Didn't have time to check out the tech headlines over the weekend? Here's what you missed.
Delivering the keynote address at the GeForce LAN/Nvidia Game Festival in Shanghai, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced the company's new video card, the GeForce GTX 690. The GTX 690 utilizes the new 28nm Kepler architecture Nvidia introduced on the GTX 680 last month.
Meanwhile, two separate reports confirmed that Samsung has now overtaken Nokia as the world's top cell phone maker. But as IHS iSuppli analyst Wayne Lam told the Associated Press, attempting to discern just how many smartphones Samsung sells is like "using compasses instead of GPS." While most analysts agree that Samsung sold the most phones, period, in the first quarter of this year, the estimates for just how many smartphones Samsung sold vary wildly — so much so that it's difficult to conclusively state a champion of the smartphone market.
And now that dust on Google Drive has settled and users finally have the chance to play around with the company's new cloud storage system, general reactions have been good, but not great. PCMag rounded up some of the larger criticisms that might be keeping Drive from dominating.
Also making headlines this weekend:
- Peter Jackson Responds to 48 FPS 'Hobbit' Criticism: "Deal with it," he says.
- Labyrinth Gone HTML5: Google Unleashes Maps Cube Game: Google's now jumped into the gaming fray itself with its new Cube game, which places players on a giant, six-panel cube whose faces spin when generating each of eight new levels.
- Maingear Expands Product Line with New Vertical Heat Dissipation Desktops: Maingear, the Kenilworth, New Jersey–based manufacturer of boutique gaming desktop and laptop PCs and workstations, announced that it is expanding its vertical heat dissipation case design to two additional desktop models.
- Social Apps Gaining Popularity, Mobile Games Reaching Saturation: Social networking apps are on the rise, but you didn't need us to tell you that.
- Wozniak on Windows Phone: Microsoft Reincarnated Steve Jobs: Steve Wozniak loves his Windows Phone. No, that's not a typo.
- Will Your Next Smartphone Have Super-Science Wonder Glass?: Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed glass that won't fog up, doesn't produce any glare, cleans itself, and needs to be on all of our smartphones immediately.
- Klouchebag Delivers Stinging Rebuke to Klout, Social Media Obsessives: Tom Scott isn't alone in his frustration with Klout, the San Francisco-based startup that rates people's social media "influence" based on their activity on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms.
- Top 5 Biggest Concerns About CISPA: The House on Thursday opted for an earlier-than-expected vote on the controversial CISPA bill, which now moves to the Senate. But what's the big deal with this bill?
- Space Shuttle Enterprise Wows New Yorkers on Final Flight: We were among numerous groups who had gathered around the city and along the New Jersey and Westchester Country waterfronts to witness this spectacle.
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