Remember back when single core CPUs where king? Man those were the days. Now we've got hyper threading and dual core CPUs at the top of the stack. And for all purposes, a dual core CPU should be more than sufficient. But what if its not? What if you do DNA modeling simulations in your spare time. Well Azul Systems has just the chips for you.
Azul has plans to integrate 48 cores onto a single chip, expected out next year. The company currently has a 24 core chip out but expects to double that. With their new chip, Azul's computer appliance will be able to offer 768 way symmetric multiprocessing. Slick! You'll never play video games the same way again.
Read about it here.
Anyone remember the Mario Bros movie? Ya, me either. Never saw it Thank God! This reaction is possibly why Nintendo is refusing to create a movie based on, in my humble opinion, one of the best game series Nintendo ever created, Legend of Zelda. Which is a damn shame. Done right, Legend of Zelda has the potential to be a great movie.
But fear not, a group of die hard enthusiasts have taken it upon themselves to fulfill this gap in cinematic history. Financing the movie completly with their own money, they taken their creativity and love of the game into a film that they will debut as a film fesitval and fan movie peice complete with what sounds like a great story, animations, CGI and appearances from some of the more famous zelda characters.
View the trailer here. At the time of writing this, their site was experiencing some technical difficulties that they'll hopefully have resolved soon.
Arstechnica.com is running an interesting story on how the number of high school and college bound students being caught cheating using cell phones is on the rise. While the number of incidents per 1500 written tests is still relatively low it still causes concern for educators as students seem to still prefer more traditional methods of cheating.
I recall when I was in high school that the TI-92 was expressly forbidden to be used during more important exams such as your ACTs or SATs because it was capable of wireless transmissions. Curbing the rise of SMS cheating seems simple enough. Just don't let cell phones into the exam room. I think it would be pretty apparent when a student was trying to text a friend and ask what is the derivative of a fourth order polynomial...
Read the article here.
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