Start-up PeakStream has released beta software to let Windows programmers write programs that tap into the power of muliticore processors and graphics chips. The company already had released Linux-based software in September.
The company's products are geared chiefly for the high-performance computing market, which has an insatiable appetite for processing power. Using the graphics chip to boost conventional chips is becoming more feasible as graphics chips become more programmable, get more dedicated memory and become more tightly integrated with the central processor.
Google creates an animated doodle that features a boy, a girl, Google's search engine, and a jump rope. But might there be darker, more analytical, more troubling interpretations to this tale?
When the sun goes down, that's when the iPad gets busy for folks with news readers. The iPhone? It's more of a daytime habit. If you're building an app for both devices, heed the lesson.
Chamtech's spray-on antenna uses a nano material to provide a low-power boost to antenna range. The wireless-in-a-can product may some day bring an end to unsightly cell towers.
EnerG2 opens a plant to make an engineered carbon that will improve performance of energy storage devices and make storage for start-stop hybrid cars less expensive.
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