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AMD’s Piledriver Opteron Series Revs Up to 6300
Chip maker AMD has just rolled out its latest batch of Opteron processors, with a choice of quad-core, 8-core, 12-core and 16 core options available, clocking up speeds ranging from 2.3GHz to 3.5GHz. The 6300-series chips can certainly pack a punch – AMD claims that they offer as much as 37% uplift versus the older ...
French Satire’s Fake Google Report Leapt On By Dumb Journalists
Media sources including Reuters and AFP are reporting that French authorities are preparing to slap Google with an enormous $1.3 billion tax bill. Given France’s poor relations with Google of late, one would be forgiven for thinking that this is no laughing matter , or at least, not until you consider just who the source ...
Human “Only Just” Edges Out Robot Car On The Racetrack
Motor racing enthusiasts can breathe easy – human drivers are still able to outmaneuver their robotic counterparts down on the race track. Even so, the gap between professional race drivers and self-driven cars isn’t all that big, as a race at the Thunderhill Raceway in California proved yesterday. Although the human driver achieved victory against ...
Apple Bitten By UK Judges; Ordered To Re-Write Samsung Statement
When Apple posted a statement on its website earlier this month, admitting that Samsung had not copied its iPad design, the company thought it had been very clever with its wording – complying with the demand but also taking the opportunity to attack its rival once again. Yesterday though, Apple was hauled back in front ...
Cisco Introduces UCS Central To Manage Data Centers Across The Cloud
Cisco has rolled out a major update for its Unified Computing System (UCS) management platform, which combines the firm’s server and networking technology with its storage hardware into a single system. Yesterday, the company announced its adding a new component called ‘UCS Central’, which will allow for better orchestration of its UCS systems across multiple ...
Google’s Voice Search Craps All Over Siri, Thanks to Big Data
Google has just released a new, standalone voice search app for iOS devices to take on Apple’s flagship Siri personal assistant. It’s not quite the same as Siri – at the moment, all it can do is perform Google searches and a few other odds and ends, unlike the system wide functionality of Apple’s software. ...
Russia Enacts Controversial Internet Blacklist Law
A controversial law that the government says is aimed at protecting children from harmful web content has just gone into effect in Russia. But critics of the legislation, dubbed Russia’s ‘internet blacklist law’, have slammed the move, saying it will give authorities a license to censor any website it disagrees with. Under the new law, ...
Intel Launches New Entry-Level SSD Featuring 20nm Flash Memory
Intel has just rolled out its latest solid-state drive (SSD), aimed at entry level buyers looking to replace their hard drives for something with additional storage capacity. The newly-launched, consumer-focused SSD 355 series follows on from the success of Intel’s popular SSD 330 drives, designed and built using the same revolutionary 20-nanometer process. As such, ...
EMC Boosts RSA Security with Silver Tail Systems Acquisition
EMC is planning to beef up its RSA security division with the acquisition of Silver Tail Systems, a big data startup whose main product offering is able to detect malicious activity in real-time. Silver Tail’s software works by monitoring site visitors and analyzing their behavior to work out if they’re genuine site users or up ...
Gang Exploits Citigroup E-Payments Flaw, Makes Off With $1 Million
The FBI has charged fourteen people with stealing more than $1million by taking advantage of a loophole in the way Citigroup processes its electronic payments. Criminals are alleged to have stolen the money from Citibank using cash advance kiosks located in Nevada and Southern California casinos. According to the FBI, the gang exploited a gap ...