Seeing a way to be safe! Is Ready for Eclipse?

A partial solar eclipse is expected to darken the sun between 5:16 and 7:40 p.m. Sunday, but astronomers are advising you look ver-r-r-r-y carefully.

How carefully?

Start by turning your back to the sun. Really.

"It is very important that everyone tempted by the sight of 84 percent of the sun's area being covered by the Moon take heed of the warnings you will hear for much of the coming week," Andrew Fraknoi, chair of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College, and a frequent radio commentator on all things astronomical.

People can watch by making do-it-yourself pinhole projectors. They view the eclipse by turning their back to the sun and letting the sun shine through the pinhole onto a piece of paper. From there, the progression of the moon's path can be seen.

Viewing the Sun without proper protection is dangerous and can cause serious eye damage. Fraknoi started on Monday by distributing a link for safe eclipse viewing through all his networks.

The experts are also using this as a teachable, festive moment. While it's not a total eclipse, Sunday's event is still pretty special. The last time an "annular eclipse" took place was 18 years ago.

In Los Altos Hills, the Peninsula Astronomical Society will open the Foothill Observatory from 5 p.m. to sunset, and members of the public can safely see the eclipse through the observatory's Hydrogen-alpha and white light telescopes, its newsletter says. (Be prepared to pay $3 in quarters to the parking machine).

In the East Bay, the Chabot Space & Science Center will have an Eclipse Viewing Party for $5, beginning at 5 p.m. the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley will have a viewing for free on its deck, and charge $5 for activities inside. "This will be the best partial eclipse seen from Berkeley until 2045," it says says enticingly on its website. "Don’t miss it. And bring the whole family!"

The San Francisco Amateur Astronomers are hosting two events. One, a viewing party on the Marina Green, promoting safe viewing, and the other, alluringly called the "Ring of Fire Road Trip to Mt. Shasta," which is in the path of the eclipse, and from which the "full annular" effect can be seen.

if you're unprepared, or like to leave things to chance Sunday afternoon, you can even look at the shadows cast by leaves on trees. If there are bug holes in the leaves, they pretty much do the same thing as a pinhole projector, writes Gary Baker in the newsletter of the Peninsula Astronomical Society newsletter.

And while you're under that tree, you might notice what a NASA Science's Science News article says is special about an annular eclipse, described as having "a particular charm of its own." It renders sunbeams into "little rings of light," easily seen in the shadows of a leafy tree.

The NASA article on the partial eclipse quotes NASA's leading eclipse expert, Fred Espenak of the Goddard Space Flight Center, as saying he gives it a '9' on a scale of 1 to 10, In terms of visual spectacles.

For those wondering what places, besides Mt. Shasta, get "the full annular" the Mt. Diablo Astronomical Society posted a link from Bruce Kruse of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The interactive Google map, made by Xavier M. Jubier, is worth taking a look to see the path of the eclipse.

This is the first of a "triple-play," Chabot points out. After the annular eclipse on Sunday comes a partial lunar eclipse on June 4 between 2 and 4 a.m., followed by an even rarer once-every-120 years, "Transit of Venus," which is Venus traveling between us and the sun. And yes, your astronomer buddies will be out watching.

DIY: How Can One Watch the Eclipse Safely?

The following is from "Astro-Prof" Andrew Fraknoi: The best way to see the eclipse is to project an image of the sun (and not to look at the sun directly.) One easy way is to make a pinhole projector: Take two pieces of cardboard or thick paper. Put a pinhole in one (taking care to make a clean hole). Then stand with your back to the Sun, and let the Sun’s light fall through the hole and onto the other sheet. You’ll get a small but distinct image of the Sun. (A way to get a sharper pinhole is to cut a square out of the middle of one cardboard, tape a sheet of aluminum foil over the hole and put the pinhole in the foil instead of paper.)

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Shortcut glitch finally patched of Nintendo Mario Kart 7

Nintendo confirmed today that it is releasing a mandatory update for 3DS owners that will prevent players from using the game-crippling shortcuts that players have been exploiting in online matches of the game Mario Kart 7. Three shortcuts have been identified and Nintendo modified the software in such a way that anyone trying to use them will not be able to.

It became a huge issue when the game was released. There are areas within the race tracks that allow players to essentially skip more than half ot the course. The shortcuts were so extreme – and unintentional – that anyone using them has been considered a cheater. It was a big headache for Nintendo because the way the system originally worked, there was no way to patch individual 3DS games over the Internet.

However, a firmware update for the device went live earlier this year that modified the 3DS’s inner workings and made such a feat possible. This issue caused many to draw comparisons between Nintendo and Sony/Microsoft yet again, noting that Nintendo is far behind when it comes to things like online connectivity in the gaming environment.

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The purpose of the Trinity ship AMD processors to market a piece of Intel ultrabook

On May 15, AMD officially unveiled Trinity, the company’s successor to its Llano line of "Fusion" processors that combine CPU and GPU into a single part. The company announced five models of the new processor: three for "mainstream" notebook computers, desktops, and "all-in-one" systems; and two targeted at what AMD calls the "ultrathin" notebook market.

With a 17-watt version available for "ultrathin" notebooks, AMD can offer up an alternative to Intel’s trademarked Ultrabook. "In theory, AMD has something that can work there, but we'll have to see how it plays out in the real world," said David Kanter, Manager and Editor of Real World Technologies, in an interview with Ars.

And there’s one other wrinkle to deal with: Intel’s pending delivery of its low-voltage Ivy Bridge processor this summer. "The big question is, from a power and performance standpoint, how does the 17-watt Trinity play out relative to Ivy Bridge?" Kanter said. "We haven’t seen the Ivy Bridge parts for Ultrabook yet."

The layout of the Trinity "Accellerated Processor Unit", or APU.

Piling on the Piledriver

Trinity is a step forward from an architectural standpoint—albeit not a long one. The CPU side of Trinity is based on an architecture code-named Piledriver, the successor to AMD’s (somewhat disappointing) Bulldozer architecture. Trinity processors have two or four Piledriver cores, alongside the new Radeon 6000 GPU (with up to 384 Radeon cores) that takes up the other half of the die. (Oddly, Radeon is branding the Radeon 6000 in Trinity as a Radeon 7000.)

Piledriver inherits a number of things from Bulldozer. First, there’s shared L2 cache for each pair of cores, as opposed to the private L2 cache used in Llano. And the L1 cache for each core is "write-through" just as in Bulldozer—as opposed to Llano’s write-back cache. That makes for slower writes to cache, but somewhat faster reads.

There are some evolutionary changes from Bulldozer in Piledriver. AMD executives said that there have been modifications made to the branch prediction used in Piledriver, but didn’t get into specifics. There’s more bandwidth to access L2 cache in Piledriver, and larger L1 cache Translation Lookaside Buffers (TLBs) for each core, which make it less likely that their memory manager will waste processing cycles doing a "page walk" searching for memory addresses.

Other improvements that come with Piledriver are additions to the instruction set that was missing from Bulldozer. When Bulldozer was originally being developed, Intel made changes to how it was implementing the Fused Multiply-Add (FMA) extension to the x86 instruction set, which speeds up floating-point calculations. So Bulldozer shipped with the older FMA4 version of the implementation (the 4 standing for "four operands"). The version chosen by Intel to be implemented in the company’s Haswell processors, which will be introduced in 2013—FMA3— has been added to Piledriver, for compatibility.

One notable improvement is a resonant clock mesh technology, licensed from Cyclos Semiconductor that allows the processor to boost its clock speed in a more energy-efficient way. The resonant clock system kicks in when the processor runs in modes faster than 2.9 GHz, and will allow future AMD processors to reach clock speeds over 4 GHz. As a result, Piledriver’s architecture is more energy efficient than Llano at high clock speeds.

But Kanter said that at least part of the better performance and power profile of Trinity comes from the overall system design, and the processor’s ability to shift power dynamically between the CPU and GPU based on demand. Llano’s GPU lacked any real power management of its own.

Good news, bad news

All of that adds up to a significant improvement over its Llano predecessors. It also makes Trinity more competitive with a wide swath of Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPUs, though just how competitive depends heavily on how you measure them.

AMD claims Trinity delivers up to a 29 percent increase in CPU performance for its current top-end Trinity processor (the A10-4600M, a 4-core processor with a maximum clock-rate of 3.2 GHz and 4 megabytes of L2 cache) over the Llano A8-3500M, and over 56% better GPU performance. AMD also claims that Trinity gets twice the CPU performance per Watt of Llano.

Then there are the comparisons to Intel's current notebook processor. Trinity’s programmable GPU is certainly more powerful than that of Intel’s Sandy Bridge. And overall—if you count the GPU—AMD claims Trinity’s raw computing capacity in gigaflops is six times that of Intel’s mid-range i5-2520M (though that processor is a dual core, it runs the same number of threads as the Trinity chip). AMD also claimed that the power management capabilities of Trinity gave systems based on it better battery life than an equivalent Sandy Bridge-based notebook.

Right now, AMD’s Trinity has a big advantage over Intel’s Ivy Bridge in the low-power ultra-whatever range: Trinity is shipping. (So, apparently, is AMD's Brazos 2.0 low-power chip, the company's competitor to Atom, though AMD spoke about Brazos 2.0 briefly and in the future tense at the Trinity event). According to AMD executives, over a million Trinity parts have already been shipped. Intel won’t start shipping ultrabook-friendly Ivy Bridge processors until this summer, though Ivy Bridge is shipping for desktops and less-than-ultra notebooks.

But the benchmark news needs to be taken with a very substantial grain of salt. ExtremeTech’s Joel Hruska called all these claims into doubt because of conflicting benchmarks within AMD’s own results, and suggested that Trinity’s performance was about on par with a Llano processor of the same clock speed. And regardless of how you spin the numbers, Trinity still lags behind Intel’s processors in terms of CPU performance—the kind of computing power that most applications depend on (despite AMD’s efforts to get people to build applications that leverage its GPU).

Given the price range that AMD is aiming for, some of the benchmarks may not have a lot of meaning since they’re usually run on the highest-end chips. "Reviews rarely capture what the low-end and mid-range of the market looks like," Kanter said, "but that is where most chips are sold." Yes, core for core, Trinity is not going to nuke Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge on performance—but considering that it's priced so aggressively lower than Intel's sort-of-comparable processors (AMD is shooting for ultrabook-ish systems for under $500), that might not be much of an issue.

And in the realm of the 17-watt "ultrathin", there are other issues beyond the processor that can have as much of an impact on the computer’s perceived performance. But just how much help AMD’s graphics prowess will be for the company on low power systems isn’t clear—right now, the main "killer app" for graphics processors is gaming, and low-power ultra-whatevers are not exactly the gaming platform of choice. (Then again, if you were looking for a gaming ultra-thin notebook, Trinity might be the CPU for you.)

"AMD’s advantage in graphics depends on the power envelope," Kanter said. "The larger the envelope, the larger their advantage." So Trinity may end up having more hearty adoption on the desktop, where people appreciate its graphics chops more.

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Bid to kill the lawsuit antitrust has been missing from E-book publishers

Apple and five book publishers lost their bid to have a private antitrust suit over electronic book pricing dismissed.

U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan denied on Tuesday a request by the defendants to throw out the complaint by plaintiffs seeking to represent a class of consumers. They say Apple and the publishers violated federal and California state law by conspiring to raise the price of e-books.

Last month, the U.S. government sued Apple and the publishers, Hachette SA, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Group and Simon & Schuster, saying they broke the law in setting prices for e-books. Cote is overseeing the government suit and private antitrust suits filed in federal court.

SOFTWARE

Juror dismissed in Android case

A juror in Oracle's lawsuit against Google over Android software was dismissed by the trial judge, who said the case will proceed with 11 jurors.

The juror was dismissed after she said car trouble forced her to miss Tuesday's session in federal court in San Francisco.

TELEVISION

ESPN confers with AppleTV

Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN sports network is talking with Apple about including the WatchESPN application on the computer maker's television device, network executive Sean Bratches said.

ESPN subscribers with AppleTV would gain access to the network's Internet service on their sets. The sports network said a deal isn't imminent.

The most-watched U.S. sports network is making more programming available online and on mobile devices to reach viewers away from their TVs. ESPN already provides the app to subscribers with Microsoft's Xbox video-game console as part of some pay-TV plans, including those from Verizon Communications' FiOS and Comcast.

CLOUD

Nvidia advances remote access

Nvidia Corp. introduced a version of its processors that will work in cloud-computing centers, offering users the ability to stream advanced graphics through the Internet to remote devices such as Apple's iPad.

Nvidia collaborated with software maker Citrix Systems to make the technology work, Chief Executive Officer Jen-Hsun Huang said at a company conference Tuesday in San Jose. Nvidia is one of the top three providers of graphics processing units, or GPUs.

Huang said his company is working on several applications of the technology intended to improve the capabilities of electronics devices such as smart phones, tablets, televisions and personal computers. He demonstrated a new, high-end video game being played by two competitors via the Internet, one using a tablet and the other using a television.

"With the cloud we can literally put GPU computing in the hands of billions of mobile users around the world," he said.

In an another demonstration, Huang showed an iPad remotely accessing a PC running Microsoft's Windows operating system. The technology may be deployed by customers such as phone-service providers or Internet-access providers.

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Falls plant to Twitter genocide hoax of Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Rumours of a genocide of a good Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez have been, in a imperishable difference of Mark Twain, severely exaggerated.

Magical realist Márquez won a Nobel esteem for literature in 1982 for “his novels as well as reduced stories, in that a illusory as well as a picturesque have been total in a richly stoical universe of imagination, reflecting a continent’s hold up as well as conflicts”. Yesterday dusk a Twitter comment purporting to go to a Italian writer as well as educational Umberto Eco stated: “Gabriel García Márquez dies. you perceived a headlines right away from New York.” Writer Mario Vargas Llosa as well as Márquez’s family reliable a news, according to a account, that “will be strictly voiced by a sister Aida as well as by publishers in couple of hours”.

With a Eco comment followed by roughly 2,000 people, a headlines fast widespread as well as well read amicable media went in to anguish – until doubts proposed to aspect about a veracity. The Eco comment has not been accurate by Twitter as belonging to The Name of a Rose author, as well as a tweets were in a future discharged as a hoax. “What if you pronounced Umberto Eco died? A feign account,” tweeted a strong – nonetheless not accurate – comment of a 85-year-old Márquez himself, @ElGabo. Jaime Abello Banfi, executive of a Gabriel García Márquez Foundation, additionally denied a rumours, whilst Reuters’ Mexico match Cyntia Barrera Diaz pronounced a co-worker had oral with a Colombian envoy to Mexico, as well as Márquez was in Los Angeles on vacation family.

“Don’t be dissapoint about Twitter present rumours of Gabriel García Márquez’s passing – this is only how enchanting realism works,” pronounced New York Times publisher Michael Roston. “Looks similar to a García Márquez headlines is hoax. What bastards. Chronicle of a Death Foretweeted …” said writer Stephanie Merritt, referencing Márquez’s novel Chronicle of a Death Foretold.

Márquez is only a ultimate plant of a supposed Twitter death-rumour mill, fasten Pope Benedict XVI, Fidel Castro as well as Pedro Almodóvar. Many of a hoaxes were instigated by a Italian schoolteacher Tommaso De Benedetti, who has additionally been related to a feign Eco account. “Social media is a many unverifiable report source in a universe though a headlines media believes it since of a need for speed,” De Benedetti told a Guardian in March.

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