Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Sobeys Quebec dropping prices on thousands of products

Discount applies to centre of the store items

Doom open beta date and DLC revealed


Bethesda has announced an open beta for its upcoming reboot of DOOM, along with a series of planned updates for the full game.

By: Matt Kamen,

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Nvidia's Pascal GP100 GPU: massive bandwidth, enormous double-precision performance

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Nvidia's new Pascal GPU debuted today, and it's looking like an absolute monster for HPC workloads and double-precision floating point. There's still no word about consumer variants, however.

Improve User Experience With Real-Time Features


  

Real-time technology delivers information to your users as it happens. But how does it help improve your product and align with your customers' expectations?



Improve Your User Experience with Real-Time


Only a few years ago words like WebSockets, low latency and real-time functionality were at the forefront of bleeding-edge development. Fast-forward a couple of years and this technology has become an integral part of many of our favourite apps: e.g. Facebook with its in-app notifications, or Uber with its real-time location tracking effect.

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HBC to open 40 Saks Off 5th stores in Germany

Retail company investing $1.5 billion into its European properties

WIRED Awake: 10 must-read articles for 6 April

Your WIRED.co.uk daily briefing. Today, the French government has offered Tesla the site of a retired nuclear power plant for its first European factory, a pig heart survived for over two years after implantation into a baboon, WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption for all its users and more.

By: WIRED.co.uk,

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Monday, April 4, 2016

Japan's X-ray satellite spinning out of control, some fragments headed for re-entry

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Things aren't looking good for Hitomi, the recently-launched X-ray observatory. While scientists were able to pick up brief radio signals last week, those transmissions appear to have ceased.