Storage Intel, Micron unveil first 128-gigabit flash chip, provide double the data density

Realign the data and the previous 32 and 64 gigabit roadblocks to flash storage disappear. Today, Intel and Micron announced the first 128 gigabit NAND flash chip. The chip, which was created through the companies’ joint IM Flash Technologies venture, is smaller than a fingertip, created through a 20 nanometer manufacturing process and is capable of 333 megatransfers per second with the option of stacking as many as eight chips on top of each other. What makes the new NAND unique is its planar structure that allows individual memory cells to scale much smaller than before. When combined with a Hi-K/metal gate combo to keep the power leaks to a minimum, presto, you’ve got flash memory denser than your mother-in-law’s fruitcake. Mass production of the 128Gb chips isn’t due until the first half of 2012, but you can get a more in-depth intro to the future of flash right nowin the PR below.

VIA: Electronista
Source: Intel

YouTube got nearly 21 billion hits in a month, mostly thanks to naughty Fenton

The latest report from comScore makes for eye popping reading – Google’s video sites, of whichYouTube is the most important, received 20,933,113,000 views in October. To put that into some context, that’s roughly three videos watched by every person alive on the planet. According to the statistics, YouTubers spent an average of seven hours watching the month’s hottest videos (such asCommunity’s Beetlejuice easter egg and Naughty Fenton). Surprisingly, Facebook came second, but viewers spent an measly average of 18 minutes watching last night’s karaoke. In other news, Hulu came top for online advertising and Vevo was the most watched partner site, you guys obviously love your Lady Gaga.
VIA: Search Engine Land
Source: comScore

Visualized: Sweden’s Dreamhack

What does a legion of Swedish LAN party-goers and a 120Gbps internet connection look like? Something like this. Dreamhack, officially (according to the Guinness Book of Records) the world’s largest LAN party, offered up all sorts of gaming thrills along the lines of StarCraft II and Counter-Strike to the 12,000 attendees. It looks like the air was thick with excitement, perspiration — and hopefully a little air freshener.
Source :Kotaku

Modular USB flash drive concept offers a new way to sort your data

USB drives may come in all shapes and sizes these days, but they all basically give you one of two choices: you can buy one big drive to store as much of your data as possible, or juggle a bunch of drives if you want to keep things separate. Designer Hyunsoo Song has proposed an alternative with this so-called Amoeba modular USB flash drive, however, which let you sort your data on individual drives that can be used both on their own or together as one large drive. The idea there being that you can keep the drives together most of the time, and just detach the appropriate section if you want to share only your photos or videos with someone. Of course, the keyword here is “concept,” but it’s not exactly as far beyond the realm of possibility as some others we’ve seen.
VIA Technabob
Source Yanko Design

2012 London Olympics Super Hi-Vision broadcast coming to select US, Japan, UK locations

While Super Hi-Vision isn’t expected to bring its 7,680 x 4,320 resolution (16x more detail than your 1080p display, for those keeping count) home for several years, the NHK and BBC have confirmed it will be available for public screenings next year during the 2012 London Olympics. Screening dates have been arranged for three countries (Japan, UK, and US), and it appears domestic viewers will want to plan on visiting the Washington D.C. area next July / August to get a taste of the 33 megapixel video and 22.2 channel surround sound for themselves. Next year’s Games have already put extensive 3D coverage on the schedule and NBC has promised every event will be available for viewing live as it happens for the first time, so there’s plenty for everyone to look forward to. The only question now? Whether or not that silly false start rule can be changed so we don’t face the prospect of a men’s 100m dash final without Usain Bolt in it.

VIA: AV Watch
Source: NHK

HTC Edge may be the first quad-core smartphone to market

Color us skeptical on this one, but rumors are coming down the pipeline about an HTC phone called the Edge. It’s supposedly going to be the first Tegra 3-powered smartphone. According to Pocketnow, the device will supposedly offer a quad-core 1.5GHz CPU, 4.7-inch 720p HD display, 1GB of RAM, an 8MP rear camera with f/2.2 lens and Beats Audio. Curiously, no LTE capability was mentioned specifically, though 21Mbps HSPA+ appears to be good to go, and there’s a slight possibility of Sense 4.0 being included — which given its proposed launch window of late Q1 / early Q2 2012, wouldn’t be a huge surprise. We’d love to start seeing more quad-core goodness headed our way, so we’re definitely keeping our fingers crossed to see a lot more of the above show up at CES and MWC.
Source: Pocketnow

Google Chrome’s Newest Beta Enables Multiple Accounts

Chrome: The newest version of the Google Chrome beta introduces multiple account syncing, a feature many users have been asking for a while.

The primary use for the feature is to let multiple users who share a computer easily swap out accounts, but Google notes in their post it doesn’t have any security options, so it’s meant primarily as a tool to quickly swap interfaces for people who already share a computer. Of course, it will also be handy for those who use multiple accounts for work or personal use. You can download the beta from the official blog post below. To try it out for yourself, you’ll need to enable it under Options (or Preferences) >Personal Stuff > Add new user.

Take your Chrome stuff with you in the new Chrome Beta | Google Chrome Blog via Read Write Web

Facebook Sees 600,000 Compromised Logins Per Day

New figures from Facebook reveal how often the social networking site’s users are hacked. In the blog post announcing the forthcoming “Trusted Friends” feature, Facebook also an included infographic detailing Facebook’s security measures. One figure in particular jumped out at security researchers: every day, “only .06%” of Facebook’s 1 billion logins are compromised. Or, to put it another way, 600,000 logins per day are compromised.

This tidbit was first noticed by Graham Cluley of Sophos, who, apparently didn’t ignore the infographic like the rest of us. (Marketers have ruined infographics for us – we’re too often infographic-blind these days).

Crunching the numbers, Cluley noted that 600,000 compromised logins per day means one compromised login every 140 milliseconds.

Facebook revealed the figure in a section explaining how it keeps spam at bay, as the majority of the time, Facebook accounts are hacked by spammer who send out messages to the victim’s friends. (Who hasn’t seen this? “Help, I’m in London and had my wallet stolen!”)

There were some other interesting numbers shared by Facebook, too, including:

• Less than 4% of the content shared on Facebook is spam (vs. 89.1% of email is spam)
• Less than 5% of Facebook users experience spam on any given day
• 50% of Facebook’s 750+ million users login to Facebook every day (wait, aren’t we up to 800 million now? Must be an old infographic).
• The average user has 130 friends
• People spend over 700 billion minutes on the site per month

Update: We were curious about what Facebook really meant by “compromised” accounts, so we were glad to hear back from the Facebook PR team this afternoon with a clarification. First of all, Facebook wants it known that these accounts weren’t hacked or compromised on Facebook itself, they are compromised off site, such as through phishing scams, for example. (I think we all pretty much knew that, but there you go.)

And for the record, here’s how Facebook is defining “compromised”:

Compromised in this sense refers to logins where we are not absolutely confident that the account’s true owner is accessing the account and we either preemptively or retroactively block access.

Source: techcrunch

Download Google Chrome 15

Google rolled out stable Chrome 15 with some minor cosmetic changes including Chrome web store layout redesign and clean new tab page, which was before get opened blank but now it shows thumbnail grid of most visited websites by the user.

Chrome 15 is available for Windows, Mac and Linux, which could be grabbed through link below.

Download Chrome 15

Gmail’s New Upcoming Interface Leaked

Google has posted a video of upcoming revamped Gmail interface design that reveals the changes in action bar, icons, advanced search box, new conversation view interface for emails, resizable chat window and many more.
Gmail New Interface Design Video