Tuesday, May 12, 2015

IT News Head Lines (Tech Report) 5/13/2015





The Tech Report System Guide: May 2015 edition
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Take a peek at Star Citizen's FPS mode with Star Marine
It's no stretch to say that the in-development Star Citizen is among the most ambitious games we've seen for quite some time. One of the game's pillars is its first-person gameplay, and players will soon be able to get a taste thanks to a new preview release called Star Marine. In an in-depth blog post, Star Citizen-in-chief Chris Roberts says this preview will introduce the first-person gameplay that will later underpin parts of the campaign mode, Squadron 42, and the open-world Star Citizen itself.
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Ninja cooler goes on diet, gets smarter fan
Scythe's Ninja cooler looks like a weapon, and it's spilled enough of my blood to qualify as one. So, I'm both excited and terrified to report that there's an updated version dubbed the Ninja 4.

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$9 computer has ARM SoC, docks with portable module
At just nine bucks, Next Thing's Chip might be the cheapest single-board computer yet. The Kickstarted product blew past its funding goal and has raised nearly $700,000 in just a few days.
The Chip is a full-fledged computer squeezed onto a 1.5" x 2.3" circuit board. It's based on an Allwinner SoC with one ARM Cortex A8 CPU and Mali-400 graphics. 512MB of DDR3 memory and 4GB ...
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Deltatronic shows off a passively-cooled X99 system
We've seen a couple fanless PCs based on Intel's NUC design recently, but the latest machine from German PC maker Deltatronics is far more ambitious. The Silentium X99 passively cools a Haswell-E CPU and graphics cards as powerful as the GeForce GTX 980 or Quadro K4200.
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Jailbreaker puts a web browser on the Apple Watch
Apps on the Apple Watch are supposed to offer short, "glanceable" interactions that are over in a couple of seconds. A full web browser runs completely against that philosophy, so it's no shock that there's no Apple Watch version of Safari or other browsers. Even if there were such a thing, the Watch's tiny screen is a major impediment. None of this has deterred Apple hacker Comex. The JailBreakMe contributor tweeted a video of the Watch running a browser yesterday, and the results are about as miserable-looking as you would expect. Follow the link in the tweet below to see it in action:
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