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Nvidia Unveils PCIe Tesla P100 GPU Based On Pascal Architecture To Supercharge Deep Learning And HPC Applications

Nvidia announced that its PCIe Tesla P100 GPU for servers will be on the shelves this year, and the preliminary tests are promising. The Pascal architecture that powers the GPU should yield ferocious performance for low infrastructure costs. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Meet KiloCore, A CPU With 1,000 Cores: Here’s What It Can Do

University of California (UC) researchers developed 1,000-core processor called KiloCore, which is capable of executing 115 billion instructions in one second. The chip is made by IBM using 32-nanometer CMOS technology. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Mozilla Firefox vs. Google Chrome vs. Microsoft Edge: Which Browser Is Best For Windows 10 Battery Life?

Microsoft found that its Edge browser was the most energy- and power-efficient in a series of tests on a Surface Book compared with Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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China’s Fastest Computer Without US Chips Prevails In Top500 Supercomputer Ranking

For the first time, China is now leading the pack of the fastest supercomputers in the world, edging past the United States. Its new supercomputer runs entirely on Chinese-made processors. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Review: Downloads: aTube Catcher review

By Mark Wilson The videos you download can be converted to a number of popular formats, suitable for playback on a variety of devices. So whether you’re looking for the best possible quality to view on a high resolution monitor, or the emphasis is on smaller file size to fit on your smartphone, aTube Catcher…

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Review: Downloads: aTube Catcher review

By Mark Wilson The videos you download can be converted to a number of popular formats, suitable for playback on a variety of devices. So whether you’re looking for the best possible quality to view on a high resolution monitor, or the emphasis is on smaller file size to fit on your smartphone, aTube Catcher…

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Review: Downloads: Piriform Recuva review

By Mark Wilson As you might be able to guess from the playfully-spelled name, The program can also recover deleted emails, or there is the option of using it the other way around to securely delete sensitive files you want to ensure cannot be recovered. User experience There are a few ways to use Recuva,…

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Review: Downloads: Piriform Recuva review

By Mark Wilson As you might be able to guess from the playfully-spelled name, The program can also recover deleted emails, or there is the option of using it the other way around to securely delete sensitive files you want to ensure cannot be recovered. User experience There are a few ways to use Recuva,…

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Best Buy Offers $300 Discount On Select Apple 12-Inch MacBook Models

Best Buy is offering a $300 discount on certain models of the 2016 12-inch MacBook of Apple. The 256 GB MacBook is being sold for $999, while the 512 GB version is being sold for $1,299. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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New Computer Algorithm Sifts Social Media Posts To Predict Next ISIS Terror Attack

Posts on Russia-based social media site VKontake revealed how the ISIS terrorist group manage to grow and organize online. How can online activities and behaviors of sympathizers help predict and possibly prevent future attacks? …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Android Apps Are Now Available On Chrome OS, But There Is One Catch

Google Play Store support was added to the Chrome OS 53 developer build, but only for the Asus Chromebook Flip. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Hands-on review: PC Specialist Octane II Pro (Quadro M3000M)

By Desire Athow We have had our fair share of mobile workstations over the past few months, the HP ZBook Studio G3, the Lenovo ThinkPad P70 and the Dell Precision 7710 being the ones that spring to mind, all coming from top-tier PC manufacturers. But there are plenty of challengers in the shadows, almost all…

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Hands-on review: PC Specialist Octane II Pro (Quadro M3000M)

By Desire Athow We have had our fair share of mobile workstations over the past few months, the HP ZBook Studio G3, the Lenovo ThinkPad P70 and the Dell Precision 7710 being the ones that spring to mind, all coming from top-tier PC manufacturers. But there are plenty of challengers in the shadows, almost all…

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Samsung Dives Deeper Into Big Data And The Cloud With Joyent Acquisition: Why This Matters

Samsung recently bought Joyent, and the two companies will join forces to provide the OEM with the cloud storage technologies that it could not build on its own. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Computers

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Hands-on review: PC Specialist Voyager III Pro

By Desire Athow As years go by, it becomes difficult for laptop vendors to differentiate their offerings. After all, notebook components are manufactured by a slowly diminishing number of companies. The laptops themselves are built by just a handful of big original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and outside of the big five laptop sellers, the designs…

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