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Philips launched its first 5K monitor that supports a native resolution of 5120x2880 @ 60Hz. With four times the number of pixels of the Quad HD standards and more than 50% compared to the Ultra HD resolution, the new Philips 275P4VYKEB panel is designed to meet the needs of graphics professionals and users. The monitor supports PerfectKolor technology that delivers a gamut Adobe RGB 99% and 100% with regard to the sRGB standard. The 5K resolution provides the user with 1000 and 700 more pixels in the horizontal and vertical sides, respectively, delivering an extra space to use for example more and more windows in the foreground. The 27-inch panel boasts a 10-bit color support with 12-bit internal processing and uses PLS technology that allows viewing angles of 178 degrees both vertically and horizontally. The monitor also integrates two stereo speakers 2W each, webcam with LED indicator and microphone. The maximum resolution is playable exclusively through dual DisplayPort conne...

The distance between the Windows and Linux operating system looks set to shrink in a consistent manner as a result of Microsoft's decision to integrate Canonical and Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions, Windows 10. The news has not yet considered official, but it is It has been confirmed by sources close to Canonical to ZDnet site. Food for thought there, since no one would be the simplest option to use the BASH shell of Linux in Windows 10, but a genuine integration of Ubuntu in Windows 10. According to reports from the source, in fact, the Ubuntu operating system will not simply running as a virtual machine, or it will be a simple command-line interface running BASH, it features already exploited through programs with Cygwin or MSYS. Full details will be revealed at the conference Build which will start today (but the announcement could take place in any of the three days of the conference). One of the hypotheses is that Ubuntu will be able to operate "on...

Corsair M65 PRO RGB is a new gaming mouse suitable for silver due to the technical specifications of its optical sensor that boasts quality materials assembled to last. The optical sensor as 12,000 dpi delivers pixel precision, while the integrated calibration software enables you to obtain the best possible reactivity based on any type of surface. The chassis is made of aluminum for high strength aeronautical use and also welcomes the button for switching the dpi on the fly, allowing you to switch from one to another tracking mode based on the needs of the moment gaming. This button can be especially useful at times when you have to shoot from a distance with the sniper rifle, so it serves a different feeling compared to the fire with traditional weapons. Do not miss an advanced weight-tuning system, allowing you to change the mouse's center of gravity. The mouse can be lighter for precision movements or heavier for those more determined. As to the wheel, instead, a rubberized...

The market of Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to explode in the coming years; more and more companies are investing resources in the development of "smart" devices, interconnected by exploiting the cloud and network connectivity. Among the companies interested in being in the sector Figure Xiaomi, known name in the western market for Android smartphones that have caught the public's attention by virtue of the good value for money. To achieve the purpose, Xiaomi presents "I Ecosystem", a new program through which the Chinese company will be responsible for marketing a wide range of gadgets connected to the Internet and be able to communicate with other devices. The first product does not fail to attract the attention of hardcore tecnofan ... and love cooking. It's called MIJA, short for me Induction Heating Pressure Rice Cooker, and is essentially a pressure cooker for induction cooking rice. Its peculiarity is that it can be managed by smartphone...

Apple, as anticipated, has kicked off the release of a new update of iOS which, although without prejudice to the OS version to 9.3, introduced the build 13E5237. Upgrade purpose is to correct the problem highlighted in the process of upgrading to iOS 9.3 for devices from Cupertino older, including not only iPhone, but also iPad. Following the release of the new update, the previously emerged problems (see. HERE for more details) should have been completely solved: the iPhone and iPad users can thus proceed to upgrade to iOS 9.3 without problems. Filed a problem, however, another appears on the horizon and always has to do with a bug affecting iOS 9.x (not only the most recent release, but also the previous ones). Several reports about it have taken place in the course of the weekend and make reference to a problem that causes crashes and freezes following the activation of a link in Safari and other apps. On this occasion, the response of the House of Cupertino has been rapid, at le...

"The Live Tiles are evolving with two surprises in great demand and unmissable". It reads part of the description of "What's New for Tiles and Toast Notifications" which will start on April 1 next part of waiting Conference Build 2016, event organized by Microsoft and designed to ecosystem Windows developers often exploited from Redmond to present news concerning his entire line of products and services. The Live Tiles, as always, are one of the main distinguishing features of the operating systems Windows 10 and Windows Mobile 8.1 / 10. Elements that have sought to overcome the traditional boundaries of static icons of iOS and widget of the Android operating system, offering a solution that, like it or not, continues to have its own specific identity. It is unclear at the moment how it will evolve the element that allows you to use a structured interface in the now well-known animated frames. You can only make hypotheses about it, retracing the long trail o...

Yahoo is the long search for a recovery is known, but the attempts made so far seem to have been successful. The latest news is a kind of ultimatum, dated April 11: this is the date by which the companies interested to the purchase of the web activities of Yahoo and its shares in Asian companies (Alibaba head) must submit bids preliminary. Concerned, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, they will have to indicate what they are specifically interested in and what prices. Yahoo also requires potential buyers other specific information, including the conditions under which a sales agreement will be concluded, how it will be funded and what solid reasons would lead them to continue the purchase negotiation. It 'clear that many of Yahoo's assets may affect the market, but only a few companies are able to sustain the purchase and think to make the investment through a relay operation of all purchases. Yahoo in this way will probably see over the next few weeks, which compani...

During these last days, the Korean company Samsung has gradually released an update for its Internet browser that are pre-installed on all smartphones with proprietary TouchWiz interface. major update that seems to introduce a number of interesting innovations. This is the version 4.0 of Samsung Internet, pre-installed natively on the latest devices and natively integrated in the product updated to TouchWiz Marshmallow. Among the novelties brought by this latest version of the software was without a doubt the introduction of adblock feature. A navigation mode, the latter, which allows you to browse your web pages without the banner ads interfere with our operations. To make sure that the browser present this feature must not only update the same to version 4.0 but you must also install the Adblock Plus app for Samsung Browser that are free on the Play store. Besides all'adblock the new browser update stock of Korean manufacturer brings some novelties also regarding your priva...

A short distance from the official announcement of the arrival of the new universal app for Skype for Windows 10, there's interesting platform indiscretions with the spread of the first screenshots and some info on the features included in the release is currently under development. To disclose it is the Thurrot.com site. At the time, the source points out, the proven version works only with the build of Redstone Windows 10, or with newer versions that can be accessed participants in the Windows Insider program and, of course, members of the Microsoft development team. This circumstance suggests that the release of the new app will not be forthcoming and that, probably, could not take place before new major release of Windows 10. The improved stability, as one might expect from a build in testing (reported a few crashes during the period of use) el'app not yet supports responsive design, but it is said that Microsoft does not correct such failure with subsequent releases. F...

During the day yesterday the US Department of Justice has announced that it withdrew the lawsuit in which Apple has requested assistance circumvent security measures of the iPhone 5C Syed Farook properties, author of the San Bernardino shootout last December 5, claiming to be able to gain access to device data. Having a technical measure able to circumvent the security of the Apple phone, the authorities no longer need Apple will aid 'to leverage on the All Wrist Act to compel Apple to provide assistance. "The government has had access to information stored on the iPhone for Farook and therefore does not need the assistance requested to Apple last February 16, 2016" have informed the authorities in a statement. Melanie Newman, spokesman for the Justice Department, said: "It remains the government's priority to ensure that the authorities can obtain basic digital information at the national and public safety, protection of safety, both in collaboration with re...

Frictional Games has announced that ARE interesting horror to sci-fi background firsthand, has sold over 250,000 copies since it was launched last September, with an average of about 125 units per day. However the figures achieved so far have not been sufficient to break even. It would be necessary to place other 20-30 thousand copies to fully recover costs and make the project profitable. According to the developers the choice to mix the horror genre and the sci-fi does not intrigued enough the public, despite the SOMA reviews have been fairly positive. As a benchmark was quoted Firewatch, as the title of Campo Santo was able to reach and exceed 500,000 units in a very short time frame. "This means that the game might be a bit 'too sci-fi for those seeking a purely horror, and vice versa. Although we thought that this would mix very well for the game, it seems likely that this factor has contributed to exclude potential buyers. " The developers went even further, ass...

Waiting for the debut of video cards based on AMD and NVIDIA's next generation GPU, belonging respectively to the families Polaris and Pascal, there are announcements of new solutions from manufacturers engaged in this industry. And 'the case of Gigabyte, who announced the GeForce GTX 960 Xtreme features a custom design and a budget of onboard video memory of 4 Gbytes. The video chip clock frequency has been increased to a considerable extent compared to NVIDIA specifications: 1,304 MHz and 1,367 MHz, respectively, for the default clock and boost clock, against 1,127 MHz and 1,178 MHz data specifications of NVIDIA. Nothing changes with reference to the video memory, in a quantity of 4 Gbytes with actual frequency of 7,010 MHz as well as for the reference design. The PCB custom is surmounted by a massive cooling system of windforce 2X family, with two fans from 90 millimeters in diameter which rotate in the opposite direction with an orientation of the blades that is opposed...

Teleportation is actually, almost. We can not talk to physically transfer a person from one place to another, as happens in the best science fiction film, but if you want to teleport the limited activity to transfer a faithful virtual copy of an individual from one place to another, then it can be said that the project of Microsoft Research has made important steps forward in this respect. It's called "holoportation" and is based on a new technology for the capture of 3D models of people, played with a high quality. The "virtual" models are then compressed and transmitted anywhere in the world in real time. When viewed with augmented reality viewers as Hololens, the models come to life in real space, giving the illusion that the people portrayed are really present. The technology developed by Microsoft researchers allows users to watch, listen and interact with remote participants played in 3D, all as if they were physically present. An important communicati...

AMD has also released a new software update for its Radeon family of video cards, with the package Radeon Software Crimson Edition 16.3.2. Aligning itself with the deliveries of the first viewers VR Oculus Rift, waiting for commercialization in a few days of HTC Vive solutions, AMD has implemented these new drivers the supportoa Liquid VR in addition to the Radeon Pro Duo card recently announced at the GDC in San Francisco. Not lacking among the new two new profiles for Crossfire configuration for securities Everybody's Gone to the Rapture and Hitman. Below are the main notes Fortnite with drivers: Resolved Issues: Counter-Strike ™: Global Offensive fails to stretch on non-native display aspect ratios. As part of the new Display Scaling for game feature, users can set "GPU Scaling" to "On" and "Scaling Mode" to "Full Panel" in the options tab in the Display Settings Radeon ™ as well as setting "Scaling Display" to "Full P...

In conjunction with the availability of Oculus Rift, the first viewer VR which today is delivered to buyers who have booked in the past few months, NVIDIA releases an updated driver for your video cards belonging to the family GeForce GTX. The new GeForce 364.72 WHQL drivers are therefore compatible with Oculus Rift and HTC Lives; introduces specific optimizations for titles EVE: Valkyrie, Chronos and Dangerous addition to implementing the latest support for NVIDIA VRWorks.  The following are the main notes included with the drivers. Prior to launching a new title, our driver team is working up until the last minute to Ensure every performance tweaks and bug fixes possible makes it into the Game Ready driver. As a result, you can be sure you'll have the best day-one gaming experience for your favorite new titles. Virtual Reality Virtual reality is here! This Game Ready driver brings full support for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, optimizations and enhancements for vi...

Officially Microsoft start shipments of Surface Hub, the device which can be briefly described as a "mega tablet" based on the Windows 10 operating system and for corporate users. A condition of ending the long wait of the users interested in buying the product. Microsoft has confirmed the news with a recent post on the official site that reports the testimony of the first companies that have begun to use Surface Hub. Surface Hub was initially announced early last year, pre-orders had started in the month of July, with an estimated date of order delivery scheduled for September Microsoft, had later informed that, due to high demand , deliveries had been postponed to January 2016. last December, however, the product to the market approach procedure, not only was characterized by a new delay, but not the price of two models amounted to $ 2,000 each ( $ 8,999 for the version with 55 "screen, and $ 21,900 for those with 84" screen). The delay with which Microsoft...

The producers of the delay affected motherboards with which Intel will make available the new processors of the Core family, referred to by the name of Kaby Lake code. For the second quarter of the year they are in fact expected to be down sales volumes motherboard by about 10% as an average. Asustek and Gigabyte, the two main producers in Taiwan, will close the first quarter with about 4.4 million sold motherboards each one: it is, as designed by Digitimes, a figure up 10% compared to the fourth quarter of 2015 but down compared to figures for the same period last year. These two companies will benefit, during the second quarter, a shift in demand for motherboards in their favor over demand for the so-called second tier manufacturers models. For this reason, the contraction of 10% expected that average should prove to be lower for Asustek and Gigabyte, recording in excess of the remaining producers. Intel will make available the Kaby Lake processors of new generation in the thir...

In recent days, from the GDC, rumors of a future evolution of the Sony Playstation 4 console have emerged: this would be a version with enhanced hardware configuration, and can handle a higher resolution than full HD games currently combined with the console the Japanese company. Sony has not officially spoken in any way; at the present time this product is indicated by the name of PS4.5. There is also talk of a console capable of handling 4K resolution, mode which involves having to manage a total number of pixels which is 4 times higher than Full HD resolution. however difficult that Sony can achieve this kind of result with an expected debut of the new console version for the beginning of 2017: the GPU architectures currently available, in fact, they are struggling to ensure adequate frames per second at 4K resolution. For this reason it is likely that a future evolution of the Playstation 4 console can introduce official support for 4K displays via HDMI connection implementatio...

Linkedin profiles of the experts in hardware can often reveal very interesting information. And 'the case of this profile, made public by 3DCenter site and in the meantime removed, an AMD R & D Manager in Shanghai, indicating that it operated within the project indicated by the code name of "Greenland". With this name indicates AMD internally of the next-generation GPU architecture positioned in the top segment of the market range so we speak of the chip known as Vega 10, as indicated in the latest of AMD GPU roadmap shown by ' American company to coincide with the GDC in San Francisco in recent weeks. In Linkedin profile indicates that the Greenland GPU integrates within itself up to 4,096 shader processors: this implies a given identical to the integrated GPU from AMD in Fiji used in Radeon cards of the Fury family. Changes little, then? An identical number says nothing of architecture at the base, and then the performance capabilities: AMD plan is already c...

very positive future prospects for the technologies and biometric applications that in 2015 they represent a market worth $ 13.7 billion expected to grow at more than 30 billion in 2021. Predictably will the demand for these technologies into consumer electronics devices, especially smartphones, to drive growth. Built-in sensors for fingerprints arrive by 2021 to two billion pieces per year, with an annual compound growth rate of 40% for the period: if last year were handed over 266 million sensors to the current year is prvede a volume of 372 million pieces deliveries. Another interesting line, next to that of the protection of their personal data, is that of surveillance solutions: by 2021 a surveillance camera in three will be IP-based and prepared the analysis biometric subject movement. Among the technologies that take hold they are integrated sensors in consumer devices and the credit and debit cards, iris recognition sensor and facial recognition in smartphones and fingerp...

As recently stated by Jim Ryan, leader of PlayStation Europe, the PlayStation VR bookings have exceeded expectations initially budgeted by Sony's top management. Copies available on the UK market ahead of day one are sold out on Amazon UK in less than an hour. However, reservations are still regularly open at the retailer GAME. The situation is basically the same in our country, where Amazon does not allow you to lock the product while GameStop him yet available signal. "The news on pre-order are extremely encouraging, but I would still be careful to rely only on the first 24 hours to draw conclusions about how we are going to launch," said Ryan shortly after the opening of orders. "I will only say that the first bookings have exceeded our initial expectations. This portends that demand, and consequently the day one could be pretty significant. " Last week Sony announced that PlayStation VR will be available starting next month of October at a market price...

Talk about Atari 2600, for lovers of video games and retrogaming with (more than) a few years on his shoulders, it means reliving probably one of the most carefree stages of childhood, and one of the most important periods for computer games which passed slowly being a chimera confined in arcades to a hobby that you could start to grow even in the home. Atari 2600, marketed in the late 70s of last century, in fact gave the "la" to a market that was particularly flourishing in the years to come, that of the home console that found their consecration with the arrival of the Nintendo NES. To relive the immortal classics of video game history is newly available on Steam Atari Vault, a collection of 100 games for the Atari 2600 console It starts, of course, as long titles entered the Olympus of games like Asteroids, Centipede, and Missile Command. To quickly clear up doubts, it is emphasized at the same time, that love for retrogaming, in this case, has a price. Atari Atari prop...

The Steam Controller is a game controller introduced by Valve to give completeness to a gaming platform that runs on the concept contained in the Steam Machine: making the PC a bit 'more like the console in terms of convenience of use, while maintaining the points strengths that PCs can boast in direct confrontation with the console, from the higher computing power, but by moving the game environment from the desktop to the living room. An undoubtedly interesting project, thanks to a concept that is well suited not only to Steam Machine in the strict sense but to any PC suitable for gaming. The task of the Steam Controller is certainly not easy since the interaction with the keyboard and mouse on the PC - with some essential titles - is not easily replicable with a gamepad, inevitably more simplified. Valve has outlined the salient features of the Stream Controller - which works in perfect symbiosis with the Big Screen mode of Steam - replacing the traditional second analog st...

Synology has announced the release of DiskStation Manager 6.0, the operating system developed by the company for use in its products for archiving data. The new release focuses on the need, more and more obvious, to provide tools for collaboration and sharing among users who are cloud based but at the same time not jeopardize the privacy and data ownership. Using a Synology NAS compatible with the new version of DiskStation Manager is therefore possible to have access to a range of specific applications that enhance personal productivity and teamwork. An example comes from MailPlus packages and MailPlus Server, respectively mail client and the mail server, which can be run directly from Synology NAS offering the flexibility of access via the cloud security to have physically installed data in its NAS and then with full control direct. The effort by the Synology DiskStation Manager 6.0 version to ensure superior productivity in team work is evident by looking at some of the packages...

The game director of Final Fantasy XV, Hajime Tabata, has released some new information concerning the game's main campaign and the fluidity of the graphics engine. In the course of a video stream - carried out by Siliconera - Tabata assured that the main quest will require approximately 50 hours to complete, and it will be 10 hours longer than the estimates made by the earlier teams. It seems in fact that the game is more robust than had been originally planned. Although developers are still not involved in the final stages of balance, Tabata ensures that the optimization has already been launched and the goal are the stable 30fps, but the engine could also guarantee threshold is exceeded. Obviously further improvements will continue to be implemented until the Gold stage. Further information about the technical side will be made public during a specially dedicated event, to be held in Los Angeles next week. The gameplay of Final Fantasy XV will be a derivation of the one of...

The commercial debut of the next-generation video cards AMD is still at least several months away, but already some rumors emerge on those who might be the technical characteristics. AMD will present in the coming months 3 distinct new generation GPU, linked like this: Vega 10: GPU is the higher end among those that AMD will make available on the market, intended to take the place currently occupied by the proposals of the Fiji family. Debut, according to the updated roadmap of AMD, at the beginning of 2017: Polaris 10 is the most powerful GPU in the Polaris family, destined to be used in high-end cards but not top of the line; Polaris 11: is the proposed smaller, the first that AMD showed in operation in December 2015 and that presumably will be used in mid-range video cards as well as mobile systems. The naming scheme used by AMD has no performance references: the numbers 10 and 11 shall apply only to the design period, with the GPU Polaris 10 which was then developed internally...

It 'was one of the companies that helped, especially in the North American market, the development and dissemination of smartwatch among the general public. Let's talk about Pebble, a company that is experiencing at the moment a period of difficulties and has announced a reduction of 25% of its workforce to a total of 40 employees. To justify this decision to CEO Eric Migicovsky, who reported that it is currently difficult for the company to be able to get investments from venture capitalists by which to proceed with its business development activities. The company has raised about $ 20 million through Kickstarter, by interested users to their Pebble Time, with a campaign that began in late February 2015. To this figure we must also add the $ 26 million achieved in the last eight months, partly from venture capitalists in part as credit lines. The difficulties of the company, looking for ways to reduce their costs, can be a witness to the difficulties it is experiencing ...

It is not the first time Google opens the doors of its data centers, allowing the public to technology enthusiasts and the simply curious to know what it looks like the place where, in all probability, a more or less substantial fraction of their personal data it is routinely guarded. The video recently posted on the Google Cloud Platform channel, however, presents some elements for certain new aspects, not so much for the substance, and by its architecture. It is, in fact, a 360 ° video with 4k resolution. We recommend wearing the VR low-cost Cardboard viewer to complete the best guided tour, or you can take action on the virtual pad in the upper left corner. Google emphasizes the attention paid to the issues of privacy and security - with stringent checks carried out since the main entrance and continue inside by the use of biometrics - the commitment to manage in an efficient and sustainable the center, without missing to show, in concrete terms, the amount of servers and fiber...

Sony, for many months, has embarked on a corporate restructuring process which covered all the main sectors of activity. The Japanese giant has gradually separated the individual assigning them to specific business divisions that operate as subsidiaries of subsidiaries of Sony Corporation. In a press release issued in the day today, Sony summarizes the changes to the company structure previously announced and implemented and explains what, in concrete terms, will Sony Corporation from April, after creating the autonomous legal entities that carry and will carry the various businesses. Sony Corporation, after the transition, counted on five main points, transferring to the individual business units, starting from April 1, various operations, such as production, logistics and purchases, so far handled first. These activities which will occupy the top of the group: Responsibility and control over the execution of the overall strategy and governance of the Sony group Research and De...

We had seen this accessory shown by months at the CES in Las Vegas, last January. We speak of a series of bridge SLI configurations, required to use multiple NVIDIA GeForce family of graphics cards on a single system, combined with a massive cooling fan. Products of this type are made specifically for SLI configurations with 3 or 4 cards in parallel, in which the proximity between the boards often poses limits to the optimal disposal of the heat generated during operation. A fan mounted above the tabs allows to better handle the heat, either by blowing cool air towards the cards is then aspirates away, depending on the chosen position for the fan. The SLI bridge is rigid, technical choice which gives more stability to the whole structure as the fan is connected directly to the bridge. The products fall within the MSI G Series Gaming family and therefore use the same red color that MSI uses for its video card of the G. family Gaming At present MSI has not yet announced pricing and...

The debut of the Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 v4, solutions for servers up to 2 sockets, is expected by the end of the month with the availability of new systems which should be almost immediate. These proposals are based on the architecture known by the codename of Broadwell-EP code, able to offer top of the range in variations up to 18 cores per socket. During the second quarter of 2016 will be the time of the debut of Broadwell-E solutions, destined instead to the enthusiast end desktop systems currently based on Haswell-E processors. For these processors the debut period should coincide with the Computex Taipei, an event which will open officially on Tuesday 31st May. A confirmation, although not official, comes from ASRock that updated the bios of various own motherboards based on chipset Intel X99 in conjunction with this note: Support new CPUs coming Q2 2016 The reference is obviously to the Broadwell-E proposals, while the Computex is deducted as it is an essential even...

Researchers at the University of Illinois have set a new record in terms of data transmission speed of optical fiber. Thanks to the oxide-VCSEL technology developments the researchers were able to have a speed of 57Gbps without errors and, especially, at ambient temperature thus eliminating the need of having to use cooling systems for proper operation. Even at the temperature of 85 ° C, the technology is able to support a transmission speed of 50Gbps. Milton Feng, professor of electrical engineering and computing, said: "Our challenge has always been to be able to transmit information faster. There are a lot of data in the world, but if the transmission is not fast enough you can not use the data collected, you can not use future technologies that use large data streams, such as virtual reality. the direction to the fiber optic communications will grow because there is a high data transfer rates, especially in the long run. " The team of researchers led by Feng has been wo...

Less than a week away from the release and following the reports of iPad users who are experiencing problems being updated, Apple chooses to temporarily suspend the distribution of iOS 9.3 for iPhone and iPad older. Apple's statement to iMore site allows for a more detailed restrict the models affected. The update of some iOS devices (iPhone 5s and earlier models, iPad Air and earlier models) to iPhone OS 9.3 may require you to enter the Apple ID and password used to set the device. In some cases, if customers do not remember the password, the device remains in the state not activated until they recover or reset their passwords. For these older devices, we have temporarily removed the update in the coming days we will release an updated version of iOS 9.3 that does not require this step. For users who have already encountered the problem - for example by entering an incorrect password by mistake or if not possible to enter a password, Apple has posted a page on the official sup...

Print times are certainly one of the critical points of the current filament printers, especially when the size of the pieces you are important or when there are many pieces printed on the same plate. Among Rates of extrusion of the extruder and travel time you can easily break through the roof of the tens of hours for especially large molded parts with high resolution and quality. For the production of pieces in series (then all equal) Italian company, the Tuscan i3D, he proposes his Sixer, able to print six equal pieces simultaneously on the same plate, thanks to the presence on the six print heads machine. Now by Autodesk arrives a project, which always exploiting the presence of more printheads, pointing instead to minimize the time required for the production augmentation of large pieces. Autodesk is a software house and is not planning to build a new printer, but with its Escher Project aims to make available the software and technology to control a new generation of 3D print...

Starboard Value, an investment group which owns about 1.7% of the American Yahoo shares, would be promoting an action that issues of fact set in motion a radical action of change, separation of the internal parts of the company or their possible sale. Starboard Value aims to completely change the company's board of directors, and possibly to replace the CEO Marissa Mayer, as responsible for the reduced performance recorded by the company over the past years. The history of the last 10 years and Yahoo has made several changes of leadership, until the arrival of Marissa Mayer in the month of July 2012 from Google. Mayer was the fifth CEO of Yahoo in the previous 5 years, confirms that the company has been driven without the necessary managerial stability that is required in turbulent times such as at the turn of 2010 for the web industry. Specifically Starboard Value argues that the current valuation of Yahoo greatly underestimates the actual value of the company: a replacement...

The award winning catalog of Razer gaming keyboards expands with the arrival of four new models BlackWidow X. Two major innovations: on the one hand a new estestica, characterized by the removal of the top cover of the original models Razer BlackWidow which leaves uncovered the keys on the other the introduction of models that further lowers the bar of the price. A result achieved in part thanks to the introduction of the possibility to choose, on select models, the variant with Cherry MX Blue switches that take the place of the ones developed in person by Razer. Particularly interesting is the version Razer BlackWidow Tournament Edition X, which offers the chance to get hold of a mechanical keyboard Razer against the payment of the price equal to 69.99 euro, ten euro less of the similar version Razer switch. The four new models are elaborated as a "standard" versions and "Tournament Edition", the latter having no numeric keypad, with or without programmable b...

HTC introduces HTC officially 10, its new top range smartphone based on the Android operating system, on April 12 next year. Meanwhile, in the wake of rumors concerning him no signs of easing. In the past few hours, a new image leaekd bounced quickly network has focuses on the appearance of performance recorded by the device, documented by AnTuTu benchmark. worthy of mention results, while taking into account the relative value of instrumental measurements, unable to return a complete picture of the user experience. HTC beats, in fact, very powerful terminals and newly introduced, from Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Xiaomi Mi 5. HTC 10 easily exceeds 150,000 points in AnTuTu, pulling Xiaomi Mi 5 (136,875 points) and Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge (134,599 points). For reference, it is emphasized that it is not clear which of the two variants of the Galaxy S7 Edge has been taken as a reference in the benchmark (Snapdragon 820 or Exynos), in each case with previous tests AnTuTu collocavano perfor...

Microsoft announced in recent hours the arrival of the new universal app for Skype for Windows 10 platform, which will then be followed by the version for Windows 10 Mobile smartphone. A change of course compared to the previous decision not to supply UWP version of Skype, preferring to offer its services through the new app Skype and Windows messages 10 or with the traditional desktop application. It was the feedback received by Microsoft over the past months to determine the choice to release new versions of Skype. Skype messages and Windows 10 offers more limited functionality than the full version of Skype for desktop, which, at the same time, it is not so 'optimized for use with touch devices such as a universal app. The new universal app for Skype will expand the available functions, will be presented with clear and simple menus, while maintaining the advantages of universal app, starting with the ability to adapt optimally to the devices with the diagonal screens and many ...

The Banner Saga 2 will be released on April 19 as can be seen in the product page on Steam. About preorder now also benefits from a discount of 10%, paying only € 17.99. The Banner Saga is conceived as a trilogy that tells an exciting and innovative story to Viking environment. In this second chapter will return to the beautiful hand-drawn 2D backgrounds that we come to appreciate even in the first chapter, accompanied by the soundtrack composed by Austin Wintory. The choices of the players will have consequences on the story, which depends at the same time by the choices made in the first The Banner Saga. There will also be new characters and a new race, the "Horseborn". Stoic promises greater strategic depth and fighting even more unpredictable, with the possibility of permanently losing their heroes. As in the first chapter, then, will the need to manage their own caravan, and the food supplies available for the handful of heroes.

The din of traffic, the rhythm of the music, the sounds of nature: it is undeniable that the urban sound texture has a significant impact on daily life. Chatty Maps is a fascinating project carried out by Daniele Quercia countrymen, Luca Maria Aiello and Rossano Schifanella which aims to show the map of the "sound composition" of some of the world's great cities. Currently covers the cities of London, Barcelona, Madrid, New York, Boston, Chicago, Washington, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Milan and Rome: their maps were created by probing the endless Flickr database, looking for pictures that were both geo-tagged, categorized both by words related to sounds. The list of related words in sounds has been derived from the tags used on Freesound, another public database of audio clips. Thanks to a specially designed algorithm, it was possible to sift through thousands of photographs, looking for word matches. This operation made it possible to give rise to what the author...

Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE), Sony's subsidiary in charge of carrying out the business of PlayStation consoles, has announced it is working to structure "ForwardWorks", a new company that will develop new services to the market for smart devices , starting with those related to the development of games. The new company will start operating from 1 April; the same day Sony Computer Entertainment will become Sony Interactive Entertainment, the new group will combine the activities carried out previously by the SCE divisions and Sony Network Entertainment. Forward Works will operate in Japan and Asia and, for the moment, missing confirmations on the expansion of activities in other geographical areas. The signal given by Sony, at the same time, it is clear enough: it should return to explore a market segment, that of smart devices, which appears fertile ground to expand the business of video game distribution. To achieve the goal, Sony will reuse the titles and the ...

Tay is a chatbot designed to interact with Twitter users turned to Microsoft in recent hours. It is a tool that is part of a study conducted by Microsoft Research on understanding of colloquial language that uses artificial intelligence algorithms to manage the relationships between bots and real users. important data that could be reused from Remdond home to make increasingly smart personal digital assistants such as Cortana. "The more you chat with Tay, the more it becomes intelligent, learning to engage people through casual conversation and playful." This is the description provided by Microsoft in presenting the chatbot. Tay, in the original intentions of Microsoft, was designed to "dialogue" with US users aged between 18 and 24 years, from the answers of which would have to learn and take up the principles upon which an informal conversation between teenagers. The experiment, however, took an unexpected turn. They took less than 24 to "bribe" the...