Intel recently revealed substantial new details about its forthcoming 45nm processor, codenamed Nehalem. Nehalem marks a major turning point for Intel’s flagship processor line, and Ars tells you what you need to know.
Over the weekend, a group of researchers at the University of Colorado reported evidence that Comcast’s traffic management had extended beyond the realm of BitTorrent to plain old HTML traffic. The results caught Comcast’s eye, not because it was doing anything to throttle non-P2P traffic, but because the company wasn’t.
Do RIAA investigators need a license? The group says no, but some states appear to disagree. Judges may settle the issue in the next few weeks.
Great news, the cover story Game Informer is Gears of War 2 and we have some new details from the game thanks to a member of the NeoGaF Forums.
It almost sounds too good to be true. Almost? It is too good to be true. Could Cry Engine 2 on consoles really look any where near as good as Crysis on the PC? Crytek’s Engine Business Manager, Harald Seeley, states that they expect the console versions to “look like they’re running at high settings, or nearly high settings, on a PC.”
A Michigan company has set its sights on promoting wireless power, and suggests the technology could quickly find its way into devices like the iPhone.
The End of an Era: This morning the 1UP Network, in conjunction with Microsoft, announced that Games for Windows: The Official Magazine will be transitioning from a print publication to an online-exclusive destination here on 1UP.com. GFW was the longest running PC games magazine in the industry, beginning its life as CGW in 1981.
This was the game that was supposed to make us all want to upgrade to Windows Vista, get the latest DX10 video cards, and have at it. Well, it hasn’t quite lived up to everyone’s expectations. Even with its severe performance penalty on current hardware, Crysis hasn’t quite sparked the need to upgrade to a DX10 capable computer system.
Holy irony, Batman! People who play violent games online actually feel relaxed after they have played a round of bloody fun.
Microsoft today lifted the lid on 14,000 pages of sketchy versions of tech documentation for core software code. On show for the first time in public are underlying protocols for Office 2007, Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Exchange Server 2007.
In response to that image of Mac OS X Leopard running 150 apps. Ah, nothing like the smell of napalm in the morning.
Apple Australia have today announced internally the details of the Australian iPhone release. The phone will be released in the last week of June to coincide with the opening of the Sydney Apple Store. The phone will also be unlocked for use with more than 1 carrier, providing evidence it may be a 3G iPhone we first see here.
