Ozone Neon Precision Laser Mouse Review
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NVIDIA Launches the SHIELD with Android TV
NVIDIA has officially launched its SHIELD with Android TV, bringing the company's first living room entertainment device to your home. The SHIELD with Android TV is said to be the most advanced smart TV platform available, as you can watch movies, TV shows, listen to music, use various apps, and play games through it, all from the comfort of your couch or recliner. Powering the device is the Tegra X1, a 64-bit CPU packing a 256-core NVIDIA GPU, to deliver performance up to 30 times faster than the competition, while also supporting 4K content. The SHIELD runs on Android so you get access to all the familiar apps you're use to, plus the likes of Netflix HD, YouTube, Pluto TV, and UltraFlix for some amazing 4K experiences. You can pair the SHIELD with your existing TV service, or cut the cord and go with Sling TV. Before long HBO Now, Fox, CBS, Vimeo, and more will be coming to Android TV, with the full list of apps available here.
The SHIELD with Android TV is, of course, more than capable of playing your games, with more than 200 supported on Android TV. An additional 20 will be available exclusively on the SHIELD within the next several months, with GRID handling 1080p game streaming if your favorite title isn't available by other means. The SHIELD with Android TV has 3GB of RAM, either 16 or 500GB of storage, support for 5.1 and 7.1 audio over HDMI, 802.11ac 2x2 MIMO 2.4GHz and 5GHz WiFi, and Bluetooth 4.1. Ports on it include HDMI 2.0, two Type A USB 3.0 ports, a micro-USB 2.0 port, a microSD slot, an IR receiver that's compatible with Logitech Harmony remotes, and Gigabit Ethernet.
Source: NVIDIA Blog and NVIDIA SHIELD
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Hardware Roundup: Friday, May 29, 2015, Edition
The end of the week is here, and just about the end of May, so what better way to begin the weekend than with some reviews. We have a look at the Corsair Graphite Series 780T full tower case, a new addition to the company's lineup that comes with a host of features and a white color scheme. There is also the NVIDIA SHIELD with Android TV and what exactly it can bring to your living room setup. Five different system builds to fit various budgets get tested so you know just what kind of performance you can expect at the different price points. A look back at 20 of the worst PC setups seen during the month of May should give you some laughs or potentially some cringes. Lastly there's a new case mod using the Corsair Carbide Air 240 case and giving it an even sweeter style.
Cases
Corsair Graphite Series 780T White @ PC Perspective
Gadgets
The NVIDIA SHIELD with Android TV Review: Early Impressions @ PC Perspective
Miscellany
Benchmarking TechSpot's PC Buying Guide Systems @ TechSpot
20 of the Worst PC Setups - May 2015 @ ThinkComputers
Case Mod Friday: Re(de)fine Air 240 @ ThinkComputers
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GeForce GTX TITAN X ArcticStorm Edition Introduced by ZOTAC
ZOTAC, a global innovator and manufacturer of graphics cards, has officially unveiled the GeForce GTX TITAN X ArcticStorm Edition. The latest product by ZOTAC is a custom designed GeForce GTX TITAN X that offers a hybrid air and liquid cooling solution, allowing consumers to cool the card through the three fans atop the IceStorm heatsink or through the built-in liquid cooling block. No matter how the card is cooled, the heatsink efficiently dissipates heat from the 12GB of onboard memory and VRM. The GeForce GTX TITAN X ArcticStorm Edition by ZOTAC offers a core clock speed of 1026MHz, a GPU boost clock speed of 1114MHz, and memory running at an effective 7GHz.
The ZOTAC GeForce GTX TITAN X ArcticStorm Edition is expected to be available worldwide upon launch, and will be displayed at Computex 2015.
Source: techPowerUp and WCCFtech
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AMD Releases Catalyst 15.5 Beta Driver
Just days ago it was reported that AMD was actively working on the Catalyst 15.5 beta driver, which was supposed to increase performance in Project CARS and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Fortunately for gamers of both titles, the Catalyst 15.5 beta driver has been officially released by AMD. According to the company, the latest Catalyst driver provides a maximum ten percent performance increase on single GPU Radeon R9 and R7 Series graphics products running The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and a maximum 17 percent performance increase on the same Radeon products running Project CARS. The Catalyst 15.5 beta driver from AMD also includes a Crossfire profile for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
The latest version of the Catalyst driver from AMD can be downloaded from the official release notes webpage.
Source: WCCFtech
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Quantum Tunneling Found to be Instantaneous
According to the Theories of Relativity, the Universe has the speed of light as its speed limit, and this rules our day-to-day life. Quantum mechanics however, likes getting around such rules and has been caught doing so, which begs the question of if it is violating relativity or going around it? Researchers at the Australian National University believe they have the answer with regard to tunneling.
Quantum tunneling is an interesting phenomenon that is important in many places, including the nuclear fusion at the core of stars, scanning tunneling microscope, and FLASH memory. It involves particles acting like waves and skipping over barriers that would otherwise block them, thanks to their position not being well-defined. The question has been if tunneling has a speed that surpasses the speed of light, and according to the researchers it does not because that rule does not exactly apply. The math apparently works out so that the time it takes to tunnel across a barrier is a complex value, with an imaginary part, so the tunneling velocity must also be imaginary. What this translates to is that the tunneling must occur instantaneously, as imaginary values do not really work in our real Universe.
This discovery should have a number of impacts by allowing technology to reach faster speeds and smaller size, where tunneling plays an important factor for leakage. It also solves problems with some attosecond scale (10-18) observations, such as a delay between a photon striking an atom and an electron being ejected from it. Based on the researchers' calculations, this delay is caused by the nucleus trying to pulling the electron back in, and not from tunneling.
Source: The Australian National University
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Improved Quantum Error Correction Scheme Developed
Correcting errors is important for the reliable operation of any computing device. For modern computers, we have it down pretty well, but for future quantum computers, the challenge is completely different. Researchers at MIT though have managed to overcome one significant aspect of the challenge, by breaking the limit others suffer.
Quantum computers get their name and extraordinary power from quantum mechanics, which presents a special challenge. In classical mechanics, measuring a system tends not to change it, but in a quantum mechanical system can change it, as demonstrated by Schrodinger's Cat. Because of this there was a time when researchers believed it would be impossible to correct errors in a quantum computer, because measuring the values of qubits would cause them to collapse, defeating the purpose. Despite those concerns, error correction systems have been developed that do not actually measure the qubits' value, but their relationship to others. All of these systems are limited to only working on a square root of the total number of qubits (so you could only correct eight qubits in a 64-qubit computer). The new MIT method breaks that limit by using a special qubit bank and time. As the qubits are manipulated in the computer and take on new states, a bank of qubits is assigned to each state. By analyzing relationships within the banks, it is possible to determine where an error occurred and to fix it.
Ironically, this approach does not prevent errors and could even introduce them, but what errors there are must obey certain rules, which is why they can be corrected later. This approach allows for an arbitrary fraction of the qubits in a quantum computer to be checked for errors, and thus breaks the square root limit. Now the question is how much redundancy is needed amongst the qubit banks, and if fewer can be used, simplifying the system.
Source: MIT
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G.SKILL Achieves Highest DDR4 Frequency Using Air Cooling
G.SKILL has announced that its memory modules have been used to break the record for highest DDR4 frequency using air cooling. The record frequency of 4062MHz was reached using Ripjaws 4 memory on an ASRock X99M Killer motherboard. The record was validated using CPU-Z, though it was unclear if any benchmarks such as Super Pi were run. VP of ASRock Sales and Marketing James Lee commented on the feat stating, "This outstanding performance is not only a tremendous glory, but also a huge acknowledgement to our overclocking ability."
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NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 980 Ti Launch Date Set at June 2?
A new leak has found its way online concerning NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce GTX 980 Ti, and this time it actually comes from NVIDIA. The company's Taiwan outfit posted a Facebook image revealing a June 2 announcement date, and quite possibly that's also the launch date. The post has since been removed, but you can see it for yourself below. The event will take place during Computex, which tends to confirm an early rumor about an announcement time, and will be streamed live on Twitch. It's possible NVIDIA will have more to show than just the GTX 980 Ti, as a leaked benchmark showed something called a "GTX 9** 3GB." Maybe we'll get a GTX 960 Ti, too.
The specifications for the GTX 980 Ti show 2816 CUDA cores, 6GB of GDDR5 on a 384-bit bus, and the same clock speeds as its big brother, the TITAN X. The ROP count is the only unknown quantity at this point, but it looks like we have just about five more days to go before we get all that and more. Like the price. Then there's also whatever AMD has up its sleeves with the R9 300 series and Fiji.
Source: WCCFtech
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Hardware Roundup: Thursday, May 28, 2015, Edition
May is nearing its end, but not before we have some items for you to peruse. There is a look at how an SLI setup of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 performs in several games, including Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, to see how the two cards compare to a single TITAN X. On the red side, we have the Sapphire R9 285 ITX OC, a nice and compact video card to give small systems a boost to gaming potential. If you need some new audio gear, perhaps the ROCCAT Kave XTD 5.1 Analog headset is for you. Lastly there's the Lexar JumpDrive M10 Secure USB 3.0 flash drive, a drive that comes with built-in encryption software to keep it secure if lost.
Video Cards
GTX 980 SLI Testing @ LanOC Reviews
Sapphire R9 285 ITX OC @ PC Perspective
Speakers/Headphones
ROCCAT Kave XTD 5.1 Analog Headset @ Benchmark Reviews
Storage/Hard Drives
Lexar JumpDrive M10 Secure USB 3.0 Flash Drive @ Madshrimps
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Robots Learn How to Work Together More Efficiently
For humans, when something is too difficult to do we can enlist the help of others to get the job done, but for robots it is not as simple. For multiple robots to work together their actions may need to be coordinated and the results can be very efficient, in a controlled environment. In other settings, the efficiency can vanish because of how complex the computational work is, but researchers at MIT have found a solution to this problem.
Instead of requiring the robots to build a comprehensive plan, this new method breaks it up into single actions. At first these actions are evaluated to determine if the one robot involved will be able to complete the task successfully, and then checked to see if they are compatible with the steps before and after, and the additional robots involved in those steps. If the robots cannot determine a viable solution to the step, it will just skip the step and move on, coming back to it later. This deferment is actually critical to the method as it allows the actions to be interrupted at any point, and it also allows the parts the robots are carrying to be freely dropped and regrasped as needed.
The resulting sequence of actions may not be the optimal solution, but it works and can be found significantly faster. In fact some optimal solutions would take thousands of years of computation to discover, so by just finding a viable solution, this method should prove very powerful for robots in the real-world, outside of factories and such.
Source: MIT
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Amazon Prime Includes Free Same-Day Shipping in Select Markets
Amazon is quickly expanding its shipping options for its customers, especially those who currently subscribe to its Prime service. For some time now, the company has already offered free two-hour delivery of tens of thousands of items for customers located in Manhattan, and has expanded Prime Now to residents of Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Brooklyn, Dallas, and Miami. The company for some time has also offered its grocery delivery service, titled Amazon Fresh, to customers located in New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia and parts of California. Now, Amazon has revealed that Prime members can select same-day delivery on over 1 million eligible items, all at no additional cost.
The new same-day delivery option for Prime members is available to customers in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Indianapolis, the Los Angeles metro area, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, the San Francisco Bay area, Seattle, Tampa Bay, and Washington, DC. In order to receive free same-day delivery, which is available seven days a week, Prime members must ensure that their qualifying order is placed before noon and includes at least $35 worth of items. If these restrictions are not met, Prime customers located in these regions can still receive their order the next day.
Source: CNET
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GPU-Z Updated to Version 0.8.3
GPU-Z, one of the most popular and widely used graphics system information, monitoring, and diagnostic utilities, has been officially updated by techPowerUp to version 0.8.3. The latest version brings support for various Intel Broadwell SKUs and HBM memory, as well as AMD Fiji, Radeon R2/R3, GTX 980 Ti, GTX 965M, GTX 950M, NVS315, and GT 750 graphics. Version 0.8.3 of GPU-Z also includes a VGA BIOS UEFI support indicator, improved OpenCL detection code, corrected GT200B die size, corrected NV42 specs, and the addition of NVIDIA PerfCap sensor in some cases.
Version 0.8.3 of GPU-Z can be downloaded immediately for machines running Windows XP, Vista, 7, and 8.
Source: techPowerUp
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