TG Daily stumbled across more details about Nvidia
’s upcoming graphics card, which surely looks more and more like a processing monster. However, not many GT200 chips will actually fit on a 300 mm wafer at TSMC. Nvidia has come up with a huge die measuring 24 x 24 mm, resulting in a die area size of 576 mm2.
Finally living up to its name, Netflix today introduced the Netflix Player by Roku, a small piece of hardware that can play any Netflix titles available for Internet streaming. With a cheap price and Netflix’s signature subscription model, the Netflix Player brings a new set of rules to the video distribution table.
Planning on going to Ubuntu Live 2008 in July? Think again. It’s been canceled.
Not everything Google touches turns to gold. These are some of Google’s biggest nonstarter Web services, software programs and business moves.
Word on the street is that Canadian Industry Minister Jim Prentice is about to try to shove the Canadian version of the US’s failed Digital Millennium Copyright Act through Parliament very soon, and very fast. He made plans to do this before, and the overwhelming public outcry caused him to shelve them.
The once relevant Electronics Entertainment Expo (aka E3) makes it’s triumphantly bastardized return this year.
Jack Thompson Guilty on 27 of 31 Misconduct Charges, Says Bar Trial Judge… FL Supreme Court Must Now Rule.
If you put Microsoft at the center of your home entertainment system, be prepared to hand them the remote control, literally. Microsoft has gone to great lengths to restrict users from saving a television program to their computers, we call this kind of functionality an “antifeature”.
We’re not sure if these plans will ever make it to reality, but the Telegraph is reporting that Britain’s Home Office is working on database designed to store the details of every phone call, email, and web page accessed by British citizens in the previous year. The idea is to have various telecom providers hand over their records…
Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has repeatedly called for Linux distributions and upstream software projects to synchronize their release cycles. Ars takes an in-depth look at the challenges that would arise from an effort to achieve release synchronization on the scale that Shuttleworth envisions.
