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Thursday May 3, 2012
LADY GaGa is single again?
The Poker Face hitmaker has reportedly split from boyfriend Taylor Kinney.
GaGa, 26, and the Vampire Diaries star, 30, are now “on a break,” a source told Us Weekly.
“She will be touring nonstop until next year and has found she can’t have relationship at the same time,” a source said.
“There’s just no room for anything else. Her work is all-consuming.
“Taylor was all about himself, a typical actor, and didn’t completely get GaGa.
“She loved that she got this guy who everyone thought was hot! But it was never going to last.”
In the middle of its Samsung Galaxy S III
press conference
today, Samsung gave more details about its developing media services.
Though we've known about the company's Video Hub and Music Hubs since
the reveal of the Galaxy Tab 2 last February, the Galaxy S III adds a new Scan and Match feature designed to compete with iTunes Match.
Like Apple's service, Samsung's option will scan songs on your devices hard drive and suggest comparable tracks in its library. Unlike iTunes Match, however, it won't cost extra. Music Hub has 17 million songs and costs $9.99 per month for one smartphone or tablet or $12.99/month for up to four devices.
According to Engadget, Galaxy S III owners also well get up to 50GB of storage thanks to Dropbox. HTC has partnered with Dropbox before, but Samsung's offering is significantly moreSouth Korea's Samsung Electronics on Thursday unveiled its latest flagship smartphone at a London launch as it seeks to cement its position as the world's best-selling mobile phone maker.
The Galaxy S3 boasts a 4.8-inch screen (12.2cm), 22 per cent larger than the Galaxy S2, the hugely popular predecessor that helped the company overhaul Nokia as the world leader.
Despite the larger screen, Samsung says the phone is not much larger than its predecessor due to its smaller frame.
Other new developments include "intelligent camera features" which use face recognition technology and improved voice-activated controls.
The new model also uses the Android operating system, and its performance in the marketplace is perceived to be crucial to the success of the Linux-based system.
"The importance of the Galaxy S3 to Samsung cannot be underestimated," Adam Leach, principal analyst at Ovum, told the BBC.
"The company has built its reputation on producing the 'must-have' Android smartphone and in the process has become the poster child for the Android platform."
The handset goes on sale in Europe in May to be followed by launches in Asia, the Middle East and Africa.
Samsung last week reported a record net profit of 5.05 trillion won
(S$5.55 billion) in the first quarter, thanks largely to strong
smartphone sales.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has ripped a page right out of the Intel playbook.
TSMC announced today that a chip rolling off its advanced 28-nanometer manufacturing process was jacked up to 3.1GHz -- unheard of in the annals of ARM-based mobile system reviews.
Intel, of course, is not a stranger to fast frequencies. Its high-performance Core i desktop processors run well more than 3GHz, and even its higher-end mobile parts are rated close to 3GHz.
But that's unfamiliar territory for ARM, which is known more for power efficiency than raw power.
More specifically, the TSMC chip is a dual-core A9 today that "achieved 3.1GHz...under typical conditions" using "high performance for mobile applications" (HPM) process technology, said TSMC.
TSMC's 28-nanometer HPM process was developed for tablet and mobile consumer product applications, among other products.
The chipmaker claims that it's twice as fast as an equivalent chip built on an older 40-nanometer manufacturing process. "This work demonstrates how ARM and TSMC can satisfy high performance market demands," said Cliff Hou, TSMC Vice President, Research & Development in a statement.
TSMC is the largest contract chip manufacturer in the world and builds many of the processors that land in the most popular smartphones and tablets.
Badlands is narrated by Holly (Spacek), a teenage girl living in a dead-end South Dakota town. One day she meets Kit (Sheen), a rebellious young greaser who charms her and takes her as his accomplice on a cross-country killing spree. Holly's narration, describing her adventures with Kit with romantic clichés, is juxtaposed with the grim reality of Kit's sociopathic appetite for grisly violence. The two are eventually arrested; Kit is executed for his crimes, while Holly receives probation.
intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.[4] It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word intelligence[citation needed]). Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Though Intel was originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, its "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.
Wow, what's that interview? You didn't ask me, he's txting me. Well, as far as I am concerned, you don't exist, I text him back. Yes I know that, he said, I'm not stupid, I do realize this is all just a creation in my own mind, but you were very frank with her.
Superstars
How you doing this morning baby, he txt me? Was it a good show last night? Not bad I told him, I'm still recovering. Did you sort out the sound problems, he asked? You been checkin out my fan photos I asked him? Yes, arent they great, he say. Tell me, why has one fan put a photo of the queen's, um, tits on his homage to you? You should check out my Secret Diaries of a Naughty Queen pages. Do you mean I am the Queen I asked? Yes and no, he said. Cryptic, I said. I'd never lie to you he said, and I hope you never lie to me.
Salvadore Dali, I mean I designed the Chupa Chups trade mark he said. It is a five dollar drink a man can buy a lady.
Last nights show! Projection by Steven Klein. http://pic.twitter.com/lSdpdvTH
goodnight little monsters, I love you! http://pic.twitter.com/UqBJDOr0
Joanne, he said. Yes? He never called me that before. Why don't you book a flight from Auckland to
Whakatane on the 11th June, so you can arrive after dark.
Eve is the Queen of my heart, he said, and that role is yours as long as you want it. I was referring to the Queen of the Netherlands, where all those ex SS soldiers are working in the sex industry. You are the Queen of Stars, and I hope when you get to Auckland we can spend some time talking.
I know a hot
pool where we can sit and chat, and a nice restaurant where we can talk. After we can drive out to the beach.
That airport is real nice in the dark, I think you'd like it. You cna
fly back to Auckland the next day, and I can meet you. I think the
flight gets in about 7.30 pm, and it will be dark. Can you can come
alone? I don't know I said. I'll think about it. We can talk about you
marriage to Taylor too, there are lots of rumours flying about that you
are dead, and have broken up with him. If you don't want to just say no. We can work something out, I said. What will you do if it doesn't work out for us? You know I probably need you more than you need me, he said, and every day is a trial, but if it doesn't nothing will change for me.
The only thing which will be different he said, is that everything will take a little bit longer. Do you know that film, Badlands, he asked? What about it? Have you seen it, do you like it? We should go and see it together, it has been a while. Do you mean rent a CD, I asked? No I mean in a cinema. I know a guy with a theatre who will get it for us. Maybe I said. Did you know I own iNTEL, he said suddenly? Maybe you mentioned it I said. Yes he admitted, but people today have a short attention span, and can't be bothered scrolling back through endless pages. You know about the Turing test, I suppose, in which a person has to ask questions to find out whether it is a human or a machine they are talking to?
We Love Party China xoxoxo http://pic.twitter.com/QXjHK9Lq
How do you own iNTEL again, I asked to humor him? No need to humour me he said. There is a book called Modern Management Methods, I can't find right now which has a logic diagram for a digital computer. We ran it without testing, and it worked. Then when we introduced the Microsoft Virtual Machine on the 80386 chip in 1990, we used vitrual memory. Now we use computers to design chips.
Doesn't prove anything though, I said. No, but my design does save space on the chip and makes faster computing possible, if that is necessary. Why do you say that I asked? Turing's original design theorised a machine which could alrady devise any question and solve it, he said. All it needs is the appropriate human input. It's a bit beyond me, i said. Yes but think it as the ultimate chess machine. What happens when two chess machines play, I asked? The first to move wins, or the first to make a mistake loses. How can a perfect machine make a mistake, I asked? There may be two strategies at work, he said. One assumes the opposition is trying to win, but it could just be defending. You breaking up with Taylor, I asked, there are plenty of rumours? I think so, don't you? You either lied to him or the public, he said. Maybe not, I said.
