Looks like mobile OS allegiance will soon become part of the car buying decision: Hyundai and Kia will use Android to power in-car entertainment and navigation systems in all new models, starting with the new Kia Soul and Hyundai Genesis coming at the end of the year. Read more…
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Your Next Hyundai or Kia Will Come With Android Baked In
JoshMST writes “Why are we in the middle of GPU-renaming hell? AMD may be releasing a new 28-nm Hawaii chip in the next few days, but it is still based on the same 28-nm process that the original HD 7970 debuted on nearly two years ago. Quick and easy (relative terms) process node transitions are probably a thing of the past. 20-nm lines applicable to large ASICs are not being opened until mid-2014. ‘AMD and NVIDIA will have to do a lot of work to implement next generation features without breaking transistor budgets. They will have to do more with less, essentially. Either that or we will just have to deal with a much slower introduction of next generation parts.’ It’s amazing how far the graphics industry has come in the past 18 years, but the challenges ahead are greater than ever.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Next-Gen GPU Progress Slowing As It Aims for 20 nm and Beyond
“Through the Force, things you will see. The future, the past, old friends long gone.” Someone has apparently just found a laser-disc full of behind the scenes, never before seen footage from Return of the Jedi . Two clips were uploaded to a Facebook page yesterday: a silent 59 seconds of R2D2 repairing Luke’s X-Wing on Dagobah, and a minute of Frank Oz getting fed lines and doing Yoda like only he can (which, in the end, sounds like quite a strain on the ol’ vocal cords). Read more…
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Long Lost LaserDisc Found, Features Behind-The-Scenes Star Wars Footage
iOS 7 has its fair share of annoyances , but one that a lot of people have grown to dislike is the blurry background in Notification Center, Spotlight, Control Center, and anywhere else in Apple’s app it appears. Thankfully, if you’re not a fan of that effect, or it’s just slowing down your older phone, Guiding Tech shows off how to turn it off. Read more…
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Disable Blur Effects in iOS 7 for Easier Reading, Better Performance
Music scholars are recreating ancient Greek songs that haven’t been heard for thousands of years. The results aren’t very inspiring, but we’re finally getting a sense of what the ancients were listening to. Read more…
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Listen to 2,500-year-old music brought back to life
T-Mobile’s plan to offer 200MB of free monthly data to iPad users was just the start of a larger strategy. As of November 1st, the no-charge bandwidth will be available for the lifetime of any tablet on the network; customers who pay for data will get the 200MB on top of their existing caps. The company is simultaneously launching a tablet trade-in program that will discount new devices when shoppers bring in old slates, even if they’re WiFi-only. To draw attention to its new initiative, T-Mobile has revealed that it will carry the LTE-ready Nexus 7 in-store on November 20th. Customers can get Google’s tablet with no money down if they’re willing to pay $16 per month for two years, or $384 in total. That’s ultimately more expensive than purchasing through Google Play , but it may be easier to swallow for those who can’t afford to buy the device outright. Filed under: Tablets , T-Mobile Comments Source: T-Mobile
astroengine writes “The first 1, 000 exoplanets to be confirmed have been added to the Europe-based Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia. For the last few weeks, astronomers (and the science media) have been waiting with bated breath as the confirmed exoplanet count tallied closer and closer to the 1, 000 mark. Then, with the help of the Super Wide Angle Search for Planets (SuperWASP) collaboration, the number jumped from 999 to 1, 010 overnight. All of the 11 worlds are classified as ‘hot-Jupiters’ with orbital periods between 1 day and 9 days.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Exoplanet Count Peaks 1,000
NASA has smashed its record for transmitting data to and from the moon. Now, it boasts a frankly amazing 622Mbps transfer speed to the rock that circles our little planet. Read more…
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NASA Has a 622 Mbps Data Connection—to the Moon
Dr Bjoern von Reumont: “This is the first time we have seen venom being used in crustaceans and the study adds a new major animal group to the roster of known venomous animals. Venoms are especially common in three of the four major groups of arthropods, such as insects. Crustaceans, however, are a glaring exception to the rule.” [BBC]
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JG0LD writes “The Firefox web browser will, henceforth, require users to manually activate Java objects on sites that they visit, Mozilla has confirmed. This even affects up-to-date versions of Java, which you can see on the block list. The change is aimed at improving security and moving away from a dependence on proprietary plug-ins, but critics say it will cause untold headaches for developers, admins and less-technical end-users. ” Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Firefox’s Blocked-By-Default Java Isn’t Going Down Well