All ya Linux gamers, time to update your Steam for Linux client to the latest beta, which comes with quite a lot of good changes.
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Inside the Bitter YouTube Battle Between Microsoft and Google
The gloves are off: Microsoft and Google find themselves battling in more product areas than ever while fighting a very public war of words. The latest spat has led Google to block a Microsoft-developed YouTube app for Windows Phone, despite a promise to collaborate between the two companies. In the past, Microsoft has launched public campaigns directly against Google: there’s Gmail man, newspaper ads, Scroogled, and even an anti-Google Apps “Googlighting” campaign. Google’s moves are less public, with curiously timed product changes, methods intended to block Windows Phone users, and the occasional sniping comment from Larry Page or Eric Schmidt. Behind closed doors, both companies are forced to work together for the benefit of…
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Samsung Galaxy Gear Smartwatch Rumored for September 4th Unveiling
Bloomberg reports that Samsung’s long-rumored smartwatch is a “wristwatch-like smartphone” that will launch on September 4th. The news source specifically points to the Android-powered device being able to “make phone calls, surf the web, and handle emails.” As previously indicated by a trademark filing, Bloomberg expects the device to be named the Samsung Galaxy Gear.
The report implies that the device will operate independently of your smartphone, but it’s entirely possible that the site’s anonymous sources are in fact pointing to a companion device that will connect to your smartphone to place calls and access data services.The Samsung Galaxy Gear is expected to launch on September 4th at the company’s press event in Berlin.
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Interview: The Software Imperative for Supercomputing
In a newly posted interview, Cray’s Jay Gould describes how the supercomputing world has changed and why the company has nearly a 5:1 ratio of software engineers to hardware engineers.
You can’t just clock processors faster or add more cores and expect a supercomputer to go faster. What if the code is not performance optimized? What if the system SW is not built to recover from component or network failures? What if your off-the-shelf OS does not scale? Software in general, the programming environment, the operating system, the support tools and the actual code running the application are as critical to the success of a system just as the hardware and networking that they run on.
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Do Cloud Right: Four Critical Steps to Selecting the Provider for You
When Edward Snowden leaked intelligence files, a storm was triggered in the cloud, leaving a path of destruction. Snowden’s email provider Lavabit shut down. So has the email offering of Silent Circle. The Guardian ran a story declaring: Lavabit’s closure marks the death of secure cloud computing in the U.S. And the EU is not entirely unaffected either. Be it by the Tempora program in the UK or the U.S. National Security Agency facilities that reportedly reside in Germany.
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