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Calxeda benchmarks claim that its server chips are 15 times more power efficient than Intel's Jun 21st 2012, 10:57 Calxeda may have been given the bum's rush by HP's Project Moonshot, but the company isn't taking it lying down. It's released benchmarks for its ARM-based server technology that claims it's 15 times more power-efficient than the comparable Intel Xeon. Rigging up a 1.1GHz Energycore ECX-1000 with 4GB RAM against a 3.3GHz Xeon E3-1240, the former consumed only 5.26 W compared to the 102 W of Intel's high-spec chip. While it certainly wasn't faster, power efficiency is a key concern for data centers looking to keep costs down, and if the trend continues, Santa Clara will come to regret AMD's recently announced love-in. Calxeda benchmarks claim that its server chips are 15 times more power efficient than Intel's originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:57:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Phoronix  |  Calxeda (Arm Servers)  | Email this | Comments Sony suspends PlayStation Store for PS3 in Korea, blames new law about selling to minors Jun 21st 2012, 10:34 Sony has been caught unawares by a legal change in South Korea, which prevents under-18s from being asked for their names or ages for the purpose of account authentication. No sooner had the company announced a half-price sale at its PS Store and then it was forced to pull the whole thing down in order re-work the interface and make it compliant. It's expecting to reopen it sometime "this year," but in the meantime the Store is strangely still accessible to PSP and Vita users of any age, while multiplayer and other PSN functions will continue to run on PS3. There must be a lawyer somewhere for whom this all makes complete sense, and hopefully they work for Facebook. Sony suspends PlayStation Store for PS3 in Korea, blames new law about selling to minors originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Joystiq, Gamasutra  |  SCEK  | Email this | Comments Screen Grabs: Continuum scrubs the Acer off an Iconia W500 Jun 21st 2012, 10:09 Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screengrabs at engadget dot com. TV producers always think they can sneak a fast one by us and our eagle-eyed readers. Little do they realize that together we are a near unstoppable force, capable of spotting, identifying and mocking nearly every use (and misuse) of tech on TV. A tipster caught this un-branded tablet on a recent episode of Continuum and, after a little bit of sleuthing, we were able to identify it as the Iconia Tab W500. Without the company's branding it was a little tough to pick out exactly what this slate was, but the off-center placement of the Windows logo and unique looking webcam gave its identity away. Sorry Canadian television, you'll have to try harder to sneak a device by us. [Thanks, Reece] Screen Grabs: Continuum scrubs the Acer off an Iconia W500 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 06:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments BBQ Guru releases the CyberQ remote temperature control, lets you fry those steaks from a distance Jun 21st 2012, 09:37 Fire. Meat. Beer. The recipe for a barbecue has barely changed since the start of recorded time, but that doesn't mean technology can't get in on the party. BBQ Guru has released the CyberQ WiFi, a wirelessly enabled temperature control that lets you fiddle with your griddle using a mobile device. You can relinquish your spot in charge of the fire but still control how rare your steak will come out (when someone else goes and gets it). Even better, if you nod off during the Superbowl, it'll send you an email alert thanks to its built-in web server. It'll install onto most standard grill / smoker types and will set you back $295 with an additional fan and grill adapter and is available from today. Continue reading BBQ Guru releases the CyberQ remote temperature control, lets you fry those steaks from a distance BBQ Guru releases the CyberQ remote temperature control, lets you fry those steaks from a distance originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments ESA team builds self-piloting rover in six months, tests it in Chilean desert Jun 21st 2012, 09:09 Chile's Atacama Desert might not be true Martian territory, but it's close enough for the European Space Agency's new rover. Built by a crack engineering team in just six months, the Seeker rover was created to autonomously roam 6 km of Mars-like terrain and trace its way back. The Seeker just wrapped up a two week gauntlet in the Chilean wasteland using ol' fashioned dead reckoning and stereoscopic vision to find its way, compiling a 3D map of its surroundings as it puttered along. The full-scale rover wandered the arid terrain on its lonesome until temperatures forced it to stop after trekking 5.1 km. The red planet won't welcome an ESA rover until 2018, but those jonesin' for news from Martian soil should keep their eyes peeled for Curiosity's August touchdown. ESA team builds self-piloting rover in six months, tests it in Chilean desert originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 21 Jun 2012 05:09:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink Gizmag  |  European Space Agency  | Email this | Comments

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