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  • Google hit with $AUD200k defamation damages

    Ad giant's own witness confessed removing dodgy search results is easy

    An Australian man defamed by links on Google that associated his name with images of and articles about a criminal has been awarded $AUD200,000 damages. Melbourne man Michael Trkulja argued that searches on his name, which brought up references to criminal Tony Mokbel, constituted defamation. Trkulja asked for those …

    Law 12 Nov 02:54

  • Intel plans Core i7 bare bones mini-PCs

    'Guts of an ultrabook' inside 'Next Unit of Computing' machines

    Intel has launched the first unit in a range of bare bones mini-PCs it says will first appeal to system integrators creating digital signage solutions and then eventually excite businesses of almost any size. The new device is part of Chipzilla's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) range. Intel currently plans three NUC devices, each …

    Hardware 12 Nov 04:17

  • Tech support blog removes Toshiba manuals after legal letter

    Laptop-maker says service manuals contain proprietary info

    An Australian blogger whose site offers an archive of service manuals for laptop computers has complied with a request from Toshiba Australia's lawyers to remove the company's documentation from his site. Tim Hicks' Future Proof blog is the field service's engineer's personal project and aims, he told The Reg, to provide a …

    Law 12 Nov 04:30

  • India gets $25 Android tablet

    British Aakash 2 will reach millions of students, thanks to subsidies

    The long-awaited low cost Aakash 2 tablet from UK firm Datawind has finally been officially launched in India, complete with several new hardware enhancements which the government will be hoping helps spur student learning. The Aakash 2, which is commercially available as the UbiSlate 7Ci for Rs 3,500 ($US64), is costing the …

    Hardware 12 Nov 05:16

  • China's IP boss says West distorts piracy problem

    "We're really trying, and you're not helping"

    China’s IP boss has hit out at ‘unfair’ Western media reports criticising the country’s record on intellectual property rights and piracy, claiming that foreign tech companies wouldn’t build their kit in the PRC if the problem was as bad as it is portrayed to be. State Intellectual Property Office chief, Tian Lipu, admitted to …

    Law 12 Nov 05:31

  • TXT war hits India in time for Diwali holiday

    Airtel bans rivals' messages from its network after Spam attacks

    Indians preparing to celebrate the nation's most important holiday, Diwali, may have to do so without being able to text friends and family after an ugly TXT war erupted among Indian telcos. India's Economic Times reports that Bharti Airtel won't accept incoming TXTs from rival networks Aircel and Reliance Communciations, both …

    Networks 12 Nov 05:48

  • Quarter of Brits don't believe that cell towers improve phone reception

    Potty idea. My radio doesn't need towers everywhere

    Just over three-quarters of UK residents recognise that being near a base station improves one's mobile reception, which makes one wonder how the rest think cellular phones work. The numbers come from the Mobile Operators Association, which got YouGov to ask 2,500 people about mobile coverage and turned up that nugget along …

    Mobile 12 Nov 06:01

  • Judge: Your boss has no right to your emails held by a third party

    Unless you've signed something. And they can find it

    Staff emails can’t just be accessed by a company whenever it feels like it, a UK High Court Judge has ruled, in what could be a guiding case on email privacy. A marine transport company was trying to get access to the emails of a former chief executive, but Justice Edwards-Stuart ruled that the content of emails is not the …

    Law 12 Nov 06:26

  • iPhones now 'safe' for Restricted UK.gov info, but not Secret

    iOS 6 hasn't yet done the job on RIM

    UK government departments have a green light to use iPhones and other iOS 6 devices for handling sensitive emails. The move may encourage civil servants and ministers to toss their BlackBerries to the wind, provided they don't have to read anything that's more than mildly important. For years RIM's BlackBerry handsets were the …

    Security 12 Nov 07:01

  • Mini retail empire Micro Anvika implodes, one shop to be shopped

    Administrator sets about demolition of London landmark

    The administrator of Micro Anvika is continuing to trade the operation out of two stores on London's Tottenham Court Road - one of which will close within weeks - as it mulls over offers for the remnants of the retailer. Back in late September, management at the veteran retailer called in business advisory service and …

    The Channel 12 Nov 07:29

  • Hong Kong web host jailed for DDoS stunt

    Attempt to market anti-DDoS kit with DDoS attack on Stock Exchange backfires

    A Hong Kong IT business owner has been banged up for nine months after launching distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a Hong Kong Stock Exchange web site in a botched attempt to market his firm’s anti-DDoS service. Tse Man-lai, the 28-year-old owner of local web hoster Pacswitch Globe Telecom, was found guilty of …

    Security 12 Nov 07:32

  • Slideshow: A History of Intel x86 in 20 CPUs

    From 1971 to 2012, the chips that built the PC revolution

    Would there have been a PC revolution had Intel decided in the late 1960s to stick to making memory chips and turn its back on microprocessors? Almost certainly, but the company did get into CPUs and IBM chose its 8088 chip to build into its first Personal Computer, the 5150. The 8088 and its sibling, the 8086, evolved from the …

    Hardware 12 Nov 08:00

  • EU mobe warning system for imminent disasters won't work on iPhone

    Zombie attack? Don't worry, you'll be notified. Silently

    Europe is shuffling towards an international agreement on emergency alerts delivered to our mobile phones, but if current plans continue you might not ever know you received one. The idea is being discussed today at the European Emergency Number Association (EENA) with various industry and government reps in attendance, but …

    Mobile 12 Nov 08:27

  • Comet administrator Deloitte triggers ejector seats under 330 staff

    Hello, you're through to customer suppooooooooaaaa

    Comet administrator Deloitte has swung the axe for the first time since it was brought in to take control of operations with 330 support staff getting the chop. Biz advisory outfit Deloitte confirmed 99 staff at the Rickmansworth HQ, 53 from the operation in Hull and 42 in the call centre in Clevedon were told of their fate on …

    The Channel 12 Nov 08:54

  • One in four don't clean their stinky old browsers - especially Firefoxers

    Mens sana in browsere sano, says Kaspersky

    Nearly one in four netizens are using outdated web browsers and are therefore easy pickings for viruses and exploit-wielding crooks. The average home user upgrades his or her browser to the latest version one month after it is released, according to a survey of 10 million punters. Two thirds of those using old browser software …

    Security 12 Nov 09:19

  • When GiffGaff falls over, is it even news any more?

    Poll Or should we only report when it works for a bit

    Cut-price operator GiffGaff had another minor network outage last week, this time knocking out text messaging for some customers. Meanwhile, here in the Vulture Towers, debate raged as to whether this qualifies as news - given how often GiffGaff falls apart - so we thought we'd put it to a popular vote so you can tell us We …

    Mobile 12 Nov 09:40

  • How to spot a terrible tech boss within SECONDS

    Part 2 El Reg job expert Dom Connor returns with more top interview advice

    Having been an occasionally competent manager I know that nowhere in the spectrum from micromanagement to management-by-email suits everyone. In fact, you people don’t even know what sort of boss you want. Your imaginary “manager I like” is really just the opposite of your most hated real-life superior, but what's missing is …

    Jobs 12 Nov 10:01

  • Man, 19, cuffed after burning Remembrance poppy pic is Facebooked

    Mass roundup of 4chan users next? #poppycock

    A 19-year-old man from Aylesham, near Canterbury in Kent, was arrested last night after a picture of a burning poppy was reportedly posted on Facebook. The county's cops collared the teenager on suspicion of a committing an offence under the Malicious Communications Act. "Officers were contacted at around 4pm yesterday, …

    Law 12 Nov 10:13

  • Ofcom sets auction timetable: UK's 4G monopoly will end in June

    New kit going up now: Hope it works on the right freqs

    Ofcom has drafted the legislation to open up two 4G bands next year, with bidders required to register by 11 December, the auction in January and the awards in June. The regulator published its proposals for the auction in August, but this is the proposed legislation which will make that auction happen. The final rules don't …

    Mobile 12 Nov 10:38

  • Vendors must break code of silence on software's biggest FAILS

    Open ... and Shut Sick of marketing? Let the devs speak

    Developers love to complain about vendor infomercials at conferences and in press articles, and rightly so. No one wants to have marketing pitches shoved down their throats. They're boring and quite possibly counterproductive. And yet so much of our media revert to vendor content because developers, so determined not to be …

    Software 12 Nov 11:00

  • Surface sales 'modest' so far, Ballmer modestly admits

    Updated But that's not the story. Let's talk Intel fondletops!

    Sales of Microsoft’s Windows RT-based Surface tablet are off to a “modest” start according to chief executive Steve Ballmer. Ballmer is reported to have given the update to French news site Le Parisien. Microsoft’s chief executive also used the occasion to boost January’s release of the Intel-based tablets. Ballmer described …

    Hardware 12 Nov 11:15

  • BBC places news chief and her deputy beyond use in Savile row

    Latest DG leaps overboard from rudderless behemoth

    The BBC's director of news Helen Boaden and her deputy Steve Mitchell have "stepped aside" as the corporation investigates Newsnight's handling of a report on child sex abuse by BBC presenter Jimmy Savile. Boaden was paid £354,000 last year, and a fortnight ago took time out to fend off a freedom-of-information request at a …

    Media 12 Nov 11:29

  • European HP workers take IT giant to court over 'high handed' job cuts

    Staff reps aim to force bosses back to the table

    HP's European Works Council* is suing the firm and terminating its works council agreement with the global giant, claiming HP has obstructed the European consultation process over its mega redundancy programme. It now plans to negotiate a new agreement under more recent legislation. Globally around 27,000 29,000 HPers will …

    The Channel 12 Nov 11:44

  • Steady Antarctic ice growth 'limits confidence in climate predictions'

    Top NASA, Brit boffins probe baffling polar mystery

    Boffins from NASA and the British Antarctic Survey have teamed up to investigate one of the great mysteries of climate science: why it is that the extent of sea ice around the south pole has actually increased steadily over the years. As the scientists note in their new paper, while the increase is not as big as the decreases …

    Science 12 Nov 11:47

  • Liberator: the untold story of the first British laptop part 1

    Feature Taking over the typing pool

    In 1985, the UK home computer boom was over. Those computer manufacturers who had survived the sales wasteland that was Christmas 1984 quickly began to turn their attention away from the home users they had courted through the first half of the 1980s to the growing and potentially much more lucrative business market. The IBM …

    Vintage 12 Nov 12:01

  • Unexpected curiosity cripples Molyneux app

    Curiosity's server gives out

    Veteran British games developer Peter Molyneux's latest mobile game, Curiosity, has been dogged by issues after an unexpected million or so downloads led to server overload. The development studio 22 Cans has appealed for fan donations to improve the service. Curiosity - launched last week - is Molyneux's social experiment in …

    Media 12 Nov 12:10

  • Star Wars VII: The Disney Movie signs Toy Story III script genius

    Did we really write that? Must be true then

    Disney's newest, shiniest cash-cow, Star Wars VII, has picked up a writer in the shape of Little Miss Sunshine director Michael Arndt. The Hunger Games II scribe, who has also recently co-written a sci-fi movie for Tom Cruise, has apparently been working on a "treatment" for the movie for a couple of months, The Hollywood …

    Media 12 Nov 12:17

  • English Defence League website 'defaced, pwned' by hacktivists

    'Lists of supporters and donors to be public soon'

    Hacktivists claim to have hacked and defaced the website of the far-right group English Defence League. The englishdefenceleague.org site remains unreachable on Monday morning following a claimed assault by ZHC (ZCompany Hacking Crew). The Pakistani hacking crew claims to have gained access to Gmail accounts owned by EDL …

    Security 12 Nov 12:38

  • Elemental origins glimpsed in 12 beellion year old supernova

    Astronomers zero in on primal matter factories

    Scientists have found the remnants of two supernovae that appear to have occurred in the universe’s infancy, shedding new light (pardon the pun) on reality’s formative years and the origins of matter. The two stellar explosions are only visible because the stars involved were giants. One, the romantically-named SN 2213-1745, …

    Science 12 Nov 13:02

  • Goatse.cx opens up again - as an email provider

    SFW Want absolutely NO ONE to read your mail?

    Notorious shock site of a bygone internet Goatse.cx has pulled opened its doors as an email provider. An Aussie IT consultant, who paid $10,200 for Goatse, will attempt to recoup his costs by selling email addresses using the domain: anyone interested in one can bag an @goatse.cx addy provided they can stretch to $5 a year. …

    Bootnotes 12 Nov 13:22

  • Take action on climate change OR THE PANDA GETS IT

    Cuddly bamboo-scoffing bears under threat

    Giant pandas could starve to death as climate change wreaks havoc on their only food source, bamboo. Better eat that bamboo, might not be around next century. Credit: MSU Everyone's favourite kind of bear is already living in shrinking habitats as human encroachment narrows their living space, but now people can endanger …

    Science 12 Nov 13:38

  • 'Perfect' INVISIBLE SHED stuns boffinry world

    Not a cloak. Not strictly invisible either, at that

    Invisibility cloaks - or, more correctly, sheds - inched a little closer to reality this week with the revelation that scientists have made an object flawlessly invisible. Previous attempts to make objects invisible had succeeded in bending light around their edges, but left a dark shadow behind the object because of some …

    Science 12 Nov 13:56

  • Samsung turns screws on Apple, hikes A6 processor price 20%

    Advantage of being a company that actually makes stuff

    Samsung has hiked the price of processors used in Apple's iDevices by 20 per cent and the fruity firm has had to suck it up, Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo said. A source told the paper that Samsung said it wanted more moolah for its application processors and Apple has had to accept this because no one else can fulfil the …

    Hardware 12 Nov 14:17

  • Nvidia launches not one but two Kepler2 GPU coprocessors

    SC12 Uncloaks Tesla K20, K20X extreme oomphers for servers, workstations

    The wait for the "Kepler2" GPU coprocessors based on the company's GK100 GPUs is over. That's the good news. The bad news is that you may have to hurt someone – or call in a favor at Nvidia – to get your hands on one, because so many people are going to be looking for one to goose their number-crunching. And you'll have to get …

    HPC 12 Nov 14:39

  • RIM sets date for BlackBerry 10 reveal

    New models on show too

    Research in Motion has finally set an official launch date for BlackBerry 10. The full reveal will take place at event to be held on 30 January 2013. The much-hyped BlackBerry 10 platform will be announced "simultaneously in multiple countries across the world", the company says in its BlackBerry blog. While we have yet to …

    Mobile 12 Nov 14:49

  • Coders grill Herb Sutter on future of C++ at Microsoft

    Sorry about the .NET thing, chaps

    "The world is built on C++ and so is Microsoft," proclaimed Herb Sutter at Microsoft's Build conference last week in Seattle, Washington. Sutter is chair of the ISO C++ standards committee and Microsoft's Visual C++ language architect. Native code is currently ascendant inside his company, with C++ prominent in SDKs for …

    Developer 12 Nov 15:01

  • Google to refund some pre-price drop Nexus 7 buyers

    Two-week window opened

    Google, like Asus, will compensate folk who purchased a Nexus 7 just before it reduced the tablet's price, on 29 October. Unfortunately, the price protection promise only applies to owners who splashed out on or after 14 October, as Google's offer only covers the 15 days before a price cut. Only the 16GB version is covered, …

    Hardware 12 Nov 15:06

  • Accelerators tag team in Top500 supercomputer CPU smackdown

    SC12 Titan cuts down Sequoia with Tesla K20X GPUs

    This fall's Top500 supercomputer sites ranking continues the smackdown between massively parallel supercomputers based on CPUs and somewhat less-massive machines using a mix of CPUs and accelerators. In this round, the hybrid ceepie-geepies, which mix CPUs and GPU coprocessors, have the CPU-only boxes on the ropes – and the …

    HPC 12 Nov 15:19

  • UK's planned copyright landgrab will spark US litigation 'firestorm'

    Exclusive Sneak peep inside photographers' letter to Minister

    The UK faces a "firestorm" of international litigation if the government's copyright land-grab goes ahead, American artists and photographers have warned. In a letter to business minister Vince Cable seen by The Register, six groups representing US photographers and graphic artists say proposals in the Business and Enterprise …

    Media 12 Nov 15:39

  • Microsoft rolls out always-on Skype for Windows Phone 8

    Yet another way to let people contact you ALL THE TIME

    Microsoft has dropped Skype for Windows Phone 8 into its app store, the pocket-sized version of its desktop counterpart. Once you've sorted out your account, you'll be able to see which of your friends have Skype and then make a Skype call, regular call, text, email or Facebook from the "People Hub". The People Hub in Windows …

    Mobile 12 Nov 15:57

  • What a clockup! Apple's Swiss clock knock-off clocks up $21m fine

    Swiss railways laughing all the way to the Swiss bank

    Apple has paid 20m Swiss francs (£13m, $21m) to Switzerland's national railway operator, which holds the rights to the distinctive clock-face design used in the new iPad. Last month Apple agreed to shell out for a licence, but the multi-million-dollar cost only emerged yesterday in a report by Swiss paper Tages-Anzeiger. The …

    Law 12 Nov 16:29

  • Blizzard blasts 'frivolous' security lawsuit

    Account Authenticator charge unfair, claims gamer

    World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has said claims made in a lawsuit which alleges it engaged in "deceptive and unfair" business practices are entirely "without merit". The lawsuit, filed by gamer Benjamin Bell in the US, insists Blizzard is forcing online players of Diablo III, Starcraft and World of Warcraft to pay $6.40/£ …

    Games 12 Nov 16:34

  • Vulture bags Storagebod, downloads his data centre

    Corporate adventures in media-land for Reg readers' pleasure

    El Reg storage desk will be running excerpts from Martin Glassborow's Storagebod blog and is pleased as punch to do so. Martin has built up an enviable reputation as one of the foremost storage bloggers because of his position working to implement a large scale media archive for a multi-media company, and his ability to touch …

    Storage 12 Nov 17:17

  • Did hackers uncover Petraeus' saucy affair webmails before FBI?

    Biographer minx previously exposed in Stratfor caper

    FBI agents may not have been the first to rumble the affair between CIA director David Petraeus and his biographer that led to the four-star general's resignation on Friday. Anyone with a copy of the leaked Stratfor databases, a half-decent PC, some political nous and a barrel of luck could have uncovered the fling months ago …

    Security 12 Nov 17:24

  • Mellanox stretches InfiniBand across campuses, metro areas

    SC12 Adds baby FDR switch, grafts Layer 3 onto Ethernet switches

    With InfiniBand on the march, taking market share away from Ethernet in the upper echelons of the supercomputer racket, Mellanox Technology could sit back and enjoy itself a little. But instead, the company is tweaking its InfiniBand lineup to make its switches and adapters more appealing and to keep InfiniBand rolling. The …

    HPC 12 Nov 17:41

  • Hey, start-ups: Why do you only cater to storage SIZE QUEENS?

    StorageBod Blog We shouldn't assume that object-stores should be large

    One of the most impressive demonstrations I saw at SNW Europe was from the guys at Amplidata. On their stand, they had a tiny implementation of Amplistor with the back-end storage being USB memory sticks. This enabled a quick and effective demonstration of their erasure encoding protect and the different protection levels on …

    Storage 12 Nov 18:06

  • AWS lands in Sydney, at a price

    Local support office coming in 2013, perhaps to explain 'cloud tax'

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) has confirmed that it now offers cloud services from data centres in Australia, albeit at higher prices than it charges in all but two of its other regions. Australians often find global vendors charge more on their shores than they do elsewhere, a practice that has come to be known as "[Insert vendor …

    Cloud 12 Nov 19:07

  • Kim Dotcom's Mega pops up AGAIN, now in New Zealand

    Kiwi-hosted site to be 'powered by legality'

    Embattled internet tycoon Kim Dotcom has emerged with yet another a new domain for the promised revival of his Megaupload file-sharing site, this time located in his adopted home nation of New Zealand. Much like its earlier incarnation at www.me.ga, the new website at mega.co.nz is essentially just an advertisement for the …

    Hosting 12 Nov 20:08

  • Report: McAfee founder wanted for murder in Belize

    Police seek eccentric millionaire after Luger head-shot

    John McAfee, the founder of the antivirus software firm that still bears his name, is wanted in Belize in connection with the murder of American expatriate Gregory Faull, who was found dead on Sunday. Marco Vidal, head of the country's Gang Suppression Unit, told Gizmodo that McAfee was a prime suspect in the case. Faull, who …

    Law 12 Nov 20:10

  • Intel uncloaks 'highest performance' desktop processor

    Updated Overclockable on new 'Stormville' motherboard – if you dare

    Intel has released what it calls its "highest performance Extreme Edition processor," along with a new "Extreme Series Intel Desktop Board" into which to plop it. "Unlock and Unleash with Extreme Confidence," the company says in its announcement of the new enthusiast products, which include a "full complement of controls …

    Hardware 12 Nov 20:23

  • CSIRO scales 50 Mbps wireless broadband to 16 nodes

    Top wireless boffin too diplomatic to recommend for NBN

    Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has revealed that new trials of its Ngara wireless broadband system have scaled a single base station from six to 16 users. Speaking at the Physics in Industry Day hosted by the Australian Institute of Physics, Dr Iain Collings, Research Director …

    Networks 12 Nov 20:45

  • Acer lowballs on price with Celeron-powered C7 Chromebook

    Google finally breaks sub-$200 price point

    Google has added a third laptop to its current Chrome OS range with the Acer C7, a budget Chromebook that will sell for under $200 in the US from Tuesday and will arrive in the UK shortly. The C7 is a three pound laptop with an 11.6-inch, 1366x768 screen powered by a 1.10GHz Intel Celeron 847 processor with 2MB L3 cache and …

    Hardware 12 Nov 21:42

  • Intel Xeon Phi battles GPUs, defends x86 in supercomputers

    SC12 A hoard of wimpy Pentium cores do the math for brawny Xeons

    Intel's Xeon Phi might have started out with the goal of creating an x86-based graphics engine, but it ended up defending the x86 architecture's hegemony in high-performance computing against the onslaught of GPU coprocessors from Nvidia and AMD. However, it ends up being a battle among GPUs anyway – but in a different market …

    HPC 12 Nov 22:04

  • Ninefold fires back at AWS with US launch

    Minnow versus whale

    With Amazon’s worst-kept-secret finally becoming a live service in Australia, upstart provider Ninefold has announced the launch of its first presence in America. The Macquarie Telecom subsidiary has created a US “availability zone” in an unnamed California facility, saying that the move is in response to customer demand to …

    Cloud 12 Nov 22:07

  • New report warns of SCADA CYBERGEDDON*

    *In the worst case.

    The industrial control system fright machine is getting another kick along today, via a survey by Russian vendor Positive Technologies. The company’s study makes some startling claims: 40 percent of SCADA systems “available from the Internet” can be easily hacked, half of the vulnerabilities the company found allow the …

    Security 12 Nov 23:00

  • Want to improve your software testing? Automate the tools, love-up the developers

    Test early, test often

    We all know the traditional problem with software testing: it happens too late, and often in a rush, as users badger developers for delivery. If a software project runs over deadline, the chances are that the testing will suffer. Agile development helps to solve that problem, but automating the testing is a critical part of …

    ALM 12 Nov 23:00

  • Oracle: Get your Red Hat Linux patches from us, it's easier

    New service lets public browse kernel fixes

    In the latest episode in its ongoing pissing match with leading Linux vendor Red Hat, Oracle has set up a new service that allows Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) customers to more easily browse the source code of changes Red Hat has made to its version of the Linux kernel. Called RedPatch, the new service is a Git repository …

    Operating Systems 12 Nov 23:02

  • 'iPhone 5S' said to begin trial production next month

    Not a tasty enough rumor? Well, how about an Apple 'iTV' before mid-year?

    This December, Apple's Asian product assemblers will begin the first trial-production batch of its next version of the iPhone, said to be dubbed the iPhone 5S, in preparation for large-scale shipments (大舉出貨) to begin in the first quarter of next year. This news rumor comes via the Chinese-language Commercial Times in an …

    Hardware 12 Nov 23:17

  • Supersymmetry takes an arrow to the knee

    Hiding places get narrower

    Supersymmetry isn’t quite dead yet, but the latest results out of the Large Hadron Collider are giving it some trouble. A theory that’s been around since the 1960s, supersymmetry proposes that all fermions (the fundamental particles of matter) have corresponding bosons (the carriers of basic forces). At the moment, including …

    Science 12 Nov 23:28

  • AMD fires off crazy-fast FirePro double-whammy GPU card

    SC12 Aimed at servers and heavy-duty workstations

    AMD, a company that knows a thing or two about building powerful graphics processors, has whipped out a card that has more flops than either Nvidia's K20 high-end GPUs or Intel's x86-based Xeon Phi coprocessors. That's one sure way to cut through all the noise that Nvidia and Intel are making about their just-released …

    HPC 12 Nov 23:55