The FCC has now finished its investigation of Google’s Street View,
the company came under scrutiny when it was found to be collecting users
data whilst taking photos with its Street View cars.
According to Google the collection of private data was ‘inadvertent’,
and the report blames a single rogue engineer for the collection of
users personal data, although the engineer apparently declined to speak
to the FCC during their investigation.Google continues to maintain its stance that any gathering of data
was done inadvertently, and Google has also said that it had never
authorized for any data to be collected.
NVIDIA has announced their latest high end graphics cards, the NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 690, and it feature two 28nm Kepler GPU’s, making it the
worlds fastest graphics card.
The GTX 690 is powered by a total of 3,072 NVIDIA CUDA® cores,
all working to deliver awesome gaming performance for ultimate gaming
setups. Designed for the discriminating gamer and ultra-high-resolution,
multimonitor NVIDIA Surround™ configurations, the GTX 690 delivers
close to double the frame rates of the closest single GPU product, the
GTX 680. Plus, it is more power efficient and quieter when compared to
systems equipped with two GTX 680 cards2 running in NVIDIA SLI®
configuration.
Some of our readers will remember the Pebble E-Paper watch
that we featured on Geeky Gadgets earlier this month, it looks like it
could end up being one of the most popular projects launched on
Kickstarter.
The Pebble E-Paper Watch has now raised a massive $7,139,242 at the
time of writing, not bad considering the developers of the watch only
needed $100,000 to put it into production.
The project has now been backed by more than 50,000 people on
Kickstarter, and the watch is designed to connect to your iPhone or
Android smartphone. allowing you to use the GPS, and control your
smartphone.
