Tuesday, October 13, 2015

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 14/10/2015





Cryorig R1 Ultimate CPU Cooler Review
If you need a new CPU cooler, you might want to give this review of the Cryorig R1 Ultimate a read. You can see our evaluation here for comparison purposes.

So this could be a case of trying to give the mainstream a bloody nose, having worked with some of the big names and been unsatisfied? Well maybe, they have stated that on their website too, their initial offerings will be the judge of that, and usually are a statement of intent for any new company. Today's review is for the Cryorig R1 Ultimate, the flagship and what Cryorig are stating as "nothing else but pure cooling performance".

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Humble Bundle Cuts 20% Of Its Workforce
Citing a recent expansion that was "too ambitious," the folks at Humble Bundle announced today that they are cutting twelve jobs to save money.

"Unfortunately, last week Humble Bundle was forced to let go of some of our employees," confirmed co-founder John Graham, in an email to Polygon. "Despite strong revenue, and our community surpassing $65 million raised for charity to date, our past hiring was too ambitious and we had to make a hard call last week."

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Electric Vehicle Owners Turning Against Each Other
I know it's kind of a dick-ish thing to say, but I would drive my fossil fuel powered dinosaur of a car 100 miles just to watch these guys go at it.

Charging stations aren't as numerous as gas stations yet, leading electric-vehicle owners to exhibit some rude behavior — unplugging each other's cars, fights at the plug and secret alliances to trade spots in corporate parking lots.

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G.Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz C16 DDR4
The crew at techPowerUP spent the weekend rubbing a few sticks of G.Skill's Trident Z 3200 MHz C16 DDR4 together to see what would happen.

With DDR4 prices taking a dive recently, there's no time like the present to get yourself a new Z170 system, or perhaps you want to move from 8 GB to 16 GB. G.Skill's Trident Z kits and their sweet new looks and affordable pricing just might make you click that buy button.

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These Tech Giants Are the Walking Dead
According to Wired, tech giants like Dell, EMC, Cisco and HP are the walking dead.

HP. Cisco. Dell. EMC. IBM. Oracle. Think of them as the walking dead. Oh, sure, they'll shuffle along for some time. They'll sell some stuff. They'll make some money. They'll command some headlines. They may even do some new things. But as tech giants, they're dead.

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EU Court To Decide If Streaming Pirated Movies Is Legal
I'm going to go with my gut instinct here and say the courts will side with the anti-piracy groups on this one.

Seeking clarification, a Dutch court has referred several streaming related questions to the EU Court of Justice. The questions relate to a case between local anti-piracy group BREIN and a seller of so-called "pirate boxes" that come pre-loaded with streaming plugins. It is currently unclear whether streaming pirated movies is permitted under EU law.

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Google Releases Updated Cardboard SDK
Google announced today that a new and improved version of its Cardboard VR app is now available in 100 countries for Android and iOS.


The Cardboard SDKs for Android and Unity have been updated to address your top two requests: drift correction and Unity performance. This update includes a major overhaul of the sensor fusion algorithms that integrate the signals from the gyroscope and accelerometer. These improvements substantially decrease drift, especially on phones with lower-quality sensors. The Cardboard SDK for Unity now supports a fully Unity-native distortion pass. This improves performance by avoiding all major plugin overhead, and enables Cardboard apps to work with Metal rendering on iOS and multi-threaded rendering on Android. All of this adds up to better VR experiences for your users.

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Facebook Adds Dedicated Shopping Section
Because Facebook is the first website that comes to my mind when I think about shopping online.

The social network added two new e-commerce features Monday, including a dedicated shopping section offering users a way to find products outside of their News Feed. Only a "small group" of retailers will list products within this section, according to Matt Idema, head of monetization product marketing at Facebook. He added that the products will be customized for each user based on their interests.

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Cyber Insurance Premiums Rocket After High-Profile Attacks
I guess this is to be expected. Hell, just this year alone there was Target, eBay, JP Morgan, Home Depot, Anthem, TJ Maxx, the U.S. military, Blizzard, Apple, the list goes on and on.

A rash of hacking attacks on U.S. companies over the past two years has prompted insurers to massively increase cyber premiums for some companies, leaving firms that are perceived to be a high risk scrambling for cover.

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Cash Reward For Google.com Takeover Man
What's the best way to get a bug bounty from Google? Use Google's website buying service to buy Google.com. Whoops.

A man who briefly bought and owned the Google.com web domain has been rewarded by the search giant. An administration oversight allowed US student Sanmay Ved to buy the right to control the domain on 29 September. The oversight left him in charge of Google.com for about a minute until Google caught on and cancelled the transaction.

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Dell Buys EMC For $67B
It looks as though the rumors were true, Dell has bought EMC for $67 billion. While this isn't Time Warner - AOL huge, they are calling this the "biggest tech deal of all time."

In the biggest tech deal of all time, Dell announced Monday that it has agreed to buy corporate software, storage and security giant EMC for $67 billion. The deal completes Dell's transformation from a consumer PC business to an IT solutions provider for companies. That process began when Dell bought Perot Systems for $4 billion in 2009 and went full throttle in 2013 when company founder Michael Dell took the business private.

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UK Police Pull Assange Embassy Guards
I guess the UK government is sick of spending more than $16,000 a day on trying to arrest Assange so they are moving on to more "overt and covert tactics." Snipers and ninjas?

In a statement issued today, the Metropolitan Police said that "it is no longer proportionate to commit officers to a permanent presence" outside the embassy. After discussions with the Home Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, it will "deploy a number of overt and covert tactics" instead of continuing its very visual approach.

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