Yesterday when CES 2014 began, Valve revealed 12 hardware partners that are going to help make its Steam Machine dream come true. We also got a look at a new third-party Steam Machine by CyberPowerPC that began at a price of $ 499. Now, just a day later, Valve has unveiled 13 Steam Machines, in all shapes, sizes, specs, and ...
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CES 2014: Qualcomm unveils new SoCs for the next big growth markets – TVs and cars
Qualcomm is kicking CES off with a brace of announcements targeting new markets for the company’s system-on-a-chip (SoC) products. The Snapdragon 602 is designed to drop into the vehicles of 2014 and beyond, while the Snapdragon 802 targets the next generation of smart TVs and 4K displays. This is part of Qualcomm’s own efforts to win space in the “Internet ...
Read More »Lady Gaga unveils ‘Gagadolls’ in Japan
Shizuo Kambayashi/AP You’re not seeing double! Lady Gaga (right) and a life-size doll of the flamboyant pop star are all the rage in Tokyo. Lady Gaga is no longer one of a kind. The pop star unveiled life-size “Gagadolls,” bearing her blond likeness and wearing her flamboyant outfits, at an event in Tokyo Sunday. PHOTOS: STARS IN TARTAN The silicon ...
Read More »Amazon unveils 30-minute Prime Air quadcopter delivery service, but it’s completely impractical
Amazon, the company that already automates many of its warehouses and fulfillment centers with robot workers, has unveiled Amazon Prime Air — a new delivery method that will see autonomous quadcopters deliver your order within 30 minutes. A couple of years from now, perhaps on Cyber Monday in 2015, you might be able to order a PS4 game or the ...
Read More »Intel unveils 72-core x86 Knights Landing CPU for exascale supercomputing
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 ...
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