Years After Being Dropped, ZFS Finds Its Way Back To The Mac

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Two weeks ago, the excellent Building Windows 8 blog posted an in-depth look at the upcoming operating system’s new file system, ReFS . It reminded me of the promise of so many years ago that OS X would be changing its file system from HFS+ to ZFS.

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SoftKinetic And Intel Partner For Minority Report-Style Ads

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Startup SoftKinetic just announced a new kind of advertising, one that combines its gesture-control technology with Intel’s video analytics.

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Intel quietly outs seven new Sandy Bridge CPUs to check we’re paying attention

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Intel opened its back door and shuttled out a refresh of its chips without so much as a phone call, typical! Three desktop Core i5 chips made their way into the big bad world, the i5-2550K replacing the i5-2500K, the i5-2450P replacing the i5-2400 and the i5-2380P replacing the i5-2320. There's a suspicion that the P that follows the two latter models means the GPUs have been disabled / removed to differentiate the price

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Intel Leads $20M Round For Solera Networks

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Solera Networks just announced that it has raised $20 million in Series D funding from Intel Capital (the chip-maker’s investment arm) and others. The company says its DeepSee Platform can index and classify all network traffic, giving companies a comprehensive picture of their network security in real-time, either for spotting risks before a security breach or responding quickly once a breach has occurred. Both domestic and international sales supposedly grew more than 100 percent last year.

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G-cluster plans mobile gaming service to challenge OnLive

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Japanese cloud-gaming and VOD startup G-cluster plans to enter the U.S.

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Today Apple, Google, 5 Others Battle “No Poach” Conspiracy Case

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7 of the world’s most powerful tech companies have been accused of forming an antitrust conspiracy to suppress the compensation of their employees by entering into “no poach” agreements.

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Intel bolsters video patent portfolio with purchase from RealNetworks

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Silicon juggernaut Intel has inked a multi-million dollar deal with RealNetworks , agreeing to purchase scores of video-related patents and annex an entire software team. Specifics of the accord have Intel shelling out $120 million in exchange for 190 patents, 170 patent applications and a video codec development squad

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The Russian Computer That Ran On Water [Past Perfect]

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In the days before Intel, Apple and Google, computing was a much more traditional affair. We're talking levers, gears, and other mechanisms that could all automate counting in some way or other

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Intel’s next big wireless play: It’s not smartphones

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Intel’s wireless ambitions go beyond smartphones and tablets. It’s set its sights on the guts of the mobile network as well. By embracing a new network design concept called Cloud-RAN, Intel believes it can reshape wireless networks from highly-specialized architectures into more generic computing platforms that run over its off-the-shelf silicon.

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KDJ-One: the Game Boy of music making is real(ly coming, in a bit) (video)

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Cyberstep sent our hearts aflutter-ish at last year's NAMM with its prototype KDJ-One, a Game Boy with gigantism that held a portable digital audio workstation inside. Now, twelve months later, the company's pulled the dust sheets from a version that's ready for prime-time

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