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It looks like the analysts were right in their suspicions that EA and Bioware’s The Old Republic MMO is already losing subscribers just a few months after its late 2011 launch. In an earnings report issued today, EA announced that the game currently has 1.3 million active subscribers, down nearly 25 percent from the 1.7 million active subscribers reported in March.
from Ars Technica
Global businesses have placed bets on China as a stable source of growth for the foreseeable future. Bo Xilai and Chen Guangcheng serve as unwelcome reminders: Don’t assume anything.
As noted recently by Chipworks, Apple is now shipping some iPad 2 models (and all third-generation Apple TV devices) with a 32nm A5 processor built on Samsung’s power-efficient “high-dielectric metal gate” (HK+MG) process. These products give Apple a relatively low-volume test bed to ensure its architecture works well with the process, and extensive testing by AnandTech shows that the 32nm process offers significant power savings over the older 45nm process used for processors in other iOS devices.
Apple’s A4, A5, and A5X processors, used in the most recent iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models, are built using the 45nm process. Effectively, 45nm is the absolute smallest size that can be used to create a transistor or other circuit element on a chip using a 45nm process. This also affects the minimum distance between elements as well.
from Ars Technica
Amaury Villa and Amed Villa, two brothers from Cuba, have been arrested for stealing $80 million worth of pharmaceutical drugs in Connecticut in a sophisticated scheme that evokes The Italian Job and Ocean’s 11. It’s the largest pharmaceutical drug heist in history, and it was all brought down because one of the brothers left a water bottle at the scene. More »
from Gizmodo
After months of speculation, Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is here. It has a massive touchscreen and a quad-core CPU, but its most noteworthy features tie into human behavior prediction — seriously.
from Wired Top Stories
Hundreds of people who are concerned about his safety have uploaded photos of themselves wearing sunglasses — a show of solidarity with the Chinese activist, who is blind and is normally seen in dark glasses. The campaign keeps building.
from News
