From TechPowerUp:

Earlier this month AMD launched their Radeon HD 7800 Series. The GPU, Pitcairn, is a downscale from the HD 7900 "Tahiti" silicon, which introduced AMD's new Graphics Core Next architecture. Targeting a wide price-range between $250-$350, the HD 7800 series falls into the market-segment both AMD and NVIDIA have known to refer to as the "sweetspot" segment. Apart from 1280 stream processors, Pitcairn has 80 Texture Memory Units (TMUs), 32 ROPs (Raster Operations), and a 256-bit wide GDDR5 memory interface, holding 2 GB of memory.

From the BBC:

One billion US dollars is a tidy sum of money.

It would buy you some some 2,100 Rolls Royce Phantoms. Or 200 million mosquito nets to fight malaria. Or the whole of the New York Times company (with $50m change to spare). If you are Microsoft, it buys you some 800 AOL patents to fight the next patent war.

From Wired:

Some years ago — around the time that HD-DVD gave up the ghost, Blu-ray emerged triumphant, and thousands of Xbox 360 owners said, “Well, hell” — I made a prediction. I predicted that Blu-ray would never replace DVDs the way DVDs did VHS. I figured that Blu-ray would be the equivalent of LaserDisc, something AV nerds and consumer bandwagoneers would get into it, and that the next big media format would be digital downloads.

From ArsTechnica:

Account login services that implement applications from Google, Facebook, and other commercial providers are prone to flaws that allow adversaries unauthorized access to private user profiles on the third-party Websites that use them, a team of computer scientists has concluded.

From Hardware Heaven:

Yesterday NVIDIA launched their new desktop GPU range (previously known as Kepler) with the introduction of the GeForce GTX 680. This new GPU is significantly different in design to the last generation with advanced power technology as well as the latest features including support for PCI-Express 3.0, DirectX 11.1 and 4K displays as well as Stereoscopic 3D and surround gaming.

From Guru3D:

AMD recently released two new products, the Radeon HD 7850 and 7870.

These two new mid-range cards are going to shift the dynamics in the graphics arena alright, as the entire package including performance is really impressive for the 7800 series. So with AMD's 7700 series barely released we now see Pitcairn, AKA the 7800-Series. A product series that is to replace the 6800-series performance-wise, it is based on AMD's 28nm process and of course the latest Graphics Core Next GPU architecture.

From ArsTechnica:

Users will be able to connect Thunderbolt-equipped peripherals to remote hosts using optical cabling in 2012, Intel told IDG News Service on Monday. The company reaffirmed its commitment to get optical cabling on the market this year, which will allow much longer cable runs beyond the current three meter limit. This, in turn, will allow the technology to achieve higher transmission speeds in the future.

From Motherboards.org:

Today we are bringing to you a very interesting review on dual-graphics performance from the latest cards from ASUS and the latest AMD 28nm chipset 7770. Previous DIRECT CU cards have proven to be incredibly good performers for the price and these new cards from ASUS shouldn’t be any different. These cards feature their Direct CU thermal solution which has been very popular on all chipset cards. With that said let’s take a look at the basic features of these new cards from the chipset fabs of AMD and the engineeers of ASUS.

From Tech Radar:

Tutorial: Start your journey from beginner to Linux guru

It's that time of year again, when lots of people set resolutions for themselves, trying to break bad habits and form a few good ones.

From the Telegraph:

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