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06 July, 2013
05 July, 2013
BlueBox security, a mobile security company which claims it has discovered a flaw in the operating system of almost all Google phones and tablets (which runs on the operating system Android) that allows hackers to modify its code in a way that "turns any legitimate application into a malicious Trojan" virus.
04 July, 2013
New programming language makes turning GPUs into supercomputers a snap. CPUs and GPUs are both important for modern computing, with each being better suited for different tasks. Most CPUs have several cores capable of running a few processing threads. It runs each thread very fast, then moves on to the next one. A GPU typically has a large number of slower processing cores (sometimes called stream processors) which can run more simultaneous threads. We would say that GPU computing is inherently more parallel than the CPU variety.
03 July, 2013
02 July, 2013
Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software company, provides intelligence agencies with information about bugs in its popular software before it publicly releases a fix, according to two people familiar with the process. That information can be used to protect government computers and to access the computers of terrorists or military foes.
Electric cars don’t solve the automobile’s environmental problems. Focusing only on greenhouse gases, however important, misses much of the (bigger) picture. Most electric-car assessments analyze only the charging of the car. This is an important factor indeed. But a more rigorous analysis would consider the environmental impacts over the vehicle’s entire life cycle, from its construction through its operation and on to its eventual retirement at the junkyard. Do electric cars simply move pollution from upper-middle-class communities in Beverly Hills and Virginia Beach to poor communities in the backwaters of West Virginia and the nation’s industrial exurbs? Are electric cars a sleight of hand that allows peace of mind for those who are already comfortable at the expense of intensifying asthma, heart problems, and radiation risks among the poor and politically disconnected?
Ouya console runs on a version of Android's 4.1 Jelly Bean operating system and is powered in part by Nvidia's Tegra 3 chipset — hardware and software that's previously only been used for smartphones and tablets. Compared to the 3.2 gigahertz (GHz) found in today's aging PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles, the Ouya's 1.7 GHz central processing unit pales in comparison.
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