You gotta love this industry. 12 days ago, we reported about a website making progress in getting Nvidia’s CUDA platform and PhysX to run on ATI Radeon cards. Here is an update to a fascinating story that may soon bring PhysX support to your Radeon graphics card.
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The term net neutrality, unless you’re a tech geek, conjures up thoughts of fair trade, international policy or possibly anti-fishing zones. Here’s a clarification the oft confusing technical jargon slimmed down to only the necessary information:
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Activision has officially received shareholder approval for its merger with Vivendi. The company said over 92 percent of its shareholders greenlighted the merger, and the transaction is expected to officially close tomorrow.
The merger was first announced in December of 2007, but has just now been finalized.
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While the Pirate Party might be well known in Sweden, and heard of elsewhere around Europe, it’s not really taken off in the country that prides itself as being ‘the land of the free’. Unperturbed, the US Pirate Party has soldiered on and with the preliminary release of data from it’s first study, it’s hitting back at the media lobbyists.
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I tried to log in to Apple Developer Connection this morning to find out that my password had been changed and the email associated with my account was now a yahoo.com address that wasn’t mine. Based on the emails that have appeared in my .Mac mailbox, this was accomplished by sending a one-liner e-mail to Apple.
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On the eve of what I thought would be another triumph for Apple - until I saw Vodafone NZ’s iPhone 3G pricing plans and saw the huge reaction - here, for your edification, are some Apple disasters.
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Google has agreed to add a “privacy” link to its famously pure home page, but on the condition that the total word count remains the same. What gets the boot? “Google.”
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A mainstream UK newspaper has indicated that the Xbox 360 Elite could well be suffering from the same ‘red ring of death’ overheating problem as earlier models of the console, despite protestations to the contrary from Microsoft…
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Apple, disgusted with Rogers Wireless for dumping egregious service plans on would-be iPhone 3G buyers, has decided that its Canadian retail stores will have no part in helping the carrier market the new handset to customers. As a result, Canadian Apple Retail stores won’t be selling the new 3G touch-screen phones come Friday.
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A Russian man who described local police as “scum” in an Internet posting was given a suspended jail sentence on Monday for extremism, prompting bloggers to warn of a crackdown on free speech online. Convicted on charges of “inciting hatred or enmity,” Terentiev was given a one-year suspended term on Monday, Russian news agencies reported.
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Linux filesystem developer Hans Reiser has revealed the location of his wife’s corpse to law enforcement officials. Meanwhile, development on his namesake filesystem appears to be grinding to a halt.
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