Nvidia updates programming tools to speed up GPU performance

From PC World: Nvidia has made improvements to its underlying software tools to make it easier to write programs for faster execution across CPUs and graphics processors.

The company on Thursday announced CUDA 6, which will make programming easier for supercomputers, servers, PCs and, to a lesser...

Windows Phone wins bigger chunk of smartphone market

From CNET News.com: Windows Phone continues to eke out gains in a landscape dominated by Android and iOS.

During the third quarter, Microsoft's mobile OS share rose to 3.6 percent globally from 2.3 percent in the year-ago quarter, Gartner said in a report on Thursday. Shipments grew to 8.9 million...

SteelSeries Apex Review

Back in the days, I used to visit my cousin in Toronto every year. Actually, I still do, but that is another story. We used to hang out in the den of his house, where he would sit in front of his desktop computer, and I would work away on my laptop. Occasionally, as guys goes, we would hurl random insults at each other. The conversation will end when the epitome of all insults are made. "Yeah, well, your keyboard is loud," we used to say, and it...

Samsung Tips $100 Million IoT Strategy

From EETimes: The former director of Apple's Siri is taking Samsung's version of the artificial intelligence system to the next level. Luc Julia, vice president and innovation fellow at Samsung's Open Innovation Center in Menlo Park, Calif., demonstrated SAMI (Samsung Architecture for Multimodal...

Oracle seeks Java performance boost, joins HSA Foundation

From InfoWorld: Oracle has joined the industry consortium HSA Foundation, which is developing standards to make it easier for programmers to take advantage of GPUs and other processor types for faster code execution.

The Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation is developing a set of open...

CyanogenMod Easy Click-Through Installer Hits Google Play Store

From DailyTech: For the masses waiting on their oft laggard Android carrier and OEM to update their device to the latest and greatest version of Google Inc.'s (GOOG) operating system (which is currently Android 4.4 "KitKat") CyanogenMod (aka "CM") has offered an escape route.

While the reach of...

Skype Aims for the Living Room on Xbox One

From eWeek: Ahead of the official Xbox One launch on Friday, Nov. 22, Microsoft is previewing some of the video game console's advanced Skype video calling features.

Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 in a blockbuster deal worth $8.5 billion. In the time since, the company has been integrating the...

AMD Tips Client, Server Chips for HSA

From EETimes: Kaveri client and Berlin server processors will be the first chips from Advanced Micro Devices to use technology from the Heterogeneous Systems Architecture Foundation, AMD said at its developer conference here. AMD launched the HSA Foundation with partners to define common ways for...

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