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Netflix’s highest quality ‘Super HD’ 1080p video streams are available everywhere

Feeling left out because your internet provider isn’t on board with Netflix’s Open Connect program that provides access to its Super HD high-bitrate 1080p streams ? Let that feeling of abandonment go, as the company has announced all of its customers (with compatible players) now have access to the higher quality video (and, in the US, 3D). According to Netflix the move is based on a combination of performance data and member requests, although we’ll consider ourselves unofficial beta testers after a glitch temporarily switched it on for all providers back in August . Netflix is going to keep pushing its Open Connect platform, and reminds users that actually getting the video streams with less compression depends on the network connection available. Let us know if you’re seeing a few new shades and sharper edges in OITNB , or if things have stayed pretty much the same. Filed under: Home Entertainment , Internet , HD Comments Source: Netflix Super HD

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How Hyper-Threading Works (and When You Want It In Your PC)

Hyper-Threading has been in Intel’s processors for years. It’s the main difference between the Core i5 and i7, and that many games don’t use it explains why i5s power some serious gaming rigs. If you’ve been considering an upgrade but you’re not sure if you need Hyper Threading, this video from Techquickie will help. Read more…        

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Apple has released iOS 7.0.2, a small update addressing the security flaw that enabled users to bypa

Apple has released iOS 7.0.2, a small update addressing the security flaw that enabled users to bypass the lockscreen. Read more here . Read more…        

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VLC Reaches 2.1

An anonymous reader writes “With a new audio core, hardware decoding and encoding, port to mobile platforms, preparation for Ultra-HD video and a special care to support more formats, 2.1 is a major upgrade for VLC. The popular video player app also features support for 4K video as well as a partial Windows 8 and WinRT port for all those folks out there who don’t know what else to do with their Surface RT.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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World’s First Fully Bionic, Mind-Controlled Leg Goes for a Walk

When Zac Vawter lost his leg in a motorcycle accident a few years ago, he thought he’d never walk like a normal person again. But today, the 32-year-old software engineer can climb stairs, wiggle his toes and stroll through parks. The only difference is that one of his legs is a mind-controlled robot . Read more…        

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LA officials may delay school iPad rollout after students hack them in a week

Just a week after it began the first phase of putting iPads in the hands of all 640, 000 students in the state, the Los Angeles school district already has a fight on its hands. In a matter of days, 300 children at Theodore Roosevelt High School managed to work around protective measures placed on the Apple tablets, giving them complete access to features — including Facebook, Twitter and other apps — that should otherwise have been blocked. Students bypassed the security lock on the device by deleting a personal profile preloaded in the settings — a simple trick that has the school district police chief recommending the board limit the rollout before it turns into a “runaway train scenario.” For now, officials have banned home use of the iPads while they assess ways to better restrict access — they would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids. [Original image credit: flickingerbrad, Flickr ] Filed under: Tablets , Apple Comments Via: Fox News Source: LA Times

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AMD Unveils New Family of GPUs: Radeon R5, R7, R9 With BF 4 Preorder Bundle

MojoKid writes “AMD has just announced a full suite of new GPUs based on its Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture. The Radeon R5, R7, and R9 families are the new product lines aimed at mainstream, performance, and high-end gaming, respectively. Specs on the new cards are still limited, but we know that the highest-end R9 290X is a six-billion transistor GPU with more than 300GB/s of memory bandwidth and prominent support for 4K gaming. The R5 series will start at $89, with 1GB of RAM. The R7 260X will hit $139 with 2GB of RAM, the R9 270X and 280X appear to replace the current Radeon 7950 and 7970 with price points at $199 and $299, and 2GB/3GB of RAM, and then the R9 290X, at an unannounced price point and 4GB of RAM. AMD is also offering a limited preorder pack, that offers Battlefield 4 license combined with the graphics cards, which should go on sale in the very near future. Finally, AMD is also debuting a new positional and 3D spatial audio engine in conjunction with GenAudio dubbed ‘AstoundSound, ‘ but they’re only making it available on the R9 290X, R9 280X, and the R9 270X.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Scientists Created a New Form of Matter and It’s Like a Light Saber

The latest science news out of Harvard and MIT sounds like a joke, but it’s not. A team of physicists were fooling around with photons when they managed to get the particles to clump together to form a molecule , one that’s unlike any other matter. And it behaves, they say, just like a light saber. Read more…        

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