Apple Announces iOS 7: the 'biggest change'

Apple has officially taken the wraps off of iOS 7 at its WorldwideDeveloper Conference today. iOS 7 is the latest version of Apple'smobile operating system that debuted back in 2007 on the original iPhone.

 According to Apple CEO Tim Cook, iOS 7 is the biggest change to the platform since the iPhone was introduced five years ago. The new design is evident in everything from sharper, flatter icons, slimmer fonts, a new slide-to-unlock function, and a new controlpanel that slides up from the bottom of the screen for frequently accessed settings.

 The stock apps have all been redesigned, including a major revamp of the weather app with new animations that are scarily reminiscent of Yahoo's great-looking Weather app graphics.

Apple's head of design Jony Ive notes that the new icons feature a new palette of colors — gone are the bold, primary colors of old, replaced by modern shades and tones. Flat design is very prominent in iOS 7 ,everything from the buttons to the switches to the chrome surrounding apps has been modernized and flattened. 

Apple says that the new design makes your phone "appear bigger" because each app makes better use of the screen real-estate available to it. The calendar, phone, messages, 

Game Center, and others have all lost their skeuomorphic designs and now feature clean, flat layouts. The signal bars in the upper left corner of the phone have also been replaced with a series of dots.

Source: theverge

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Nvidia Delivers Workstation Graphics Experience to the Network

Nvidia's GRID Visual Computing Appliance is a remote GPU acceleration system that can run complex applications -- like those from Adobe, Autodesk and Dassault -- and display their graphics on a networked client computer. All a user has to do is click on an icon to create a virtual workspace. Users can then have the same graphics experience they would get from an expensive, dedicated workstation.

Nvidia on Wednesday debuted its GRID Visual Computing Appliance, a device that lets businesses deliver ultra-fast GPU performance to any Windows, Linux or Mac client on their network.

The GRID VCA is a GPU-based system that allows complex applications, sending graphics output to the network and enabling it to be displayed on a client machine. It provides remote GPU acceleration, giving the user on the client machine the same rich graphics experience available from an expensive dedicated PC workstation.

Source: technewsworld

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Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag “not the legacy of AC3 only”

Assassin’sCreed 4: Black Flag will not simply import mechanics from much-criticisedAssassin’s Creed 3, preferring to cherry pick from the franchise as a whole.

In an internally produced interview with creative director Jean Guesdon, Ubisoft described Assassin’s Creed3′s gameplay mechanics as not “attractive or not introduced properly”, asking how the development team will ensure that “the player has a fun, intelligent and progressive experience from start to end”.

“AC is a great franchise that allows us to learn from previous iterations. We’ve identified some areas of improvements and will definitely make sure that all systems are properly introduced and relevant to the player’s own motivations. We’re not the legacy of AC3 only but of all previous AC games and we spent a lot of time analysing the best things we could use from all of them,” Guesdon said.

One of the features the team is hoping to bring back is stealth, which has gradually decreased in importance and was somewhat poorly implemented in Assassin’s Creed 3.

“We are putting a lot of effort to improve that pillar of the franchise. Being a pirate was also about taking places by surprise, and this would require stealth abilities,” Guesdon said.

“So yes, stealth will be back. Infiltrations, tails and exploration of islands are all part of it. We are making sure that the level design not only support but encourage stealth. We’re working hard at providing missions and environments that always allow the player to choose this type of play.”

Guesdon said the key challenge of Black Flag is delivering a realistic, fun, open world naval and pirate game while remaining true to the pillars of the Assassin’s Creed franchise.

“Ultimately my objective with [Black Flag] is to provide a very good, polished and fun game that players will enjoy as much as we enjoy creating it,” he said.

“I would be thrilled to receive testimonies telling us that the way we’re depicting this period in history helped some of our audience to realize what the Golden Age of Piracy was really like.”

Assassin’sCreed 4: Black Flag is headed to PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U and Xbox 360,and is also expected on Microsoft’s new console.

Source: vg247

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CloudFlare security service goes down after router failure

Web security service CloudFlare was offline for about an hour this morning due to a system-wide failure of its edge routers.

The outage, which began around 1:47 a.m. PT, removed the security layer for 785,000 Web sites, including 4chan and Wikileaks, according to TechCrunch. CloudFlare said the outage occurred while it was trying to defend one of its customers from a distributed denial-of-service attack.

The outage affected Juniper routers running the Flowspec protocol, which allows customers to broadcast router rules to a large number of routers efficiently. CloudFlare uses the protocol to update the rules on routers to battle attacks and shift traffic.

CloudFlare co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince said in a company blog post today that it detected a DNS attack this morning when it identified attack packets between 99,971 and 99,985 bytes long, much larger than the 500-byte average and CloudFlare's 4,470-byte maximum packet size.

While CloudFlare service was restored about an hour later, Prince said company is examining the cause of the failure and has contactedJuniper to learn whether this is a known bug. Prince also said customers would receive service credits.

Prince noted striking similarities between its outage and last year's Internet blackout in Syria.

"In CloudFlare's case the cause was not intentional or malicious, but the net effect was the same: a router change caused a network to go offline," Prince wrote.

Source: Cnet

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Path of Exile hosted almost 70,000 gamers over weekend

The Grinding Gear's free-to-play ARPG Path of exile entered open beta last week. Grinding Gear Lead Designer Chris Wilson stated the deluge crashed Exile's account system and servers over the weekend but the team quickly brought everything back online today with stability and bug fixes.

“We’re getting absolutely crushed under the number of players trying out Path of Exile, and this has manifested as a server crash that has been occurring hourly today,” Wilson wrote previously. “For those interested, player concurrency hit 69,850 players before it was high enough to take down the realm.”

GrindingGear also fixed a few pesky login bugs, including a rare and strange issue where players somehow could log into accounts owned by other players as the servers shuddered beneath the load. To keep character info stable, the studio simply switched off Exile’s servers until it whipped up a fix.

Source: pcgamer.com

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Westminster Dog Show 13 : A user's best friend

The Westminster Dog Show's official application is a solid guide for the event which start last Monday and runs till today. This free IOS application is great for users who want to get to know the canine contestants.

It includes several features for human attendees such as a show map , directory and venue information. And for the viewers at the home , the key option include a show schedule breaking sown judging by the ring and breed. There's also the very helpful Websminster 101 that details the process behind judging each dog.

There's also a section with a history of the Westminster Kennel Club and a glossary explaining terms viewers might hear during the broadcast.

Owners of the iPhone or iPad who want an education on the dozens of dog breeds will find entries for each highlighting the breeds background and origins, as well as show info related to the specific type of dog.

Also, for a bonus perspective, a Live Video option allows users to check out cameras from each ring as well as a roving camera.

The app isn't totally perfect. Some user reviews suggest a few inaccuracies with dog breed descriptions. However, it's free, and offers a comprehensive guide to follow as you're watching the Westminster Dog Show.

Source: usatoday.com

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