An Apple developer has shared plans to see LLVM 3.3 released in June of this year, following the month of May being dedicated to testing…
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DeviantArt brings Comic Book Publishing to the Community with Madefire partnership
“We’re trying to build tools that empower creators to do the next wave of storytelling,” says Ben Wolstenholme. Last year, his Madefire publishing platform was released to a select group of people from the comics industry (like Watchmen artist Dave Gibbons) with the idea of pushing the grammar of comic books forward. With new devices like Apple’s iPad, Madefire wanted to move digital comics from flat pages to something more dynamic, called Motion Books (video below), full of slick transitions, animation, and audio. Now, the company is teaming up with DeviantArt — the web’s biggest community for science fiction, fantasy, and comic book artists — and the pair are wagering that by putting the Madefire publishing tool in the hands…
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3Dmark for Android Separates Performance Champs from Chumps
With its latest version of 3DMark, Futuremark attempts to create a benchmark that allows for cross-platform comparisons between all tablets, smartphones, and PCs. [Read more]
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Former Windows Phone Evangelist Joins Amazon to Work on Something ‘Totally New’
Former Microsoft Windows Phone general manager, Charlie Kindel, looks set to return to his mobile roots, following the announcement that he has been hired by Amazon. Listing his his role as director of “something secret” on his LinkedIn profile, Kindel is wasting no time in his new role and is already courting mobile developers and testers, with the view to build “a new team going after a totally new area for Amazon.”
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Formula One is our April Fools Day, our Commitment to Openness and Innovation is Real.
Paris, the 2nd of April 2013. On the 1st of April, Mandriva S.A. Has released a short press release stating its intention to invest in the Formula One car racing industry, claiming it would build the next generation operating systems for cars. This was our way to celebrate April Fool’s Day, and we hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have. However, we would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to openness and innovation.
Since 2012, Mandriva has effectively repositioned its strategy and released new products that aim at the professional market. But we didn’t just do that for the sake of releasing new products. We have developed products (lien vers MBS) by listening to our customers and investing in innovation (lien vers Pulse). We have strengthened our commitment to openness and have stayed true to the community. Today and even more tomorrow, our results will speak by themselves: Mandriva is back.
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RCE Podcast Looks at Chapel, an Emerging Parallel Programming Language
In this RCE Podcast, hosts Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres discuss the Chapel parallel programming language with Brad Chamberlain and Sung-Eun Choi from Cray.
Chapel strives to vastly improve the programmability of large-scale parallel computers while matching or beating the performance and portability of current programming models like MPI.
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