Content and news by Jamie Fletcher

For the folders amongst you that are lucky enough to have a GTX400 series graphics card and are into folding, a new GPU3 Folding client is now available as an open beta. All you need is the 197.45 drivers and the new client, of which there are a variety of versions, so be sure to get the right one. Currently, some problems have been found with 8800…

While this isn’t the first time this headline has found its way over the Internet, some interesting details have been made available as to why a Larrabee card won’t be made, at least in the short term. A blog by Bill Kircos provides some in-site into this decision and future focus of Intel regarding their graphics based technologies.

Mercury Research will be releasing an article soon detailing some interesting figures regarding the market share of the various GPU developers. While not officially released just yet, X-bit Labs has listed some of the details including the important number of AMD’s market share as of the first quarter 2010…

Deep within Intel Labs Barcelona, a new software/hardware thread acceleration technique has been developed to boost performance of single thread applications on multi-core processors, the catch is we probably won’t see it for another couple years. Anaphase is a hybrid system of software and hardware to increase the efficiency…

Google purchased the video codec company On2 back in August last year, owners of the VP8 video format. Many believed it to be the first steps from Google to settle the battle of Theora Vs H.264 in the online video codec’s for HTML 5. Fast forward to today and Google, Mozilla and Opera announce the launch of the new, open-source, royalty…

The Humble Indie Bundle has been making its way around the net over the last week, allowing people to set their own price for a set of 5 top-rated Indie games with some or all of the proceeds going to charity – the amount of which you can decide. There is no DRM, no middleman, it’s multi-platform (Mac, Linux and PC compatible) and…

After EA was paid a visit from an investor, plans for strategic “Premium Downloadable Content” came to light. Analyst Michael Pachter wrote that “PDLC would be sold for $10 or $15 through Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, and would essentially be a very long game demo, along the lines of 2009’s Battlefield 1943.” As to avoid confusion, EA stated…

Ever bought an item from a retailer, opened it up and thought something suspicious was going on? Well, in the case of some microSD cards, that something was possibly the result of Ghost Shift Workers, running machines after hours and flogging the parts on to distributors. Some of these cards found themselves in the hands of Andrew Huang…