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Intel has taken the wraps off Knights Landing, its next-gen, up-to-72-core Xeon Phi supercomputing chip. The main change is that Knights Landing will be a standalone processor, rather than a slot-in coprocessor that must be paired with standard Xeon CPU. Furthermore, Knights Landing will have up to 16GB of DRAM 3D stacked on-package, providing up to 500GB/sec of memory bandwidth ...

If you bought an Xbox One for $ 500, rest assured that you got a good deal: It cost Microsoft $ 471 to make the Xbox One, new Kinect, and everything else in the box. After the retailers’ cut, Microsoft loses money on every Xbox One sold. At $ 471, the Xbox One costs about $ 90 more than the ...

ESCAPE: Police are hunting one of Colchester Zoo’s wolves after it went missing this morning [KAREN MERCER/ALAMY] Police are trying to find the animal after it was reported missing from Colchester Zoo in Essex at about 8am. An Essex Police spokesman said: “Police are currently assisting staff at Colchester Zoo searching for a wolf that’s escaped from the zoo site. “Officials ...

Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for Stella Artois James Franco will perform on the Great White Way from March to July of next year. Next year James Franco will add Broadway star to an ever-swelling resume that includes actor, poet, director and Oscar host. The 35-year-old actor will lead a new Broadway revival of John Steinbeck’s classic “Of Mice and Men,” ...

FOX News Chandler Webb, 19, went into a coma and neurologists couldn’t find the cause of his illness. A month later, the healthy teen was dead. A doomed man pleaded with his doctors to save him as he slipped into a coma last month — a coma he never woke up from. Now Lori Webb says the death of her ...

Get ready for the Real Housewives of the Legal World. Confidenti@l has exclusively learned that reality TV star and would-be film producer Sonja Morgan is plotting a courtroom drama to reverse a multimillion-dollar judgment she claims led her to bankruptcy. The former New York “Housewives” star committed $ 18 million to invest in Hannibal Pictures’ planned movie “Fast Flash to ...

Jeff Bachner for New York Daily News Michael Bloomberg suits are made especially for him by a father-and-son tailor duo in Brooklyn’s Bushwich district. Hizzoner’s a hipster — sort of. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg revealed Monday he treks all the way to “a dumpy warehouse” in Bushwick for his custom-made power suits. He told Women’s Wear Daily that he ...

IAN WALDIE/REUTERS Radical Muslim cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza Al Masri, shown here in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2002, wants be housed at a special prison while he awaits trial on terrorism charges in New York federal court. This hardline jihadist is pretty soft. Hook-handed Islamic preacher Abu Hamza Al Masri, an accused Al Qaeda terrorist who once incredibly requested a ...

STEVE NESIUS/REUTERS Derek Jeter is teaming up with Christie’s Auctions to sell a lunch-and-a-game experience that benefits his Turn 2 Foundation. What to get the Yankee fan who has everything? How about lunch with Derek Jeter — at the lowball starting price of $ 90,000. The beloved Yankee shortstop is giving the gift of himself this holiday season to raise ...

Move over, graphene and carbyne — stanene, with 100% electrical efficiency at temperatures up to 100 degrees Celsius (212F), is here, and it wants to replace the crummy, high-resistance copper wires that are a big limiting factor in current computer chips. Where graphene is a single-atom-thick layer of carbon, stanene is a single-atom-thick layer of tin. Modern computer chips, such ...