YouTube ofrece vídeos en 3D.
El Pais.com 20090730
Películas como UP y Ice Age 3 están haciendo cada vez más normal ir al cine con gafas de cristales de dos colores. Este tipo de películas son fruto de una estrategia que pretende hacer el cine todavía más espectacular y poner freno a la piratería dando por hecho que este tipo de experiencias no se pueden dar en casa tan fácilmente, al menos por ahora. YouTube ha dado un paso en este sentido. Desde hoy permite ver vídeos en 3D en su web, incrustarlos y también subirlos a la plataforma. Como el servicio resulta de lo m ...
What Size External Drive?.
PC World.com 20090729
Carperl asked the Answer Line forum what size external hard drive he should buy for backup. When people talk about the size of a hard drive, they generally mean its capacity--how many gigabytes of data it holds. But you should also consider its literal, physical size. External hard drives come in two basic sizes: portable and desktop. Portable drives are light, generally the size of a small whiskey flask, and can be powered by the computers USB port. Desktop drives are larger, inconvenient to carry, and need separate AC power. On the other hand, desktop drives tend to be faster, hold more data, and cost less by the gigabyte if not by the drive. For instance, as I write this, $100 can buy you a 500GB portable drive or a 1TB desktop one. If you want to take the drive with you on the road, go for a portable. If you want to back up massive amounts of hi-def video, youll want a deskto ...
Un robot que aprende, el mejor pinche de cocina.
Ibl News.com 20090731
Olvídese de la Termomix, el nuevo robot de cocina ya está aquí y no viene con libro de instrucciones, por que es usted quien le enseña al Chief Cook lo que quiere que haga. Durante toda esta semana, éste y otros robots - como el Nao, que baila como Michael Jackson y que inauguró la Campus Party el pasado lunes por la noche - estarán en la Zona Pública de la Campus Party, una cita de conferencias, juegos y presentaciones tecnológicas que se celebra esta semana en la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias de Valencia. Cuando está apagado, Chief Cook descansa sentado. Al encenderse se levanta, saluda y pregunta amablemente qué tiene que hacer. Entonces, se le muestra un símbolo en un plato que reconoce visualmente como huevos. Oh, huevos. ¿Quiere que te prepare algo con huevos?, se ofrece. Después de decirle que sí, gracias, o apretar un botón en un mando, no hay más que moverle el brazo para indicarle cómo queremos que bata los huevos. Con sólo dos demostraciones, explicó el jueves a Reuters Sylvain Calinon, creador del Chief Cook, ya entiende lo que tiene que hacer. Efectivamente, el robot repitió el movimiento batidor en mano, siguiendo el cuenco cuando su creador se lo iba cambiando de sitio. Poco después llegó el más difícil todavía; cortar sobre una tabla armado con un cuchillo en su mano cibernética. Y de nuevo, el ...
Murdoch cobrará por contenidos en sus páginas web.
Europa Press.es 20090806
MADRID, 6 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) - El magnate de los medios de comunicación y propietario de News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, cobrará por acceder a los contenidos de las páginas web de su grupo a partir del próximo verano, según explicó tras presentar los resultados del último trimestre fiscal. Así, Murdoch se manifestó el miércoles a favor de reorganizar el sector de la prensa mediante la introducción de tarifas de acceso a todos sus sitios web de noticias. En este sentido, llegó a declarar que la era de la libertad para todos en las noticias on-line había terminado. No obstante aseguró que competirá con el resto de digitales lo que hará, a su entender, a sus contenidos mejores y diferentes. El periodismo de calidad no es barato, afirmó Murdoch, según recoge el diario británico The Guardian. La revolución digital ha abierto nuevos canales de distribución y de b ...
Intel Announces More Efficient, Much Cheaper Solid-State Drives.
PC World.com 20090729
Intel made a splash when it launched its first solid-state drive (SSD) last year: Its models delivered the best performance wed seen on SSD to that point. The company today announces its second-generation drive, the Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drive (SSD). This new 2. 5-inch drive, available in the same capacities as before -- 80GB and 160GB -- uses smaller and less expensive 34nm NAND multilevel-cell flash memory, which translates into big cost savings for consumers. The previous X25-M used 50nm flash circuits. Intel says the new iteration has improved on some aspects of performance, with up to a 25 percent reduction in latency (which translates into greater speed for accessing data); Intel says a standard hard drives latency spec would be at 4000 microseconds, while the new X25-M carries a rating of just 65 microseconds. The new drive also has faster random-write input/output operations per second (IOPS) compared with the first-generation model: Its up to two-and-half-times as fast for the 160GB model, and two times as fast for the 80GB. Intel says the 80GB model can deliver up to 6600 4KB write IOPS performance, while the 160GB model can achieve 8600 IOPS. The drives also feature a similar boos ...
Half a Terabyte on 2. 5 Inches: Nine Hard Disk Drives Roundup.
Xbit Laboratories.com 20090806
Half a year ago we welcomed early 2. 5-inch hard disk drives with a capacity of 500 gigabytes and now every manufacturer offers such products. A delay with the introduction of a new series would allow the opponents to rake in all the profits. It is in human nature to be always asking for more. 320GB HDDs had seemed just fine in terms of speed and capacity but as soon as there appeared larger-capacity products, their higher recording density also bringing a promise of a performance growth, the previous favorites were abandoned. The recording density per platter grew up from 160 to 250 gigabytes, allowing the manufacturers to reach the beautiful round number of 500 gigabytes. Coupled with the considerable reduction in price (such HDDs cost about $100 in retail now), this has made the new models highly popular. People use them to increase the amount of disk space in their notebooks, to modernize or assemble a super-compact home PC, in mobile enclosures, in blade servers, in NASes with 2. 5-inch bays, etc. To cut it short, the new 2. 5-inch HDDs have caught the spotlight. And we are lucky to have as many as nine such HDDs in our hands: one 5400rpm 250GB-platter model from each of the six makers, two early models based on three platters, and one 7200rpm model with two platters. Its time to write a review!Testing ParticipantsFujitsu MJA2 BH: MJA2500BHThere is a high chance that this HDD, hardly different from its opponents in anything, will be the last 2. 5-inch hard disk drive from Fujitsu. End of the winter Fujitsu decided to leave the HDD market and took appropriate measures. The company sold its HDD development and production division to Toshiba. It stopped its HDD head production facilities while its platter producing factories and patents were handed over to Showa Denco. Thus, there are currently only five HDD makers left. It is the same story as with Maxto ...
1TB SSD Drive Coming Soon, for a Price.
PC World.com 20090806
Memory maker OCZ has confirmed it will launch a new 1TB Solid State Drive (SSD) that will fit 3. 5-inch drive slots later this month. Various gadget sites have been reporting on the rumors of the launch, and now the company confirmed that the 1TB Colossus SSD drive will be available in mid-August. Also confirmed: the drive will cost a whopping $2200. Unveiled last month at the Computex expo in Taipei, OCZs 1TB Colossus SSD drive is indeed colossal. The drive weighs 14 ounces, but is compact enough to fit into a standard 3. 5-inch drive bay. Laptop users will have to wait for a smaller version, though. OCZs Colossus drive doesnt come cheap either. With a $2200 price tag attached, the 1TB SSD drive claims read speeds of up to 250MB/s and write speeds of 220MB/ ...
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