
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The company has always allowed them to test on-ear headphones before buying. Looks like Apple is finally going to allow customers to try out in-ear headphones before they make the purchase in its retail stores. Customers are already allowed to try on-ear headphones, the company was reluctant to do this with in-ear units, since there...

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Apple Watch global release expected in April
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Looks like the US doesn’t get dibs on this smartwatch. With each passing day we come ever so close to the day when Apple is finally going to release the Apple Watch. So far the company has not confirmed that date even if it has revealed that shipments are going to begin in April. The...

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Lollipop now running on 3.3 percent of all Android devices
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Android 5.0 managed to double its user base in a month.  Google has released the latest Android distribution numbers, which reveal that Lollipop saw some quick growth in the month of February, managing to go from 1.6 percent of all Android devices to 3.3 percent. 3.3 percent isn’t exactly something to be proud of as Lollipop was...

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Mid-range BlackBerry Leap revealed in full, high-end dual-curved ‘slider’ teased
BlackBerry Leap
Needless to point out which of the two is more exciting, but unfortunately, the unnamed hybrid showcased at MWC 2015 is without a release date. BlackBerry stood idly by as Android captured all the headlines during days 0 and 1 of this year’s Mobile World Congress, only interrupted (for a minute or so) by Microsoft...

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Lollipop doubles share in latest Android distribution chart, Jelly Bean still king
Android Lollipop
KitKat is a not-so-distant number two, and could soon snatch JB’s crown. Don’t let MWC exhibitors fool you. Lollipop is the flavor of the day in the mobile scene, but its rise to relevance is a slow and bumpy one. Until Samsung manages to spread the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge love, the freshest iteration...

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Sandisk announces the world’s first microSD card with 200GB storage
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Do you wish your smartphone could have as much storage as your computer? Well, SanDisk has unveiled a new microSD card today that offers more space than a lot of notebooks. Meet the SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I memory card with a whopping 200GB capacity. A lot of smartphones such as the LG G3 boast support...

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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 goes official along with Snapdragon Sense ID at MWC 2015
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Qualcomm today announced its latest high-end mobile chipset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Snapdragon 820 SoC will succeed the Snapdragon 810 and will be based on Qualcomm’s custom Kryo cores. Although Qualcomm officially announced the Snapdragon 820 chipset today, it has not given out much details about it to the media. All...

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HP announces spectre x360 13-inch convertible with a 360-degree hinge
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HP today launched its latest convertible notebook the Spectre x360. The Spectre 360 includes a 360-degree hinge that allows you to use it in any position you want. The Spectre x360 comes with a 13-inch display that is offered with either a Full HD 1920 x 1080 or QHD 2560 x 1440 IPS touchscreen. If...

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MediaTek announces powerful new MT8173 chipset based on ARM Cortex A72 architecture
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MediaTek announced its first Cortex-A72 architecture based chipset at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The MT8173 chipset is a high-performance quad-core chipset comprising of two Cortex-A72 cores and two Cortex-A53 cores. The four cores are configured using ARM’s big.LITTLE, allowing them to run at their full clock speed (2.4GHz) at the same time whenever...

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Gionee announces the 5.5 mm thin Elife S7 at MWC
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The Elife S7’s ultra-thin profile manages to fit an impressive amount of hardware.  The race to make the thinnest smartphone “was getting out of hand.” That’s what Chinese manufacturer Gionee had to say as it announced the Elife S7, a smartphone that is only 5.5 mm thin, at the ongoing Mobile World Congress. According to Gionee’s...

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Intel’s new Cherry Trail Atom x3, x5, & x7 mobile chipsets are now official
Intel Atom
Intel today introduced its new Atom mobile chipset lineup based on the Cherry Trail architecture. The new lineup includes the Atom x3, x5 and x7 SoCs. The Atom x3 is the lowest end offering and is targeted at affordable smartphones and tablets in developing markets. This chip is manufactured on a 28nm process and will...

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HTC unleashes its quirky side at MWC with Grip fitness band, Vive VR headset
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While we kinda-sorta expected the sensor-filled yet rudimentary activity tracker, nothing could have prepared us for the Valve co-developed virtual reality device. Forget insipid smartphones and dying tablets. This year’s Mobile World Congress is all about futuristic, unconventional wearables. Smartwatches, smart bands and, yes, even VR contraptions. Like the Vive. What is the Vive? Well,...

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Big, cam-proficient and cheap, the Lumia 640 and 640 XL show what Microsoft is all about
Lumia 640
Redmond’s first flagship Lumia may still be down the line, but these two ultra-affordable mid-end soldiers are a bold statement of what’s to come. Who said budget-friendly gear has to be boring? Not Nokia, despite the financial woes that attracted its downfall, and certainly not Microsoft, which was recently passed the torch. Many feared the...

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Ridiculously slim, light Sony Xperia Z4 Tablet takes on Apple’s iPad Air 2
Xperia Z4 Tablet
This Android bad boy is a featherweight next to its main iOS rival, and it’s water-resistant as well. Whatever Sony decides to do with its financially struggling mobile division, we’d hate to see the ultra-high-end Xperia tablets go. There’s something about them this industry badly needs, and although they’ve never really struck gold at the...

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