The Nobel Prize in Physics was won in 2010 by Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov for work with graphene. That work has expanded and is highlighted in a Focus Forward Film, a series of short films presenting big ideas that could change the world. GE is behind the series and the winners were announced at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. The grand prize was $100,000 with 2nd-5th … [Read more...]
Nvidia announces the GeForce GTX Titan
Earlier this week, Nvidia unveiled the GeForce GTX Titan. It weilds 2,688 CUDA cores for 4.5 teraflops of processing power. It uses a 384-bit interface for memory at 6 Gigabits for 288 Gigabytes per second memory bandwidth. The card gets its name from the Titan supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. It was mostly funded by the US Department of … [Read more...]
Product review: O2 Hurricane canless air system
Canned air is a staple for the computer technician's toolbag. Dusty computers are all too commonplace and can be pretty disgusting. With a few blasts of canned air, you can have the PC cleaned out very quickly and from hard to reach spots like the fins of a heatsink. For all of its familiarity, uses, and usefulness, canned air has a lot of negatives. It can be costly at ~$4 a … [Read more...]
Create a QR Code to share your WiFi settings
With another holiday weekend upon us, perhaps you would like to give your visitors easy access to your WiFi. Instead of having to repeat your SSID, the authentication type, and the password for each person, you could write it down. Even with it written down, you're not saving them any keystrokes, plus you have the possible typo or misinterpretation of zeros or capital 'O' or … [Read more...]
What the heck is a clean remote?
In a recent stay in a hotel, my room was stocked with a "Clean Remote". I can't recall ever hearing about such a device before. The television remote was pretty bare bones but worked well enough. It sat in a little cardboard stand which boasted on its sides about how clean the remote was to sanitize. It was specially designed to be easy to clean and the hotel was taking your … [Read more...]