Zynga Ditches Real-Money Gaming Idea in US; Investors Not Happy

From DailyTech: Zynga can't seem to catch a break lately, and recent news of its plans to ditch real-money gaming (RMG) isn't helping.

Zynga announced that it will no longer seek to offer RMG -- which is basically gambling -- in the United States due to the fact that gambling with...

Cooler Master V1000 1000W (Page 1 of 4) | Reports

What exactly is a kilowatt? The textbook definition tells us a watt is a measurement of the rate of energy conversion or transfer. Since energy conversion or transfer is measured in joules, a kilowatt would then be defined as one thousand joule per second. This brings up the question, what exactly is a joule? Well, a joule describes work with relation to force and distance. Of course, unless you are still in high school, you...

Google Ends Netflix/Chromecast Device Citing Overwhelming Demand

From DailyTech: Earlier this week, Google officially unveiled its new media streaming stick called the Chromecast. The device looks like a standard flash drive designed to connect directly to the HDMI port of a HDTV or computer monitor. Once connected to a display device, the...

Samsung Remained Top Vendor as Smartphone Shipments Surged in Q2

From DailyTech: Research company IDC has published its numbers for the mobile phone market for Q2 of 2013. According to the latest numbers, the global mobile phone market grew 6% year-over-year during Q2 of 2013. Phone vendors shipped a total of 432.1 million mobile phones during the...

Nvidia Shows Off Next-Generation Tegra Logan System-on-Chip

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. demonstrated its next-generation Tegra system-on-chip code-named Logan at Siggraph conference this week. The new SoC will feature Kepler architecture graphics core and will therefore support advanced visual effects along with PC application programming...

Android 4.3 to hit Sony Xperia smartphones, tablet

From CNET News.com: Android 4.3 Jelly Bean just spilled out Wednesday, but Sony has already lined up the devices slated to receive Google's latest update.

Sony's Xperia Z, Xperia ZL, Xperia ZR, Xperia Tablet Z, Xperia SP, and Xperia Z Ultra were confirmed as some of the recipients...

Google Offers $35 Media Streaming Stick Chromecast

From DailyTech: Google introduced a media streaming stick today that allows users to watch videos from services like YouTube and Netflix on their TVs.

The streaming stick is called Chromecast, and it connects to a TV's HDMI input to wirelessly sync with mobile devices or the Chrome...

ARM Beats Profit, Revenue Expectations, but Misses on Margin Growth

From DailyTech: ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) continues to perform bullishly, pumping its pre-tax profit for the second calendar quarter (ending in June) to £86.6M ($132.4M USD), up 30 percent from Q2 2012.

As the producer of the most-used architecture and instruction set for tablets...

Intel Extends AVX to 512 Bit for Future Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week published details regarding new advanced vector extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) instructions first to be found in the Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” co-processors as well as future microprocessors. The new instructions enables processing of twice the...

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