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Offline over the weekend? Read all the tech news you missed right here

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 11:08 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

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With 2015 now fully upon us, it’s time to say goodbye to the holidays and get back into the working groove. But before you do that, you’d better spend a few minutes catching up on all the best tech news and features you missed from the last two days. So, make yourself a coffee and switch your phone on silent while you catch up on everything worth knowing from this weekend. News from The Next Web Xiaomi Announces the $112 Redmi 2 Smartphone Narrative Unveils the Clip 2 Wearable Camera Withings Launches $150 Activité Pop Activity Tracker Smithsonian Galleries Release…

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Microsoft launches a Windows Phone app for citizen journalists

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 10:51 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Citizen journalism, Windows Phone

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Microsoft has just released a new app that lets Windows Phone users create and publish news stories on the move, reports Neowin. Presently in beta, Social News allows users to create stories with photos and video, spot trending news items, and find current stories around them on a map in the Here and Now section. Users can also follow their contacts and see what they’ve been sharing in the app. Social News’ app description mentions that users can also ‘respond to news requests created by professional media partners, and get a chance to get your articles published by professional media.’…

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BigStash offers 5TB of long-term file storage free for one year following renaming

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 9:58 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Updates

Deepfreeze.io, a cloud-storage service that puts your files into ‘deep freeze’ has announced a name change, additional investment and a new free (for one year) 5TB per user limit for new and existing users. In essence, the service allows you to free up other cloud storage services (like Drive or OneDrive etc.) by keeping your infrequently accessed files in a cheaper (but slower to retrieve) service like BigStash. To put that 5TB offer in perspective, that amount of storage with the service would normally cost $500 per year. The lowest tier of 100GB would cost $15 per year. If you…

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NVIDIA’s Tegra X1 will put a teraflop of computing power in your pocket

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 8:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, CES2015, Drive CV, Drive PV, Gadgets, Mobile, Nvidia, Product Launches, Tegra K1, Tegra X1

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In 2000, the ASCI Red was the world’s first teraflop supercomputer. 15 years later and NVIDIA has just announced the first teraflop mobile processor – the Tegra X1. The Tegra X1 packs more power into its eight-core 64-bit CPU and 256 GPU cores using less than 15 watts of power than the ASCI Red did into a 1,600 square foot installation using 500,000 watts. The ASCI Red was used to maintain the US’s nuclear arsenal. The Tegra X1 will make it even easier to play really great looking games on your mobile. The new processor brings NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPU architecture, which…

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NVIDIA’s Tegra X1 will put a teraflop of computing power in your pocket

Jan05
by on January 5, 2015 at 8:59 am
Posted In: Around the Web, CES2015, Drive CV, Drive PV, Gadgets, Mobile, Nvidia, Product Launches, Tegra K1

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In 2000, the ASCI Red was the world’s first teraflop supercomputer. 15 years later and NVIDIA has just announced the first teraflop mobile processor – the Tegra X1. The Tegra X1 packs more power into its eight-core 64-bit CPU and 256 GPU cores using less than 15 watts of power than the ASCI Red did into a 1,600 square foot installation using 500,000 watts. The ASCI Red was used to maintain the US’s nuclear arsenal. The Tegra X1 will make it even easier to play really great looking games on your mobile. The new processor brings NVIDIA’s Maxwell GPU architecture, which…

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