Hackers' Geohot "now seems to Facebook

George Hotz, as (former) hacker with the nickname "Geohot" known now apparently works for the world's largest social network Facebook. This at least tells the website "Techunwrapped". Geohot has spoken out about regarding his Facebook site Facebook. It should act according to his opinion, a fantastic job.

His work is primarily the development of an iPhone application for Facebook, it is said, at least. So far, the hackers on the rumors have not yet expressed. According to one report did Joshua Hill alias P0sixninja of Chronic Dev Team confirms the facts, however. An employee of "Techmeme" claims that his involvement in Geohot Facebook on 17 June had over Facebook friends notified or announced.

The dispute between George Hotz and electronics giant Sony was resolved at the end of March 2011. They have agreed to a cease and desist, which Hotz signed. In the future, he may "make do" no more of the security systems from Sony. Hotz should violate the agreement, so come on to him a fine 10000-250000 U.S. dollars.
Geohot had finally announced on its website to boycott all Sony products. All his sympathizers he put his heart to participate with him in this campaign.

Source: winfuture

ASUS Crosshair Formula V: First details known

The new motherboards for the AMD FX series, code-named Zambezi accumulate. ASUS also sleeps on that area and wants the FX series is immediately hot with the Cross Hair Formula V in the "Republic of Gamers" series welcome. The AMD 990FX chipset with SB950 Southbridge offers full support of AM3 + processors. As usual, the new high-end motherboard built in the ATX form factor and uses the typical ROG color accents in red and black. 

The 10 Extreme-phase power design the electrical stability of the system is guaranteed. Furthermore, the mainboard in two versions, one with and one without the ThunderBolt AddOn card, the Xonar's own audio chip and the killer E2100 includes network unit from the house of Bigfoot Networks.

The board has four DDR3 slots, allowing four PCIe x16 slots, 3-Way SLI and CrossFire graphic composites. One eSATA and seven SATA 6 Gb / s ports are available for hard drives, optical drives or SSDs. For on-the-fly setups on the Main Board Power, reset and CMOS clear actions with the buttons to be carried out on the motherboard itself. The I / O panel are a total of 12 USB ports, four USB 3.0 capable, 7.1-channel audio ports and a Gigabit Ethernet port.

The Asus Crosshair Formula V with AM3 + support is expected to be available in June, an official presentation could be scheduled for Computex in Taipei, there will also officially launch the new 900 chipsets.
Although so far only pictures of high-end motherboards have been leaked, but the models shown so far ASUS 990FX Sabertooth, Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7, ECS and ASRock 990FX Black A990FXM Extreme4 see but all of very high quality.

Source: TechConnect Magazine

Samsung Smart One AF315: New All-In-One computer with 3D

All-In-One computer systems, short AIOs are now next to the flood of tablets and notebooks often used as a new desktop version, since they combine computer and monitor in one unit. Especially popular is the Apple iMac, which even then was with the G3 in 1998 to celebrate a great success and to date received a nearly annual update. Samsung is trying with such a combination, initially in the Korean market to land, with the latest device called Smart One AF315.

The All-In-One Computer System AF315 (the device on the left picture below) has a 23-inch Full HD screen on board, which can be a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. He also has a 3D feautures, which however is still based on the stereoscopic technology and therefore requires a shutter glasses to view 3D content. However, this is already included in delivery. The opportunity to represent 2D content in 3D is. The frame rate could therefore be 120 Hz, but to no details were provided. The hardware configuration consists of an Intel Core i5 Processor, 4 GB RAM and a hard disk with a size of 1 TB and 7,200 rpm. The graphics unit could be made ​​by AMD, the most obvious model of the Radeon HD 6000 series, including support for USB 3.0 provides, according to images.

Furthermore, SRS 3D sound, a TV tuner, Blu-Ray player and an integrated webcam above the screen. Supplies include a black-held mouse-keyboard combo, remote control and the aforementioned 3D shutter glasses. The Samsung Smart One AF315 is available in Korea for 2:19 tomorrow million won, the equivalent of € 1,400 available. Whether and when the 3d All-In-One computer will be available from us is still unclear.

Source: TechConnect Magazine