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• 29 May 2013

• News: Smaller Windows tablets and faster chips on tap for Computex

  Want to find out what's next in smartphones, tablets and PCs? The latest trends in hardware will be on display at the giant Computex trade show, which kicks off in Taipei next week.

• News: BBC technology chief suspended over £100m failed digital project

  The BBC has suspended its Chief Technology Officer, John Linwood, after deciding to abandon a £98 million digital project.

• News: MediaTek launches quad-core tablet chip

  Taiwan's MediaTek has launched a new quad-core ARM processor for tablets that is slated to be used in an upcoming IdeaTab device from Lenovo.

• News: AMD bridges road to ARM with new low-power x86 server chips

  Advanced Micro Devices had no plans to release low-power x86 server chips until the release of its ARM-based servers in 2014, but sagging server fortunes have changed the company's direction.

• 24 May 2013

• News: Smartphone chips could replace server processors in HPC, researchers say

  Looking at historical trends and performance benchmarks, a team of researchers in Spain have concluded that smartphone chips could one day replace the more expensive and power-hungry x86 processors used in most of the world's top supercomputers.

• News: Corning says Gorilla Glass trumps sapphire screens, but the truth is more nuanced

  Corning has begun a pre-emptive strike against a competitor to Gorilla Glass, its product widely used in the displays of many smartphones.

• Opinion: How fast is USB 3.0 really?

  As a Mac user, I've never been a big fan of USB for storage. Keyboards, mice, sure. But a hard drive connected via USB has always been slow compared to those using Apple's FireWire, FireWire 800, and (most recently) Thunderbolt interfaces. And booting from a USB drive on the Mac was a no-no for a long time.

• Opinion: With an SSD, backups are more important than ever

  Welcome to the dawn of the SSD age. Solid-state drives now offer great performance at affordable prices, which is why more and more users are choosing them in new PCs and adding them to older ones.

• News: Box buys iOS app to improve its own

  Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.

• 23 May 2013

• News: Intel claims Haswell will offer 50 percent more battery life

  Intel's upcoming family of Core processors, code-named Haswell, will offer 50 percent more battery life in laptops than did their "Ivy Bridge" predecessors, Intel said on Thursday.

• News: Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780: a Titan for the rest of us

  When Nvidia announced its graphical powerhouse, the $999 GeForce GTX Titan, in February, eyeballs widened. Fortunately Nvidia now offers the lower-performance GeForce GTX 780, which also cuts the price by a third, to $649.

• News: Box buys iOS app to improve its own

  Box has acquired an unreleased application called Folders, designed to give iPhone and iPad users a mobile front-end interface for the cloud storage and file management and sharing service as well as for competitors Google Drive and Dropbox.

• News: EU aims to beat US in chip race

  Europe's Digital Agenda Commissioner on Thursday set out plans for the European Union to produce more micro- and nano-chips than the United States in the next seven years.

• News: As Ethernet turns 40, some seek to take it to the cloud

  As Ethernet marks its 40th birthday this week, some of those celebrating will also be looking ahead to yet another use for the nearly ubiquitous technology: the cloud.

• News: Cloudian connects with Citrix for easier cloud rollouts

  Cloudian is integrating its platform with Citrix's CloudPortal Business Manager as it aims to make it easier to roll out and manage storage as a service.

• News: AMD reveals next-gen mobile CPUs, claims unprecedented graphics performance

  AMD hopes to have a big second half in 2013, launching three new CPUs featuring integrated graphics that perform on par with the company's discrete GPUs. On Thursday, AMD revealed key details of these next-generation mobile chips, code-named Temash, Kabini, and Richland.

• News: AMD willing to embrace Android

  Advanced Micro Devices has opened the door to embrace Google's Android operating system, but said it would continue to focus on Windows with its upcoming tablet and laptop chips.

• News: Windows 8.1 laptops with AMD's new chips to support wireless display

  Advanced Micro Devices hopes to regain share in the PC processor market with its upcoming chips based on the Jaguar core, which will bring console-like gaming and wireless displays to laptops with Windows 8 and its successor, Windows Blue.

• 22 May 2013

• News: MSI's GX70 gaming laptop sports AMD's fresh, new flagship APU and GPU

  Avid gamers pay attention: MSI's newly announced GX70 gaming laptop packs a pair of potentially powerful firsts from AMD. The notebook sports AMD's fresh new "Richland" A10-5750M accelerated processing unit, along with the recently unveiled flagship Radeon HD 8970M mobile GPU.

• Opinion: Cut custom circuit boards with the Othermill

  3D printing is all the rage these days, because it's an additive process that lets you basically fabricate any random knick knacks on your mind. But who says making has to be a strictly 3D printing only affair?

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