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NVIDIA unveils the insanely powerful Tesla K80 dual-GPU accelerator

If there are any kids within earshot, send them off to play or cover their ears before reading any further, we wouldn’t want their little ears being exposed to excited...

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Data transmitted at 255Tb/s over a single strand of fiber

Researchers in the US and Netherlands have managed to transmit data at 255Tbps across a single strand of fiber cable over a kilometer, about 2,500 times faster than any commercial...

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Google releases Android L 64-bit preview for x86

The Android developer community has released an Android L emulator image specifically for Intel's x86 64-bit architecture. It will allow developers to build or optimize older apps for the upcoming Android...

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This solar cell doubles as a battery and stores its own electricity

Solar power has an efficiency problem. When the electrons move from the solar panel to the battery that stores them, about 20 percent of the energy is lost. But now,...

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Forget about 4K, Dell has announced a new 5K monitor

4K is so last week. Most of us haven't added one of those displays as part of our daily workflow yet, and Dell's 5K option is on the way. The...

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Sony's Xperia Z3 lets you play PS4 games on your smartphone

Sony-loving PlayStation 4 owners have some fancy new toys to covet, with the announcement that the company’s freshly announced Xperia Z3, Xperia Z3 Compact, and Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact all...

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Flashing LED lights could help self-driving cars navigate better at night

When it comes to self-driving cars, I am quite sure that much more testing needs to be done, not to mention a whole lot of standardization being agreed upon before...

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Images of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 880 have been leaked online

It's been over a year since the launch of Nvidia's first GTX 700 series graphics cards, so in the usual yearly cycle of releases we should be expecting the launch...

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Mozilla has brought a few Firefox OS apps to Android

While we have heard much about Mozilla’s Firefox OS in recent times, perhaps it is time to shift the attention a wee bit and concentrate the proverbial spotlight on the...

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Sony develops a cassette tape capable of storing 185 TB of data

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don't get much love. That's a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony...

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