Wednesday, July 1, 2015

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 7/2/2015





be quiet! Shadow Rock LP Cooler Review
If you need a new CPU cooler to fit in a tight space, go check out this review of the be quiet! Shadow Rock LP at Neoseeker.

The Shadow Rock LP has 4 heat pipes each with a 6 millimeter diameter and uses aluminum fins in a double stack setup that varies in width from 18 to 30 millimeters depending on location on the cooler. The top of the aluminum fins end with a brushed aluminum plate and caps to cover the heat pipes, with the be quiet! name in raised/polished lettering onto this top plate.

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NSA Can Resume Bulk Data Collection
Well it sure didn't take long for this to happen.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court ruled late Monday that the National Security Agency may temporarily resume its once-secret program that systematically collects records of Americans' domestic phone calls in bulk.

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Zuckerberg Addresses 'Real Name' Problem
Mark Zuckerberg finally commented on the controversy over the whole "Real Name" policy. Zuckerberg was quoted as saying "NO ONE OS FORCING YOU TO USE FACEBOOK!" Just kidding, this is what he actually said:

Real name does not mean your legal name. Your real name is whatever you go by and what your friends call you. If your friends all call you by a nickname and you want to use that name on Facebook, you should be able to do that. In this way, we should be able to support everyone using their own real names, including everyone in the transgender community. We are working on better and more ways for people to show us what their real name is so we can both keep this policy which protects so many people in our community while also serving the transgender community.

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Amazon Launches One-Hour Delivery Service In London
Damn, why don't they have Amazon one-hour delivery in my area? Any of you guys use the service yet?

Amazon.com Inc launched its one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, for select areas of London on Tuesday and said it would expand the program to additional cities in the United Kingdom by the end of the year. For a fee of 6.99 pounds, Amazon Prime members can have orders worth 20 pounds ($31.43) or more delivered in one hour, the company said on its UK website on Tuesday.

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Uber Reveals $470M In Operating Losses
Someone tell me again how this company thinks it's worth $50 billion?

Uber Technologies Inc. is telling prospective investors that it generates $470 million in operating losses on $415 million in revenue, according to a document provided to prospective investors.

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Appeals Court: Apple Conspired To Fix E-book Prices
Call me a skeptic but, just because every ruling so far has went against Apple, I don't think the company is ready to pay that $450 million settlement just yet.

The ruling would force Apple to pay consumers $450 million under a 2014 settlement of a class action with 33 state attorneys general and lawyers, unless it files another appeal and wins. The settlement was contingent on Apple's civil liability being upheld.

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AMD CEO Talks Of Long-Term Turnaround
AMD's CEO Lisa Su had some interesting things to say about what it takes to turn things around at AMD.

"I think our challenge is not related to whether we're public or private," she said, "it's more related to the fact that we're in an industry that takes three to five years to really fully evaluate — you're not going to know whether I've done a good job until five years from. However, everybody wants to keep score every quarter. And you know, that's life."

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[H]ot Deal of the Day
The [H]ot Deal of the Day is this code for $50 off the Rosewill RX305 4B SATA III-to-USB 3.0 and eSATA 4-Bay 2.5" or 3.5" hard drive enclosures. You'd better hurry if you want to get in on this deal, the coupon code expires on July 3rd.

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The World's First 3D Printed Office
The world's first 3D printed office is being built in Dubai. I'm not too thrilled with that honeycomb looking pattern but the rest is pretty neat.



The office will be approximately 2,000 square feet in size and will be printed layer-by-layer using a 20-foot tall 3D printer. It will then be assembled on site in Dubai in just a few weeks. All interior furniture, detailing, and structural components will also be built using 3D printing technology, combining a mixture of Special Reinforced Concrete (SRC), Glass Fiber Reinforced Gypsum (GRG) and Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP). This combination will make it the most advanced 3D printed structure ever built at this scale and the first to be put into actual use.

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Unreal Engine Support Livestream
Epic Games is hosting a programming livestream. You can watch it on the Unreal Engine Twitch channel. Thanks to cageymaru for the heads up.



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Microsoft Interested In Buying AMD?
Oh look, it's the Microsoft wants to buy AMD rumor again. While a deal like this would make sense for Microsoft, this is the millionth time we've heard this from a "source familiar with the matter" so take this with a large grain of salt.

In a bid to revive its chip design operations, Microsoft Corp. may acquire Advanced Micro Devices, according to a source familiar with the matter. The software giant approached AMD several months ago, the source indicated. The result of the talks is unclear.

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Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10158 for PCs
For those of you following along at home, there is a new Windows 10 build (10158) for PCs out for Windows Insiders. The latest build has UI improvements, new features and Microsoft Edge included.

We have a new build for PCs releasing today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring – Build 10158. This build is full of improvements to stability and quality as well as some additional UI polish. It also has some great new features included for Microsoft Edge as well. The first thing that you'll notice in this build is that the Microsoft Edge branding is now included.

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Google Earth Is Ten Years Old
Google Earth turned ten years old yesterday. Don't feel bad, I wasn't invited to the birthday party either.



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