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Flood Maps Can Get Much Sharper With A Little Supercomputing Oomph
2015-06-30 21:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: A small company in California is hoping to make a big splash by providing detailed flood maps to homeowners and insurance companies. And to do that, the company is using one of the fastest supercomputers in the world. The company is called Katrisk, based in Berkeley, Calif. Hydrologist and computer modeler Dag Lohmann is one of the company's founders. He says the flood maps the Federal Emergency Management Agency already produces will tell you how prone a particular area is to flooding. But FEMA's...
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Google Adds Some Serious Oomph to Play Games
2014-03-17 21:15:32| TechNewsWorld
Google on Tuesday announced a number of new features to the Google Play Games platform that are intended to boost discoverability and cross-platform multiplayer gaming while providing developers with deeper analytics. Three out of every four people who use the Android operating system play games, according to Google. There are more than 1 billion activated Android devices.
iPhone graphics chip designer adds more oomph to GPUs
2014-01-06 16:41:12| InfoWorld: Top News
Imagination Technologies, which designs graphics chips used in the iPhone and other top mobile products, is promising "console quality graphics" with an updated GPU lineup announced on Monday. The company creates chip designs that it licenses to other firms for manufacture. It's the same model as that used by ARM Holdings, but while ARM is known for its CPUs, Imagination is strongest in graphics.
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Sound Advice: The new OontZ XL has lots of 'oomph'
2013-08-17 08:34:39| Wireless - Topix.net
Q When will the 6-inch soundbar by Cambridge SoundWorks be launched? I cannot use a regular soundbar with my 5-year-old flat-screen TV.
TotalFinder Adds Oomph to Apple's Adequate Native Navigator
2013-08-06 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Without a doubt, one of the most frequently used programs on a Mac is the Finder. That's because files remain the milk of personal computing interfaces, no matter how hard designers have tried to hide it. Finder performs basic navigation functions well. It will display files in several ways, let you move and copy files, compress files and archive them, and empty the trash.
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