TDJ: Astro Gaming A40 Headset and MixAmp 5.8

Our fellow Cowcotland recently posted a review of the helmets and the A40 amp MixAmp 5.8 of manufacturer Astro Gaming. Design, finish, sound quality, ease of use or contents of the bundle: what to expect from such a kit displayed at about 280 euros?

• Astros Tempering Pursuit Of Nationals' Flores (11/03/2011)
• Small change: Astros make minor fixes to offense (11/03/2011)
• These are just a few of their quirkiest things (06/03/2011)
• Houston Astros: 8 Biggest Surprises About the Astros So Far (10/03/2011)
• Harper has eventful three innings vs. Astros (11/03/2011)

Multi-GPU: Radeon 6950> GeForce GTX 570

You thought the GeForce GTX 570 than the Radeon HD 69502 Gb? Base is indeed the case, with variable advance following the games. The situation is different with 2 then 3 graphics cards ...

• MSI offers up new R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition video card (09/03/2011)
• NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti unveiled: up to 46% faster than Radeon HD 6950 (25/01/2011)
• Beastly NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 release dated (09/03/2011)
• AMD launches Radeon HD 6990 powerhouse for $699, maintains 'world's fastest' title (08/03/2011)
• AMD Radeon HD 6970, 6950 benchmarks: Good, but can't beat Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 (16/12/2010)

GeForce 200 Series (wikipedia)  Graphics processing unit (wikipedia)  Scalable Parallel Programming with CUDA on Manycore GPUs (youtube)  

An LCD powered by ambient light

Samsung showed a display using ambient light as the power source. It has the characteristic of low power consumption and be more interesting than the old model transparent presented by the firm. Samsung at CES were disappointed with a 19-inch AMOLED transparent QHD resolution (see "An AMOLED screen 19-inch 4k and transparent by Samsung).

The new model that has made an appearance at CeBIT used a VA LCD panel but the resolution was much higher since it speaks of 1920 x 1080. Nevertheless, the main advantage of this screen and it is not transparent enough to ask for a low backlight brightness, which allows him to be powered by ambient light through a solar panel.

The iPhone also Pwn2Own 4 falls, but not iOS 4.3

On the second day of competition Pwn2Own, experts have managed to topple the iPhone 4 and a BlackBerry. However, IOS 4.3 already prevents this attack. Charlie Muller, already known to have penetrated the iPhone 2G and 3G, took advantage of a security flaw in the system to access data from the device and take control.

iOS 4.3 does not fix the flaw, but adds an extra layer of protection that is blocking the attack passed by Safari and requested the establishment of a malicious site. Indeed, the latest update brings the ASLR or the random distribution of the address space. Specifically, the data are randomly placed in the address space of virtual memory.

A standard for 3D glasses

The CEA (Consumer Electronics Association) will attempt to standardize shutter glasses in order to facilitate the democratization of 3D stereoscopic displays. Televisions with a depth effect today require the use of shutter glasses that will synchronize the image with the user's eyes so he could enjoy the stereo.

Now we have reached an absurd situation. Indeed, the technologies are very similar if not identical, between the manufacturers who make unnecessary changes to ensure that only their glasses are compatible with their systems. Specifically, they want you to buy their product. An example of this is that it is possible to wear the 3D glasses Panasonic backwards to make them compatible with Samsung TV (see "From the absurdity of active 3D glasses).

A SDHC to 95 MB / s Panasonic

The manufacturer Panasonic has announced the arrival on the market SDHC "Gold Series", capable of reaching speeds of 95 MB / s read and 80MB / s write. According to specifications SD memory card 3.01, these SDHC cards UHS-I are offered in capacities of 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB of course they should be enjoyed by amateur photographers and filmmakers equipped with compatible hardware.

Expected for the next month, these different memory cards are unfortunately not yet prices.

• Panasonic puts a price (or four) on its 2011 Lumix point-and-shoot lineup (09/03/2011)
• Bizpad: Panasonic Announces Windows CE Tablet (28/02/2011)
• Review: Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH2 camera (10/03/2011)
• Parent to absorb Panasonic units (02/03/2011)
• Panasonic HDC-TM25 Specifications (20/01/2011)

Secure Digital (wikipedia)  Panasonic (homepage)  NYSE: PC (googlefinance)  Panasonic (crunchbase)  Panasonic Corporation (wikipedia)  

France will block the lnternet without the approval of the judge

The decision of the Constitutional Council on the law Loppsi 2 has just been released and while many important articles were censored, the measure for filtering pornography sites without the approval of the judge was upheld. The Sages have maintained article 4 of the Act which provides that the need to fight against pedophilia on the Internet can cause blocking of websites, but necessary move before a judge.