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Wearables offer hazy hope for mobile chip growth
2014-05-01 13:42:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Wearables could become the next big growth market for mobile devices, but they'll have to get more useful and less expensive first. That's how things look to Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at The Linley Group, which is hosting a conference on mobile processors this week in Silicon Valley. Smartphones and tablets have stopped feeding the kind of chip growth they used to, and new devices like fitness trackers and smartwatches aren't soaring yet, he said.
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Fires create a hazy future for Indonesia's carbon emissions targets
2014-02-10 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Forest fires that ravaged parts of Indonesia in mid-2013 and caused regional tensions have made it harder for the government to meet its goals for reducing carbon emissions, according to a report by climate scientists -- and experts and activists are warning that further fires are likely without better government regulation of land clearance in forest and peatland areas. Indonesia made international headlines last year after massive fires in forest and peatland areas in Riau province on Sumatra...
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AMDs 2014 roadmap: A hazy future for desktop x86 chips as AMD doubles down on ARM
2013-11-19 13:30:14| Extremetech
AMD has released a new series of roadmaps covering its product introductions for 2014. The results are mixed, with some areas seeing major updates, while others will hold to 2012-era products.
Death tolls from summer heat waves are hazy
2013-08-17 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: Hot weather can be deadly, but a summer's full toll often isn't known until after fall has arrived. When a heat wave strikesas it has this summer in the U.S., Europe and Chinadeath rates rise. But heat's role usually isn't readily apparent. Instead, its victims die of underlying conditions, usually of the heart or lungs, that needed the extra ingredient of heat to become fatal. Moreover, those who succumb to heat often die alone and aren't discovered until after their bodies have cooled. So heat's...
Used games are here to stay with Xbox One but details hazy
2013-05-21 22:57:57| CNET News.com
Xbox One users must install games on the console's hard drive, which means a disc can't be easily sold or shared. But Microsoft says it will support secondhand games. [Read more]