Caesium clock for your wrist

Credit: Bathys Hawaii/ The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/03/highend_chrono_chaps_build_atomic_watch/ / loses lose loss losing second each millennium smartwatch smartwatches smart watch news personal atomic clocks clock timepiece Cesium 133 announce announced high end high-end Hawaiian Hawaii watch Bathys Hawaii contain single chip laser heater sealed cavity cesium gas microwave filter photodiode detector detect detecting combination watch count hyperfine lines excite excitation state excited cesium 133 atoms National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST NIST-F1 clock USA timekeeping time keeping counter-propagating lasers cool trap gas of cesium atoms US government shutdown NIST's site not available claimed accuracy of one second every millennium Bathys buyer buyers timepiece /

They're (almost) all doing it: cheating on benchmarks

Recently, an item on these pages included a link to a claim of a benchmark cheat mode in the Samsung Galaxy Note 3. Turns out almost all of them are doing it:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks / AndreiF7's work discover discovery discovering investigate investigation investigating investigations Samsung’s CPU GPU optimise optimize optimisation optimisations optimizations international Galaxy S 4 Exynos 5410 Samsung detect detection detecting presence certain benchmark benchmarks raise raised raising thermal limits maximum maxima max GPU frequency edge benchmarks benchmarked benchmarking Snapdragon 600 Exynos 5410 SGS4 platforms platform Samsung detect detection detecting benchmarks auto automatic automatically driving CPU voltage frequency highest state Snapdragon platforms all cores plugged immediately upon benchmark detect Exynos 5410 equipped version Galaxy S4 S 4 III confirm GPU frequency MHz exceed exceeding exceeded Snapdragon 600 version platform platforms table subset devices test testing tested silicon benchmark detect maximum max CPU frequency all cores A15 cluster /

IPCC report on climate change summarized

IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report on climate change was recently released, but its a very long read. Below is the short version as summarized by the Climate Council.

Infographic:
http://www.climatecouncil.org.au/climate-science-infographic/

5 minute summary:
http://www.climatecouncil.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CC.report.pdf / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC publish published publishing publishes assessment current state scientific understanding human caused anthropogenic human-caused climate change assessment based on contributions thousands experts around the world through exhaustive review peer reviewed review peer-reviewed scientific literature rigorous seven year years long several-years-long review process publication fossil fuel fossil-fuel industry front groups lobbyists paid advocates gear up attack malign report mislead confuse public about sobering message release IPCC Fifth Assessment scientific report professional climate change deniers willing abettors enablers distort report actually says genuine scientific evidence reality climate change threat climate change deniers divided preferred contrarian narrative some would have us believe IPCC downgraded strength evidence degree of threat career fossil-fuel-industry fossil fuel industry apologist Bjorn Lomborg Rupert Murdoch's Murdoch Australian United Nations UN UN's mild climate change message lost in alarmist translation serial climate disinformer Judith Curry commentary same outlet announced announce announcement consensus distorts climate picture make up your mind critics mild message distorted picture consistency consistent consistently respond simply hobgoblin of little minds real reality claims members IPCC downgraded scientific confidence plentiful among usual purveyors of climate change misinformation Fox News editorial pages Wall Street Journal various conservative tabloids United States of America USA Canada Germany Australia Fox News even sought to mislead viewers bait and switch bait-and-switch focusing attention instead deceptive similarly named report that calls itself the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change NIPCC regurgitates standard shopworn denialist myths erroneous talking points non-peer-reviewed report published discredited industry front group known as the Heartland Institute publication actual IPCC report divert attention from the actual scientific evidence reality IPCC strengthened degree of certainty fossil fuel burning other human activities responsible warming globe past half-century raising confidence very likely previous report extremely likely current one expresses similar levels of certainty Earth experiencing impacts impact impacted warming form of melting ice rising global sea levels various forms of extreme weather evidence overly conservative in its assessment of the science institutions atmospheric wind patterns associated with phenomena El Niño so-called North Atlantic Oscillation global temperatures hockey stick curve /