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Easy processor water cooling is getting....well easier, all the time. Antec joins the fray with its very familiar looking self contained unit that is sure to keep the water inside where it belongs. We find out how it performs and if it is worth your hard earned $$$.
Many of us see personal technology moving from Windows PCs to Android smartphones, Apple iPads and other tablets, but has it actually already happened?
One of the biggest changes in technology over the past few years has been the decreased role of specifications. At first this seems counter-intuitive. People are more knowledgeable about technology than they were in the past so you'd think they would be following the specifications of their latest phone or laptop more closely. And companies, for their part, would be pushing harder on those fronts. That's just not the case any more.
Have you ever looked at your television and wished it was a little more... intelligent? Or how about your sad, wall-butting first-generation Roomba; wouldn't it be nice to upgrade his sensors and give his piddly brain a little more oomph? Well, with Brainlink you can do just that.
About 10 years ago, I tried out a program for Windows XP that let me login and unlock the computer using my face. My mind was summarily blown, but my pragmatic, nerdy forebrain quickly regained control. This was back when webcams had VGA (640×480) resolution or less, and state of the art processors were 1.4GHz AMD Athlons. How on earth was this program detecting and accurately identifying my face in just a few seconds?
Speech-based computing company Nuance Communications on Monday announced that it acquired Telecom Italia subsidiary Loquendo, a company specializing in text-to-speech (TTS), automatic speech recognition (ASR) and voice biometrics solutions mostly for Romance languages.
As the results from the MINEX II test is released, Precise Biometrics emerges with the fastest standardized Match-on-Card technology showing outstanding performance. Precise Biometrics is the only biometric supplier who passed with 3 different card vendors - a unique achievement in the industry. MINEX II is a key standard for U.S. federal ID implementations.
Social media can be problematic for professionals who don't want their bosses to see unflattering college party photos. But it's even worse for people whose livelihood literally depends on anonymity, like undercover cops. What happens if the gang you've infiltrated finds your grinning mug in Facebook photos from the police union annual picnic?
Digital security specialists, major European electronics makers, and experts in biometrics worked together to make passport control at airports faster. The technology also could have broader applications on the way our identity documents are design and on the way we access public services.
E-waste is a growing problem in the U.S. and around the world. Some material found in electronics equipment can be highly valuable, such as the copper and gold-plated scraps seen here. Other gear, such as TVs and cathode ray tubes, doesn't contain as much value and is hard to recycle, particularly by manual processes.
What happens if something goes wrong with a Windows PC? Good luck finding honest and competent help. Right now, somewhere in the world, an incompetent support professional is performing “repairs” that make things worse and suggesting useless “upgrades” that line their pockets and slow down PCs.
Cambrios Technologies and Hitachi Chemical have collaborated to develop a novel transparent conductive film for touch panels in tablet PCs and smart phones.
Is it a portable DVD drive, or is it a 32GB thumb drive? As a matter of fact it's both: the Isostick, which is currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, is basically a memory stick that automatically converts ISO images into physical, mounted optical drives — or at least as far as the host computer is concerned.
Battery life. For the mobile worker it is everything. If one laptop lasts an hour longer than another, and the performance on offer is similar, it’s the model you are going to choose. If, like me, you can’t stand to use the touchpad on a laptop for extended periods of time, then a wireless mouse is also a must-have peripheral in your bag. Again, battery life is important, and most wireless mice these days quote months between battery changes.
When you sat down for breakfast this morning (assuming you're one of the lucky few that has time for such a luxury) you probably slid your chair up to a 4-legged amalgamation of oak and wood screws. But did you know that for the low price of just $18,000, you could have been staring into the depths of the internet instead of the natural grain of a long-dead tree? Computer manufacturer Ideum hopes that's just what you're looking for, and its new MT55 Platform multitouch table will fit the bill quite nicely.
Operating multiples PCs in a single space has always been painful. All those keyboards, displays, and mice not only take up a considerable amount of space but moving from one to another can get messy, a situation that is exacerbated when all your input devices are wireless.
Noctua aims at establishing a new level of quality and performance "Designed in Austria" through paying attention to the users' needs in a market burdened with all kinds of frills and furbelows and providing sound-optimized premium components, which serve their purpose in a smart, precise and reliable manner.
NXP Semiconductors today announced a new generation of GreenChip power solutions which feature the lowest standby capability in the industry, reaching levels below 10mW. The NXP GreenChip power ICs, also known as Switch Mode Power Supply controller ICs, are designed for adapters for mobile devices such as cell phone chargers, tablets and notebooks, as well as major home appliances or white goods.
OLED-Info is where you go to learn everything you wanted to know about OLED TV and displays. We have been following the development of OLED technology since 1998 and are wiling and able to share our knowledge with OLED professionals and layman alike.
With PCI-Express 3.0 still in diapers so to speak, its parent PCI-SIG has announced the next version in its superfast I/O standard, PCI-Express (PCIe) 4.0. With widespread support of the current standard most likely not coming until next year, 4.0's announcement may seem premature. However, with the rapid, breakneck pace of the computing industry, having PCI-SIG “set the pace” to where the theoretical speeds are going to be in 2014 or 2015 will be useful for manufacturers.
PCI Express 3.0 is barely out the door, but that hasn't stopped the PCI-SIG consortium from unveiling the initial specs for PCI Express 4.0, which promises tons of bandwidth for graphics cards when it's finalized two or three years from now. Gamers will be most interested in how much bandwidth the new standard will provide their [...]
Pioneer has announced the creation of its new WWS-DT101, it is a touch screen table PC that has an area of 52". The screen, which gratefully can support multitouch input, is based on a Full HDTV, and runs of proprietary software that Pioneer has developed in house, though the systems PC component is based on the Windows 7 64Bit operating system. This makes it not too far off the mark of the similar table developed by Microsoft itself earlier this year.
The reason the 207JBK is worth mentioning is due to its inclusion of BDXL support. BDXL is the enhanced Blu-ray standard using triple or quad layers in order to offer 100GB rewritable and 128GB write-once discs. Their use has been limited due to the fact you need a compatible drive to read a BDXL disc, which are expensive, and the media also remains very expensive too.
Today started off like any other day. That was until I checked my mail box and found a little goodie from Microsoft inside. Upon opening up the package, I realized this wasn't the ordinary quick-packaging job that Microsoft seems to always leave to the last minute, this one actually had some thought behind it. The box not only pulls up to reveal the mouse inside, but it also comes with a big flap that allows you to see the mouse behind its clear plastic casing. If you've ever shopped for a mouse in store you'll know sometimes the best mice aren't on display to use, but locked away from reach or inside a box that doesn't allow you to actually see the product.
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I've written on several occasions that one of the best ways to learn about timely topics, especially in an industry changing so rapidly, is via webinars and podcasts. I had the opportunity to listen to E-Discovery—Without The High Price Tag on Digital Detectives, a great series held regularly by Sharon Nelson and John Simek, President and Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, respectively.
There have been a range of reactions to our news last week, and some confusion. So I thought I'd take a shot at answering some of the most frequent questions. I will update this post as information is made available.
A not-for-profit organization which represents the imaging industry. TWAIN's purpose is to provide and foster a universal public standard which links applications and image acquisition devices. The mission of this organization is to continue to enhance the standard to accommodate future technologies.
We first covered Intel's Hawthorn Farm campus two years ago. A return visit with a video camera gives us the opportunity to film inside and ask some new questions about the company's efforts to design more enthusiast-oriented motherboards.
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