Lenovo Super slim Thinkpad X300 video review
Lenovo Super slim Thinkpad X300 video review
A new technology from Japan makes the latest HD movies look simply archaic. Last week, engineers at NHK’s (Nippon Hoso Kyokai) Science and Technical Research Laboratories demonstrated Super Hi-Vision technology capable of a 7680×4320 resolution.
At a resolution of 7680×4320, over 33 million pixels make the image – a 16 times jump from the resolution of [...]
Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in a matter of hours.
Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result.
Eight-character passwords are used to protect PDF and Zip files as well as those produced by Microsoft Office.
The work to turn the PS3 into a [...]
All technologies are migrating onto “serial” instead of parallel, although parallel is about 10 times faster than serial data communication. Eg:
SATA over Parallel ATA [IDE]
The SCSI interface is also being transformed into serial.
What makes the parallel communication faster is that multiple bits are transmitted simultaneously, whereas bit by bit transmission occurs in serial.
The serial communication [...]
The multiple countries participating in the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which created the JPEG standard, have approved an effort to make Microsoft’s High Definition Photo format a standard called JPEG XR. XR stands for “extended range,” a reference to the format’s ability to show a wider and finer range of tonal gradations and a richer [...]
Sigbritt Löthberg, 75, Karlstad Sweden has a 40 gigabits per second connection ,which is the first time ever that a home user had such bandwidth to play with.
With a 40gbps line, about 1,500 high definition HDTV channels can be simultaneously delivered or a full high definition DVD can be downloaded in just two seconds !
This [...]