For want of a nail: How hardware hijinks fracked my AMD Radeon R9 Fury testing

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A touching tale of hardware evaluation and shenanigans surrounding it. Hopefully this saves someone else some hurt.

Mozilla Firefox kills Flash by default, security chief calls for Adobe to issue an end-of-life date

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Mozilla has blocked Firefox from running Flash by default on the latest versions of its browser and is calling on Adobe to dump the product altogether. Is this finally the end of the performance-sucking plugin?

Researchers demonstrate supercomputing system using NAND flash, not DRAM

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Supercomputers need tons of RAM — that’s a known fact. But a new team of researchers from MIT has debuted a supercomputing design that gets rid of most RAM in favor of NAND flash — with surprisingly good results.

Samsung is reportedly working on an 11K screen, claims it can create 3D illusions

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Samsung says it wants to build high-resolution displays up to and including an insane 11K. Will we ever have a use for such technology?

Graphene-sheathed copper wires could dramatically speed future processors, cut power consumption

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New research into graphene’s potential shows that it could be used to boost the performance of copper wires inside semiconductors. If true, this could clear one of the most significant bottlenecks to modern CPU performance.