Wednesday, December 23, 2015

IT News Head Lines (HardOCP) 24/12/2015





Skier Almost Taken Out By TV Camera Drone
When I say this guy was "almost taken out" by a big ass camera drone, I really mean it. Watch the video below, look how close that thing came to hitting him.



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Santa's Sleigh Pulled By Robots
Thanks a lot Boston Dynamics, for killing all the reindeer and replacing them with robots. Who knows what these guys have done with the real Santa.



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AMD Comments On Radeon R9 Fury X2 Delay
The folks at Hardware.fr reached out to AMD about the delay of the AMD Radeon R9 Fury X2 that was originally supposed to ship by Christmas this year. This is the response from AMD (translated):

Q. On the E3 Livecast Lisa commitment committed to shipping Fiji Gemini by Xmas. What happened? Is Fiji Gemini delayed?

A. The product schedule for Fiji Gemini INITIALLY HAD been aligned with consumer HMD availability, qui HAD been scheduled for Q415 back in June. Some delays due to VR in overall ecosystem readiness, HMDS are now expected to be available to Consumers by early Q216. To Ensure the best RV experience, we're adjusting the Fiji Gemini launch schedule to better align with the market. Working samples of Fiji Gemini-have shipped to a variety of B2B customers in Q415, and initial customer reaction has-been very positive.

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Why Amazon Built A Warehouse In A Midtown Manhattan Office Tower
Why would Amazon build a warehouse inside a building like this? I'm going to skip all the fancy answers and just go with "because they can."

Amazon opened the Manhattan space, its first urban Prime Now warehouse, last December and built dozens more over the past year. The challenge has been to condense the company's typical 1-million-square-foot distribution centers into much smaller spaces and decide which items to offer there. Each Prime Now city has different assortments of products to cater to local tastes, with more organic food offered in San Francisco and Seahawks gear stocked in Seattle. Some of the most popular items on Prime Now so far have been Haribo gummy bears in Houston, Ben and Jerry's ice cream in Las Vegas and organic baby carrots in Portland, Oregon.

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Lyft Plans To Raise $1B In Financing
It's astounding that companies like this can raise a billion dollars by just throwing some preferred stock out there and watch the cash roll in.

Ride-hailing company Lyft Inc, Uber Technologies Inc's biggest competitor in the United States, is looking to raise up to $1 billion in a Series F funding round, according to filing provided by VC experts. The company is selling 37.3 million shares of preferred stock to investors for $26.79 per share, according to the filing dated Dec. 18.

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The Steam Winter Sale Starts Now!
Valve has kicked off the Steam 2015 Winter Sale with deals on The Witcher franchise, the Metal Gear Solid games, Game of Thrones, Skyrim and more.



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SilverStone TD03 Slim AIO Liquid Cooler Review
If you need a slim all-in-one cooler that fits in tight spaces, the crew at Benchmark Reviews say the SilverStone TD03 Slim could be just what you are looking for.

The Tundra line of coolers by SilverStone is about to get larger…by getting slimmer? Well, at least two of them are: the TD03 Slim and TD02 Slim. Containing aesthetics from the Tundra Lite coolers and coupling them with a slim radiator and fan (with a total rad/fan package height of 37mm), this AIO cooler seems custom-built for slim cases or anywhere where space is at a premium.

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Google Begins Testing Password-Free Logins
So this means that anyone with access to your phone can log into your Google accounts this way? If you lose your phone, or it is stolen, the person that has your phone can log into all your accounts?

Google confirmed this morning it's now testing a new way to sign into your Google account without having to type in a password. Instead, those who have been invited to try this new method of logging in authenticate by responding to a notification sent to their smartphone.

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Amazon Dominated Nearly Everything This Year
Amazon is having a great year. How great? Good enough that all the year end articles are saying Amazon has "dominated nearly everything" this year.

Amazon will almost certainly break $100 billion in revenue for the first time on the back of continued growth in e-commerce, particularly Amazon Prime, as well as AWS. Amazon's investments in original programming seem to be paying off as well: its television shows, offered to Prime subscribers, have proven to be both popular and critically acclaimed—in September, Amazon shows took home five Emmys.

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ASUS R9 390 STRIX DirectCU III Video Card Review
If you are in the market for a highly overclockable, cool running video card that delivers solid 1440p gaming performance with all the bells and whistles cranked up, I recommend reading our evaluation of the ASUS R9 390 STRIX DirectCU III today.

In this evaluation we have a custom built Radeon R9 390 video card, the ASUS R9 390 STRIX DirectCU III 8GB. It features a factory overclock and the DirectCU III cooling system, alongside STRIX technology for silent gaming. We will compare it to a custom NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card, both using the highest overclock we achieved.

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Toshiba Cutting 7,800 Jobs
Toshiba announced plans today to cut 7,800 jobs (6,800 in consumer electronics and an additional 1,000 corporate jobs) as the company tries to turn things around as it faces record losses for the current fiscal year.

Toshiba plans to cut 7,800 jobs, mostly in its consumer-electronics business, as it reorganizes in the face of projected record losses for the current fiscal year. The Japanese conglomerate has been struggling with the aftermath of a major accounting scandal, compounded by troubles in nuclear energy and losses in the business that makes personal computers, TVs and consumer appliances.

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Video Game Players Brains Are 'Wired Differently'
I think we all knew this. What I want to know is whether playing games caused our brains to be "wired differently" or are people with weird rewired brains just drawn to video games? Maybe a little of both?

The study, based on brain scans from nearly 200 adolescent boys, found that that those who play games more often show signs of enhanced coordination between the brain networks that process vision or hearing and the so-called salience network, which governs our attention span.

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Corsair Carbide Series 600Q EATX Case Review
"Minimalist style" and "minimalist noise," is how Corsair describes its new Carbide Series 600Q computer chassis. While some might prefer a case that looks like it was designed by Voltron, Corsair goes the opposite direction with the 600Q and is looking to check all the boxes that make a chassis desirable; easy to use, quiet, and cool.

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