Is Nintendo about to alienate a core section of its audience? In advance of a special event for the 3DS in Japan, Nintendo released a statement warning parents that children ages six or younger should only use 2D mode when playing the upcoming handheld. According to Nintendo's statement (which is located here and translated by the Wall Street Journal), use of artificial 3D can possibly affect the development of healthy eyes.
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Scottish scientists have built a 1,000-core processor, claiming it will run 20 times faster than today’s chips while using less power.
Dr. Wim Vanderbauwhede led a research team at the University of Glasgow to create the futuristic processor using a programmable chip called a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
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With two months gone since Microsoft launched Windows Phone 7, the company has finally started to address the big question about the new smartphone platform: how well is it selling? In an interview with Microsoft vice president of business and marketing for Windows Phones Achim Berg published in a press release earlier today, Microsoft claimed that phone manufacturers had sold more than 1.5 million Windows Phone 7 handsets.
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An important step has been made towards the goal of building custom Windows Phone 7 ROMs, with skilled coder ansar.ath.gr having reportedly successfully swapped out the imgfs.bin file from a European HTC HD7 with ones from both a Mondrian (HTC 7 Surround) and Asian language Schubert (HD7) ROM, resulting in what he claims are two flashable NBH images. ...

LG has released what it says is the first smartphone with a dual-core processor, the Optimus 2X. There may be more dual-core handsets on the horizon. "It's a question of offering performance at lower power," said the Yankee Group's Carl Howe. "You get the same performance but at a lower clock speed, which consumes less power."
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We're only a few days away from the official launch of the brand-new AMD Radeon HD 6900 series, but it seems that, while we're waiting for the Cayman cards to make an appearance, the chip manufacturer has decided to provide us with a glimpse at the revamped AMD Catalyst Control Center software, that should offer AMD GPU owners a whole new control and usage experience.

AMD collaborated with user-interface design experts Infusion to improve the usability of the AMD Catalyst Control Center and developed an entirely new User Interface (UI) for all AMD customers.
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