March 26, 2012 – Ken May

Digital Storm launches Aventum range with Cryo-TEC cooling system

The last thing you want when things are getting hot in the battlefield, is for things to start heating-up under your desk too. Digital Storm’s been back in the lab, looking for ways to prevent just that, and thinks it’s cracked it with the new Aventum system. It’s the first to be kitted out with the PC-maker’s Cryo-TEC liquid cooling mechanism, and boasts a thermal exhaust, five software-regulated “zones” and no less than 13 configurable fans. The range starts with an Intel i7 2700K core, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD (1TB HDD) and a GeForce GTX680 for $3,859. If your pockets are even deeper, then you might fancy the 2x dual Xeon E5-2630 hexacore-totin’ system with 32GB DDR RAM, and three-way SLI (with the same GeForce GTX680) for a jaw dropping $7,856. With a price like that, however, it’s probably your credit card that’ll need cooling down. Digital Storm is taking orders as of today, and full details of the range in the PR after the break.

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Angry Birds Space Blasts 10 Million Downloads In Three Days [Blip]

Rovio’s bird-flinging physics game hit the 10 million mark this weekend, the developer said on the official Angry Birds Twitter account this morning. Angry Birds Space came out on March 22. [Angry Birds] More »

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Blown Glass Sculptures Of Human Organs

Jessica Lloyd Jones creates rather unique representations of vital organs out of blown glass, then she adds neon to each piece to add a glow of life energy. Here’s what Jessica has to say about her works:

Blown glass human organs encapsulate inert gases displaying different colours under the influence of an electric current. The human anatomy is a complex, biological system in which energy plays a vital role. Brain Wave conveys neurological processing activity as a kinetic and sensory, physical phenomena through its display of moving electric plasma. Optic Nerve shows a similar effect, more akin to the blood vessels of the eye and with a front ‘lens’ magnifying the movement and the intensity of light. Heart is a representation of the human heart illuminated by still red neon gas. Electric Lungs is a more technically intricate structure with xenon gas spreading through its passage ways, communicating our human unawareness of the trace gases we inhale in our breathable atmosphere.

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Huawei Claims 30Gbps Wireless 'Beyond LTE'

shreshtha writes “Huawei says it has ‘recently introduced … Beyond LTE technology, which significantly increases peak rates to 30Gbps — over 20 times faster than existing commercial LTE networks.’ It claims to have achieved this with ‘key breakthroughs in antenna structure, radio frequency architecture, IF (intermediate frequency) algorithms, and multi-user MIMO (multi-input multi-output).'”

Square’s Card Case rechristened ‘Pay with Square,’ is first to bring geo-fenced hands-free payments to Android

You might know Square for accepting payments on your smartphone via a cute dongle, but you’re probably less familiar with its second offshoot, Card Case — a separate app that has enabled hands-free and NFC-free payments at over 70,000+ merchants for more than a year now. That effort is getting a complete overhaul today, cumulating in an entire rethink of the app and experience, in addition to its more-apt new title: Pay with Square. The redesigned UI loses its former card and leather-based garnish, opting instead for a simplified list of merchants sorted by distance and relevancy. Also making its debut is a search box, a spiffy map view and the ability to share merchants to friends through text, email or Twitter. We’re most excited, though, for feature parity across iPhone and Android, which means formerly iOS-exclusive features like the auto-creation of tabs at pre-approved venues (thanks to iOS 5’s geo-fencing APIs) are now present to green little robots everywhere. That’s no small feat, as the company’s had to roll their own geo-location API to pick up where Google’s left off. We’re still waiting for the Google Play listing to update, but we’ll have a fresh link for you when it does.

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Cracking the cloud: An Amazon Web Services primer

Maybe you’re a Dropbox devotee. Or perhaps you really like streaming Sherlock on Netflix. For that, you can thank the cloud.

In fact, it’s safe to say that Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become synonymous with cloud computing; it’s the platform on which some of the Internet’s most popular sites and services are built. But just as cloud computing is used as a simplistic catchall term for a variety of online services, the same can be said for AWS—there’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than you might think.

If you’ve ever wanted to drop terms like EC2 and S3 into casual conversation (and really, who doesn’t?) we’re going to demystify the most important parts of AWS and show you how Amazon’s cloud really works.

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