Intel Core i7-3770K Review: A Small Step Up For Ivy Bridge : Ivy Bridge: Was It Worth The Wait?
Intel built Sandy Bridge-based chips in three different configurations: one quad-core and two dual-core designs. The most complex implementation included 995 million transistors in a 216 mm² piece of silicon. In comparison, the biggest Ivy Bridge die incorporates 1.4 billion transistors on a 160 mm² die.
via Intel Core i7-3770K Review: A Small Step Up For Ivy Bridge : Ivy Bridge: Was It Worth The Wait?.
All told, Ivy Bridge is yet another highly integrated processor design from Intel. Its pieces were constructed by independent teams throughout the world—engineers in Israel are responsible for the IA cores, a team in Folsom, CA built the graphics engine, and a second team in Folsom implemented the interconnects, cache, and system agent. Of course, a process development group up in Oregon made sure it’d all come together on the new 22 nm node.
Share your stuff with a link!
We’re super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox!
Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you’ve saved that video of your niece’s birthday party to Dropbox, just make a link to send to grandma and she can simply watch online — no download required! This saves you the hassle of having to re-upload or attach it to an email.
via The Dropbox Blog » Blog Archive » Share your stuff with a link!.
Startup claims ‘Holy Grail’ of SoC design
PORTLAND, Ore.—The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday April 23, when Algotochip Corp. Sunnyvale, Calif. claimed to be able to produce a system-on-chip SoC design from a C-code specification in just eight to 16 weeks.
Perl Regular Expressions
Now what if you want the comparison to be case insensitive? All you do is add the letter i after the ending delimiter:
$string =~ m/^sought_text$/i;
MIT Completes the “Holy Grail of Hacks,” Turning the Green Building into a Game of Tetris
Home of the Institute’s Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Science, the Green Building lends itself as an ideal grid for the game. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery, “MIT hackers have long considered ‘Tetris on the Green Building’ to be the Holy Grail of hacks.”
The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed
First they proposed five types of developer, and you won’t find it hard to recognize them:
- S0 – the innovator always builds apps with a wide range of novel features.S1- the milker who implements slight largely unnecessary variations on a single app.
- S2 – the optimizer who simply releases improvements on their most successful app.
- S3 – the copycat simply copies the best apps in the market.
- S – the flexible developer who adopts whichever strategies seems good at the moment.
via The Artificial Life of the App Store – the Best Strategy to Succeed.
Badoo set to help facilitate hookups across the U.S.
Essentially, as its Russian founder has explained before, Badoo is a “nightclub on your phone,” where people, “as adults, are looking to do adult things.” The site first was launched in Spain, where it soon expanded to neighboring Portugal, France, and then, hopped the pond to Brazil and Mexico and now, claims users in 180 countries.
via Badoo set to help facilitate hookups across the U.S..
Last fall, The Economist proclaimed it as having “a shot at becoming one of Europe’s leading internet firms.” But now, says GigaOm, the site appears poised to grow rapidly in the United States,particularly after its official American launch just last month.
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AACS encryption key controversy
A controversy surrounding the AACS cryptographic key arose in April 2007 when the Motion Picture Association of America and the Advanced Access Content System Licensing Administrator, LLC (AACS LA) began issuing demand letters[2] to websites publishing a 128-bit (16-byte) number, represented in hexadecimal as 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0[3][4] (commonly referred to as 09 F9),[5][6] which is one of the cryptographic keys for HD DVDs and Blu-ray Discs. The letters demanded the immediate removal of the key and any links to it, citing the anti-circumvention provisions of the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
via AACS encryption key controversy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Traveling Salesman Problem
Given a collection of cities and the cost of travel between each pair of them, the traveling salesman problem, or TSP for short, is to find the cheapest way of visiting all of the cities and returning to your starting point. In the standard version we study, the travel costs are symmetric in the sense that traveling from city X to city Y costs just as much as traveling from Y to X.
via The Problem.