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Ars Technica: Nvidia throws open the licensing doors on its Kepler GPU technology
On Tuesday Nvidia announced that it would make its GPU technology widely available to device manufacturers looking to license it, starting with the company's current Kepler architecture. This build is found in Nvidia's GeForce 600-series GPUs and now may...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:01pm -07:00T (140 words)
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Ars Technica: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800 benchmarked, sports extremely fast GPU
Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs talks up the 800 series chips at the company's CES keynote.
Andrew Cunningham
At this point, almost every high-end Android phone we've seen this year has arrived sporting Qualcomm's Snapdragon...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:01pm -07:00T (210 words)
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Ars Technica: NSA head says digital spying has disrupted a “little over 10” plots domestically
In testimony before a congressional intelligence committee on Tuesday, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government officials staunchly defended the government’s secret surveillance program, noting that the agency has "...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 5:16pm -07:00T (187 words)
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Ars Technica: Two accelerators find signs of a particle that nobody can explain
The Belle detector at Japan's KEK facility.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Two different accelerators have found evidence for a particle that appears to contains four quarks, according to papers published in Physic...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:16pm -07:00T (217 words)
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Ars Technica: US, Russia to install “cyber-hotline” to prevent accidental cyberwar
The US and Russia are patching a direct line between their mutual cyber-security czars.
Fastmind
As leaked details of ongoing network surveillance and espionage programs by the National Security Agency (NSA) continue ...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 3:16pm -07:00T (269 words)
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Ars Technica: FCC’s new chairman wants to end ban on cell phone unlocking
The newly appointed chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said today that he wants to end the ban on consumers unlocking their cell phones in order to switch wireless carriers. Tom Wheeler, a former lobbyist for the cable and wireless i...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 3:16pm -07:00T (238 words)
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Ars Technica: Buzzfeed sued for $3.6 million over fairly boring soccer photo
An Idaho photographer has sued the social media site Buzzfeed for $3.6 million. The lawsuit says the site is liable for damages, not just for publishing the photographer's photo of a female soccer player heading a ball back in 2010 but for every one of t...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 3:16pm -07:00T (164 words)
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Ars Technica: Skulls of the Shogun backs off Windows 8 exclusivity on PCs
Until now, if you wanted to play 17-bit Studios' excellent turn-based strategy title Skulls of the Shogun on PC, you had to play on Windows 8. This put it in a rather exclusive set of only a few dozen games that were part of the confusing "Xbox on Windo...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 2:01pm -07:00T (207 words)
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Ars Technica: Google director: Early adoption is for rich chumps
Ray Kurzweil, a director of engineering at Google, addressing the crowd at the GF 2045 conference.
Casey Johnston
Rich people get all the cool stuff first—or so we in the middle class grumble and gripe to one anothe...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 12:46pm -07:00T (311 words)
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Ars Technica: Onion Pi turns Raspberry Pi into Tor proxy and wireless access point
Adafruit
The do-it-yourselfers at Adafruit have provided step-by-step instructions for turning a Raspberry Pi into a Tor proxy and wireless access point. A good project for users looking to anonymize their Internet traff...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 12:46pm -07:00T (171 words)
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Ars Technica: T-Mobile announces the arrival of the Sony Xperia Z later this summer
T-Mobile announced today that it will be offering the Sony Xperia Z Android handset as an exclusive later this summer.
Not to be confused with the Xperia ZL we reviewed a while back, the Xperia Z features a 1.5GHz quad-core Snapdragon S4 Pro—the s...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 11:31am -07:00T (125 words)
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Ars Technica: No PC port for EA’s high-end sports engine
EA
At last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo, EA was eager to show off how the power of its new Ignite Engine can create new, more realistic sports experiences titles. But while that engine will power EA's sports games on the PlayStation 4 and Xbo...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (181 words)
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Ars Technica: The Dealmaster wants to sell you a robot vacuum
Contrary to what Sam Waterston would have you believe, robots aren't horrible, and they're most certainly not lurking outside your window waiting to get you. In fact, robots are friendly and good! Here at Dealmaster Central, we rely on robots for all kin...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (161 words)
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Ars Technica: The International Linear Collider will be a Higgs factory
A simulation of an electron/positron collision producing a Higgs and Z boson.
Norman Graf
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is currently undergoing upgrades that will allow it to finally reach its intended top energy of...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 10:16am -07:00T (284 words)
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Ars Technica: AMD announces its first 64-bit, 8- and 16-core, ARM-based server SoCs
AMD's server roadmap for the rest of 2013 and early 2014.
AMD
Late last year, AMD announced that it would no longer rely exclusively on the x86 architecture for its server processors, with its first ARM-based Opteron c...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 9:01am -07:00T (233 words)
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