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Nvidia details its 64-bit Project Denver chip for Android coming later this year

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by on August 11, 2014 at 11:02 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Nvidia made a splash at this year’s CES with the unveiling of its Tegra K1 ARM chip, which included a 64-bit version slated for release later this year. At the Hot Chips conference today, Nvidia released more details about the upcoming chip, which is codenamed Project Denver. Project Denver is Nvidia’s first custom-designed CPU, and it’s being touted as the first 64-bit ARM processor for Android. The system will pair two Denver CPUs with speeds up to 2.5 GHz with its existing 192-core Kepler architecture. According to Nvidia, the dual-core design provides “significantly higher performance” than rival four- and eight-core…

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Holvi is bringing its online banking service for ‘makers and doers’ to 19 new European countries

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by on August 11, 2014 at 7:53 pm
Posted In: Around the Web

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Holvi is taking its online banking service for “makers and doers” beyond its home market of Finland and into 19 new European markets. For now, the company is using an invite-only system to slowly grow its offering in seven additional countries: Ireland, Austria, Belgium, Spain, Lithuania, Germany and the UK. Holvi says the users it has selected so far number in the thousands and provide enough feedback to assess the quality of its localizations. The Finnish startup will then expand the scheme to a further 12 markets before the end of this year: Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,…

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How positive thinking builds skills, boosts health and improves your work

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by on August 11, 2014 at 7:39 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, How-To's, LifeHacks

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James Clear writes about using behavioral science to master your habits and improve your health. His free guide, Transform Your Habits, has been downloaded more than 80,000 times. This post originally appeared on his blog. Positive thinking sounds useful on the surface (most of us would prefer to be positive rather than negative.) But, “positive thinking” is also a soft and fluffy term that is easy to dismiss. In the real world, it rarely carries the same weight as words like “work ethic” or “persistence.” But those views may be changing. Research is beginning to reveal that positive thinking is about much more than…

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The White House creates a Digital Service team to solve government tech problems

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by on August 11, 2014 at 7:08 pm
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Learning from its mistakes with the Healthcare.gov debacle, the Obama administration has launched the US Digital Service, a team of technologists that will advise government agencies on their IT projects, as noted by The Washington Post. Former Google reliability engineer Mikey Dickerson, who played a critical role in fixing Healthcare.gov, will head up the new team. The USDS, as it’s called, isn’t primarily focused on providing direct engineering support. That’s left for the General Services Administration’s 18F unit. Instead, Dickerson and his team will provide multi-disciplinary consulting work to help agencies think through how to get their user experiences on…

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Dropbox for Android updated with document previews, smarter search, and view-only shared folders

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by on August 11, 2014 at 6:48 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Google, Insider, Mobile

Dropbox today updated its Android app with support for document previews and an overhauled search function. You can download the new version now directly from Google Play. Document previews means you can now view, scroll, and zoom in or out of any Word document, PowerPoint presentation, or PDF in your Dropbox directly on your Android device without having to switch out of the Dropbox app. The search improvements include quite a bit: you can now search in specific folders or in your entire Dropbox, the app keeps track of your recent searches, it makes “typeahead” suggestions as you type in…

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