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Category: News Around the Web
Posted: Sunday, Jun. 5, 2011 01:00 pm |
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- Nvidia announces GeForce GTX 560M for gaming laptops - Nvidia has taken the wraps off its latest high-end graphics chips for notebooks at Computex. The new GeForce GTX 560M brings a welcome performance boost from the GTX 460M as well as improved battery life thanks to the company's Optimus graphics switching technology. Specs include 192 CUDA cores, with 1550MHz shader frequency, a 775MHz graphics clock, and 1250MHz memory frequency with either 1.5GB or 3GB of GDDR5 memory and a 192-bit bus. According to the company the new GTX 560M should enable the latest games to run at playable frame rates on a 1080p screen with maximum detail, minus antialiasing. So far Asus , MSI, Alienware, Toshiba and Clevo have all committed to new notebooks packing the new graphics processor, though as usual specific implementations are up to each manufacturer and it seems only Toshiba's Qosmio and Alienware's M17x will offer Optimus support.
- Build Or Buy? Five Sub-$500 Store-Bought Systems Compared - The chaps over at THG dig into five off-the-shelf sub-$500 configurations to figure out what they can and cannot do.
- Asus Eee PCs Ship with Ubuntu Linux - According to Canonical, Asus began shipping three Eee PC netbooks this week with pre-installed Maverick Meerkat Ubuntu (10.10).
- Quad-Core Android Tablet Demo Video Unveiled By NVIDIA - Project Kal-El's new quad-core Glowball demo gives a glimpse into the future of mobile gaming by showing off true dynamic lighting rendered real time on Kal-El's powerful NVIDIA GPU, as well as real-time physics processing across the 4 CPU cores of Kal-El.
- Acer Iconia M500 runs MeeGo on an Atom CPU - Acer's David Lee just hijacked Intel's netbooks and tablets Computex keynote to unveil a brand new 10-inch tablet: the Iconia M500. It's the first in the company's new M Series and runs MeeGo atop an Atom (Moorestown) processor. Its appearance and dimensions are strikingly similar to the company's Android tablet, the A500, and that similarity extends to the resolution of the screen as well: 1280 x 800.
- Acer W4 Windows Phone Mango handset eyes-on (video) - There's a 3.6-inch 800 x 480 display of unknown type, 1GHz Qualcomm MSM8255 CPU, up to 8GB of storage, 5 megapixel auto-focus camera, and DLNA support. Hardly anything new here, which is a surprise given that we're looking at a Mango device -- a phone to be shipped with a major WP7 refresh.
- Asus officially announces the Padfone - This Android-based device is supposed to allow for seamless connections and shared use for both its smartphone and its tablet-based PC.
- Razer Battlefield 3 Teaser - Amidst the smoke, rubble, and gunfire, only one will stand out victorious. Watch our official Razer Battlefield 3 Teaser and enlist if you've got the guts to fight.
- Windows 8: IE10, Touchscreen Keyboards and File System Access - Microsoft showed us IE10 on Windows 8, which honestly has a very iOS-like feel to it. You get smooth scrolling and panning, with a PlayBook style support for tabs. It's amazing how much of the Windows 8 UI looks a lot like RIM's first tablet.
- Microsoft to Launch Office 365 on June 28 - The official launch of Microsoft's cloud application suite service will be on June 28th. Office 365 will be generally available soon after the announcement in late June according to Tom Warren, head of Microsoft partner organization.
- Mozilla Fires Out the First Thunderbird 5 Beta - Mozilla will be fast tracking its Thunderbird 5 email client, joining Firefox web browser in the rapid release schedule. Thunderbird 5 will be first of many betas which will be released before the final version is ready sometime later this month.
- How To Make 3D glasses (video) - check it out
- Facebook & Twitter Banned in France - Get this...the words Twitter and Facebook have been banned from French airwaves. Why? Who knows?
- The Dirty Little Secrets Of The Pharmaceutical Industry - check it out
- Night Of The Zombie Chicken (video) - Created by Vancouver Film School student Steven Blomkamp through the VFS 3D Animation & Visual Effects program.
- The Hobbit Titles & Release Dates - New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures and MGM have announced the titles and release dates for filmmaker Peter Jackson's two-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's enduringly popular masterpiece THE HOBBIT. The first film, titled 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,' will be released on December 14, 2012. The second film, titled 'The Hobbit: There and Back Again,' is slated for release the following year, on December 13, 2013.
- Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' Red Band Trailer! - A journalist is aided in his search for a woman who'd been missing, or dead, for forty years, by a young female hacker, played in this one by Rooney Mara. Based on Stieg Larsson's Millennium series of novels.
- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Green-Band Trailer - check it out
- Stellar 'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' Theatrical Trailer - Rise of the Planet of the Apes is set in a contemporary San Francisco and follows a young scientist who becomes a crucial figure in the war between humans and apes. Franco has been testing his Alzheimer cure on apes, but one of them, named Caesar, starts to evolve rapidly, so he takes him home to live with him and protect him from the cruel doctors, thus starting the inevitable ape revolution. Rise of the Planet of the Apes arrives in theaters on August 5th late summer.
- Live Action Portal On Stage (video) -check it out
- Meanwhile in India at the silk store...(video) - check it out
- Amazing waterspout 'tornado' caught on camera off Australia - Dramatic footage filmed from a helicopter by Australia's Channel 7 shows a series of powerful waterspouts near the coastal suburb of Terrigal, on Australia's New South Wales coast.
- Candice Boucher is South African Sunshine - The brunette beauty displays her winning form for Ta-Bou Swimwear.
- Jessica Lowndes is Golden for FHM UK - Jessica Lowndes is currently enjoying the limelight as one of the stars of the series '90210,' but she made her acting debut back in 2005 in a forgettable TV movie called 'Saving Milly.' ''
Source: GGMania headlinesGGMania.com - Daily Gaming and Tech news
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