Friday Night Shortbread
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- PC shipments beat expectations despite weak currencies
and product transitions, according to IDC
- Consumerist: Philadelphia finally releases results
of Comcast customer service survey; it's not pretty
- Ars Technica: Latest version of OS X closes
backdoor-like bug that gives attackers root
- ZDNet on Microsoft's 'Redstone': An update to Windows 10 due in 2016
- AnandTech: Future-proofing HTPCs for
the 4K era: HDMI, HDCP and HEVC
- Fudzilla: EVGA announces new Pro SLI Bridges V2
- WCCFtech: Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Ti with full fat
GM200 core ready - planned for September launch
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The TR Podcast 174: PCIe SSDs and FreeSync displays
The video of last night's TR Podcast live stream is now available on YouTube. This week, we look at the new Surface 3 and a few other news items, and then we dive deep into PCIe SSDs. When we come up, we have a quick discussion of one of the first FreeSync displays.
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Leak describes compute-oriented AMD server chip with 16 Zen cores
Details have already leaked out about the first desktop CPUs based on AMD's next-gen Zen architecture, and now, Fudzilla has tasty morsels for the server crowd. The site has posted a legit-looking slide describing a monster with up to 16 Zen cores and 32 threads, doubling the CPU payload of the rumored desktop chip. Each core is paired with 512KB of L2 cache, according to the document, and there's 32MB of shared L3 between them.
The CPU cores are joined by a "Stream Processor" dubbed Greenland. Obviously intended for more than just graphics, this spruced-up GPU promises ECC protection and only a 50% performance hit for double-precision math. More impressively, Greenland apparently gets up to 16GB of HBM ...
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Deal of the week: A $400 Steam Machine, $80 Define R4, and more
We have another batch of PC hardware deals for you today.
Those are the deals that caught my eye this morning, but there are surely some other ...
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HDMI 2.0a adds support for HDR displays
In 2013, the HDMI Forum released version 2.0 of its audio/video spec. Devices compatible with the standard slowly trickled onto the market, but now they've already fallen behind the curve. The HDMI spec has now been bumped to version 2.0a, which adds support for content with high dynamic range—that is, color formats that allow more leeway between bright and dark hues than usual.
According to the official press release , the HDR update is related to metadata extensions released by the Consumer Electronics Association earlier this year. And, well, that's about it. The new spec doesn't appear to include more bandwidth, additional ...
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The Windows 10 Store will hawk music, movies, and TV shows
The Windows 10 Store isn't just for applications and games. Microsoft has revealed
that the unified outlet will also offer music, movies, and TV shows.
Videos will be available to purchase or rent, but there are fewer
details on the music section, which will presumably include some variant
of the Xbox Music streaming service.Although the music aisle isn't open just yet, beta testers running the latest Windows 10 Technical Preview should now have access to movies and TV shows through the integrated store. TV shows are only available in some regions, ...
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The TR Podcast is live right now!
Update: All done! Look for the video archived version soon.
We're recording another TR Podcast live on Twitch . Tune in to watch us chat about ...
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Xeon Phi chips will fuel 180-petaflop DOE supercomputer
The U.S. Department of Energy has contracted Intel and Cray to build two new supercomputers for the Argonne National Laboratory. Aurora, the most powerful of the pair, is slated to deliver 180 petaflops when it's finished in 2018. Intel says that's more horsepower than any system announced to date.
Aurora will be based on Cray's Shasta supercomputer design. Intel ...
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We'll be live streaming the TR Podcast this evening
Come and join us this evening for another episode of the TR Podcast. We'll be live streaming on our Twitch channel starting at 9:30PM ET/6:30PM PT.
If we're lucky, Jordan might eat some dinner during the stream. No promises, ...
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Entertainment industry opposes DMCA exemption for abandoned games
Games increasingly require online authentication even for single-player campaigns. That can be an annoying inconvenience when titles are new, and it's potentially crippling when they're not. Publishers seem to be developing a habit of shutting down their servers long before players are finished playing. For example, 2K Sports recently cut-off online support for NBA 2K14 just 16 months after its release, wiping out player save games in the process.
NBA 2K14 remained playable when the servers were axed, at least, and 2K Sports has since restored online functionality and promised a longer support window for future titles. But reversals like that aren't the norm, and worse, many games lock players out completely if they're unable to phone home. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants coders to ...
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Dell stretches ultra-slim Android slate to 10.5''
Dell's remarkably thin Venue 8 7000 tablet now has a big brother. Meet the Venue 10 7000, which scales the 8.4" original up to 10.5" without sacrificing the slender profile.
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