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  • What’s a Chromebook good for? How about running PHOTOSHOP? • The Register

    Photoshop is the only application from Adobe’s suite that’s getting the streaming treatment so far, but the company says it plans to offer other applications via the same tech soon. That doesn’t mean it’s planning to phase out its on-premise applications, though. via What’s a Chromebook good for? How about running PHOTOSHOP? • The Register.…

  • HP Ships First ARM Servers | EE Times

    HP’s releasing a Proliant based blade server that can use ARM based cpus.

  • SanDisk Launches Its Highest Capacity SD Card Yet

    The SanDisk Extreme PRO UHS-I SDHC/SDXC family includes 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB capacities. The new 512 GB card costs $799.99 and is available now. #94846033 / gettyimages.com via SanDisk Launches Its Highest Capacity SD Card Yet. Interesting to finally see this form factor hit the market. These cards now are as big…

  • Batteries take the lithium for charge boost • The Register

    To do that, the researchers coated a lithium anode with a layer of hollow carbon nanospheres, to prevent the growth of the dendrites. via Batteries take the lithium for charge boost • The Register. As research is being done on incremental improvements in Lithium Ion batteries, some occasional discoveries are being made. In this instance,…

  • UK Startup Blippar Confirms It has Acquired AR Pioneer Layar | TechCrunch

    The acquisition makes Blippar one of the largest AR players globally, giving it a powerful positioning in the AR and visual browsing space, which may help its adoption in the mass consumer space where AR has tended to languish. via UK Startup Blippar Confirms It has Acquired AR Pioneer Layar | TechCrunch. Layar was definitely…

  • PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone

    Here’s my latest DIY project, a smartphone based on a Raspberry Pi. It’s called – wait for it – the PiPhone. It makes use an Adafruit touchscreen interface and a Sim900 GSM/GPRS module to make phone calls. via PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi based Smartphone. Dave Hunt doesn’t just do photography, he’s a Maker through and…

  • Epson Moverio BT-200 AR Glasses In Person, Hands On

    Even Moverio’s less powerful (compared to VR displays) head tracking would make something like Google Glass overheat, McCracken said, which is why Glass input is primarily voice command or a physical touch. McCracken, who has developed for Glass, said that more advanced uses can only be accomplished with something more powerful. via Epson Moverio BT-200…

  • AnandTech | Apple’s Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed

    So for now, Cyclone’s performance is really used to exploit race to sleep and get the device into a low power state as quickly as possible. via AnandTech | Apple’s Cyclone Microarchitecture Detailed. Race to sleep, is the new, new thing for mobile cpus. Power conservation at a given clock speed is all done through…

  • Battery vendors push ultracapacitor wrappers to give Li-ions more bite • The Register

    A pair of battery vendors are hoping that a new design which incorporates the use of an ultracapacitor material will help to improve and extend the life of lithium-ion battery packs. via Battery vendors push ultracapacitor wrappers to give Li-ions more bite • The Register. First a little background info on what is a capacitor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracapacitor#History…

  • DDR4 Heir-Apparent Makes Progress | EE Times

    The current paradigm has become increasingly complex, said Black, and HMC is a significant shift. It uses a vertical conduit called through-silicon via (TSV) that electrically connects a stack of individual chips to combine high-performance logic with DRAM die. Essentially, the memory modules are structured like a cube instead of being placed flat on a…