Schlagwort: technolog
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Fascinating Look at the Rotating Space Colony (Stanford torus) by NASA
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’ve seen the movie Elysium, then this rotating space colony concept probably is still fresh in your mind, but did you know that this concept was first brought up in the 1970s, by NASA? The Stanford torus is a proposed design for a space habitat capable of housing 10,000 to…
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MediaTek’s new octa-core processor to compete with Qualcomm over the premium LTE smartphone market
Reading Time: 2 minutesMediaTek, a chipset manufacturer based out of Taiwan, has been making some huge moves lately. Just over two months ago, it came out with the „world’s first true octa-core“ processor, which consisted of eight Cortex-A7 cores capable of operating simultaneously. Now that ARM has announced Cortex-A17 technology, however, MediaTek is ready to start sampling a…
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There Is A Huge Underground Farm Hiding 100 Feet Beneath London’s Streets
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe newest branch line of the London Underground doesn’t go anywhere. But it does produce a lot of nice food to eat. It’s an aquaponic farm, 100 feet below the surface, set to open this March. With sky-high rents in central London, it made sense for the startup behind the project,…
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PS4’s secondary processor and extra GDDR3 RAM chip revealed
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe good part of the teardown of a product is that we know much more about it than when looking only at the „official“ specs tables. This is what happened exactly with the Playstation 4 showing a secondary processor and extra RAM chips that weren’t on any „official“ specs list. The secondary…
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New info on PS4’s Noise Level, Power Consumption and Media Performance
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn an interview with Japanese tech site AV Watch, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan and Asia Senior Vice president and Director of Business Unit 1 Masayasu Ito shared more info about some technical aspects of the PlayStation 4, including the console’s noise level, its power consumption, etc. While being always online is not necessary, a network connection…
