• AnandTech | Intel SSD DC P3700 Review: The PCIe SSD Transition Begins with NVMe

    We don’t see infrequent blips of CPU architecture releases from Intel, we get a regular, 2-year tick-tock cadence. It’s time for Intel’s NSG to be given the resources necessary to do the same. I long for the day when we don’t just see these SSD releases limited to the enterprise and corporate client segments, but…

  • Virtual Physical Reality With Kintinuous And An Oculus Rift

    Combining the Kinect 3D realtime mapping with Oculus Rift 3D Goggles. This is pretty darned amazing. This is going to have huge applications in the Augmented Reality world. Can you imagine? Just do a 3D scan of the space, let the Kinect do the mapping, then pull the whole model into the Oculus Rift environment,…

  • PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD • The Register

    WD will demo PCIe-connected disk drives at the Computex tech conference in Taipei, using a SATA Express interface. via PCIe hard drives? You read that right, says WD • The Register. Even though the SATA Express isn’t meant to be a long term architectural improvement over simple SATA or just PCIe drive interfaces, it is…

  • LMS Administrator How To Guide

    By Craig Weiss If you are a LMS administrator, I want to personally thank you.  I know that it is a job that rarely gets the recognition it deserves.  I know that it is the first place someone goes when something goes wrong and yet, rarely appreciated when something goes right. I feel your pain,…

  • Cavium Thunder Rattles Xeon | EE Times

    Cavium will try to drive ARM SoCs into mainstream servers, challenging Intel’s Xeon x86 with a family of 28 nm devices using up to 48 2.5 GHz custom 64-bit ARM cores via Cavium Thunder Rattles Xeon | EE Times. Another entry into the massively multi-core low power server race. Since the fading of other competitors…

  • Watch The Daily Show Destroy Google Glass And Glass Explorers

    “a little bit”? Howzabout a lotta bit. Like this is the solution looking for a problem. Same too, the self-driving car. Dean Kamen invented, developed and marketed the Segway as a revolution in human mobility and transportation. Google is touting the self-driving car as a revolution in human mobility and transportation. Google Glass is being…

  • Audrey Watters: The Future of Ed-Tech is a Reclamation Project #DLFAB

    We can reclaim the Web and more broadly ed-tech for teaching and learning. But we must reclaim control of the data, content, and knowledge we create. We are not resources to be mined. Learners do not enter our schools and in our libraries to become products for the textbook industry and the testing industry and…

  • AnandTech | Samsung SSD XP941 Review: The PCIe Era Is Here

    I don’t think there is any other way to say this other than to state that the XP941 is without a doubt the fastest consumer SSD in the market. It set records in almost all of our benchmarks and beat SATA 6Gbps drives by a substantial margin. It’s not only faster than the SATA 6Gbps…

  • ISPs Create Fake Grassroots Groups To Fight Net Neutrality

  • VLC is getting Chromecast support for iOS and desktop versions

    Originally posted on Gigaom: The popular open source media player VLC could get Chromecast support soon: VLC developers recently confirmed on the official VideoLAN forum that they’re currently working on bringing Chromecast support to the media player (hat tip to Reddit user badgerflower). Lead OSX and iOS developer Felix Paul Kühne wrote: “In addition to…