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These are good news. Finally Apple will have to take security more seriously. It seems to me that the OS X kernel (BSD) is better designed and understood (since it is open-source) than Windows kernels. OS X inherited the stability and security of other *nix (Unix, Linux, etc.) systems by design...

It's quite frustrating how intel people want us to believe that ray tracing is the way to go for computer graphics. They say that ray traced images are totally realistic and will once replace the current rasterization pipelines. This is simply not the case. Once and for all: ray tracing is not...

It's ridiculous to call this lighting method global illumination. It has nothing to do with that. They might do some tricks to change the ambient illumination based on the reflections, but the final result is far from being correct. An example of real global illumination from Wikipedia...

Why is this news so surprising? There is no mobile phone on the face of the Earth that hasn't been cracked. For most other phones you just have to type in a weird combination of codes and there you go, the phone is unlocked. For the more sophisticated ones you need a computer to unlock it, but...

As far as I know the new MacBooks have Lithium Polymer batteries which cannot catch fire. By using this more expensive battery technology Apple did everything that is possible in order to prevent fires. Much more than any other manufacturer. If this news turns out to be true and Li-Polymer...

This is hype about ray-tracing is going to a very wrong direction. What you need to understand is that the reason why the shadow rendering is not perfect in today's games is NOT that it cannot be done using rasterization but because the engines have to be optimized to reach high framerates and...

The advantages of ray-tracing (RT) over rasterization are greatly exaggerated. Actually RT is not able to provide any better image quality except for shadows and reflections/refractions. Even for those, the new rasterization engines do very well while being several magnitudes faster. Moreover...