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I doubt the chip is counterfeit. CMOS circuits are naturally light sensitive. For most chips, the solution to this problem is to use black opaque packaging. The issue is due to fully encapsulating parts, the actual die is much smaller than the package. This tends to be a problem for small...

Will make for a cool half time show while watching the Seahawks win the super bowl again. :D

Anti-virus software just uses blacklists to detect known threats and heuristic scanning to look for virus like patterns. This only really works for known threats and very limited set of unknown threats. Instead the solution is to do whitelisting with something like Bit 9. It will only allow...

This is truly a huge loss! Apple's stock hasn't been this low in over 2 weeks. :rolleyes:

Um, 20nm TSMC is already in mass production at Fab12 and ramping production at Fab14. The fact is TSMC is ramping production of 20nm much faster than 28nm. They expect to ship 300,000 wafers this year and 1M wafers in 2015.

1) Don't buy popcorn and drinks in the theater. 2) Get discount tickets online: http://www.costco.com/.product.100070198.html?cm_sp=RichRelevance-_-itempageVerticalRight-_-CategorySiloedViewCP&cm_vc=itempageVerticalRight|CategorySiloedViewCP Much cheaper. :D

So the author discounts self driving cars because they are going to cost hundreds of millions and take several years to develop and his solution is public transportation? The BART extension mentioned at the end of the article is budgeted at $6.1 billion and won't be in service until 2025.

Wrong company. This is Motorola Solutions, not Motorola Mobility.

Between tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, and winter storms, there isn't many places left that also have sufficient cheap electricity and major fiber back-haul connections for a large datacenter.

There is a lot of things beyond just natural disasters that can cause a datacenter to go offline. If you are trying to build a reliable service, it is better to build multiple data centers for redundancy than have one that you try to keep 100% uptime on.

Not the first time Loon has been confused for a UFO. If you look you can find pictures from the past two years of sightings. http://www.openminds.tv/multiple-witnesses-spot-a-strange-ufo-above-dos-palos-ca-829/16677

If this is no different from service packs than why the heck isn't MS supporting it like they do with service packs?

I stopped reading at Phantom. That was a scam to begin with and then they sued [H] for pointing that out. No way in hell was it going to succeed. http://www.hardocp.com/article/2003/09/17/behind_infinium_phantom_console/#.Uy88uaZgEs0

John Cage lawsuit in 3...2...1...

Glad I use Lynx. :D

Some people are really too full of themselves... Glass only has ~1 hour of battery life when recording video. What makes people think that their lives are so interesting that it is worth wasting battery life to film them as random strangers?

False. Silicon Valley started in Mountain View with the founding of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.

You are going to need a hell of a lot more than a fast ADC to build a 400Gbps link...

It is surprisingly hard to find a speedtest site that will is capable of more than 1gbit/s... Hell, speedtest.net is broken and won't save your results if you do. Connection is faster, but I can't find a better speedtest site.

The problem is for an MP3 player, there has been zero reason to upgrade. While over the past 5 years, the price of flash has dropped significantly, Apple is still charging high prices for the iPod and hasn't even bothered to upgrade the memory capacity in 5 years. I mean $400 for 64gb flash MP3...

This is pretty much industry standard. While most fabs are in the US or other developing countrys, the test and assembly houses are in Asia or other less developed countrys. I can't think of anyone who does packaging in the US. From my understanding, it is for tax purposes. Shipping a wafer...

Might not actually help. The article mentioned Western Digital, so it is possible that they are installing backdoors at the component level.

Try again. These are both dual processor platforms. The cost is always going to be significantly higher when buying two CPUs. A better comparison is a Dell T3610 or HP Z420.

Much better article: http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/12/19/a-micro-muscular-break-through/ This is a MEMs process, so could be good for micro robots, but a lot of work needed before Terminator sized robots. Wake me when it is large enough that they don't test it on a probe station...

The thing is the Dual_EC_DRBG random number generator was suspected as being an NSA back door 6 YEARS AGO. http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/11/securitymatters_1115 (Notice the article date). To have used it after that point you would either have to be...

Intel does the window trick. It has been 100% effective: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/05/newegg_selling_fake_intel_cpus#.UoruJEP_65Q :p

Doesn't work any more. http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/business/41831756_1_encryption-data-centers-intelligence-agencies

You do realize Chrome updates it's browser about every 6 weeks and is now on version 30, right? Also, the release notes for all of Firefox's releases are published: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/25.0/releasenotes/

Google already announced a split, but it has been held up in court: http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/17/technology/google-stock-split/

You can check your speed history on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/my_speed I doubt Verizon is actively throttling and there is more a lack of sufficient peering between Verizon and Netflix/Amazon/Youtube.

If only everyone was carrying around a camera phone in the days of the Ford Pinto...

Gigabyte sells one: http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4468#ov

So I take it the NSA was behind this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/09/post-mortem-iranian-diginotar-attack

Looks like the fire shouldn't effect supply much: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/04/us-hynix-suspension-idUSBRE9830SP20130904

Actually it is spelled out right in the first line of the chart. I.mx6 is a line of ARM Cortex-A9 SOCs by Freescale.

Looks really cool, but wouldn't it just be easier to use the projector to actually project the game or movie onto a larger screen?

What the article fails to mention is July 1st was very close to AAPL's lowest stock price since 2011.

Increasing the output power 1000% or 30db wouldn't actually cause a significant increase in radiation at the ground. Even with a 30db increase in power, the signal coming from the cell tower or wifi access point in bad coverage would be stronger. The big issue is moving from a 27W transmitter to...

Given line of sight, a 1W GPS jammer 1km away would be roughly one million times stronger than from a GPS satellite. Easily enough to jam a receiver.

Any RF communication is easy to jam if you are close enough to the receiver and have a large enough transmitter. See Near-far problem: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-far_problem Since GPS satellite orbit at 12,500 miles, it doesn't take a very large transmitter to jam the signal.