#AMD's new High Bandwidth Memory will power the graphics cards of the future Sitting down to talk graphics memory isn't usually anyone's idea of a good time
-and AMD just unveiled the memory technology it wants to power the GPUS of the future.
Seven years in the making, High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) promises to provide huge improvements over the GDDR5 memory currently sitting inside AMD's top-end graphics cards
Graphics cards will soon be shrinking significantly thanks to HBM. A comparable 1gb graphics chip takes up just 6 percent of the surface area measured against GDDR5,
That could lead to top-end graphics cards half the size of today's, AMD says.
It means CPU and RAM performance can be increased without hitting a bottleneck on the GPU side of the equation."
"We needed a new memory that was far, far better from a power perspective,"said AMD's Joe Macri at a briefing with journalists."
"With Nvidia working on next-generation graphics technology of its own, battle between the two graphics giants will be renewed in earnest in the very near future-HBM is slated to appear in AMD's flagship graphics cards later this year.
AMD hasn't said whether that technology might be used or will be used in standard RAM; AMD sells a range of high-performance memory modules s
#Opinion: How Toshiba's new storage device could change the data centre Poor hard disk drive; advances in silicon manufacturing have allowed solid state drives to capture the headlines leaving the traditional spindle-spinning devices in the shadows.
But things are about to get more exciting for the latter. Toshiba made an important announcement yesterday as it unveiled a new solution that essentially is a new class of server (the Japanese company calls it a multi-device storage solution),
one that integrates, in an industry-standard, 3. 5-inch form factor, compute (64-bit,
probably ARM), networking (Gigabit Ethernet) and storage (with a pinch of SSD storage for low latency tasks and onboard RAM).
Future iterations we guess-could include an all-SSD model, a 2. 5-inch one or even, may be,
The whole set is enabled by an unidentified Linux platform that will allow the device to run what Toshiba calls, the next generation of software-defined storage applications.
The HDD becomes the server The implications for the industry are tremendous; such a solution could allow data centres to offer a richer set of scale-out object storage features.
what it calls commodity servers used for storage management. The other announcement that dovetails nicely with it is that Toshiba has committed finally to deploying SMR technology, well after WD and Seagate.
Interestingly, the company managed to produce two products that shows its skills when it comes to cramming bits on a platter.
an external 2. 5-inch hard disk drive, managed to packs four 750gb platters in a tiny 15mm drive using perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) only.
In addition, late last year, it debuted a 6tb hard disk drive that apparently squeezed six 1tb platters without the need of helium gas like HGST-or any other exotic technologies.
When we interviewed Seagate's Joe Fagan in March, he hinted that his company may
and more processing power to the hard drive as its remit goes beyond just holding bits.
if WD (or rather its subsidiary HGST) and Seagate do the same as Toshiba's move seems to be motivated by customer demand.
"The exact same software, which encodes how the robot can learn, was used to allow the robot to learn all the different tasks we gave it."
#Processors do grow on trees: your next phone could be made of wood Engineers hunting for a way to make electronics more sustainable have hit on a novel invention-a semiconductor chip made almost entirely out of wood.
Its tiny size and relatively low cost could allow scientists to perform much more advanced analysis away from a lab."The amazing thing about this device is that it is many times smaller than a normal sequencer-you just attach it to a laptop using a USB cable"
At the moment the update is only available for the Android version of Google maps, but we've reached out to Google to find out
when it will be coming to ios. Via The Telegrap p
#Scientists are turning your gut cells into computers A team of biological engineers at the Massachusetts institute of technology are turning the cells in our guts into computers.
It's hoped that this could one day allow us to program those cells to detect
Eventually, it's hoped that the resulting gut computers could help the early detection and treatment of disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and colon cancer r
Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he will travel to the U s. to seek help from the heads of Twitter, Microsoft, Google, and Facebook.
Although new hardware will be required if BT chooses it could roll out new Home Hub devices which feature femtocell technology to boost mobile coverage in rural areas for its EE purchase.
The ongoing adoption of more powerful mobile devices and wider deployments of emerging M2m applications combined with broader access to faster wireless networks will be key contributors to significant mobile traffic growth in the coming years.
told The Scientist in an e-mail. ny technological advancement that can add in the precision and control of genetic modification is an important advance,
but it a first step. or five years I have stared at a blank, black screen, Jernigan told the Post. eople are thinking outside of the box,
Mesulam told Motherboard o
#Diagnosing Ebola in 15 Minutes As West Africa has battled Ebola over the last year, clinicians have been restricted to time-consuming,
In the first, the researchers used electrodes to link the brains of three monkeys to a computer
and allowed each animal to contribute their thoughts to controlling an image of a robotic arm on a screen in front of them.
In a second study, on rats, the team linked the rodentsbrains not just to a computer
The researchers then showed the animals images of a robotic arm on the screen and gave each monkey control over certain parts of its movementither a single axis (x or y) or two dimensions (x-y, y-z,
#Semiconductor crystals could be key to extending Moore Law IBM researchers have developed a process for growing crystals made from semiconductor materials,
an observation made by Intel cofounder Graham Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits doubled every year.
a researcher with IBM Research Gmbh at Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland and the lead author of the paper. e need better performing transistors as we continue down-scaling,
III-V semiconductors are believed to be a potential future material for computer chips but their integration onto silicon has been unsuccessful up until now.
but the details of the dynamics are difficult to monitor, said Ahmad Kabbani, a professor of chemistry at the Lebanese American University,
he said. his is building on work we have done using voice control on consoles like the Xbox One, for example,
which is displayed on a volume bar on the side of the screen. hen, when a certain threshold is reached for that type of electrical activity,
it sends a signal to the device on our tablet which in turn sends a signal to the TV,
The users were presented then with a screen showing the five most popular programmes on iplayer at that time.
The result is only about the size of a laptop and can be plugged into a normal socket between 100 and 230 V,
and assembling them on a computer into a three-dimensional mapping. To date, there has been no comparable technique for imaging 3d magnetic structures on nanometre length scales.
The physicists then successfully reconstructed the magnetic features on a computer in three dimensions. hese samples displayed structures not smaller than 75nm.
and may even enable us to perform operations that are not feasible at present. he team is now working on the user interface and control software for the device,
Jeff Clune, a computer scientist at the University of Wyoming, said: verything we take for granted works so well
it uses a computer simulation of its own body to create a detailed map of the types of movements it can make something the researchers describe as the robot imulated childhood f you watch children play,
as recently revealed by IBM. For comparison a strand of human hair, at 100, 000nm thick, is about 600,000 times wider than the atoms surrounding the new transistor.
and opens the door to further research into harnessing these tiny transistors for computers and systems with orders of magnitude more processing power than today machines.
Chips used in computers are made currently at the 14nm scale, but going smaller has proven difficult, with 7nm the latest breakthrough.
widely considered to be the next stage in the evolution of computers. Quantum computing explained: harnessing particle physics to work faste o
and potential applications in everything from bulletproof vests to computer electronics but now we have discovered that limpet teeth exhibit a strength that is potentially higher.
Princeton university provides further details about the study's promising outlook for quantum computing here. The paper, Semiconductor double quantum dot micromaser, was published in the Science journal yesterday d
#Graphene sheaths could boost processor signal speeds by 30 per cent Scientists at Stanford have found a new use for graphene that will significantly increase the speed of standard computer processors.
can reliably transfer data between four and 17 per cent faster than the equivalent interconnects in today's processor designs, apparently."
when a paralyzed man named Matthew Nagle moved a cursor on a computer using only his thoughts.
and lets the computer figure out how to make the movement.""I wanted to run around and just high-five everybody.""
That way, the computer gets information about intent and precise movements, more closely mimicking how we control our own limbs."
That's because right now, Sorto has wire bundling connecting his implant to the computer that controls his robot limb.
The wire bundling goes through a plug in his skin which could be a prime site for infections.
Maybe moving objects or playing video games with your mind isn't going to be routine any time soon but for patients like Sorto,
Today, United will announce a $30 million investment in Fulcrum Bioenergy, one of the largest makers of aviation biofuels.
#Obama wants to build an exascale supercomputer by 2025 The White house is getting serious about supercomputers.
Today, President Obama issued an executive order establishing the National Strategic Computing Intiative essentially a federal strategy for making sure America leads the field in supercomputers.
within the next ten years, the government pledges to build an exascale computer, capable of 10 18 operations per second.
but supercomputer experts had predicted already the US could break the so-called exaflop barrier as early as 2023.
The most powerful supercomputers currently in development in the US are the twin Summit and Sierra supercomputers, built by IBM for the Department of energy
and expected to handle 100 petaflops each when completed in 2017. But breaking the exaflop barrier is complicated more than simply strapping ten Summits together.
Without architectural breakthroughs a computer that powerful would require an entire power plant's worth of energy to keep going,
making it impractical for publicly funded science. The hope for data-crunching scientists is that in the years to come,
new architectures will be developed alongside software formats that can make use of all that raw power w
but white lasers could serve as a potential alternative light source both in people's homes and in the screens of their electronics.
and the ASU researchers claim that their white lasers can cover 70 percent more colors than current standard displays.
receiving a certification as a universal two-factor server. Yubico also received a certification for two different USB security keys
which are designed for use as a physical second factor. Google announced support for Yubico keys in October, allowing users to opt for the physical keys rather than the standard four-digit authentication code.
Today's certification also included a number of software development tools and there's also reason to believe more services are on the way.
One name missing from the list was Microsoft, which plans to integrate Windows 10 and FIDO once the next version of the specification is released.
Microsoft has taken an active role in managing the spec this year, with Microsoft executive Dustin Ingalls taking on duties as President of the FIDO alliance in January n
Once you've logged in on a phone or tablet, that login will usually stick around until you actively turn it off, a particular problem if that phone ends up lost, stolen,
and show the computers logged into different Facebook services. If anything's fishy, it should be obvious from there.
#Intel's new storage chip is 1, 000 times faster than flash memory Intel and Micron have a new way to store data that they say is denser, tougher,
and faster than the competition, and it's already starting production. In a live keynote today, the companies announced 3d Xpoint, a new category of nonvolatile memory that claims to be 1,
000 times faster than the NAND architecture underlying most flash memory cards and solid state drives. The new architecture does without transistors entirely,
memory cells are layered in an intricate three-dimensional checkerboard pattern that Intel researchers say is 10 times denser than conventional memory."
"For decades, the industry has searched for ways to reduce the lag time between the processor
"said Intel VP Rob Crooke in a statement.""This new class of nonvolatile memory achieves this goal
Intel singled out fraud detection and disease tracking as likely early applications, but said the chip could also be used to power more immersive gaming experiences
if brought to the PC. Because the memory is durable and nonvolatile, it's likely to be used primarily for long-term storage,
#Nvidia recalls all Shield Tablets due to battery fire hazard Nvidia promised spectacular, unprecedented gaming performance from its 8-inch Shield Tablet last year,
The company is now recalling its first Android tablet device due to a potential fire hazard posed by the battery,
though Nvidia is being extra cautious and"asking consumers to stop using the recalled tablet,
"When it launched the Shield Tablet, Nvidia made a big deal out of the extra thermal dissipation of its design,
claiming it was double what you'd get from a typical tablet. So the Shield Tablet was designed deliberately to handle greater loads and heat than usual,
but apparently its battery hasn't lived up to the same high standards. Nvidia has set up a replacement program
and a dedicated website to help owners of Shield Tablets purchased between July of last year
and today swap their faulty devices i
#New prosthetic limbs can be controlled by the mind NEW YORK Engineers at Johns hopkins university Applied Physics lab have developed a next-generation prosthetic:
A robotic arm that has 26 joints and can be controlled by a person mind, just like a regular arm.
"Consumer payments in the U s. have been slow in keeping up with an on-demand economy where consumers have instant access to so many services through their mobile devices,
#Hyundai becomes first with Android Auto LOS ANGELES --Whether it's hunting for directions or tracking down trivia answers,
Hyundai says it is the first automaker to launch Android Auto in a production car,
All that's needed to get it is a free software flash at a dealership. Android Auto and the yet-to-arrive Apple Carplay are aimed at preventing drivers from becoming distracted.
It should make it possible to undertake many smartphone functions while barreling down the interstate at 60 miles per hour.
With the Android Auto companion app users will be able to access Google maps, send text messages,
the car's touchscreen, steering wheel controls or voice.""Android Auto aligns with Hyundai's core interior design principles of safety,
intuitiveness and simplicity,"said Dave Zuchowski, CEO of Hyundai Motor America, in a statement.""We launched this highly anticipated feature on our best-selling Sonata,
The function that really made Android Auto worthwhile was the ability to seek information. From finding the nearest dry cleaner to settling bets about presidential history,
The decision to make Android Auto available for free should engender lots of warm feelings from Sonata buyers.
Finette brought up a screen on his smartphone with a large red dot.""We built this thing you just tap every time you feel a heartbeat,
a health science software company eventually sold to Oracle, volunteers as a strategic advisor to THINKMD.
I got involved with software was wanted because I to participate in creating artificial intelligence software that would behave as a doctor,
"Rosenblum said.""Thirty years later we're finally doing it.""Like Rosenblum and Donowitz, THINKMD and Medsinc is attracting interest
Alcohol levels would be measured under the skin's surface on a touchpad with an infrared light scanner.
Researchers have considered putting the touchpad in a natural spot for drivers, mimicking a vehicle start button.
such as creating a touch-ID system programmed to the driver's fingerprints on the touchpad.
It also calls for the government to not eakencommercial software e
#Google and Twitter sitting in a tree, putting tweets in search results for you and me In February,
Twitter search engine works, but it nothing special. Google is the king of search, and with Twitter data, it suddenly about to get even more useful.
they will only think more highly of the search engine, and presumably use it more. In this way, Google is next in line as the one to benefit from this new partnership.
and haptic feedback technology for the next iphones Apple is currently working on building orce Touchtechnology and haptic feedback into the screens of its new iphones,
When you press harder on the screen, it senses the increased pressure by measuring the increased surface area occupied by the finger.
On the larger screen of a phone, it could open up all kinds of possibilities. For instance, you may be able to Force Touch on any word on the screen to bring up a definition.
Or you may be able to Force Touch on the screen to change the backdrop image or animation on the home screen.
The end result could be the reduction of clutter in ios. A function that was activated once by a button might
instead be activated by a Force Touch, so the button is needed no longer. The source said that Apple will also couple the Force Touch feature with haptic feedback engine that might verify to the user that the for gesture has activated a feature.
sits just below the touchscreen and causes the device to vibrate in order to alert you to incoming messages or other notifications.
expects its touchscreen subsidiary to see handset pressure sensor shipments increase by 4. 8 times this year.
Moky hides a trackpad in the surface of a keyboard The keyboard is a popular accessory for mobile devices
because it often much easier to type with than the tiny one featured on a smartphone or tablet.
Moky is a twist on the typical mobile keyboard, featuring a large, invisible touchpad that controlled by the user gestures.
An infrared laser sensor module provides a thin optical surface on the keyboard. The device communicates wirelessly with whatever mobile device is used with it via Bluetooth Low energy 4. 0 technology.
The keyboard cover meanwhile, doubles as a portable device stand. Moky costs $149 and will ship in October.
Its maker is hoping to raise $30, 000 by July 9. The core technology may have broader potential.
Moky seems like a neat accessory for compatible mobile devices, but that means only Android and Windows for now, according to the Indiegogo campaign.
Only the keyboard itself is supported on ios devices as Apple doesn support mice or trackpads in that operating system.
Synaptics, for one, recently has shown off Smartbar technology that turns a keyboard space bar into a pointing device complement
and Apple is rumored also to be working on similar technology, perhaps for the Mac. From the campaign video, it not easy to tell just how easy it is to use Moky,
but the ability to conserve the space taken up by a trackpad would surely have allure for some users e
#Nvidia's Tegra X1 Powers Smart cars At the Consumer electronics Show (CES) last week, Nvidia released demos of two computing platforms, Drive CX and Drive PX, for cars.
These computing platforms are part of the venture called Nvidia Drive and are powered by the Tegra X1 mobile chip.
Nvidia Drive PX is for the actual driving side of the smart car equation, while Drive CX deals with digital systems on the dashboard and elsewhere in the vehicle.
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 kmph.
The famous graphics card manufacturer believes that this sort of situational awareness will help prevent accidents. Meanwhile Drive CX has been described as the digital cockpit computer,
and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system. It will facilitate digital instrument clusters
It will be able to power four full-HD screens simultaneously or even two 4k screens.
Nvidia senior manager for CUDA Libraries and Algorithms Jonathan Cohen, said, ecause this is a neural network,
and has worked with HTC, Microsoft, Nike, etc. Horace said, ur products and business model will impact a variety of consumer areas to create a metropolitan ecosystem with better connectivity, easier access to energy,
The scooter features 30 onboard sensors, applications for Android and ios, cloud connectivity. The Gogoro electric scooter does need not to be plugged in for charging it.
#Nvidia Unveils Tegrax1 Soc Drive CX And Drive PX Nvidia has unveiled a chip that can pump out the quality of a high gaming console on your smartphones.
Additionally, the famous graphics card manufacturer also released demos of two computing platforms, Drive CX and Drive PX, for cars.
The smartphone chip, Nvidia Tegra X1 Soc has an 8-core 64-bit CPU and a 256ore Maxwell-based GPU.
Nvidia claims that it is the first mobile chip that will provide a teraflop of processing power.
They also added that it is equivalent to the fastest supercomputer in the world in 2000.
The Tegra X1 is also much more efficient than the Tegra K1. Nvidia showed a demo of the Unreal Engine Elemental sequence to display the power and efficiency of the Tegra X1.
Jen-Hsun Huang, cofounder of Nvidia, said, ast year, when next generation game consoles were released,
they consumed 100 watts when running Unreal Engine Elemental demo. Now we can do it on Tegra X1 at 10 watts.
Nvidia believes that the first beneficiaries of the Soc will be cars. The Nvidia Drive CX is based on a single Tegra X1 platform
whereas the Driver PX is based on the dual Tegra X1s. Nvidia Drive CX will act as the digital cockpit computer,
and it will be the lifeline of a car infotainment system. It will also be able to power four full-HD screens simultaneously or even two 4k screens.
Drive CX will also be able to recognize speech and faces of it users. Meanwhile, Drive PX is an image processing platform
and it will have the capability to work with inputs from up to 12 cameras. All these cameras will work in tandem
Nvidia also released a recording of a demo drive of a car with Drive PX that was able to find a space in a parking garage traveling at a speed of 8 km h.
With these two platforms Nvidia hopes to revolutionize the dashboard and give a boost to the concept of driverless cars s
which let people communicate using Gmail on apps like the Apple iphone Mail and Microsoft Outlook.
#Google's Algorithm Masters Video games Google has stated that they have developed the first computer program capable of learning a wide variety of tasks independently, in
According to the engineers at Google, the program (or agent as its developers call it) learnt to play 49 different retro computer games,
and apply it to more realistic 3d computer games. Demis Hassabis founder of Deepmind, said, his is the first significant rung of the ladder towards proving a general learning system can work.
The catalysts which have been used in the system are adapted highly well as well as compatible with the conditions required for the bacterial growth.
One scenario being bandied about is using these CICADAS to monitor extreme weather situations, such as tornadoes. Within a few years,
Researchers claimed that the tiny man-made catalysts can purify drinking water and waterways by getting rid of oestrogenic hormones and pharmaceuticals,
For the Internet this means an infrastructure of supercomputers strategically located at network nodes regenerating
The new Coolpad Arise is powered an Android smartphone that can use Scratch software to make voice, text,
theyl have access to a capable Android smartphone with a 4-inch display, rear camera,
an Android phone that sold for $269. Scratch Wireless has raised $5 million from investors including Commonangels
which acquired Mysql when it bought Sun microsystems for $7. 4bn in 2010, Mysql Cluster 7. 4 has faster in-memory processing
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