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- Saturday science subject: The Moon, comets, and water
Last Saturday, we wrote about how NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) has discovered a substantial amount of water on the Moon. There was talk about comets, not solar wind, being the source of the water pretty early on, and New Scientist now says "evidence...
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Last by yogibbear at 5:36 AM on 11/22/09 -
AMD's Radeon HD 5970 graphics card
It doesn't get any more extreme than this
CrossFire on a stick goes to the next level in the Radeon HD 5970, the new fastest graphics card on the planet. This one is extreme in more ways than one, though. Read on to see what we mean.
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Last by MadManOriginal at 7:38 AM on 11/22/09 - Nvidia photo shows running Fermi-based GeForce
In case you missed the big news, Nvidia announced its first Fermi-based Tesla GPUs for high-performance computing apps yesterday. So as not to disappoint GeForce fans longing for some DirectX 11 goodness, the company has now posted a photo of a Fermi-based GeForce in action on its Facebook profile.
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Last by Meadows at 1:20 PM on 11/20/09 - Catalyst 9.11 drivers introduce Flash 10.1 support
Radeon users don't have to jealously watch their GeForce-using friends enjoy GPU-accelerated Flash video playback any longer. AMD has released its Catalyst 9.11 graphics drivers, bringing official support for the new Adobe Flash 10.1 beta plug-in. You can grab these new drivers for Windows 7, Vista, and XP in...
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Last by StuG at 9:31 AM on 11/18/09 - GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 beta hits the web
A little over a month ago, Adobe announced plans to release a beta of its GPU-accelerated Flash 10.1 player "later this year." Well, we're now later in this year, and as planned, the beta has become available for download from the Adobe Labs site. Adobe offers versions of the...
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Last by insulin_junkie72 at 5:14 PM on 11/18/09 - Nvidia announces Fermi-based Tesla GPUs
Don't we all love a good paper launch? Fermi-based graphics processors may not be ready for stores just yet, but that hasn't stopped Nvidia from announcing its first Tesla products based on the new architecture. These Tesla 20-series offerings include two workstation cards and two quad-GPU workstation systems, all...
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Last by lycium at 4:39 AM on 11/18/09 - Nvidia unveils GeForce GT 240
As it continues to work on next-generation graphics processor for the high end, Nvidia is also refreshing the mainstream portion of its product line. A pair of low-end 40-nm GeForce 200 GPUs targeted at pre-built PCs first appeared on Nvidia's website in July before hitting retailers in...
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Last by kc77 at 8:59 PM on 11/18/09 - Saturday science subject: Moon water 2: Aquatic boogaloo
In September, we wrote about how a trio of science teams had discovered evidence of water on the Moon. As ScienceNow reports, NASA has now made an even more spectacular find. The agency's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), which smashed into the Moon on October 9...
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Last by Mavrick88 at 12:00 PM on 11/16/09 - Nvidia says it didn't, won't block Lucid's Hydra
Our hands-on preview of the Lucid Hydra GPU load-balancing chip included some reporting about the status of the first Hydra-based product, MSI's Big Bang Fuzion motherboard, and the rumors that have swirled around that delay, some centering on a possible role Nvidia might have played in the whole drama....
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Last by shank15217 at 9:17 AM on 11/17/09 -
Hands on with Lucid's Hydra GPU load balancer
The first performance results revealed
We recently got the chance to test Lucid's Hydra GPU load balancer first hand. We came away with some of the first public performance numbers, along with our impressions of this magical toy that allows Radeons and GeForces to work together.
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Last by mattthemuppet at 2:16 PM on 11/16/09 - Nvidia CEO: We have supply constraints
About a month ago, the Taiwanese rumor mill broke the news that supply of 55-nm Nvidia graphics processors had gotten tight. One source later suggested Nvidia was discontinuing its GeForce GTX 200-series graphics cards, a claim Nvidia quickly denied. The GTX 200 lineup may still be alive, but as...
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Last by BooTs at 9:34 AM on 11/13/09 - Mini DisplayPort becomes a real standard
When Apple unveiled its aluminum MacBooks in 2008, it broke new ground on several fronts, offering users aluminum unibody enclosures, multi-touch glass touch pads... and a new display connector of its own design: Mini DisplayPort. Just over a year on, the Video Electronics Standards Association has adopted Mini DisplayPort...
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Last by loophole at 6:49 PM on 11/11/09 - Nvidia's Huang uses Macs at home
Open up any Mac these days, and you're likely to find an Nvidia graphics processor inside. MacBooks, Mac minis, the cheapest iMac, and the default Mac Pro configs—all of them carry an Nvidia GPU or chipset; sometimes a combination of the two. Steve Jobs might like Nvidia products, but according to...
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Last by ProzacMan at 2:32 PM on 11/11/09 - CyberLink speeds up photo, video apps with GPUs
A year on from the release of Elemental's Badaboom, GPU-compute acceleration for consumer video apps seems to have creeped into the mainstream. Earlier today, CyberLink and Nvidia announced "unique new features and significantly improved performance" now available in CyberLink's suite of photo- and video-editing applications. The acceleration features span...
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Last by stmok at 11:43 AM on 11/10/09 - Nvidia's Huang shoots down x86 CPU rumors
Once again last week, the rumor mill began grinding away about the possibility of Nvidia developing an x86 microprocessor. And, once again, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang has shot down the speculation. CNet News got the official line from Huang during Nvidia's latest earnings conference call: "No," he said...
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Last by Shining Arcanine at 10:26 AM on 11/10/09 - Saturday science subject: Climbing up the space elevator
Arthur C. Clarke once famously said that the space elevator will be built about 10 years after everybody stops laughing. We're certainly getting there: as New Scientist reports, NASA has awarded a $900,000 prize to a team that developed a robotic climber capable of ascending a cable at 3.9...
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Last by zima at 8:10 AM on 11/12/09 - Nvidia lashes out at Intel with cartoons
After trash-talking about Intel last year, Nvidia is now taking another approach in its public-relations war against the semiconductor giant: newspaper-style cartoons. Specifically, Nvidia has put up a website with a handful of seemingly professionally drawn cartoons meant to poke fun at Intel. Much like many political cartoons, Nvidia's...
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Last by MadManOriginal at 7:20 PM on 11/09/09 - Nvidia turns a profit once again
After a few tough quarters, Nvidia is finally out of the red. The company has posted $107.6 million in net profits for the third quarter of its 2010 fiscal year (ended on October 25), contrasting with sizable losses in its fiscal Q2, fiscal Q1, and the...
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Last by Wintermane at 2:11 PM on 11/08/09
