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AMD delivers ATI Stream SDK v2.2 with OpenCL 1.1 support Written by Cristian Thursday 12 August 2010 - 7:43 | Tags: amd, ati, opencl, sdk, stream Developers interested in making both CPU and GPU-accelerated applications are now being offered by AMD a new version of the ATI Stream SDK...

India Unveils 'Laptop' Costing $35 India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal unveiled a touchscreen tablet that he claims they will be able to produce for just $35. The device is being aimed at students, and seems to be taking the One Laptop Per Child idea and running with it...

This is a handy free program to use in conjunction with MSE, any AV or IS software and Anti-Malwarebytes, etc. I use it on a regular basis. ;) Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) FREE PC Security for Home Users Used by millions of home users around the world. The Secunia PSI is a...

Not everyone is interested in upgrading to Windows 7 -- at least not right away. Computerworld 's survey respondents who said they have no plans to upgrade reported that they just don't anticipate enough benefit, particularly in these tough economic times , to warrant the cost of migration. More...

Nvidia declares Moore's law dead Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Written by Link Removed due to 404 Error Multicores are bull, parallel is the bomb Although one would think that Nvidia is keeping busy these days in trying to catch up with its red competitor, it...

ElcomSoft accelerates the recovery of Wi-Fi passwords and password-protected iPhone and iPod backups by using ATI video cards. The support of ATI Radeon 5000 series video accelerators allows ElcomSoft to perform password recovery up to 20 times faster compared to Intel top of the line quad-core...

Went from a dual processor XP machine to a quad processor Win7 machine. Sure the new machine is faster, but not appreciably so. I use Diskkeeper every night. Thanks for any help!!

OK it exploded but it did it A bloke managed to get an Intel Celeron D Processor overclocked from 3.06 GHz to 8.19 GHz. TiN_EOF's overclocking efforts seem to have set a new record for an overclocked processor's speed. Intel Celeron D 347 which contains the NeBurst architecture based in the...

So does anyone on the site use Folding@Home? In case you do not know, Folding@Home is a way to use your extra CPU/GPU cycles to help solve protein folding to cure diseases. Now that the human genome has been mapped, scientists are trying to figure out how and why proteins fold - and misfold, in...

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Boffins create molecular transistor Link Removed due to 404 Error Link Removed due to 404 Error Written by Link Removed due to 404 Error Tuesday, 29 December 2009 12:16 Gold with a pinch of benzene A team of boffins from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology...

My mouse is very erratic when I left-click and drag to select anything including text om MS Word or on any websites but most importantly in PS CS4 image areas. It will either select nothing, or parts of a line or select something and then lose track of it or very occasionally work just fine...

Intel invested $7b for 32nm, 22nm now under development! Link Removed - Invalid URL Intel this afternoon revealed that it has already started shipping the processors it plans to unveil at CES and Donanimhaber.com published some new documents from Intel. According to slides, Intel invested...

I'm hoping someone can demystify my issue here. Scenario: - I have a file server running on Windows XP Pro we'll call it XPServer - I have two windows 7 Pro PC's, that we'll call 7Office and 7HTPC. It took me a bit to figure it out, but the windows 7 help file told me in order to call a shared...

This came from part of a HiJackThis log.... Hosts- 74.XXX.40.xxx paybillsnow.com (this is not the address, I will not give real link because it hyperlinks directly to infection) (There are multiple addresses linking to these browser HiJacks, I'm only showing one) This seem to be some...

Intel said Friday that its Larrabee graphics processor will initially appear as a software development platform only. This is a blow to the world's largest chipmaker, which was looking to launch its first discrete (standalone) graphics chip in more than a decade. "Larrabee silicon and software...

I was complaining here about a month ago, about the fact that ZoneAlarm Pro's minimum system requirements called for a 2GHz or faster processor. It still does, and I'm upset about that, but it got me wondering about other software's requirements, so I decided to look up some pro and consumer...